Statement regarding the loss of reclamationinfo.com
The domain was stolen from under our noses by a spammer, with no ethics, or regard for others, and the registrars involved have been very unhelpful and uncaring to try to get it back. This once again demonstrates a lack of regard for Indigenous peoples, in my opinion, and a long-established presence on the web, for the web site. For now, It lives on this site, until we have the matter resolved in a satisfactory way.
I would highly suggest and urge you to ignore anything pointing to, or coming from reclamationinfo.com, as it is likely to be spam, or worse, an attempt to smear the people involved, by a hostile act of theft.
The paranoid side of me, and my gut, think there may be something more sinister at work, to undermine the work that was done on that site, from its inception.
The domain may be gone, but the work continues. They may have stolen the domain name, but the spirit continues. It's a domain name, not our spirits.
For now, we haven't decided yet whether or not we're going to try to get it back, or just get another name. Update: For now, we've decided to let it go, and move on. It may come back one day, but probably not under a .com TLD.
We're still here! They cannot stop a just cause!
Simon L'nu, 2009 07 05
Welcome
She:kon! Kwe!
This is the new "reclam" web site, with the a similar look, and some content saved from "The WayBack Machine". Some other content may or may not be recoverable, as that went with the old site, unfortunately. I'll be adding in stuff as we find it/get submissions for it [#n1] .
The board is still there, as you can see, so if you're an old member, and haven't re-registered yet, we invite you to do so. We miss you!
You'll see that it's less like a blog, and more like "regular" web sites. This is on purpose, as: a) I'll add in stuff as I find it, like I said before; b) a blog doesn't seem to fit the kind of stuff found on the old site very much, to me. This does allow for other people to add stuff to the site, that's relevant, informative, and just plain helpful to someone who doesn't know anything about Six Nations, their land struggle, and Kanonhstaton.
As a person from the Mi'kmaq Nation, I see their struggles is the same as ours, both the land, and what some would call the "deeper" issues: our own ways of government and the strengthening of the same; our cultural, political, and social rights as Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island; acceptance of ourselves as sovereign peoples with just as much the right to exist as everyone else.
For this to happen, we need to recognise that none of us are alone facing the issues in our communities, like impotable water, homes, schools, and other buildings in need of repair and/or renovation and new ones too! Our communities are growing, and we need to provide homes for the new families, and elders; many other issues that we're all quite aware of and need addressing.... for this to happen, we need to stop looking to the settler governments for the answers: we know they aren't there to help us, but hinder us. We already know the answers, our ancestors gave them to us, it's up to us to listen to them.
You Onkwehonwe (apologies if I spelled it wrong), us 'L'nuk, and all the other Nations have been through rough times before the newcomers came, we will succeed, in our own ways.
[#fn1] Update: The ?WayBack Machine was very helpful as I was able to find some of the PDFs that people have been requesting, including some (if not all) of the linked ones from Wikipedia. As temporary caretaker of this web site, and also "backend" administrator, I get to see what many people don't see, and some of those things are things that people look for on this site. Those PDFs were some of the requested files. So, because I've now found them and put them in the same place as expected, people will be able to read more background info. In many of our languages -- ones that I'm even a bit familiar with -- we don't have a "Please" word, but some do have "You're welcome", so Pjila'si!
