Thread by @M_Gouldhawke, OPP are trying to paint themselves as helpless victims, but never forget [...]

OPP are trying to paint themselves as helpless victims, but never forget the real history. https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2019/12/20/police-murders-inquiries-state-hand-wringing-over-killings-of-indigenous-people-by-cops/

Police Murders & Inquiries: State hand-wringing over killings of Indigenous people by cops (2005)

“The colonial world is a world cut in two. The dividing line, the frontiers are shown by barracks and police stations. In the colonies it is the policeman and the soldier who are the official, inst…

https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2019/12/20/police-murders-inquiries-state-hand-wringing-over-killings-of-indigenous-people-by-cops/

The OPP raided Six Nations of the Grand River territory & arrested Haudenosaunee people for defending their own territory in 2006 too. https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/05/21/from-six-nations-of-the-grand-river-to-tyendinaga-2006-2008/

From Six Nations of the Grand River to Tyendinaga (2006-2008)

The 2000’s were a time of heightened struggle and conflict for communities of the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) Confederacy located within territories fraudulently occupied and claimed by Canad…

https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/05/21/from-six-nations-of-the-grand-river-to-tyendinaga-2006-2008/

Before the OPP, it was the RCMP raiding & occupying Six Nations of the Grand River territory since the 1920s. Chief Deskaheh denounced the imposition of Canadian police on his people at that time. https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/colonial-cops/

A Concise Chronology of Canada’s Colonial Cops

The RCMP may serve as Canada’s federal police force, but in relation to Indigenous peoples it is not so much a domestic policing agency as an occupying foreign army.

https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/colonial-cops/

Before the OPP, it was the RCMP raiding & occupying Six Nations of the Grand River territory since the 1920s. Chief Deskaheh denounced the imposition of Canadian police on his people at that time. https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/03/05/colonial-cops/

“This short documentary offers a portrait of a group of women who led their community, the largest reserve in Canada, Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, in an historic blockade to protect their land” (National Film Board)

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