Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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There
is still a lot of unsettled controversy about “Indian
Nicknames.” The problem is the White
man’s crooked scheme of re-naming everybody here, in order to steal the
land
and the resources. Here at Red Lake,
the Anishinabe Ojibway People own the land, and we have never “sold”
our
homeland. The Midewiwin forbids us to
sell our Grandmother Earth. It was the
White and Meti Chippewa Indians who signed the Treaties which the White
man
used to try to claim our land. The
Europeans
pretended that their “Treaties” were legitimate, by giving the
Chip-away
Indians shadow governments. The Indians
had to sign, because they were a “conquered people,” P.O.W.’s from the
French-and-Indian wars. The Europeans
gave the “Indians” their identity.
Indian patrilineal roots go right back to Europe, so the
Europeans held
Indian Sovereignty. Indians had no
choice about signing the fraudulent Treaties.
The
very identity: “Indian,” “Redskin,” “Squaw,” “Brave,”
“Noble Savage,” “Native American,” “Papoose,” “Buck,” “Cruel Scalper,”
“Warrior,” “Vanishing American,” “Indian Giver,” “Lost Tribes,” “Indian
Chief,”
“Chip-away Queen,” “Cherokee Princess,” “Savage,” “Primitive,” “Indian
Medicine
Man,” “Devil Worshippers,” “Pagan Unbelievers,” “Dirty Indian,” “Lazy
Indian,”
“Drunken Indian,” “Christian Indian,” “Federally Recognized Indian,”
“Me
Tonto,” “Indian Tribal Chairman,” “Cigar Store Indian,” ... (I could
write a
whole column on these), and some that
aren’t printable, are all projections, scapegoating, and greedy wishful
thinking by the Europeans, to justify stealing this land.
The Europeans invented Indians. [The movie,
Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian, had all white actors, like most of the
rest of
the “Indian” movies.] The Europeans
tried to call the Aboriginal Indigenous People here “Indians,” in order
to take
control of us. The Anishinabe Ojibway,
“We, The People,” know who we are. We
own our own Sovereign identity.
Europeans invented “Indians” and “Chip-aways”—there were no
Indians
here, and there were no Chip-aways here.
If a person accepts the Chip-away identity, or any other
“Indian”
identity, at the same time they accept all of the racist stereotypes
that are a
part of these European identities. The
Indo-Europeans need racism. Racism is a
necessary part of their hierarchial system and their values, and racism
is an
inherent part of the identities that they put on other people. The White man’s “Indian” identity cannot be
separated from the racism that is a part of it.
There
have been demonstrations, letter-writing, and protests
about the stereotypes that the White-run schools and gladiator-teams
are using
to “build American Character.” “Indian”
is an English word. English is the
White man’s language, all of the stereotypes of “Indian” belong to the
White
man, and he can use them any way he wants to.
Most of the Indo-Europeans aren’t ashamed of what they have done
with
their idea, “Indians,” because apparently they don’t have any
conscience or
ethics.
“Indian
Tribes” are also an European invention. The
“tribes” can’t get any solidarity,
because the “Indians” don’t own their own identity.
“Indian Reservations” are also an European invention (they
started out as concentration camps).
“Closed Indian Reservation,” like Red Lake, means the Federal
Bureau of
Indian Affairs has packed outsiders, White, Meti and Indian, onto the
“Indian
enrollments” that they invented and control.
“Closed Reservation” also means the F.B.I.A. bringing an outside
foreign
government into the Anishinabe Ojibway land, and using that foreign
government
to give almost all of the jobs to foreigners, and to destroy our
Anishinabe
Ojibway community.
If
the Washington Redskins were re-named the Washington
Niggers, you can bet that the African-American people would be in court
the
same day, and the N.A.A.C.P. would be right on the spot filing enormous
lawsuits for defamation of character, libel, punitive damages, and a
lot of
other things. The word, “Indian” is
just as racist as the “N---” word. But,
you don’t see the National Congress of American Indians defending the
Indian
identity from defamation, in court.
They can’t do it. The N.C.A.I.,
N.A.R.F., and the Tribal Councils aren’t doing anything, because they
get paid
to be “Indians.” They are Indo-European
people posing as “Indians,” working in collusion with the other
Europeans to
hide the genocide of the Aboriginal Indigenous People, and the land and
resource theft that the United States is based on.
Indians have to thank the White man for their identity. If you paid most of these “Indians” enough,
you could give them just about any identity.
You could call them the “Redskin Tribal Councils,” and if they
got to go
to hotels on expense accounts, most of these guys would probably be
glad to
wear turkey feathers and walk around waving plastic Indian identity
cards and
tomahawks, saying “Ugh, I’m a Redskin Savage,” ask the Federal Bureau
of
Redskin Affairs to tell them who they are again, and then watch some
more
Hollywood movies to reinforce their identity.
I’m
telling you “Indians” and you “Redskins” out there, if
you don’t like what the sports teams are doing, if you don’t like
racist
stereotype logos, why don’t you file a class-action lawsuit? If “Indians” owned their own identity, there
would be hordes of Philadelphia lawyers lining up all over so-called
“Indian
Country,” to sue for all the human rights violations, as well as racist
slander
and hate crimes. But, you can’t even
get the crooked “Treaties” that your ancestors signed into World Court,
because
“Indians” are mythological people. (The
U.S. tried to “close the books” by suing themselves with the Indian
Claims
Commission—England and United States have been schizophrenically
negotiating
with themself over “Indian Fraud” for a hundred and fifty years. The lawsuits from the White Earth Land
Settlement Act are a recent example of Indo-Europeans suing themselves
and
keeping the money. If an “Indian” tries
to go to court about racist stereotypes, the White man would be suing
himself
again, because of the crooked “Trust Status.”)
The United States Government admits that without White Indians,
they
would have never gotten the fraudulent title they claim to this land. They’ve even passed unilateral legislation,
trying to put Aboriginal Indigenous People in the same category as
“their”
Indians—another crooked scheme to “close the books.”
We,
the Anishinabe Ojibway People, of the Anishinabe Ojibway
Nation, don’t need somebody to give us a fake identity.
The White man can do whatever he wants to,
giving whatever stereotype he wants, to the myth of “Indian” that he
invented. All that he’s doing is
showing the ugly side of his racism, by the stereotypes that he invents. “Indians” are a purely political
hockey-puck, and the United States Justice Department won’t have
anything to do
with it. “Indians” can’t get a lawyer
to take a defamation case to court, because the trial would destroy the
White
man’s myth—and the Indians would be without the identity that they’ve
held onto
for so long. If “Indian” was a real
identity,
the Indians would have a very good case, because some of the things
that the
White man is doing and saying are ugly.
He doesn’t want to look at himself, that’s why he created
Indians. Without Indians, the White
Euro-American
Cosmology would fall apart.
We,
the People of the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation, have a right
to exist as a jointly Sovereign People on our own land.
Nobody has a right to come into our land and
give us an “Indian” identity, nor any other crooked identity.
Campains
of the Western European Civlization:
In
the Law-and-Order Bush and Buchanan camps, you can hear
the faint strains of Wagner. Beyond the
barbed wire around the camp of Corporal Duke’s campaign headquarters,
you can
hear the goose-stepping of hobnailed jackboots in the not-so-distant
background. One of the planks in David
Duke’s campaign platform is “blame the welfare mothers.”
The other one is “racial purity.” David
Duke is not white, and he’s not
“right,” so he’s trying to be “super-White.” These
tainted people running from their own past are the worst
kind of racist. There was another
little Corporal, the Austrian “Overman,” a.k.a. Superman, who was also
sprouting
racial rhetoric. He was not a
full-blooded Aryan himself.
The
right-wingers: Bush, Buchanan, and the Duke have been
neglecting the jobless, the homeless, and the impoverished people here,
and
handing out subsidies to their wealthy friends. As
a diversionary tactic, they’re scapegoating the National Arts
Council, bashing dead artists, looking for a new Willie Horton to take
the
blame for the problems they’ve created.
On
the other side of the same coin, the Democratic Platform
also has some rickety planks. The
Honorable Governor Clinton was accused by Ms. Flowers of having her as
his
mistress for twelve years. The
Honorable Governor responded, “Let He who is without Sin, cast the
first
rock.” However, Governor Jerry Brown
picked up a boulder, and immediately the rest the left-wingers got into
the
foray, and started slinging mud.
When
you put these left-wingers and these right-wingers
together, what you get is a big bird, a bird of prey also known as a
Culture
Vulture. Is it a coincidence that every
Law-and-Order Presidential Campaign is accompanied by jail-building? Four years ago, Bemidji was the Crime
Capitol in order to get a new jail.
Now, Minneapolis is melting down guns, bamboozling the public,
and going
to court over a new jail. The migratory
immigrant people of Western European Civilization brought their social
problems
and distorted values with them. One of
the first crooked schemes that they did when they got here, was
building
saloons and jails, and going to war.
Ho-hum. Some things never
change.
Wub-e-keniew
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