Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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One
of the themes of the G.O.P. Convention was “family
values.” As the speakers came on and
described their home lives and their childhood stories, and nostalgic
experiences, this almost brought me to sentimental tears.
But then, suddenly, I came to my senses, and
knew that this was not reality, but pure election-year hocus-pocus and
bullshit. The only “family values”
these guys have, are destroying other peoples’ families, and stealing
their
land, resources and Sovereignty. I
started to realize what they have done—and are still doing—to the
Anishinabe
Ojibway families: the genocide and the intentional destruction of the
family
values that we have, as well as of our religion and the rest of our
culture. One of the strategies that the
good ol’ self-proclaimed “Real American” W.A.S.P.’s have used to
obliterate
Anishinabe Ojibway people, has been through their “Indians” that they
invented
and packed on top the Aboriginal Indigenous People.
These Euro-Indians are used by their puppet-masters the
Euro-Americans to hide the genocide and ongoing genocidal policies of
the English-American
“multinational” Corporate State. These
“Indians” are being used by the Euro-Americans to obliterate every
trace that
the Aboriginal Indigenous People were ever here.
At
the Outlet to Lower Red Lake, there are what the State of
Minnesota and the Bureau of Indian Affairs call “Indian Mounds.” These are not “Indian Mounds.”
These are the burial places of Anishinabe
Ojibway People. The Red Lake “Federally
recognized (fake) Indian rolls” are filled with White and Mulatto
French and
other Indo-European people, who the Englishmen made into “Indians” to
steal our
Anishinabe Ojibway land. The White
Government Indian Chiefs signed a “Treaty” in 1863, at the Old Crossing
on the
Red Lake River. England and the United
States Government signed “Treaties” with themselves, and called them
“Indian”
treaties. The Euro-Americans have tried
to hide their crookedness from generation to generation, but each
generation
they add another layer of deception. In
1948, in order to try to resolve the problem of the “Treaties” that
they knew
were crooked, the United States Government sued themselves in the
Indian Claims
Commission.
Rather
than call my and other Anishinabe Ojibway Peoples’
ancestor’s graves Anishinabe Ojibway mounds, they call them “Indian
mounds.” Building highways and bridges
over our
ancestors graves is part of the Euro-Americans’ agenda of obliterating
the
Anishinabe Ojibway People from the face of this continent, and trying
to say
that we “were never here.” The State of
Minnesota did not negotiate with the Anishinabe Ojibway People about
our
ancestors. They called this burial site
“Indian mounds,” and then “negotiated” with themselves yet again:
striking a
deal with their Euro-Bureau-Indians to seal under concrete the graves
that they
had already looted and plundered. I
called the State of Minnesota to ask for the archeological reports, and
was
told that it was “a felony” to make results of this publicly-funded
research
public, even to people whose ancestors are being directly affected. The bridge that they want to replace would
still be in very good shape, if it wasn’t for the steady stream of
overloaded
logging trucks stealing the Anishinabe Ojibway People’s timber, with
the help
of their Euro-Indians.
On
the Reservation Line, the United States Forest Service has
a sign with Smoky the Bear pleading with people not to start fires, to
save
Smoky’s home. I don’t hear Smoky the
Bear saying anything to the woods-butchers, clear-cutting his home—or
for that
matter, anything to the Euro-Indians who shoot anything they see and
leave it
lay. Smoky the Bear should have been
around in 1889, when the White people who call themselves the “United
States
Government” were burning our property.
That’s what you call “family values,” looting and burning—at
least if
you’re upper-class W.A.S.P.
The
old, virgin forests have all been cut down and
destroyed. They have planted a small
number of trees along the road. What
the Euro-Americans want to be able to say, in another generation, is
that
“there were no virgin forests here, the only forests here are the ones
that we
planted.” To me, these scrubby little
straight lines of imported species look ugly.
They remind me of Hitler’s Black Forest, regimented rows of
trees and
nothing else. These forests look ugly,
just like the ugly American who planted them.
They invent “scientific theories” about things that they don’t
know
anything about, to justify completely demolishing our beautiful and
harmonious
permacultural ecosystem.
In
the 1940’s, we could drink the water in the lakes and
streams at Red Lake. But now, it’s all
like Europe, all polluted. It
figures. European culture was imported,
European values were imported, and European immigrants were imported to
this
Continent (and some of them were turned into “Indians”).
Where our Anishinabe Ojibway people kept the
environment intact—while supporting a much larger population than the
Euro-American “historians” admit to—where our water was pristine and
clean, and
our forests were beautiful, the Europeans have managed to wreck just
about
everything here in just a little more than a hundred years. Think about it. The
Euro-Americans are sick with the mental illness of Greed;
maybe most of them don’t understand what they are doing; they don’t
understand
the terrible liability that they are creating for everybody, and for
all the
people who have to live on this land.
There are some Euro-Americans who understand what is
happening—but have
been conned into believing that they are “powerless” to do anything
about
it. And then, there are the greedy
politicians, who spout rhetoric about “family values” at the same time
as they
are destroying the homes and futures of the very people they claim to
“represent” in their foreign “democracy.”
Don’t
forget to go to the Primaries and vote next week. Let’s
throw the old scoundrels and rascals
out, and put new and better rascals in!
Have a good day.
Wub-e-keniew
The opinions in this
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