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Official Manifesto


The Canadian Indian Movement
Manifesto


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 ABORIGINAL DAY PROTEST PLANNED !
     On June 21st, 2003, the Canadian Indian Movement will stage a nation-wide non-violent protest over native issues.  <
  • These road-blocks will use the rotating line format used in strikes so as to avoid arrests. 
  • They will each have hand-outs (pamphletes) to give to the motorists which outline their particular issue. 
  • The Leaders on each road-block will have a nationwide greviance manefesto which lists all the greviences of all the native groups involved in the road-blocks across Canada to be given to the media. 
  • Each participant will wear the special red Canadian Indian Movement Shirt to demonstrate soliadarity among all the participating native groups.

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 The Maritime Wabenaki                    Confederacy                                                
Authorized by the Maritime Wabenaki Confederacy, Inc. Grand Council:
Grand Chief Gray Wolf
Dated January 11th, 2003
     The Maritime Wabenaki Confederacy is a national non-profit corporation with letters patent which is governed by an elected Grand Council which consists of documented descendants of recorded pre-1760 treaty signers as well as to one or more of the pre-1755 Wanenaki Confederacy Grand Chiefs.( In particular: Chief Wanacelot, Chief Messasoit, Chief Bomashew, Chief Memberto, Chief St. Castin or Chief Medockawando)
  It's members are required to supply ties to either one of more of these Chiefs or to Native American ancestors who resided in the Maritime Peace and Friendship Treaty areas before the great deportation of 1755.( in addition, all tribal members must supply a complete genealogical documentation of all their ancestors going back 10-generations)
The Confederacy is composed/ represents the following tribes or bands which can be traced to the pre-deportation Acadia where these Peqace and Friendship treaties were signed:
Mi'kmaq (The Gray Wolf Off-Reserve Mi'kmaq Bands)
Maliseet (The Gray Wolf Off-Reserve Makiseet Bands)
Penobscot/ Passamaquoddy (The gray Wolf Off-Resefve Penobscot. Passamaquidy Bands)
Métis ( La Nation de Métis-Acadien Du Loup Gris)

 Our grievances:
1...We are being discriminated against by the Congress Of Aboriginal Peoples through an approved provincial membership requirements mandated by the New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council which is racist and prevents our people from accessing all the aboriginal programs which are available to any native group and most non-profit corporations in Canada today !
2...We are being discriminated against by the Department Of Indian Affairs (DIAND) which has initiated a racist blood quorum that prevents our members from accessing any of the programs they oversee.
3...We are being discriminated against by the Department of Fishing and Oceans(DFO) by a racist policy that excludes our members from accessing the fishery profession, both commercially and for food and ceremonial usage.
4... We are being discriminated against by Canadian Culture and Heritage Department which follows a racist policy that excludes our members from accessing any of their cultural or heritage programs..
5...We are being discriminated against by the British Royal Family and the Canadian Government which refuses to allow our members the opportunity to access their inherent treaty rights although we are the only native Americans in Atlantic Canada today,  who can supply legally documented evidence that our direct ancestor's names or totems are on the pre-1760 Peace and Friendship Treaties as Indian Chiefs.
6...We are being discriminated against by the Métis National Council which has a racist membership requirement that prevents some of our members from accessing the federal funding and programs afforded to those who self-identify as "Métis"
7... We are being discriminated against by the United States Department of Immigration and Naturalization Department who refuses to allow our members the right to travel freely to that country to work as guarenteed through the Jay Treaty and other American and British legislation policies concerning Native Americans.
8...We are being discriminated against by the Aboriginal Achievement Foundation which excludes our youth from accessing grants for post secondary education.
9...We are being discriminated against by the various native organizations such as the AFN and the various bands under them because we are excluded from any of their services, programs of functions.
10...We are being discriminated against by The Canadian Human Rights Commission which refuses to act on our behalf to address these blatant acts of racism and discrimination although we filed formal complaints both at the national and provincial levels over three-years ago..

In conclusion: We are a legitimate Native American community with unquestionable treaty and indigenous rights which have been denied to us in the past, and still continue to be denied to us today, and we are victims of racism from countless sources with no resolve in sight.

Gray Wolf
On Behalf of the Maritime Wabenaki Confederacy, Inc, Grand Council
The Canadian Off-Reserve indian Nations, Inc.
The Gray Wolf Off-Reserve First Nations
 

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