Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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Princess
Pale Moon is in the news again. Many
Indians and Indo-Europeans think that
she is infringing on their exclusive turf of stealing from Aboriginal
Indigenous People. The smug,
self-righteous character assassination of Princes Pale Moon by other
“real
Indians” has more to do with the assimilated Greed Culture of Indians
than it
has to do with whether or not she is also a “real Indian.”
Indians have had U.S. Government and
European-protected rights to their percentage of the plunder of
Aboriginal Indigenous
Peoples’ land, resources, and culture for centuries.
Princess Pale Moon has written some pretty effective
mass-mailing
fund-raising pleas for impoverished Indians on the Reservations. The Indian Princess probably has more
Aboriginal Indigenous ancestors than a lot of other “real Indians;” she
should
be enrolled in any Tribe she claims, and issued a laminated “official
Indian”
card. (I never had one of these
laminated cards, because I am not an Indian.
I am an Anishinabe Ojibway, and I do not need a card issued by
White men
to prove who I am.) We need diversity
in here, and Princess Pale Moon has just as much right to be a
Federally
Recognized Indian as most of the rest of the Indians.
In India, they have Indian Fakirs, and over on this side of the
British Empire there are also (Federally Recognized) Indian Fakers,
with no
Aboriginal Indigenous ancestors at all.
The Europeans made up all kinds of “Indian Tribes,” for example
the
Pembina and Pillager Chippewa Indians.
It is interesting to note that the Chippewa name for “Pillager”
is makandewewinini. (In the 1870
U.S. Census, the French Moors
left over from the diminishing fur trade were recorded as mulattos.)
The
Politicians are just warming up for the 1992 Presidential
three-ring circus and the hoop-la that goes with it.
They talk of pie in the sky and carrots on a stick, but once
again they are planning on fleecing the flock and pulling the wool over
their
eyes. Abraham Lincoln said “you can’t
fool all of the people all of the time,” but these con artists are
refining
their flim-flam and crooked English all of the time.
According
to the newspapers, U.S. Congressman Ben Nighthorse
Campbell has agreed participate in the Rose Bowl Parade.
Most politicians will do anything to achieve
“name recognition” and to get free T.V. time.
By promoting “Indians” for Columbus’ quinticentennial, this
apparently
crooked politician is promoting racism.
There were no Indians on either of these two Continents before
Columbus
got here. “Indian” is an European name
for an European identity. By promoting
“Indians,” the Honorable Congressman Campbell is promoting the United
States
Government’s racist smokescreen to hide the theft of this Continent and
what
has been done to the Aboriginal Indigenous People this land belongs to. In the 1930’s, a nickel was a nickel, and
politicians at that time were a dime a dozen.
Now, with inflation, the best politicians that money can buy are
still a
dime a dozen.
The
former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, has
been in the political arena lately. It
didn’t really matter whether he won the Governorship of Louisiana or
not—whether racism is overt or covert, it is still racism.
One of the planks in Duke’s political
platform was targeting Welfare Mothers.
(Whatever happened to Apple Pie and Motherhood?)
The Duke’s blame-the-victim and
blame-the-defenseless tactics remind me of a little corporal
politicking in
Germany in the 1930’s. So-called
“high-class” bullies like to pick on people who can’t fight back, and
blame all
of the problems that the Country has on “other people.”
If Duke was serious about reducing taxes by
reducing Government expenditures, he could pay all of the other people
grunting
at the public trough at the same rate that A.F.D.C. Welfare Mothers get. Just reducing all of the Welfare
administrator, case-worker and provider salaries to standard A.F.D.C.
income-levels would solve the problem of a bloated welfare budget. The “invisible hand” of Adam Smith helps the
Social Workers and other De-greed professional rip-off artists prosper
at the
public trough, while on the other hand, the “helping hand” keeps
Welfare
“clients” under their thumb, powerless and trapped by low self-esteem.
People
who blame Welfare Mothers for the United States’
economic problems should also look at how much money is going out of
the U.S.
economy as profits and royalties claimed by foreign-owned corporations. Japan is not the biggest foreign
owner, nor even the second-largest foreign owner. How
much money and resources has Great Britain taken out of these
two Continents? Who gets the interest
on the “National Debt?” It sure isn’t
the Welfare Mothers. Ronald Reagan
promised to “balance the budget” in 1979—but his big campaign
contributors
couldn’t have made a profit on their political investment with a
balanced
budget. Sir Ronnie wouldn’t have gotten
Knighted if he had broken his backroom campaign commitments. On the subject of campaign contributions,
how many of George Bush’s supporters profited from the S. and L.
crisis, or
will profit from the upcoming banking crisis?
The difference between Communism and Capitalism is that
Communist
citizens own everything while it’s being run into bankruptcy, and
Capitalist
citizens only own it after it’s already bankrupt and in debt.
Welfare
Mothers are a diversionary tactic. For
almost two centuries, the United States
kept the public trough filled to the brim by stealing Aboriginal
Indigenous
Peoples’ land and resources. Now that
they’ve stolen just about everything on this continent, the trough is
running
low. They keep on looking for excuses
to declare war on some other resource-rich country, to keep their
plunder-economics working.
Rape
and plunder have been a part of Indo-European government
for millennia. The Minneapolis Star
Tribune
recently ran a series of articles on the problem of rape, but most of
what they
proposed were more punitive and longer sentences for rapists of women. They did not talk about the underlying
patterns of rape within the Indo-European culture: rape as an integral
part of
war and conquest; the forcible violent penetration of children of other
cultures’ minds in compulsory school-education; homosexual prison
rapes; the
violence inherent in social hierarchies, the ongoing rape of
the land,
and the American heritage of the rape of these continents.
These issues need to be addressed. Violent
sentences for rapists cannot solve
the problem. Violence always creates
more violence. The only effective
long-term solution is to use non-violent ways to change the violence
permeating
Indo-European culture, and to use non-violent means to address the
violent
perpetrators of their culture.
Non-violence does work.
In
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the criminal
culture of England sent entire fleets of prison-boats, their holds
bulging with
condemned criminals, to our continent.
(In this particular scapegoating operation, the idea was to “rid
society
of people with criminal tendencies,” as well as to make money.) The gullible American public is told that one
of the causes of violent crime is “lack of prison space.”
Rather than build more prisons, why not draw
upon the British Common Law that this colony here is heir to, and
follow
England’s precedent by sending all violent criminals back to the
British Isles
as pardoned, full citizens with Noble Titles.
With the twenty or so generations intervening, we could send
back about
two thousand and forty-eight prisoners for every one they sent here. Just in case some of the prisoners are
incorrigibly institutionalized, we can send all of the prisons and law
enforcement personnel back to England along with the convicted
criminals,
because they are inseparable. To the
British Imperial Isle which exported so much crime, a kind of good
neighbor
guarantee: “double your criminals back.”
We can also send all of the stunted David Duke politicians and
White
Supremacists with low I.Q.’s along with them: White Supremacy is an
European
idea and if the Europeans hadn’t gone around being greedy and meddling
in other
Peoples’ lands and cultures, Whites would still have White Homelands
and
Nations.
In
the Anishinabe Ojibway language, there is no word for
“war,” and there is no word which is a translation of the Indo-European
word
for “peace.” Our Anishinabe Ojibway
culture did not have such insane and inhumane, violent concepts. In the Indo-European tradition, “war” and
“peace” are two facets of the same violent interactions; there is more
violence
in their “peace” than there is in war.
European “culture” is a man-made culture with no roots, with
no-where to
go, with no sense of harmony and no connection with the land, and no
sense of
their identity as human beings.
NEWS FROM
THE JOURDANIAN AND BRUN DIMINISHING RESERVATION:
Recently,
a Red Lake Enrollee was arrested for having three
bags of fish in the trunk of his car, on allegedly “Tribal Land.” The State of Minnesota D.N.R. confiscated
his fish, kept it unrefrigerated, and returned the fish after it was
rotten. Does the State of Minnesota
have the jurisdiction to come onto this still Sovereign Anishinabe
Ojibway land
allegedly ceded by Chippewa Indians subsequent to the Act of January
14, 1889,
and then “restored” by the I.R.A. to the foreign Chippewa Band of
Indians? The State is apparently claiming
the right
to confiscate what might have been this Enrollee’s lunch or dinner. What if this person had three blocks of
firewood in his car? Would the State
have the right to confiscate that, also?
The I.R.A. Chip-away “Tribal Council,” along with the United
States
Department of the Interior, is sending truckload after truckload of
plundered
forest products off of the Reservation.
I don’t see the State of Minnesota or their D.N.R. confiscating
any of
this stolen wood and timber. I have
never heard of an I.R.A. Chippewa Indian Tribal Council standing up for
the
human rights or property rights of an Anishinabe Ojibway person, nor
speaking
out in support of Aboriginal Indigenous People victimized by racism. Some of the French Moors who got turned into
Chippewa Indians are more racist than David Duke. (The
United States Government, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and
the Minnesota D.N.R. need people like that to do their “dirty work,”
perpetuate
racism and implement greedy racist colonial policies.)
The
Anishinabe Ojibway People, and the Clans, need to be
sending a bill to the United States Government, not only for the fair
market
value of the stolen timber plus interest, but also for the damages done
to the
wildlife, to the permaculture and to the forest ecosystems of our
Aboriginal
Indigenous land. The Bureau of Indian
Affairs and the I.R.A. Tribal Council do not belong on our land, and an
enormous bill for back rent is long overdue.
No matter what the United States or the Queen of England says,
this land
is not Chippewa Indian land, and never has been.
Research the Chippewa Indians’ genealogy,
and you will find out that they are foreigners within the Anishinabe
Ojibway
Nations, just like the rest of the White people, and they need to be
held
accountable to the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation and to the Clan Mothers.
The
Aboriginal Indigenous People on the East Coast were
trusting people, because all of our Aboriginal Indigenous cultures were
non-violent. (“Indians” are violent,
because their identity is created by the Indo-Europeans, a projection
of these
“$ivilized” peoples’ subconscience.)
The Tribal People of what became known as Plymouth Rock
generously gave
the starving refugee pilgrims, who were running away from religious
persecution
and the scapegoating processes of Feudalism, a place to live and food
to
eat. After a year, the Pilgrims gave
thanks—and then when these Europeans became stronger in number they
turned
around, raped and murdered their hosts, persecuted their Aboriginal
Indigenous
religion and stole their property, and created homeless people and
hungry
children. The few surviving Aboriginal
Indigenous People have been going “cold turkey,” Commodity Style (and
Food
Stamps in the White racist economic system), ever since.
From the Anishinabe Ojibway Nations, we wish
you Pillagers and Pembinas, and the rest of you Chippewa Indians and
you White
People a Happy Thanksgiving Day. Enjoy
our Aboriginal food, including turkey, corn, potatoes, and cranberries.
Wub-e-keniew
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