Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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Medallions
and flags were used by both the British and the
British-American governments to create Government Indian Chiefs. Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ Chiefs were
appointed by consensus of the Clan Mothers and Elders. Medallion
Chiefs were appointed by the French
and then replaced by the British on both sides of the 48th Parallel. When the U.S. and Britain created Medallion
Chiefs, they created an European colonial government, which they called
“Tribal
Government,” but which had the Sovereignty being held by the Church of
England
or the Pope. Aboriginal Indigenous
Sovereignty and Traditional Government were entirely different than
what was
created by the European migratory people.
Aboriginal Indigenous Sovereignty is held jointly by every
Aboriginal Indigenous member of the Clans.
Under this Traditional Theocracy, we could not, and still
cannot, sell
land.
In
order to steal this continent, the Indo-Europeans made
Medallion Chiefs and have been re-inventing their own version of
“Indian Tribal
Governments” ever since. They called
the last one they invented here in Red Lake the “Red Lake Band of
Chip-away
Indians”—which means that they were created to steal all of the land
and
resources still belonging to the Anishinabe Ojibway here.
The Indo-Europeans had to create “Indians”
for their “Indian Tribal Governments,”
and these “Indians” do not have a Clan or a Dodem.
These invented [Indo-European] “Indian
tribal governments” claim to be Sovereign —it’s true, they are
Sovereign, but
they are using White European Sovereignty.
When they issued Passports in Red Lake, they were using White
Sovereignty to keep out other White people who have just as much White
Sovereignty as they do. The
artificially created Chip-away Tribal Governments were based on
Medallion
Chiefs, who did not have Aboriginal Indigenous Sovereignty; they were
not of
the Aboriginal Indigenous religion, and almost all of them were either
full-blooded Indo-Europeans or mixed-bloods without a Clan or a Dodem. In Mission School, they told us every day
that “Indians are the vanishing American.”
Those nuns were speaking the truth for once; without a Clan or
Dodem,
with an Indo-European father, these “Indians” are the
“vanishing
Americans.” Since the plan was first
formed, the agenda has been to “vanish” these Indians into the melting
pot as
soon as they’ve filled their purpose of “selling” all the land.
The
Medallion Chiefs were known to high-level bureaucrats and
back-room men in Washington, D.C. as “real estate salesmen.” The medallions and flags were used to give
these Government Chiefs status, and anyone carrying one of these
Chiefs’
Medallions was “recognized” by the Indo-European Governments, by the
Clergy, by
lumber barons and land speculators, and by Euro-Indian Traders. The Medallions were a railroad pass, and a
credit card for hotels, saloons, and trading posts.
Medallion Chiefs were given these credit cards, but their bills
were paid out of the Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ land that they sold. This was the “Old Indian” identity.
Now,
there is a “New Indian.” Instead of
Medallion Chiefs, they are called “Tribal Councils”
and “R.B.C.’s;” but they are still real estate agents, and are still
charging
up bills and running a tab against Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ land
and
resources. They still go on
junkets. When you ask one of these New
Indians about the meeting they just went to, they say “well, our dinner
cost us
a hundred dollars apiece.” When you ask
again, “What about the meeting,” they say, “well, our hotel room cost a
hundred
and fifty dollars a night.” And, you
still ask, “how was the meeting,” and they say, “well, we went down to
the
gaming room and dropped a couple ‘thou’.”
For Medallion Chiefs, the more things change, the more they
remain the
same. They are still White man’s
Government Chiefs even if they are called “Tribal Council Officers and
Reps.”
There
was recently a court case in Baudette, between the
Chip-away Indian Tribal Chairman and the State of Minnesota. The Chairman of the Chip-away Tribal Council
said that he didn’t want to order the Baudette people off the land, he
just
wanted a “settlement,” which means land sale.
The judge closed the case on the basis of some 1938 Minnesota
Statute, because he didn’t want to get into the details of a crooked
Treaty,
the insider-trading railroad land-grabs, or the 1889 Crooked Agreement.
Up
to this point, it has not cost the United States
Government anything to run “Indians.”
As a matter of fact they’ve made a lucrative windfall profit. But, the Red Lake School Board showed their
hand. By going into debt against
Anishinabe Ojibway land, which does not belong to the Indians,
they
showed that the United States Government is just about through with
their
agenda, and has bankrupted the Aboriginal Indigenous people of Red Lake
and the
Anishinabe Ojibway Nation—at least according to their own crooked laws. Bankrupting Aboriginal Indigenous
People—stealing everything—was the original goal.
Not
all Indians are Medallion Indians. Indo-European
hierarchial thinking requires
a class structure; they cannot have anything except for
superior-inferior
relationships. Their languages make it
impossible to have an egalitarian society.
(Aboriginal Indigenous people are automatically labelled as
“backwards”
and “inferior” so they can be destroyed without qualms of conscience.) The Indo-Europeans created at least three
social classes of “Indians,” and tried to force Aboriginal Indigenous
people
into the “lowest” one. At the top of
this artificial hierarchy are the Medallion Indians, who are coddled
and
pampered—as long as they are still useful to the White elite. Then, there are the show-and-tell,
hang-around-the-fort Indians, “everything’s fine in Indian Country”
Indians,
tokens for Indo-Europeans to hide the destruction of Aboriginal
Indigenous
culture and Peoples. These mostly
White, blood-quantum Indians are kept in public view.
They get Indian scholarships, Indian-preference jobs and Indian
Government houses. Many of them could
easily disappear into the White melting pot, so they are bribed with a
comfortable living and artificial status to personify a myth and stay
“Indian,”
paid for by Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ land and resources. But then, many Indians, particularly those
people who visibly have Aboriginal Indigenous ancestors, are kept
impoverished,
manipulated by rumors of “Indian Payment,” conned by this carrot on a
stick, this
illusion of escape from grinding poverty, strung along by a false
promise into
staying Indian. They are caught in a
projective identity, “tracked” by compulsory education, derailed into
the
prison system, misguided into the dead-end of being Indo-European
blame-the-victim scapegoats. They are
kept powerless, unemployed, and visible only as a negative stereotype. Many Aboriginal Indigenous people have also
been forced into this self-destructive Indian identity.
If you’re Anishinabe Ojibway, or any other
Aboriginal Indigenous person, you don’t have to get caught in this
racist
Indian identity. You can go back and
get your real identity. You can be who
you are—you don’t have to be stereotyped and labelled by these racist
foreigners.
Indo-Europeans
have used labels and stereotypes to give
diverse peoples new identities under their control for centuries. This
is to
steal land, resources, and anything else.
They are also doing it to the Arabs.
An
Anthropology Professor at Bemidji State University recently
said that “Indians are the anus of humanity.”
A lot of people got upset about this, but as Indians they
couldn’t take the Professor to court and sue him for defamation. Since White people invented the “Indian”
identity, it belongs to them and so they can say whatever they want
about
Indians. People who have been
brainwashed into the Indian identity and projections of the White man
aren’t
allowed to define an identity they don’t own.
“Indians”
are a politically-motivated invention, and
according to Congressional documents the Justice Department cannot hand
out
justice to Indian people, who do not exist except as political
hockey-pucks. “Indians” are
make-believe, along with Snow White and Mickey Mouse (c), a White man’s
Fantasy-Land. The land, the resources,
and the Aboriginal Indigenous People are the only ones that are based
on
reality, not part of this nightmare fantasy.
Maybe the way out of this mess, is for Aboriginal Indigenous
People to
copyright “Indians (c)” under International Law, and use it as a
Registered
Trademark. But, then again, the White
Man invented Indians, and we might be infringing on his patent.
Treaty
issues have been orchestrated recently in Wisconsin
and in White Earth. The White man owns
the Indians and he has always owned both sides of the Chip-away Indian
Treaty-making process. The
Indo-Europeans want to abrogate the Chip-away Indian Treaties that they
invented, because they know that they are a shell game, and they are
still trying
to steal the Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ land and resources by using
“their
Indians” to close the books.
The Chip-away Indian Treaties are frauds;
they were not made with the Anishinabe Ojibway Nations. International issues are not settled in
District Court, or with a low-ranking Official Bureaucrat.
Sending Chip-away Indian Treaties to lower
court in the first place, “Chip-away Indians get half, Whites get half” (but what about the Aboriginal Indigenous
People
that the land and resources really belong to)
makes it very clear that the Anglos knew that these Treaties
were a
fraud from the very beginning. Treaties
made with Indians are in violation of the U.S. Constitution. The Treaties are a Tar-Baby.
The Englishmen are so clever that they just
created another Tar-Baby in Iraq; the Queen celebrated by knighting
Stormin’
Norman just a couple of years after she knighted President Reagan.
Other
reflections from Anishinabe Ojibway Country: after many
years of Cold War, Democracy and Communism are finally getting together. They could simplify politics, and just call
it “Comm-mocracy,” or, if Decmocracy has to be first, then they could
call it
“Demo-nism.”
Wub-e-keniew
Francis
Blake, Jr.
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