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[Jonah Harris]

Statement of Kevin Daniel Annett - Eagle Strong Voice Regarding
Defamatory Allegations Made against Him

1. I make this Statement voluntarily, being of sound mind, and without
any other motive or aim than to state the truth as I know it.

2. I have personal and direct knowledge of all the facts, events and
persons I describe herein.

3. I have never met nor worked or associated with the person who calls
himself Macdonald Stainsby, and who claims such association with me,
and knowledge of my work with aboriginal peoples.

4. The public claims of Mr. Stainsby, regarding my supposedly abusive
relationship with aboriginal people and Indian Residential School
survivors, are absolutely and categorically false. Mr. Stainsby has no
direct or personal knowledge of either the persons or the situations
he describes in his allegations towards me. His statements about me in
this regard are based completely on hearsay and innuendo.

5. Mr. Stainsby's specific claim that I am "abusing" residential
school survivors by using their statements and stories without their
permission is completely untrue. I have asked and secured the written
or videotaped, oral permission of every person or Indian residential
school survivor who is quoted or who appears in any of my articles,
books or in my documentary film UNREPENTANT. That permission grants me
the right to quote these persons in public or private settings, and to
refer to their accounts in my lectures and other presentations. These
permission forms are in the safe keeping of my legal advisors and are
on the public record.

6. Mr. Stainsby's claim that I am personally profiting off these
survivors and their stories is also untrue, and quite absurd. For over
twelve years I have worked to support, counsel and advocate for
residential school survivors on a completely unpaid, volunteer basis,
without any regular renumeration, and at great personal and family
cost. I have earned so little between the time of my firing from the
United Church, in January 1995, and today, that during that entire
period I have had no taxable income. As further refutation of
Stainsby's claim about me, all of my work, including my books and
film, are not copyrighted, and I therefore am not profiting off their
production. Rather, I encourage their contents to be reproduced by
anyone for educational purposes, and to aid residential school
survivors.

7. Mr. Stainsby's lies about me are an echo of similar untruths that
have been circulated against me since 1996 by officials of the United
Church of Canada, Inspector Peter Montague of the "dirty tricks"
section of "E" Division of the RCMP in Vancouver, and an American
citizen named James Craven. Since the fall of 1998, Mr. Craven has
without cause actively worked to disparage me, ruin my personal and
professional reputation, and disrupt my work and ruin my standing in
the aboriginal and academic worlds. Craven has actively cooperated
with United Church officials Stuart Lyster, Doug Goodwin and Brian
Thorpe in this campaign of character assassination against me.

8. I state categorically that none of Mr. Craven's allegations about
me are true or accurate. Mr. Craven has had no personal or direct
knowledge of my work with residential school survivors, besides a
brief three day encounter when he served as an observer at a June,
1998 tribunal in Vancouver, where we met briefly. A statement that Mr.
Craven and Mr. Stainsby have circulated, supposedly endorsed by
residential school survivors Amy Tallio, Harriett Nahanee and Bill
Quinn, among others, in which these persons publicly disassociate
themselves from me and my work, has turned out to be a crude forgery.
Ms. Nahanee and Mr. Quinn have signed affidavits stating that they
never signed the statement in which their names appear, and that their
names were used by Mr. Craven without their knowledge or permission.

9. I challenge Mr. Stainsby and Mr. Craven, and their associates, to
produce any actual evidence to substantiate their claims against me.
The fact that they have never done so, relying instead on fear
mongering, lies and innuendo to alienate people from me and my work,
indicates the untrue nature of their claims, along with the moral and
intellectual bankruptcy of their efforts. The very fact that they are
both concentrating so vehemently, and irrationally, on destroying my
work and reputation, while ignoring the lives and concerns of
aboriginal people and the residential school survivors they claim to
support, indicates their true motives and orientatition.

10. In the fall of 2006, I was contacted by an anonymous member of "E"
Division of the RCMP in Vancouver and given inside information that
two aboriginal people, Frank Martin and Helen Michel, were recruited
and paid by the RCMP, in conjunction with Mr. Craven, to publicly
attack me and discredit my work. Mr. Craven alluded to his connection
with the RCMP and the FBI when he joked about his clandestine
intelligence training to Harriett Nahanee in a conversation with her
in August of 1999 in North Vancouver. In addition, the American Indian
Movement and the Sea Shepherd Society have both made public statements
concerning their belief that James Craven is a paid government
informant and undercover operative, and have urged people to be wary
of him.

11. I publicly call upon James Craven and Macdonald Stainsby, and
their associates, to cease and desist from making any further libelous
and unproven statements about me or my history and work, especially
with aboriginal peoples. I further demand a public apology from them
for the terrible damage their statements about me have had, including
the loss of income, employability and reputation I have suffered. And
I further declare that I hold both of them, and anyone who repeats
their statements about me, personally accountable and liable, legally
and morally, for all such statements made thus far, and for any and
all such statements made by them in the future, along with the damage
to me caused by the same.

12. The litmus test of any sincere and mature person is their
willingness to avoid personal antagonisms for the sake of a higher and
more necessary pursuit, which in this case involves the exposure and
defeat of the ongoing genocide of the lands and nations of indigenous
humanity on this continent. In that sense, both Mr. Craven and Mr.
Stainsby, and those who have fallen prey to their lies and divisive
behaviour, have failed the test of being legitimately concerned and
credible activists. On the contrary, their consistently destructive
attacks on me and my work actually consitute an assault on the many
thousands of aboriginal survivors of genocide who are trying
desperately to bring those responsible to justice, and who actively
support my work and align themselves with my efforts. For that reason,
Craven and Stainsby and their poisonous attacks must be condemned and
rejected by anyone committed to human rights and indigenous people.

I invite all concerned persons to join with me in our efforts to
combat racism, genocide and injustice here on Turtle Island, and
establish truly sovereign indigenous nations.

Standing on the ground of Truth, I am,

Kevin D. Annett - Eagle Strong Voice, M.A., M.Div.
March 14, 2008
Squamish Nation

Under the authority of Royal Hereditary Chief Kiapilano of the Squamish Nation

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Note: I freely grant any persons the right to quote any and all part
of  this statement.