Brain-dead Clan Mommas Start Insurrection in Solidarity with - Who?

Vincent J. Curtis

26 Feb 2020

It was hard to imagine pipeline protesters getting any more brain-dead, but some clan mommas, Bare Clan, Cayuga and Mohawk Nations managed it.

They claim to be blockading traffic in solidarity with the Wetsuwet’en people who are opposed to running the GasLink pipeline through allegedly “unceded” territory.  Except that they’re not.  Wetsuwet’en lands, ceded or unceded, belong to the Wesuwet’en people; they are not the personal property of hereditary chiefs.  The will of the people is expressed through the elected band council, which happens to support the pipeline project.  A majority of the hereditary chiefs, eight of thirteen, also support the project.  So, in what sense can a protest against the pipeline be said to be in solidarity with the Wetsuwet’en people?  By any measure, the Wetsuwet’en people are demanding that the pipeline be built.  So, what’s with the “we’ll maintain the blockade until the Wetsuwet’en demands are met?”

When these facts were put to the clan mommas, one of them said that elected band councils are colonial imposed systems of government not reflecting the traditional system of hereditary chiefs and clan mothers.   In short, it’s wrong because she doesn’t have power.  She goes on, saying that the Wetsuwet’en band council doesn’t have jurisdiction over unceded lands.  So, who does?  The majority of hereditary chiefs support the pipeline.

There is no answer to this brain-dead insurrection.  Blowing up the system is the characteristic Marxist-Anarchist-Nihilist answer when they don’t get their way.  Sweet reason doesn’t matter.

The clan mommas, despite total intellectual defeat, say they are going to resist; they’re going to stand their ground.”  They may yet see reason, but reason may be helped along with the appearance of Mr. Billy Club.
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