COPPER BREAKING CEREMONY SPEECH GIVEN ON PARLIAMENT JULY 27, 2014 On this day we invoke our culture bringing forward a copper ritual, seldom seen outside of our homelands we bring this copper from the great pacific where it was washed and touched by many hands and then in a journey across this land touched by elders and children, washed in the rivers and lakes, blessed in sundance and ceremonies carried by pow wow dancers and touched again by the people of the land it has been cleansed with smoke and brought here to be broken the copper symbolizes our wealth and everything that is dear to us all of our most precious holdings including life itself and all that the great nature provides with this in mind we break this copper we break it at the doorstep of the government of Canada with a great sense of celebration because, though they have killed us…we live they put us down…yet we stand they deny…but there is truth we break this copper not as a slight to Canada or an insult to Canadians who have shown us nothing but support and encouragement in breaking this copper we confront the tyranny of the government of Canada who has forsaken human rights and turned its back on nature in the interests of the almighty dollar
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:19:39 +0000
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