Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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The
First Amendment to the United States Constitution begins,
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...”
In 1977, the United States Congress violated their own
Constitution by
passing the “Indian Freedom of Religion Act,” to establish “Indian
Religion.” Anishinabe Ojibway People are
Sovereign, and
neither the United States Congress, nor any other European Nation, have
any
jurisdiction over Anishinabe Ojibway People, land, or the Midewiwin
Religion. The Euro-Americans know that
they have no
jurisdiction over Anishinabe Ojibway People—that’s why they created
Chippewa
Indians, who are European subject people because they lost their
Anishinabe
Ojibway identity when their European patrilineal ancestor created them. Chippewa Indians do not have an Anishinabe
Ojibway patrilineal Clan and Dodem.
When
Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ religion started coming
out from underground, after a century of oppression, during the Civil
Rights
Movement, the United States Government was stuck with a bunch of
Christian “Indians.” The United States
Congress passed the
“Indian Freedom of Religion Act” in order to give their Indians a “Real
Indian
Religion,” and make these people stuck in a mythological identity seem
more
like the Aboriginal Indigenous People the United States is trying to
hide. This was so critical to the United
States
that they violated their own Constitution to create “Indian Religion.”
After
this illegal act of United States Congress,
establishing “Indian Religion,” lo and behold!
Hundreds of White fake “Indian Medicine Men” started coming out
of the
woodwork. All of a sudden, among
certain groups of wanna-be Indians, the way to be a real Indian
was to
be a “Medicine Man,” and wear beads and turquoise and carry a medicine
bag and
a plastic laminated card to show that they are a Real Indian, complete
with a
license for eagle feathers issued by the White man.
These Wanna-be Instant Medicine Men look foolish and stupid. Some of them have apparently read all of the
Anthropological literature about “Indian Medicine Men,” and watched
every
movie, and their trying to live out the caricatures of racist
nineteenth-century anthropologists, Hollywood screenwriters, and New
Age
Chanters and Fakirs all at the same time is really hilarious.
The
“Indian Medicine Man” who was in the news lately is not
the only “Indian Religion” cult leader who has hurt people. How many other people have been hurt, and
not said anything about it? There are a
lot of desperate people looking for help in solving their problems
coming to
“Medicine Men.” How many have been
mis-guided, or abused? The United
States Congress is liable for the people who have gotten hurt under the
“Indian
Religion” they established.
Congress,
who created this mess, needs to turn around and
start a Congressional investigation because of all the people who are
getting
hurt by these fake and wanna-be Indian Medicine Men.
If people want to look for something deeper than Christianity,
more power to them. The problem is that
the “Indian Religion” which has been created by the U.S. Congress is a
cult. What I say to you “Indians” and
your sideshow Indian Medicine Men, is “go on back to Christianity,
where you
belong because of your European patriline.”
There are too many people who have been hurt by irresponsible
abuse of
power by “Indian Medicine Men.” “Indian
Religion” is patterned after Christianity, and like Christianity is has
centralized power held by a few men, and like Christianity, “Indian
Religion”
has a lot of potential for many kinds of abuse. The
safeguards in the Midewiwin have been taken out of “Indian
Religion”—and Christianity. “Indian
Religion” has nothing to do with the Anishinabe Ojibway Midewiwin. “Indian Religion” is an European foreign
religion, based on European concepts.
“Tribes” are also a foreign Indo-European crooked ideology.
“Indians”
and “Indian Religion” were created because of the
genocide of the Aboriginal Indigenous People.
They were also created to protect the hierarchial, centralized,
materialistic European way of thinking from the egalitarian Anishinabe
Ojibway
and our religion, the Midewiwin. The
Euro-Americans are using their “Indians” as a broker, as a smokescreen,
and as
a buffer and a scapegoat. Why did the
Europeans dress up as “Indians” at the Boston Tea Party?
The impostors are still here, posing as
“Indians” and trying to say that they are the same as Aboriginal
Indigenous
People, when they are not. They are a
cheap imitation when they get caught in this fake “Indian” identity.
When
Roger Jourdain was Chairman, he sounded like a broken
record. He was always saying, “look
what I done for all you Indians. I gave
you housing. I gave you an old folks
center. I got all these Government
programs for you.” But, what Roger
Jourdain neglected to tell you Indians, is that he was a vital part of
the
resources being stolen from the Anishinabe Ojibway People.
Just go out and look for the forests. Where
are they? (There is lots of room for
politicians making stump
speeches.) The money from stealing our
resources was paid to the “Indians.”
The Indian Reorganization Act “Tribal Council” brought in by
Roger
Jourdain does not belong here—and Roger Jourdain does not belong here,
either. He is a European, and does not
have any Anishinabe Ojibway ancestry.
He might have some Mohican ancestry on the matriline, but he
does not
have an Anishinabe Ojibway Clan or Dodem, and that means that he has no
claim
to Anishinabe Ojibway land or resources; he has no right nor authority
to bring
in alien governments; and he cannot sell our land or forests. Being “Federally Recognized” or “Unique”
does not give you the right to steal.
This is not Chippewa Indian land, and these are not Chippewa
Indian
resources. The translation of the
Crooked English term, “Federally Recognized,” is “being told by a bunch
of
crooks that you’re one of their good ol’ crooked henches,” and that’s
really
very unique. It’s only happened in
every colonially occupied Aboriginal Indigenous Nation on this
Continent for
the past five hundred years. We, the
Anishinabe Ojibway People have a right to exist as a Sovereign People
on our
own land.
NEWS FROM THE CAMPAIGN:
As
soon as the media starts putting heat on Ross Perot, he
withdraws from the race. When they
start ignoring him, he jumps back into the race. I
don’t suppose I can vote, because Anishinabe Ojibway people
aren’t citizens of the United States—I am not an Indian.
“Indians” are citizens, they were already
citizens when they were made citizens again.
They were citizens when they were born, because of their White
father. Congress passed another law, in
1924, making “Indians” into citizens, but they were trying to
incorporate the
Aboriginal Indigenous people, by calling us “Indians.”
“Indians” are second-class citizens because
they got made into citizens twice, but I am not a citizen, because I
took my
identity back—I am Anishinabe Ojibway, and no matter how many laws the
United
States passes, they can’t turn me into an “Indian” nor a “citizen.” If I could vote, I would vote for Ross
Perot, but only if he wasn’t on the ballot.
Vote anyway, for any one of the Hobson’s Choices on the ballot,
but hang
onto your hat, and especially hang onto your pocketbook.
I
am solely responsible for this column. My
phone number is (218) 679-2382.
Wub-e-keniew
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