Tyendinaga: Blockades and Solidarity continue

Honestly your comment makes me wanna puke it is so racist!
you are honestly no better then the neo nazis i would like to spit on , they DONT represent me and you dont represent native people , you are obvisouly uneducated and you should never group people together like you did with that statement there are ALOT of white people who go out and fight and protest for equal rights and NATIVE rights , iam also sickened with the goverment and the way the country has been headed and the things this country as well as most others have treat ALL native people but dont group me with them just because i share the same skin colour , if you wanna just hunt and fish then great go do it! , but there are white people writing articles going to solidarity protests and doing lots of positive things to try and make the world a better place , honestly how stupid and ignorant would i sound if i said all you INDIANS can sit on your land and huff and drink away your life and diddle your kids?? Its sickening to make statements like that and hurtful , by the all you do making staements like that is bring us backwords , there is good and there is bad in all people and all races and from all different social backgrounds and you just proved it because i know some native people that would be sickened by your comment and people should be put into the category the represent you you obviosuly should go into the racist dirtbaf category!

This anonymous comment implies that where there is no dire poverty there is no injustice--as if that were the only kind of injustice perpetrated against the indigenous peoples of this land by the settler state and its colonial government. people have a right to have their nation-to-nation treaties honoured and respected, the right to protect and defend the land as well as their traditions and culture (not to mention themselves!), and they have the right not to be criminalized for it. This is the worst kind of racist oppression: the kind that says we have no sympathy unless the "repressed" are starving and their communities on the verge of destruction. Shame on whomever posted this; I can only hope that you do not represent the readership of this newspaper.

The poverty of the people of Tyendinaga is not of issue in my article. Having travelled to the territory I have seen the resources you are describing.
The issue lies within governmental repression of the rights of indigenous peoples and non-native support of the indigenous peoples' right to defend their land.
In this manner, Shawn Brant, Matthew James Kunkel, and Clint Brant remain jailed for attempting to defend their land from exloration and exploitation. The fight over the Quarry is not simply over land but also over the resulting pollution and resource extraction, among other issues.