Lesson Learned?

Vincent J. Curtis

12 Oct 24

RE: Councillors resign from Red Hill board amid rising tensions. News Itme The Hamilton Spectator 11 Oct 24.

I suppose it had to be created and entertained for a while, in the interests of “reconciliation” and all, but this Red Hill valley “board” was a farce from the beginning, and now it should be obvious, even to Council.

The City of Hamilton did not sign a treaty with any band of Indians, and is not responsible for upholding or enforcing the terms of any such treaty.  The so-called representative of the so-called Haudensosaunee call themselves the “hereditary chiefs’, meaning they are not democratically elected, and represent no one but themselves and whoever chooses to support them. Their word is not binding on anyone. (And we have no proof of their alleged hereditary status as “chiefs” by tradition.)

No doubt they rely for their land claim on the fraudulent 1702 “Nanfan Treaty”, in which the Mohawks surrendered title to land they did not possess to the Acting Governor of the Province of New York in exchange for the British to muscle the Mississaugas out of present-day Niagara Peninsula and south-western Ontario. (This was after the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Treaty with the Mississaguas of 1701!). Red Hill Valley and the environs of Hamilton – the Land Between the Lakes - was purchased from the Mississaugas in 1792.  The Mississaugas have no land claim over the Red Hill Valley, so why should the Mohawks?

This committee is merely an effort by a few Mohawks to mess with the white man, and are playing upon his conscience to gain the necessary leverage. Why else would studies and input from experts be vetoed except to mess with something? Why is Aaron Deltor pretending like he has veto power over the white man’s actions except to mess with him?

Wake up and smell the coffee, white man. The Mohawks have been playing duplicitous games like this for over three hundred years.

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Could owe trillions?

Vincent J. Curtis

30 Sept 24

RE: We’re not asking to break Canada. News item The Hamilton Spectator 28 Sept 24

Those who, over the years, have followed closely the land disputes raised by members of the Six Nations, the attacks in bad faith on two different property developments in Caledonia, and have researched deeply the so-called Nanfan Treaty know that there is no merit whatsoever in the land claim now before the courts and reported on in the Spectator article.

But this is not the place to discuss why. At no cost to themselves, Six Nations can throw this lawsuit and then another at Canada, for this reason or that, and Canada cannot afford to lose even once. Any court judge, for reasons having nothing to do with the law, can decide that he, in his superior virtue, thinks that Canada ought to give the Indians even more money.

For all the spaghetti Six Nations is throwing at the wall, they might well be Italian.

Canada has to figure out a way of dealing with bad faith litigation by Indians who have nothing to lose and trillions to gain. A price needs to be paid by the Indians if they lose.

Canada’s national debt stands are $1.2 trillion; the decision as to whether the Indian litigants are owed multiple trillions surely cannot be left in the hands of any old Ontario judge.

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