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Four weeks ago these two Cops payed a visit to ask me questions about my invovment with resistance to the 2010 Olympics.  They questioned me on my involvment with the Native Youth Movement, the Warriors Societies, and any other activist groups.  In the beginning of the conversation, they gave me a braid of sweetgrass as some kind of cultural gesture… I would assume? (Wrong culture there guys!)

I should of asked them, “What do I do with this?”

The one question they persistently hounded was, “If you knew of any persons who would get hurt because of activist activity, would you help us and inform us to prevent anyone from getting hurt?”  I never answered the question, although later I realized I should of responded with my own backhanded comment of “What if I see persons getting hurt because of cop activity, do I help and inform you to prevent these people from getting hurt?”  They also asked questions around my intentions, how I feel about the Four Host First Nations, and the 2010 Olympics in general.

I made a comment that, “The Band Counils who participat in the Four Host First Nations are only colonial-puppet government that owe it’s responsability and loyalties to the Indian Act, and not our own people.  I see those governments as illegitimate and imposed.  They are colonization”.  They responded with trying to explain to me how “The Indian Act is a good thing” because it “gives natives in Canada their Indian Status” and without the Indian Act “Natives wouldn’t be Indian.”

Ignorant and racist logic.  Nothing new for me.

I will state that my intentions and activity during the 2010 Winter Olympics are not even known to me at this point.  The Olympics should never have been supported by my community, and future generations will have to fix the damage it has caused.  It’s supported and endorsed the corruption and farce of the Squamish Nation, and has only allowed a few to prosper and benefit from it.  It will leave little legacy for future generations, except rising housing costs, more population and Urban sprawl, expansion and development of more of our territory, and the prostitution and exploitation of our culture and community.  I wait for it to come and ago because in the aftermath, the relationship between Indigenous peoples and Settler government will not have changed, the situation with Indigenous peoples in Canda will still be severe, and it will have made a few Indians into wealthy capitalists, furthering the consistent agenda of colonization and assimilation.