Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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According to the dictionary, “ethnic” is
defined as,
“Of, pertaining to, or peculiar to a race; pertaining to races, their
origin,
characteristics, etc.; ethnological; also, pertaining to nations not
Jewish
or Christian; heathen or pagan...”
This is a European point of view.
The Anishinabe Ojibway people are “none of the above,” and we
are not
“ethnic” (and we are not “minorities”).
“Ethnic” is an ethnocentric word; for us it’s simpler to say
that these
immigrant and pilgrim peoples are invaders, whether they were armed
with guns,
germ warfare or Bibles.
Chippewa Indians define themselves as “minorities”
and
“ethnic people,” because they were created by the White man and depend
on the
White man for their identity. They are
holdovers from the French and Indian Wars, which were a fight over
which
European Sovereign could exploit this Continent—and none of these
European
Sovereignties belong here. United
States Government “experts” and academic scholars get into all kinds of
word-games and Crooked English about something simple like
“Sovereignty.” The Minneapolis Star
Tribune ran an
article last week about Red Lake, which mentioned “status as a
quasi-sovereign
state.” A B.I.A. official says that
it’s difficult to explain, a “government to government” relationship. The experts and officials are making
Sovereignty seem complicated, because they are obscuring their lies. Sovereignty is really very simple: when the
People jointly have owned their religion, and their culture, their land
and
their language since time immemorial, when these People know who they
are
through their Clans and don’t have to take on a fake identity from
somebody
else, then these are Sovereign People.
Sovereignty can’t be delegated piecemeal by one group of people
to
another, and Sovereignty is not given out commodity style.
Neither the Pope nor the Archbishop of
Canterbury has any right to allocate another Peoples’ Sovereignty or
another
Peoples’ land. (Ask the Arabs and the
Jews about religion, land, language, which add up to identity and to
Sovereignty.)
The Metis refugees from the “French and Indian” wars
between
France and England were made into Chip-away Indians in order to sign
treaties. Common sense shows that these
“Treaties” were fakes and frauds manipulated by con artists: no Sovereign
People would ever sell their land and thus their Sovereignty. The heavily armed Alexander Ramsey knew that
the Anishinabe Ojibway were not about to sell Grandmother Earth or our
Sovereignty when he came to our Nation in 1863. He
lied about the purpose of his visit,
“Now, there is growing up a trade of considerable
importance
between the British settlements on the north and the American [also
British[]
settlements on the south. It is of the
highest importance that this trade goes on without interruption ... Now, this is a trade which cannot and must
not be interrupted. And their great
Father, feeling this, and desirous to prevent any trouble between his
white and
red people, has sent us here to come to some understanding with you
about
it. The Great Father has no especial
desire to get possession of their lands.
He does not want their lands at all if they do not want to
part with
them. He has more land now than he
knows what to do with. He simply
wishes that his people should enjoy the privilege of travelling through
their
country on steamboats and wagons unmolested.” (September
23, 1863, Old Crossing; Confidential Executive Papers
of the 38th Congress, 1st Session [emphasis mine].)
The Chip-away Indians and Metis who were present at
the Old
Crossing in 1863, and who were the ones who eventually signed the
“Treaty,” did
not have any Sovereignty. They were
willing to “sell land” for four cents an acre, because the land did not
belong
to them. The Meti from the French fur
trade were Prisoners of War and the Reservations were concentration
camps. They were offered a choice of being
deported
to France or being turned into Chip-away Indians. A
lot of them were refugees from some pretty desperate circumstances
in France. They were purged out of
France and dumped into the Colonies in the first place, and if they had
refused
to sign the “Treaties” and had been shipped back to France, France
would have
just sent them out again into another colony, probably Devil’s Island.
News from
the Indian Reorganization Act Jourdanian and Brun diminishing and
deforested
concentration camp called a reservation:
The
White and Indian European foreigners have used many methods to steal
our land
and resources. Just recently, I
received a visit from Chairman Brun. I
offered him coffee and offered to engage in dialogue, but that was not
on his
agenda. He complained to me that there
were “people here who wanted to polarize the community.”
But, the community has already been polarized.
The United States Government intentionally
creates factions in the Indian and Anishinabe Ojibway community (B.I.A.
documents show that the “precipitation of factions” is planned—one
example was
deliberately using factions to get the I.R.A. into Red Lake, against
the wishes
of both the Anishinabe Ojibway and some of the Indians).
Factions are a necessary part of the
Indo-European violent way of governing.
I am not trying to create factions or polarize the
already-divided
community. What I want is to preserve
what little the Anishinabe Ojibway People have left, for the
generations yet to
come. The Anishinabe Ojibway, “We, the
People,” have an inalienable right to exist as a People in our own land.
The Indo-Europeans have developed a large number of
devious
methods to intimidate and manipulate people.
They’ve fine-tuned their dehumanizing strategies for centuries. Chairman Brun of the Chip-away Indians does
not have any Aboriginal Indigenous ancestors; he was turned into an
“Indian” by
the European immigrant government. The
Chairman’s White values really showed as I talked to him.
I cannot be manipulated by the B.I.A., so
the Chairman told me I was “lazy.”
Sure, I’m “lazy.” I’m so lazy
that I’m growing a garden instead of going to all the work of filling
out
applications for food stamps and rations left over from one of the
White man’s
many wars (probably World War II). I’m so lazy that I cut my own
firewood
instead of going to get energy assistance.
I’m too lazy to claim I’m “Indian” so I can collect paychecks
for six
Government jobs. I’m too lazy to apply
for all of the assistance that the United States Government pays “their
Indians” to stay Indian ... well, I’m Anishinabe Ojibway and not
Indian, and I
don’t want any part of the U.S. Government’s Indian Programs mandated
by
International Rules of War for Occupied Peoples. From
the French and Indian-Meti Wars, “Indians” are a conquered
people, and you do not belong here (research your genealogy—by the
crooked
B.I.A. pen, Whites were packed onto the Red Lake Enrollments as
“fullblood”
Indians). Indo-Europeans and foreigners
have no right to be destroying the Anishinabe Ojibway Peoples’ forests,
selling
our Natural Rights to our resources, or speaking “for” the
Aboriginal
Indigenous People as “Indians.”
Calling people “lazy” is an old Indo-European trick. The foreign U.S. calls the Mexicans “lazy”
and “wetback aliens.” A lot of the
Mexicans are Aboriginal Indigenous people; the foreign U.S. stereotypes
them as
“lazy” in order to manipulate them into slave-labor working conditions. The “wetbacks” might have a little bit of
fresh water on their back, but the European boat people came over a lot
of salt
water, they should call them “salt backs.”
News from
the Assimilation Front:
The Europeans have a tired
old song and dance story, the same old worn out theme “Assimilate and
Be Like
Us.” They’ve been telling it to the
Aboriginal Indigenous People; they don’t need to tell it to the Indians
because
the Indians have already assimilated into an Indo-European identity. Why are the Indians stealing culture from
the Aboriginal Indigenous people? Why
are they telling Chip-away Indians, learn “Ojibway first.”
What the Indian-Metis need to do is learn
how to speak Crooked English, so that they can defend themselves
against
Crooked English Bureaucrats and Shysters.
They’re not really serious about “assimilation” (it’s just
another
manipulation tactic like calling people “lazy”). The
Indo-Europeans don’t have any culture to assimilate
into. They were too busy going to war
and stealing from other Peoples to develop any culture besides a
culture of
violence and greed. They wouldn’t be
here if they weren’t violent. If they
really wanted the residents of the Red Lake Reservation to assimilate,
why
don’t they put up mailboxes and have rural mail delivery?
Why aren’t there newspaper routes like there
are in any other rural area? The
original European Political Scientist, Machiavelli, prescribes keeping
people
isolated and mis-educated and uninformed.
Speaking of education, watch that Red Lake Indian
School Board! They’re trying to
mortgage land that doesn’t belong to them again, to pay off their $12
million
dollar debt. They should know by now
that “Trust Status” can be abolished by the stroke of a pen, because
you
Indians were created with a stroke of a pen.
By the way, I returned the turkey the Chip-away
Indian Tribal
Council sent over.
News
flash:
Politicians are gearing up for the election. A bumper sticker was sighted:
“DONT STEAL OR ROB — GOVT HATES COMPETITION”.
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