Mohawk/Ojibway activist and speaker Jay Mason Jay Mason is a Mohawk and Anishnabe, Sundancer and Sacred Pipe carrier from Toronto. He has been involved in grass roots organizations, as an organizer, speaker, and lecturer for over 40 years. He has organized various events for the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) in California. He attended D.Q. University a 2 year, all indian university, accredited through U.C. Davis, studying native history, culture, racism, community organizing, federal indian law and environmental studies. Taught native history, culture, and racism, studies at Oaklands Emiliano Street Academy. He was the president of the Canadian Alliance in Solidarity with Native Peoples (CASNP) for over 10 years. Organized the Big Mtn. Dine (Navajo) solidarity tour, with Dine grandmother Roberta Black Goat. He served as a medic on the “Longest Walk” in 1978, was one of the organizers for the “Long Walk for Survival” from California to New York in 1980 and the “Red Peoples Long Walk” in 1984. He has spent the last 15 years raising his son as a single parent. *this does not include several armed occupations, numerous rallys, demos, vigils at queens park where we literally set up camp in 1990, and 95, security for gatherings, encampments, mtgs. head security for bishop tutu when he visited Toronto and was welcomed by our people at queens park, talks at major universities and colleges from here to L.A. and back, five years attending the Geneva conferences of indigenous peoples, and touring Europe doing talks and addressing European parliaments, part of a Mohawk land reclamation project (armed occupation) in N.Y. state in 74 that saw the return of thousands of acres of traditional territories to the Ganienkehaga (Mohawk) nation. Anishanabeh park in kenora in 74, where we challenged Canadas violence and drew international attention to the mecury poisoning of our peoples* and many etcs
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