When I received my spirit name and white eagle feather from the nehewin elder in Treaty 6 territory, the elder shared some profound words with me that night. He told me that I AM the land! That hit me hard and the implications of that simple statement has influenced my work ever since. While I acknowledge that I was working on challenging the Crown on it’s claims over the land, this one statement from an elder shifted my approach significantly.
I started exploring removing land from the demesne of the Crown back in 2020, a few months after I left the land due to my marriage falling apart. I knew that without a person I would not be able to buy land and there is no way I wanted to rent. All of those options were for the feudal serfs, so I had to find another way to support myself. That could only be done by returning to the land. However, I also needed the support of a tribe to do this work. It was also critical that the tribe comprehended and supported that work too. Through the invitation of a dear friend in Ontario, I received that support. After a season of healing, I stood ready to return to the land to restore my own sovereignty and the only way to do that was to free the land as well.
If the elder is correct and I AM the land, then I cannot be free and sovereign until the land is free and sovereign. The Crown’s claim on the land had to be confronted and challenged. In this post I will outline the basic strategy that I took to accomplish this and I will share the details on the private side of this site.
Who AM I?
I invested the last 20+ years trying to answer this question and even wrote the book “Graduating Life with Honours” about the journey too. You can download and read the book from this site. I cannot express enough how important it is that I figure out this question, but more importantly who I am NOT. This is where most people get hung up on comprehending or applying what I speak about in my work. Lots of people are figuring out that they are spiritual beings having a physical experience, but they still hold onto their fictional constructs and function as a feudal serf for reasons to numerous to share here. I believe in my heart, mind, body and spirit that this work requires that we emancipate ourselves from the Crown in order to walk this path. Doing this work while still a feudal serf only results in significant problems.
Know thyself, but also take action on what is known. I emancipated myself from the Crown in April 2008. I celebrated my 16th independence day a few months ago and it is only fitting that this celebration culminate in efforts to emancipate the land. I did this work standing as a Spiritual being in spiritual jurisdiction rather than a man standing as a citizen, slave and feudal serf. I’ve written at length how I did this, but it does require a foundational shift in thought, belief and action!
Burden rests with those who are making the claims
I’ve also written about how important it is to be peaceful. When I emancipated myself in 2008, the key action I took was to walk off the battle field and declare peace. That also required that I maintain the peace at all times. To do that I found a passage in scripture that helps me do that.
Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. – Matthew 5:25
If I’m always agreeing with people, then there is no fight, no battle. But how do I do that and maintain my own boundaries and confront wickedness? The good news is that in “their” system, the one making the claims is the one that has the burden of proof. So I agree with their claims, but then I put a condition on that agreement. If they can prove their claims, then I will agree AND I provide the burden of proof that needs to be met. This is where research, knowledge and wisdom is applied. Because I’ve spent the last 17 years researching and studying their system, I know what they can or cannot do. So I agree with them and then ask them to prove their claims while outlining the burden. Every time I’ve done this I’ve found instances where they violated statutes, regulations and even violated spiritual law as well. The only reason they get away with what they do is because people like you and I don’t know any different. But when we educate ourselves, we can stand up and testify to what we are witnessing. That is our duty, so I fulfill that duty through conditional acceptance of their claims. I’ve used this approach for years.
Demesne created through genocide, war and lies
Knowing that the Crown came to Turtle Island with the authority to conquer land granted to them by the Pope is an important first step. Studying the Doctrine of Discovery will bring some important points to testify against within the conditional acceptance. It is also important to study the treaties, not only the written versions made by the Crown but also the spoken versions shared by the nations of Turtle Island. There is a huge disparity between the two and it is the dishonour of the Crown that violated those treaties. This all ripples down into more and more detail as the land patents that were issued by the Crown to certify the legitimacy of the title over the land ends up being a fraud as a result of the Crown dishonouring the treaties. If the land patents are not legitimate, then any Fee Simple Tenures that people hold for their private land are also illegitimate, but also the claims the Crown has over “Crown Land”. Their violence, dishonour, greed, lies and deceit are their undoing. All that is required is for us to stand up and confront them on it all.
As a result, I’ve studied history, treaties and also the individuals who negotiated the treaties. Those individuals were all paid bonuses for getting the treaties signed, also had conflict of interest as they profited from the process, lied, cheated and manipulated their way through this whole process. They did not maintain the honour of the Crown and engaged in genocide to meet their objectives. While it may have been viewed as appropriate at the time, it is time to right the wrongs and confront the whole system as it is based on a foundation of wickedness. All individuals who represent the Crown in their duties are subject to this level of scrutiny. It is up to each of us to apply that scrutiny. This is done by placing the burden on each of them to prove that they can actually act in dishonour, engage in genocide, lie, cheat, manipulate, steal or engage in actions and behaviours that violate Natural Law; The Law of Love!
Decolonization
The Crown has engaged in colonization for over a thousand years. My ancestors were some of the first to be colonized and is the reason why the colonial system looks ‘white’. But the colonial system is not a color, race or creed, it is an idea, philosophy and a system of control, greed and power, all designed to harvest souls. We are at the stage now where souls are starting to be harvested. The time is now to decolonize ourselves so that we can confront the wickedness that is taking over this world.
The decolonization process is more than removing ourselves from the system. Decolonization requires a foundational shift in thinking, behaving and believing. The colonization process was brutal and violent. The white tribes don’t remember what happened to our ancestors when we were colonized. But the red tribes do remember and it is wise for us to take note of what happened to them over the past few hundred years and acknowledge that this happened to our ancestors too. The multi-generational trauma runs deep and there is a tremendous amount of healing required to decolonize. It changes EVERYTHING!!! I’ve been on this journey for nearly two decades and I’m still healing and decolonizing. I trust the younger generations will have a quicker and easier time of this, but for me it has been a brutal journey that will most likely span the rest of my life.
Why is this so important? Because I’ve found over the years, over and over again, people wanting to leave the system but implement rules and regulations to create a new system – one that functions exactly like the system they just left. If we don’t decolonize we end up getting stuck in a cycle and is the reason why revolution after revolution does not solve the problem. It is because we keep recreating the same systems, surrender our sovereignty to that system and enslaving ourselves. Decolonization requires that we heal so that we can hold the charge of being sovereign, independent and free. It feels like there is no safety and security in doing that, but I’m finding it is more safe and secure than being a citizen, subject, member of a society, etc. There is no documents, paperwork or identification when we decolonize. There is no constitution, rules, regulations, etc when we emancipate ourselves. So how do we navigate relationships, conflict or other challenges? That is what this school is all about, to explore those questions and figure it out through exploration of relationships, love, healing and ceremony.
Land Sovereignty Ceremony
Last summer I located some Crown land and went out, found a location to establish my home fire and built my medicine wheel. Details of that have been shared already on this site. I started a garden and this spring I expanded it even further. Work started on my underground shelter and I’ve continued that work this season as well. In June 2022 I sent out my first letter to the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Governor General of Canada, Prime Minister and others. In it I conditionally accepted their claim over the land and asked them to prove their claims in order for the conditions to be removed. I gave them 10 days to respond. After a few weeks I was not in receipt of any response, let alone a valid response from them. I then sent out a notice of default along with a list of facts. I gave them another 10 days to respond and if they failed to respond, then they would be agreeing through tacit acceptance to the facts listed in the notice of default.
I did not receive any response or valid response from them. At this point many people would then send out a default judgement, but I decided to take a very different approach. Instead I sent out an invitation to participate in ceremony. I setup two ceremonies, the first at the full moon in July and the second during the new moon in July. The first full moon ceremony was to focus on forgiveness, reconciliation and shedding of the old. The second ceremony would focus on bringing in the new, acknowledgement of the sovereignty of the land, our relationship with her and our duty to provide and protect her. The invitations when out and nobody from the Crown showed up to participate, receive forgiveness, healing, etc. The tribe here did participate and through these efforts, I find myself standing as a member of the White Tribes working to decolonize, reconcile our relationship with the land and present ourselves in proper standing within Spiritual Jurisdiction. I feel confident now that I can accept invitations from the Red Tribes to participate in lodge and continue the reconciliation process between our two tribes.
There is now 78 acres of land that is sovereign. This little piece of heaven is called Silent Dancer and I make no claims of ownership over her. I AM a part of her and she is a part of me. My kin, the plants, animals, soil, water and air are a part of the land as I AM. They all help provide for my needs; water, food, shelter and hopefully over time, clothing. My duty is to be a steward, to protect her and help ALL my kin to not only survive but thrive. I own nothing. I make no claims of ownership. My sovereignty is a part of her sovereignty. Now comes the process of continuing the decolonization process to figure out what life is like from this paradigm. Living life in this way is VERY different than the colonial way. The shift between the two is massive. In my experience few will be able to make the shift. But it is important that people do as I believe this is our own spiritual salvation from the system. The colonial system is the system of the beast! It is not broken. It is functioning exactly as designed. It is harvesting souls now and we need to return to our nature or face the harvest. This requires physical, emotional, mental and spiritual healing, growth, learning and remembering. This is challenging work. I’ve seen many attempt but few succeed. Why? Perhaps something to discuss in another post.
Next Steps
The details of this journey will be shared in the private side of the website. Lots to discuss but also lots that have already been shared. What I will cover is not new, but will be shared in a way to help people see the step by step process that I took. So far the Crown is leaving me alone and that is all that I want from them. If they show up, I will share updates. It is my experience that they will leave me alone because I’m doing this all from a higher authority and jurisdiction than where they function from. It is my dream to establish islands of sovereign land so that people have a place to establish their own kin domains so that people can return to the land and find peace, sovereignty, prosperity and love. This is how we bring Heaven to Earth and starve the beast at the same time. The beast can only thrive when we feed it. We stop feeding it, it will wither away and die. We don’t have to fight it, go to war or anything like that. We end the war by walking off the battle field and stop participating in the conflict. We end the war by declaring peace!
