Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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October 5, 1992
Minneapolis
Star Tribune
attention: Jim Dawson
Staff
Writer
Euro-American
scientists claim that “Indians” came over the
Bering Strait. The European immigrants
can say anything that they want to about “Indians,” because the Indians
which
have filled the media in preparation for Columbus Day are European
mythology,
an invented identity applied to European subject people.
“Indians” are not the Aboriginal
Indigenous People of this Continent.
The people living out the “Indian” stereotype identity have
European or
Indo-European patrilineal ancestry. It
would be more accurate to say that the great-grandfathers of the
“Indians” came
across the Atlantic, many of them below-decks as indentured servants. There were no “Indians” here until the
Europeans came here, and through genetic engineering, factual
revisionism and
fantastic lies, created “Indians.”
There is no word for “Indian” or “Chippewa” in the Anishinabe
Ojibway
language.
The
Aboriginal Indigenous People of this Continent did not
come over the Bering Strait in 10,000 B.C., nor any other time. The European science which is being used to
try to claim fallacies about Aboriginal Indigenous People (which these
Europeans can say with impunity about “Indians”) is based on a
Judeo-Christian
world-view, the false assumption that all human beings are descended
from
incestuous relationships between Adam and Eve’s children, whether 5,976
years
ago just outside the Garden of Eden, or hundreds of thousands of years
ago in
Africa. Judeo-Christian hierarchial
thinking requires centralization; it models an unbalanced and violent
social
structure in order to create slaves, and this imbalance is reflected in
their
“Scientific theories.” Euro-American
scientists accumulate huge masses of details, but very rarely
scrutinize the
underlying cultural assumptions through which they select and interpret
their
“facts.” The Bering Strait Theory was
formulated by Ales Hrdlika, an European immigrant employed by the
United States
Government, Smithsonian Institution.
Much
of Ales Hrdlika’s research was done in Minnesota, in the
context of the White Earth Allotment scandal of the early 1900’s. Virtually none of the people Dr. Hrdlika was
studying were Anishinabe Ojibway people—they were Indo-European,
mostly
French and Moorish, descendants of voyageurs who ended up at the P.O.W.
concentration camp called White Earth Reservation as “Indians,”
refugees from
the French-and-Indian wars. Some of
these “Hinton Full-Bloods” also had documentable African ancestry. Dr. Hrdlika based his research on political
expediency [by claiming “Indians” are immigrants, too, the Europeans
can steal
this land with impunity] as well as on the incredibly racist ideas
about
“Indians” then prevalent in Euro-American culture.
He believed that real “full-blooded Indians” could be determined
by, for example, scratching a person across the chest with his
fingernails;
that the “Savage” is so tough he or she would not show the scratch.
Ales
Hrdlika also figured out that the Inuit people on the
Eastern side of the Bering Strait are related to the Aboriginal
Siberian people
on the Western side. If he had spoken
their language, he could have asked these people about it.
The Bering Strait is no great abyss
requiring a “land bridge,” but rather an easy two-day walk any winter,
and the
people on both sides of the Strait have traded and inter-married since
time
immemorial. The Bering Strait Theory is
Judeo-Christianity masquerading as “Scientific Fact,” and like any
political slogan
is quoted so frequently that regimented people believe this nonsense
without
question.
The
“Chippewa Indians” on which the media has recently been
focussing almost all have European patrilineal ancestry.
Many of them are full-blooded Whites who the
U.S. Government made into “Indians” to sign “Treaties,” to sell
Anishinabe
Ojibway land and resources, and to hide the genocide of the Anishinabe
Ojibway
people. The “Tribes” and “Tribal
Governments” which the Whites call “Indian” are statutory creations of
the
United States Congress, and have nothing to do with the Anishinabe
Ojibway
Traditional egalitarian theocracy, the Midewiwin. “Indian
Religion” is a cult created, in violation of the first
amendment to the U.S. Constitution, by the U.S. Government. Most of the publicly visible “Indian
Medicine Men” are European people with European values and thinking. “Indian Religion” is no different than
Christianity; both of them embody self-destructive behavior and male
domination. The United States called
itself
the “Great White Father” because they thought they were God, and God
was a
White man. In the Boarding Schools,
they said their “God” was the “Great White Spirit,” and then their next
sentence was, “you are the Vanishing American, and you will go.” All of the Anishinabe Ojibway people
kidnapped as children into the Boarding Schools bear psychological
scars. The U.S. Government’s imposition of
their
alien values and their foreign “Chippewa Indians” they created, onto
Anishinabe
Ojibway land is violence, a human rights violation, and a lie to the
Euro-American, African-American and Asian-American public.
The
Europeans wrote, and still write, incredible nonsense
about the “Indians,” who falsely claim to be the Aboriginal Indigenous
People
who have been here since there were human beings anywhere.
“Cannibals,” the European invaders wrote, as
a part of a sixteenth and seventeenth-century public-relations effort
to
dehumanize the people this land belongs to, to justify their genocide,
slave-trading, and resource-theft. Read
the Judeo-Christian Bible, or walk into any Christian Church at
Communion, and
one could say “Cannibals” and “Human Sacrifice” with much more basis in
reality
than the Europeans had about even their own Indians they invented. The Europeans invented an “Indian
mythology,” they peopled their invented “Indian” identity with their
own
illegitimate children and escaped servants, and then they try to apply
their
racist “Indian” stereotype to Anishinabe Ojibway and other Aboriginal
Indigenous
People, and claim this is “Scientific History.”
What
the Europeans call “Science,” looks different from
another culture. “Science” becomes a weasel-word. It’s
very easy to intimidate and abuse Euro-Americans with
“Science,” because they have all been regimented and brainwashed. To an Anishinabe Ojibway person, standing
outside of the European context, “science” is a slick disguise for
diabolical
schemes of disharmony and destruction.
Darwin’s theory of “survival of the fittest” is just one example
of “Science”
being used to justify inexcusable violence, with the implied claim that
human
beings are more knowledgeable than Grandmother Earth.
All living beings are connected, and as each species disappears,
how much longer until your number comes up, and you stand to face the
consequences of your “scientific thinking” as you follow those you have
sent
before yourself into extinction?
“Science” is rigid and controlling, and limited in scope by the
Judeo-Christian materialistic and hierarchial world-view.
The Anishinabe Ojibway People maintained
beautiful forests and an abundant and harmonious permaculture on this
Continent. This unlocked wealth is an
example of our non-violence. The
Euro-Indians have helped their White relations cut down our forests and
plunder
our ecosystem. This wanton destruction
is just one aspect of their culture’s violence.
The
Euro-Americans need to scrutinize their own violent
values, religion, and roots, instead of trying to force their
self-justifying
lies and “science” onto the few Aboriginal Indigenous People who have
survived
five centuries of Holocaust. Rather
than inventing pre-Colombian wars on a non-violent Continent (the
Anishinabe
Ojibway language does not even have a word for “war and peace”), the
Euro-Americans need to scrutinize their own violence, greed, and
disharmony. Judeo-Christianity is a
violent religion, bending a weak-willed “God” to justify world
conquest,
ecological mayhem, slavery and genocide.
If their “God” can be manipulated so easily, why not have Him
advocate
harmony, non-violence, and generosity instead?
The
more than 90 physical diseases which the Europeans
brought here (including Tuberculosis and Syphilis) are a legacy of
hundreds of
years of European war, imbalance, disharmony and greed.
How many mental diseases have they also
brought? Greed and violence are among
them. The rape, plunder, and killing
that the Europeans brought to this Continent have gone on long enough. These imported European values have turned
back against their own people, and the streets of the cities of their
Great
Civilization are unsafe. Instead of
trying to re-mythologize history, pretending that the Aboriginal
Indigenous
People are “Indians” projected from the fears and lusts of the
Europeans, why
not look at the truth? The
Euro-Americans are quickly reaching a point in their “progress” where
their old
cultural paradigms and values will no longer lead to anything but
misery. It’s possible that we can all live
here in
harmony, that we can work together to create a better place for the
generations
yet to come. We need to get rid of
violence, and start dealing with reality truthfully.
The way that Euro-Americans presently deal with violence is
adding more police and jails, spending more money, entrenching the very
system
that creates the violence. It’s like
starting a gasoline fire, and then adding water to “put it out.” The violence just spreads—because as the
Euro-American system is structured now, violence is a necessary part of
it. The immigrant peoples need to address
the root causes of the violence which is entrenched in their culture,
and one
of them is their violent Judeo-Christian religion.
I
spent nine years as a political prisoner in the Boarding
Schools that the White man created. One
of the first things that they showed me, and it very traumatic and
profound,
was a picture of a man nailed to a cross, bleeding all over. They said, “this is your savior.”
You don’t need violence to save
anybody. Violence just promotes more
violence. Non-violence and harmony must
be created non-violently. Violence does
not belong on this Continent. We, the
Anishinabe Ojibway People, had a non-violent, harmonious, egalitarian
society
on this Continent for hundreds of millennia.
Our religion, the Midewiwin, is non-violent. The
Euro-Americans have to come to terms with the truth about
themselves, including their violence.
Wub-e-keniew
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