Reflections from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People) |
June
5, 1991
There
have been “Indians” all over the newspapers
lately. William Safire of the New
York Times wrote an editorial reprinted in Saturday’s Minneapolis Star-Tribune
about gambling on Indian Reservations.
The next day, the “Trib” featured an editorial by
Charles
Krauthammer of the Washington Post about revisionist history. The Mass Media is focussing on the
Indo-Europeans’ mythological “Indian.”
The
Indian Identity is a misnomer, as Safire points out, “I
was born here, which makes me a native American; if American Indians
want to
abandon a fine [sic] if mistaken appellation, they could accurately
chose
‘Aboriginal Americans.’” Safire is on
the right track, but he hasn’t gotten out of the Crooked English box
yet—“American”
is another “mistaken appellation.” Some
Aboriginal Indigenous People who got caught in the compulsory
mis-education of
Government—and mission—schools got brainwashed into believing they were
“Indians.” Some Indo-Europeans, including White people, also got stuck in
this “Indian” identity.
“Indians”
were created because the Aboriginal Indigenous
People of the Traditional Aboriginal Religions could not sell Mother
Earth. We still cannot sell.
The “Indians” and the Indo-Europeans stole
the customs, they stole the language, they stole the land, they stole
the
names, and they stole the religion which belong to the Aboriginal
Indigenous
People. But, they did not steal the value
system of the Aboriginal Indigenous People. If
they had stolen everything, including our Traditional
values, then the Indo-Europeans wouldn’t have had any use for the
“Indians”
they created. If they had stolen our
value system, then they wouldn’t have been able to sell Aboriginal
Peoples’
land. From the Aboriginal Indigenous
perspective, there is no difference between Indian values and
Indo-European
values.
For
many years, I have been studying the history of Red Lake,
and have been working on a genealogy of the people enrolled by the
United
States Government as “Chippewa Indians” in Red Lake, White Earth, and
Leech
Lake. Most of the people enrolled in
Northern Minnesota as Chippewa Indians do not have any Aboriginal
Indigenous
ancestors. The 1934 Indian
Reorganization Act’s “closing the rolls” clause is an example of how
Indo-Europeans became Indians, but it is not the first precedent. The Treaties that Indians base their claims
to “Indian Rights” on are also fraudulent—as far as I know, there was never
a Treaty with the United States which was signed by an Aboriginal
Indigenous
person. They were all signed by Indians
(Indo-Europeans) who were already citizens of the United States. Some of these Indians were returning
draftees, veterans of the Union Army in the Civil War.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs should be
re-named, and called the Bureau of Indo-European Indian Affairs.
I
have also been studying Indo-European culture, history, and
language. As any self-honest linguist
can tell you, the Indo-Europeans’ languages are the root of their
racism. (Racism is a “black-and-white”
issue.) Their languages mold how they look
at the
world. The violence of Keynes,
Machiavelli, Marx, and Darwin—whose minds were short-circuited by
Crooked
Indo-European languages—is an example of how these languages are put
together. Deforestation, lethal
pollution, wars, overpopulation ... it’s a nearly endless list ... also
reflect
Indo-European linguistic structure.
These
Indo-European ways of thinking are totally the opposite
of the Anishinabe Ojibway—We, the People’s.
Maybe that’s why they called us “backwards people.” It continues to be a projection, just like
“savage” (look up the derivation in the dictionary).
Another projection was calling us “warlike.”
We were the original Peaceful Conscientious
Objectors; we lived in harmony with each other and with the environment. The “Indian Wars” in the history books were
wars between Indo-Europeans; or wars between half-breeds fighting at
the
command of their father’s Nations, over who could steal the most. The “French and Indian” wars are an example:
the “Indians” involved in this were mixed-blood French people whose
sovereignty
was held by France.
Genetic
engineering, creating mixed-blood people as a part of
the colonizing process is an Indo-European colonial strategy. It was done to them just before Columbus
discovered he was lost, by the Moors in Southern Europe.
Another
part of Indo-European culture is pathological
lying. According to a survey printed in
the May 16 Star Tribune, “91 percent of Americans say they lie
regularly.” The other nine percent were
telling the truth, but they were lying—because English is a Crooked,
linear
language. When you look at it from
outside, from an Aboriginal Indigenous culture, you can see it. That’s why the Aboriginals always said
“forked tongue speaking.” Even if the
forked-tongue person they were talking about thought they were telling
the
truth, they were still lying. It’s
extremely difficult to tell the truth if Indo-European languages are
your only
languages. Go ask your Congressman or
Senator, he keeps getting re-elected.
Other
Anishinabe Ojibway reflections and perspectives: What
about the Red Lake School? There’s a
$2,500,000.00 deficit. “Interest-free”
loans were being given out by certain members of the School Board, to
themselves and to their relatives. But,
there is 25% interest on that two and a half million dollar deficit
that
financed the loans. “Indians” who have
no ties to this Aboriginal Indigenous land, apparently used the
Anishinabe
Ojibway People’s land as collateral.
This land does not, and has never, belonged to “Indians.” The School Board had a Poster Child in
the
school referendum, an emotional appeal for votes approving a ten
million dollar
loan (in part to cover up the deficit).
Where is that little Poster Child going to live, if the land
that the
Aboriginal Indigenous people have let others live on is hocked by
people it
doesn’t belong to? The Referendum was a
move by the State of Minnesota toward land taxes on Red Lake
Reservation. Anybody who doesn’t know what
land taxes do,
should talk to somebody from White Earth or any of the other
reservations that
have been allotted out. According to
B.I.A. documents, their policy is that the land will be gone,
and I
repeat, GONE, by the third generation.
The B.I.A. is nothing more than a real estate agency and a
resource broker—and they have a police force.
There are no Aboriginal Indigenous people on that police force,
and
never have been, only “Indians.”
Wake
up, Anishinabe Ojibway People of Red Lake! We
are the last ones in the United States
who still have our land.
Wub-e-keniew
Francis
Blake, Jr.
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