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Mohawk Political Prisoner Challenges Jurisdiction of Colonial Courts

BRMJ, Friday, December 8, 2006 - 14:35
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Fiona Becker

When the judge walked into the courtroom for the pre-trial hearing of Miller, and the bailiff called “all rise

Over 50 people packed the Cayuga courthouse on Wednesday for Trevor Miller, a Six Nations Mohawk of the Turtle Clan, as Trevor declared to the court that the colonial Canadian system has no jurisdiction over him. When the judge walked into the courtroom for the pre-trial hearing of Miller, and the bailiff called “all rise

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 Interview online with Angel Smith and Trudy Miller
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Date: 
 Wed, 2006-12-13 13:46

Listen to our December 2006 show online at:
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MONTREAL, December 12, 2006 -- Yesterday, TREVOR MILLER, 31, of Six Nations
was again denied release at a bail review hearing. He has been in custody
since August, for his participation in the Land Reclamation on the Grand
River Territory in Ontario. Trevor Miller is an indigenous political
prisoner who remains steadfast in his refusal to accept the authority of
colonial Canadian courts, and demands to be released to his own people.

--> We speak with both TRUDY MILLER and ANGEL SMITH, mother and cousin of
indigenous political prisoner Trevor Miller.

Trevor has been in preventive custody for more than four months, since
August when he was arrested at a blockade at Grassy Narrows. Trevor is being
charged in relation to incidents at the Six Nation Land Reclamation, when he
along with others defended the site against a US border patrol/ATF vehicle
that appeared on the site.

Trevor has been referred to as the "Forgotten Warrior" because his situation
was not publicly known for several months, until a letter he wrote his
mother was published in a local Six Nations newspaper.

In these interviews, Trudy and Angel speak about Trevor's situation, as well
as providing an analysis of the broader issues concerning indigenous
sovereignty, the Great Law and the two-row wampum, the Haldimand Tract
treaty, as well as the continued resistance of the women and men of Six
Nations.

"They're making an example out of [Trevor]. They're doing him an injustice.
... I want it out there: I'm very proud of my son." -- Trudy Miller (mother
of Trevor Miller, indigenous political prisoner).

"[O]ur people in this day and age are more educated, we understand your
system that much more. We're still being who we are as Onkwehonweh people.
And this time around that education is going to help enforce our
sovereignty. And ya, they have our young warrior, but [he's] what you would
call a political prisoner." -- Angel Smith (Mohawk activist and cousin of
Trevor Miller).

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