Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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“You
don’t belong here.
You’re an outsider.” How many
times have you heard that? Many people
who call themselves “Red Lakers” have told me that I don’t belong here
even
though my patrilineal ancestors have lived here for millennia, I am
Bear Clan
of the Midewiwin and have Anishinabe Ojibway Sovereignty.
But, after doing research on the history and
genealogy of Red Lake, and putting together their family tree, I have
found out
that the people who tell others the loudest, “you don’t belong here,”
are
second and third-generation Red Lake residents, and White blood-quantum
Indians
without an Aboriginal Indigenous Clan or a Dodem. The
blood-quantum Indians’ sovereignty is held by the Europeans;
they are history and they are gone, in Gonesville.
It’s sad, I’ve known these people all my life, and I hated to
face what I’ve always known by doing genealogy. After
doing the genealogy and finding out who they really are,
people I’ve known all my life have become total strangers, when I had
to face
the fact that they were not my people and never have been.
What the Indo-Europeans have done is
uncivilized in Aboriginal Indigenous terms.
The
United States Government used the 1889 Nelson Act as
“legal justification” to pack blood-quantum Indians from the East onto
the Red
Lake Rolls. According to the B.I.A.
rolls—and other research into their ancestry—most of the Bureau’s
blood-quantum
Indians do not have any Aboriginal Indigenous ancestors from Red Lake
at
all. Many of these blood-quantum
Indians are three-quarters White and one-quarter Aunt Jemimah or Uncle
Tom. The blood-quantum Indians never
publicly discuss their Indo-European ancestors; maybe the Bureau
doesn’t want
them to know about where they came from, or to get back their real
identity
again. The B.I.A. is hiding a lot of
crookedness and corruption by keeping every document “confidential.” If the Bureau was honest, their records
would be public information, and accessible to the Aboriginal
Indigenous people
they are trying to hold under crooked “Trusteeship.”
The
Nelson Act was titled “An Act for the Relief and
Civilization of the Chip-away Indians in the State of Minnesota.” Docket 18-A of the Indian Claims Commission
(which was established to “close the books” on the fraudulent sale of
the Red
River Valley by Indians that the land did not belong to), as well as
the Nelson
Act, were written for the purpose of stealing land and creating fake
tribes of
Indians. For example, the Pembina
Indians—some families of whom have sold Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’
land
four or five times—were mostly French people.
Little Shell was one of the Pembina Indian Chiefs who signed
away the
Red River Valley. He was an
Indo-European whose last name was Coquille.
None of the people named as plaintiffs for Docket 18-A had any
Red Lake
Anishinabe Ojibway ancestors at all.
The
boilerplate introduction for the Indian Claims Commission
reports says, “When the Europeans ‘discovered’ the North American
continent
they found it inhabited by the Indians and the question of their rights
aroused
a great moral debate.” The Great Moral
Debate was turned immoral and pushed aside when the Indo-Europeans said
that
our Continent was inhabited by “Indians.”
There were no Indians here until the Europeans came. Indians are a mythological people that the
Europeans invented. The Englishmen have
gone through all kinds of con games and dishonest mind games because of
their
mental illness of Greed; trying to say that land all over the world
doesn’t
belong to the people who have lived on their own land for hundreds of
thousands
of years. To perpetuate the myth of
Indians, the Europeans have spent millions of dollars choreographing
and
orchestrating stereotyped Hollywood Indians, Cigar-Store Indians and
Drugstore
Cowboys. They are still promoting
blood-quantum Indians; sometimes Indians are “vicious Savages” and
sometimes
they are “noble Savages,” but the Englishmen are stuck with their
mythological
blood-quantum Indians in order to hide the genocide of the Aboriginal
Indigenous People and the theft of our land.
According
to the Englishmen, you have to be “civilized” like
an Englishman in order to own land. The
United States Government spent a lot of my money and resources on
compulsory
school-education in order to “sivilize” me.
You Englishmen are hereby put on notice, that when I do
become
“sivilized,” I am going to do what all Sivilized Europeans do. I am going to steal the land back that was
stolen from me by Civilized People.
When I steal it all back, I want to be put into the Anishinabe
Ojibway
Nations’ Hall of Fame, because Sivilized people have to be centralized
and
under control. The first thing that
Sivilized People do is build prisons, jails, churches, and saloons. Then, the next thing a Sivilized Person does
is send out Fifth Columnists, euphemistically called “Missionaries.” The next order of my Sivilized Business will
be to coin and print money, sell Junk Bonds, and put everybody else
under
Trusteeship so I have total, monopolistic sivilized control. The closest boilerplate model of a Sivilized
Country is the United States, so I’ll have to use stolen resources to
back up
my money—and charge eighty cents on the dollar in interest and taxes as
a
surcharge for using my money. If I am
going to use Democracy, which was founded in slave-states 2,500 years
ago and
is still a slave state, I need to have control over these slaves
through my
money system and by stealing other peoples’ Sovereignty, when I become
Sivilized. After I become Sivilized,
I’ll go and discover everything and say that it’s mine, even though it
belongs
to other people. When I’m really
Sivilized, I’ll have to write Treaties selling Europe and create
mythological
people to sign them. I’ll write
falsified and mythical “histories,” and then I’ll tell these people
that if
they don’t knuckle under, “with one stroke of the pen you will no
longer
exist,” I have the Sivilized Divine Right of Kings and I created you
and I can
make you disappear again if you don’t follow orders.
I’ll know that I’ve really become Sivilized when I catch the
Mental Illness of Greed. So, keep tuned
to the Ojibway News, to find out about my progress toward Sivilization,
a
progress report on my acculturation and assimilation, and whether I
have caught
the European mental illness of Greed.
On
the International Scene, the G-7 was having a meeting in
Europe. I could never figure out what
the G stood for, but then they told me it was the Civilized “Greedy 7.” For some third-world countries, and third
estates, it would be the Genocidal 7.
When the Soviet Union gets into this elite club, it will be
called the
“Gorby 8.”
On
the local scene, Gravelle and Stanich have been doing some
serious investigative reporting for the Duluth paper, about absentee
ballots
being used to “fix” the crooked 1934 I.R.A. elections of the
Blood-Quantum
Indians. Here, at Red Lake, we just had
a fishery election. The fishy elections
went just the way I figured they’d go.
Even though the ballots might have added up, it was still a
crooked
election—somebody who doesn’t vote the “right ticket” can be kicked out
of
their government-owned house, lose their government-subsidized job, and
get
labelled as welfare bums and dissidents [which isn’t such a bad word
after
all]. The entire bureaucratic dictatorship
that the Bureau has given their Indians is crooked, from the bottom to
the
top. An example would be the “outsider”
who was campaigning and passing out literature—which we are told is
part of
Civilized Democracy. He was kicked off
of Red Lake Reservation for campaigning for the person challenging the
incumbent. But, get this, the incumbent
who gave the orders to kick him off the Reservation was also an
outsider. Outsiders kicking outsiders off
of my land,
it’s hilarious and a big joke.
In
other local news, the Bemidji Pioneer writes that the
Indians in Bemidji want to have an Indian Center. Bemidji
already has racism, high unemployment, and slave-labor
wages. Now, they want gambling and
Bingo in an Indian Center. Maybe the
people in Bemidji like to gamble, and among the “sins” that are being
put on
the scapegoat Indian identity are gambling and Bingo, which are being
used to
rip off the Anishinabe Ojibway community and benefits only a small “in”
group. Blood-quantum Indians are
already multi-cultural and multi-ethnic people; instead of perpetuating
the
myth of Indians, the people of Bemidji should build a Multi-Cultural
Center. This would include all
people. There has been a lot of talk
and no action in Bemidji about racism; and a Multi-Cultural Center
could
provide a place for programs to actually start dealing with racism. Racism affects everybody, and there needs to
be dialogue.
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