RCMP EVICT HEREDITARY Siyam KIAPILANO AND SUPPORTERS FROM SQUAMISH BAND OFFICE, North Vancouver Squamish Nation territory that surveyed portion on Turtle Island known in Admiralty/Maritime Jurisdiction as the corporations NORTH VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

On Friday, May 23, a force of approximately 16 taser-armed RCMP officers and band council police asked the Siyam Kiapilano to leave the Squamish Band Council Office lands, his grandfather’s land after a peaceful occupation at the Squamish band council office by Kiapilano and his supporters.

On Friday morning, May 23rd, Hereditary Squamish Siyam Kiapilano and a dozen supporters had swiftly occupied the offices of the state-funded “Squamish Band Council” in North Vancouver, and ordered the eviction of the entire band council members.

Siyam Kiapilano is leading a movement to expel agencies from his land who are responsible for the genocide of his people. In March, Kiapilano and Eagle Strong Voice (Kevin Annett) initiated these actions by posting eviction notices on the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United churches in downtown Vancouver, ordering them off Squamish land.

Siyam Kiapilano said in a statement in front of witnesses and Inspector RCMP Kennedy in a boardroom of the band council office, “Our people are starving, they’re living in dilapidated homes, and these so-called ‘chiefs’ [representing the colonial government] are doing nothing for them. Now ‘chief’ Bill Williams has signed a deal with the province [British Columbia] allowing privatization of natural resources to destroy Mother Earth. We’re here today to tell these fake leaders to leave, and we’re staying here until they’re gone.”

Gibby Jacobs a Band Council Member told Siyam Kiapilano that Byron Joseph was in the office and bolted for the door as the group entered the lobby. They proceeded up the stairs to Byron Joseph’s office and filmed the conversation. Byron was served with a filed Affidavit #2 that contains the Eviction Notice and Power of Attorney of the Lands and asked to correct some checks that were fraudulently issued to the name “Gerald Fred Johnston” which is a fictitious Name that was created by INAC to take away Siyam’s Kiapilano aka CHIEF CAPILANO’s right of claim to the title of the Squamish Nation Lands.

Byron was nervous with the cameras on him and bolted with the served papers to another room and locked it. A woman from the RCMP detachment left that room and called for security back up. Byron emerged from the office shaken but confident to move forward knowing that the RCMP were on their way. The group was ushered into the boardroom and the discussions commenced. In front of RCMP Richard Kennedy, Byron Joseph was served with a document called the Land Agreement between the Squamish Nation and the Minister of Lands and Agriculture signed by elected puppet ‘chief’ Billy Williams and Minister Pat Bell of the BC Government. Irene-Peace: Kiapilano(TM) asked if he knew about this document, Byron said he did not and advised that he would accept service of this document on behalf of Billy Williams. Irene served RCMP Richard Kennedy with a copy of this agreement and requested for a full investigation of the fraud and Copyright Trademark Name protection that was violated to the Squamish(TM) Nation Name. Chief Kiapilano then informed Byron Joseph and his staff to leave the premises, and announced his intention to change the locks on the building.

“We’re consulting our [colonial] lawyers” announced Byron Joseph, just before he and his advisors left the boardroom. “Chief Kiapilano declared a common law jurisdiction over this building, and has reclaimed it for all of his people”, said Irene Peace Kiapilano. “We call on all hereditary chiefs to stand beside us and reclaim their land and government from a foreign jurisdiction.” A lawyer from Ratcliff & Company, North Vancouver sneaked into the building and occupied the office next door to the boardroom and ordered Byron back into the boardroom. Byron as a dutiful slave to the Queen’s army asked the Chiefs to leave.

Then Irene and Jeff were separated from the Chiefs and the witnesses and she could not re-enter the building as the RCMP blocked the door. As Irene waited with her witness outside she began to drum. The RCMP officers did not like to hear the drums and went inside the building. An undercover police officer put on his bullet proof vest and entered the building. The chiefs and the witnesses were escorted peacefully outside of the building and asked to leave the premises.

Siyam Kiapilano saw the RCMP prepare their tasers in the room next door to the boardroom through a reflection of the glass door and realized that the safety of the witnesses were compremised so with Red Jacket and the camera armed witnesses they left the building peacefully. Inspector Kennedy was served with a copy of the eviction notice on Byron Joseph and the band council and he had accepted it. Kennedy said the federal Minister of Justice did not recognize the filed Affidavit and the Statutory Declaration.

Chief Kiapilano and his supporters were then physically forced from the building under threat of immediate arrest, and escorted off Siyam Kiapilano’s grandfather’s land by a line of RCMP vehicles.

Native elders from the Downtown Eastside Womens’ Centre showed up to support Siyam Kiapilano. They were verbally threatened, photographed and ordered to leave by the security forces hired as the Squamish Security and the RCMP squad.

Before leaving, Siyam Kiapilano declared three times to the RCMP and band councillors that his eviction order remains in effect. He and his people would return to enforce the order and remove the [illegal] Squamish band council members from office.

“We offered them peace and friendship and they responded with violence” said Chief Red Jacket of Turtle Island, a participant in the occupation. “In our law, when that happens, all we have left is to take the next step. We are not war minded people.”

Siyam Kiapilano has asked Irene to proceed with communications to RCMP Kennedy about the Fraud that was committed upon the Lands by Billy Williams who signed the deal with the BC Government and RATCLIFF & Company who are the legal advisors for the Squamish Band Council Members and INAC. Further actions against the government agencies responsible for the ongoing genocide of the Squamish people will continue on Sunday, June 1 at 10 am at the former “holy rosary catholic church” at Dunsmuir and Richards in downtown Vancouver. It is now an open community space under the Supreme Common Law Jurisdiction of the Squamish Nation and the Indepenedent Sovereign Government lead by Siyam Kiapilano.

Issued under the authority of Siyam Kiapilano of the Squamish Nation 25 May, 2008

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