The Genocidal Effects of Saddle Lake Cree Nation from the Canadian State

Saddle Lake Cree Nation

Treaty No. 6 Territory

Organized and Featured by Chief Eric Shirt

When Treaty is not honoured or respected!

In 1876, Treaty No. 6 was made between the Crown of England and the Sovereign Indigenous Peoples of the territory.

However, the same year, the Canadian State of England "Indian Act: was made too and it's mandate was to "assimilate" and "kill the Indian in the child"...

Some of these policies included but not limited too:

• INDIAN RESERVATIONS:
• Indian Act Policies - set up for failure
• Indian Agent Control
• Limit mobility - Pass System
• Withholding Rations - Starvation
• Still being enforced throughout Indian Act policies at Band Administration levels
• "Be a Good Indian" or we will withhold your funding
• Substandard Resources or none at all
• ie. Poor Housing, over crowding
• Lack of Clean Water
• Limit access to all amenities

• INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS:
• Jail Parents if refused to send children
• Children stolen, murdered, tortured etc...

• NWMP / RCMP:
• Overrepresentation within legal systems
• High incarceration rates
• #MMIWG & #MMIMB

LONG TERM EFFECTS OF GENOCIDE: #Intergenerational Trauma

As a result, the continued genocide of the Indigenous Peoples took on another face and here are some results of these acts to terminate the original peoples of Turtle Island.

NOTE: We had well functioning, strong, Indigenous societies before the impact of colonial oppressions.

Treaty is not Indian Act

Honour your part Canada, as the state of England that benefits from these Treaties with the Crown!


Posted Facebook in November 2019

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Last week we went to Ottawa to meet with the new Federal Ministers, show them this video of the conditions in SLCN, and request new funding for six specific items that will help alleviate addictions, chronic disease, and poverty in Saddle Lake.

I strongly urge the Government of Canada to fulfill its treaty obligations, renew our Nation-to-Nation relationship, and work in partnership with us to address the urgent health and safety priorities in our community.

We are good people.

Hiy hiy,

Chief Eric Shirt
Saddle Lake Cree Nation