Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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The
July 10 issue of the Free Native American Press printed
an Associated Press article from Seattle on the front page, stating
that the
George Herbert Walker “Bush administration has quietly asserted that it
has the
power to declare any Indian tribe in the nation extinct.”
From the time of the First Continental
Congress, the agenda of the United States of America has always been
the Divine
Mandate of Manifest Destiny. The
Fundamentalist Christians at the Lake Mohonk Conferences, who were the
policy-makers for Indian Country, openly supported genocide of this
continent’s
Aboriginal Indigenous People. One of
the ways of destroying Aboriginal Indigenous Nations, advocated by
these Good
Christians, was through genetic and social engineering, particularly
using the
polygamous, morally bankrupt “Squaw Men” on the frontier to bring in
alcohol
and rum, etc.
The
policy of the United States has always been to Terminate
the Indians. One of the diabolical
methods used in this Termination Agenda was the creation of the
boarding
schools. The scheme was to brainwash
the Aboriginal Indigenous children, such as the Anishinabe Ojibway
children,
and to change their identity and make them into Indians.
Catch-22 spin control.
Another
part of the Euro-American Governments’ scheme to
Terminate Indians was designing “blood quantum,” where the White owned
Bureau
of Indian Affairs could take full-blooded Europeans or full-blooded
Indo-Europeans and turn them into full-blooded Indians.
The United States Statutes on Indian
Enrollment, including Title 25, Section 479, also provide that for the
purposes
of stealing land, “Aboriginal peoples ... shall be considered Indians.”
The
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, writing about the Court
of Indian Offenses shortly after its establishment, described the White
Indians
packed on top of the Aboriginal Indigenous people, as “Indians ... who
could be
relied upon to aid the Government in its efforts to abolish rites and
customs”
of Aboriginal Indigenous People. The
Commissioner goes on to write, “The policy of the Government for many
years
past has been to destroy tribal relations as fast as possible. ... To
do this
the agents have been accustomed to punish for minor offenses, by
imprisonment
in the guard-house and by withholding rations.” The
missionaries used the same strategies to force Christianity
onto Aboriginal Indigenous People.
Another
method used by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, when
their Indians got out of line and started talking politics, was to tell
their
Indians, “with one stroke of the pen, you will no longer exist.” This is what the United States Government’s
Indians have said to me. But, I am not
an Indian. Indians were created by the
United States Government, as a purely temporary expedient for
annihilating the
Aboriginal Indigenous People. The
Europeans created the identity of “Indian,” they own their Indians, and
the
Indians have to thank the White man for their existence.
We, the Anishinabe Ojibway People, were here
long before the United States Government came into existence. We are a Sovereign People who own our
identity, we are writing our history, and we have a right to exist. It does not matter what the United States
Government says about their Indians—it does not apply to us. This land does not belong to either the
Indians or to the Europeans, it is and always has been Aboriginal
Indigenous Peoples’
land. The Indians created by the White
man do not own their own identity, and they do not have any roots, just
like
the Europeans who gave them the Indian identity do not have any roots
on this
Continent. Their Great White Father has
a serious identity problem, also.
The
United States Government is trying to abrogate Indian
Treaties, again. For the last hundred
and fifty years, they have kept predicting that the Aboriginal
Indigenous
People will be extinct in another generation—and try to forget that the
Indian
Treaties were signed by their subject people, the Indians.
The Anishinabe Ojibway People have never
signed a Treaty. We cannot sell our
land, because we cannot sell our identity and we cannot sell our
religion. Maybe the Europeans can sell
anything, but
we don’t. Abrogating the Chippewa
Indian Treaties does not have any effect whatsoever on the Anishinabe
Ojibway
Peoples’ land, which does not and has never belonged to the United
States nor
to any other European power; not to the Euro-Americans’ subject people
the
Chippewa Indians, either.
Senator
Paul Wellstone sits on the Senate Select Committee
for Insular Affairs, which is guilty of complicity in genocide. Senator Wellstone should be very familiar
with Holocausts. The United States is
using mythological “Indians,” euphemisms, and Wanna-Be’s to get at the
Aboriginal Indigenous People. The ugly
statistics of ongoing genocide are hidden in a mass of numbers about
“Indians,”
who are Western European subject peoples.
Every ten year enumeration of the U.S. Census, more Whites and
other
Indo-Europeans get turned into statistical “Indians.”
(The B.I.A.’s present death statistics are calculated using U.S.
Census data about living “Indians.”)
The historical and genealogical research that we are doing,
proves that
these “Indians” are not Aboriginal Indigenous People.
Forcing the identity of “Indian” onto the Aboriginal Indigenous
people is a human rights violation, and it is also a violation of the
United
Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.
We
encourage the Bush administration to recognize the truth,
and come to terms with the massive genocide that the Euro-Americans
have
committed on both of these Continents.
It is true—and it urgently needs to be talked about—that most of
the
Aboriginal Indigenous Nations on this Continent are indeed extinct,
including
the Five Civilized Tribes. If you have
an European or Indo-European patrilineal ancestor, and you are an
Indian, you
are already “Terminated” through genetic engineering.
Anishinabe Ojibway Clans and Dodems are inherited through the
father’s bloodline. If you do not have
an Aboriginal Indigenous Clan or Dodem, you are history.
The White man has taken your identity away
from you, using a colonizing strategy that’s older than the Roman
Empire, and
tried to replace your real identity with the mythological identity of
“Indian.” So-called Chippewa Indians,
like other conquered people, figure descent through the mother’s
line—the
Chippewa Indian patrilineal line of inheritance is Indo-European, and
thus is
no threat to the Whites. The United
States said that they were going to annihilate and terminate the
Aboriginal
Indigenous People of this Continent, and there are only a few of us who
have
survived the centuries of genocide.
It’s time that the Euro-Americans quit hiding behind their
subject
peoples the White and Mulatto Indians, and started facing the truth,
and taking
responsibility for what has been done.
Genocide
is an inherent part of the history, values, and
religion of Western European Civilization.
(The U.S.A. was a role model for Adolf Hitler.)
Until the people here deal honestly with
their history, they are doomed to repeat it.
Another
message to you Leech Lake Chippewa Indians who are
posing as Ojibway people, and trying pretend that you are Aboriginal
Indigenous
people. As far as I know, no Anishinabe
Ojibway people have been in the inner circle of your Casino operations. Wait until the Christian Fundamentalists
start making money leading grassroots movements against gambling. To add converts to their flock, they will
scapegoat the Indian Casinos, and preach fire and brimstone sermons
against
gambling, so that they can terminate you and abrogate the fraudulent
Treaties. It’s also called fleecing the
flock, and pulling the wool over your eyes.
It’s coming, it’s one of the same old schemes they use over and
over
again, generation after generation. The
handwriting is on the wall.
Instead
of letting the White Euro-Americans control you
through their identity of “Indian,” find out who you really are. Nobody can “terminate” you, if you own your
real identity. I am not an Indian, I am
Anishinabe Ojibway, and I have a Clan and a Dodem, and my religion is
the
Indigenous Anishinabe Ojibway religion, the Midewiwin.
We, the Anishinabe Ojibway People, have an
inalienable right to exist in our own Sovereign land.
Go
ahead, George, Terminate your Indians. Make
my day.
Wub-e-keniew
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