Indigenous protection racket

Vincent J. Curtis

3 Aug 23

RE: Indigenous group seeks accord with city

It is blatantly obvious that the city is being threatened by a protection racket calling itself the Haudenosaunee Development Institute.  This gangster organization has no legal standing to represent Six Nations.  They can’t even assemble a dozen so-called hereditary chiefs to represent each of the dozen Haudenosaunee bands on Six Nations.  The elected band council, headed by Chief Mark Hill, has been the lawful representative of the Six Nations for a century now.  The city has a moral and legal obligation to support the lawful structure of the Six Nation’s government, and not to undermine it by treating with a small bunch of free-booters raving about non-existent treaty rights, and demanding money for their “consulting services.”

After nearly two and a half centuries of association, you’d think some Hamiltonians would have a grasp of internal Six Nations politics; but apparently not.  And I understand the reluctance of Hamilton Police Services to enforce the trespass and mischief laws against extortionate actions by the HDI - bad political optics.

But Canada has an obligation to support the legal structures put in place to govern aboriginal affairs, and the city’s treating of non-legal, non-representative free-booters attempting an extortion game undermines the lawful government of Six Nations.

The HDI members ought to be arrested on extortion charges; and fraud, since the alleged “treaty rights” are fake and they represent no one but themselves.

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