Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance1993

Narrator:
For the first time the Mohawks had a chief who could read and write the White Man's way. As secretary to the Sulpicians, he soon discovered the extent of their false dealings with his nation. Chief Joseph, accompanied by Algonquin and Nipissing chiefs and a group of his people, marched to the Sulpician's house. He confronted the Fathers: 'We have come to inform you that you have not dealt justly with us and that we want you to leave our land, as we do not want to be robbed of our heritage. This land was given to you in trust for the tribe to whom it belongs. And how have you betrayed that trust? By selling the timber and filling your treasury with the proceeds of stolen property. This land is ours, ours as a heritage given to us as a sacred legagcy. It is a place where our fathers lie beneath those trees. Our mothers sang our lullaby, and you would tear it from us and leave us wanderers at the mercy of fate.'