Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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There
is a new sign posted at the “Reservation line” on
Highway 89, a notice that “Alcohol is prohibited,” under the delegated
European
foreign Sovereignty of the Secretary of the Interior.
The problems created by alcohol and alcoholism on the
Reservation
need to be addressed, but simply “prohibiting” alcohol entrenches the
bootleggers and drug dealers. Since the
sovereignty of this sign is an artificial alien European concoction of
“Indian Sovereignty,”
the sign should read “No Drink-um Firewater,” in accordance with the
European
stereotype of “Indians.”
The
labels and the stereotypes of the Europeans projected
toward all of their subject people are embedded in the Indian identity. Since the European Chippewa Indians are
trying to steal the Anishinabe Ojibway land, language, religion,
identity and
culture, I have every right to poke fun at how silly and foolish you
look and
act—you Europeans apparently have no idea how hilarious you are, in
your lies
and pretensions about your real identity.
The Anishinabe Ojibway identity does not belong to the Indians,
and no
matter what the “Indians” do, they cannot steal the Anishinabe Ojibway
Peoples’
identity, because our identity cannot be separated from the Anishinabe
Ojibway
People and our land. It is an identity
which is much deeper and more ancient than the Europeans’ understanding
of
“identity.” The Anishinabe Ojibway
people have learned to understand and use the Crooked English language. A hundred years ago, the Chippewa Indians
could get away with calling themselves the same as the Anishinabe
Ojibway
people, and we did not have the language, the documents and the
genealogy
records to say anything about it.
Things change, and there are increasing numbers of Aboriginal
Indigenous
People who understand English and how the Europeans think.
Now—although they are getting enormous
amounts of support (including yet another con job, the proposed new
Institute
of Indian Studies) from the Euro-Americans, who need Indians,
the
European Chippewa Indians who are paid by the Englishmen to be
“Indians” are on
increasingly shaky ground. The United
States of America’s alleged “land title” rests on the fake tribes of
Indians
that they created, who are all Indo-European.
I
do not need to attach myself to, nor wrap myself in some
“Indian” woman’s skirts for my identity, like some of these white
Indian
leaders have to do in order to claim their fake Indian identity. It’s the same old worn out parrot-talk, “my
great-grandmother was a Cherokee Princess (or a Chippewa Queen).” None of these Indians will publicly speak
the truth that their “grandfather was a White man,” although their
identity,
like the Anishinabe Ojibway identity, is passed from father to son,
through the
patriline. (Conquered people often
claim matrilineal descent to obscure the humiliation of their conquest;
and
also because the males of conquered peoples are of the same blood as
the
conqueror and thus no threat to the European élite.
Over the course of their colonizing expansion, the
Indo-Europeans
have developed very clever, diabolical, schemes—but these dishonest
strategies
are coming to an end on this Continent.
Your “divinely mandated” paradigm of “world conquest” is
exhausted; the
Circle has come around and the time has come when you will have to face
yourselves.) Anishinabe Ojibway people
have a Midewiwin Clan and Dodem. The
Chippewa Queen from whom so many of the Indians claim to be descended
probably
did not have a Clan or Dodem herself, and even if she had, it wouldn’t
make a difference. She married a White
man, and her offspring
became European subject people, because the White man’s Sovereignty is
held by
Europe. Because of European patrilineal
heritage, the Sovereignty of the descendants of “Chippewa Indian
Queens” (and
Indo-European “squaw-men”) is also held through the European political
institutions of Judeo-Christianity.
The
very name, “Indian,” is an European name applied by the
Europeans to people whose land and resources they wanted to steal, on
both
sides of the world. The Europeans
called both the Aboriginal Indigenous People here, and the
Hindu people
on the other side of the world, “Indians” in order to claim European
dominion. “Indian” is a foreign word
which is not in the Anishinabe Ojibway language, just like “American”
is a
foreign word which does not belong here.
When people identify themselves using these alien European
words, then
they are admitting that they have an European identity and that their
Sovereignty is held by the Europeans.
We,
the Anishinabe Ojibway People, know who we are, and we
don’t need foreigners to give us one of their mythological identities,
nor to
give us an European name. Social and
genetic engineering, re-defining who people are and then brainwashing
them into
an artificial identity, are strategies of imperial exploitation as old
as the
earliest Indo-European empires. Almost
all of the people walking around being “Chippewa Indians” are French
Moors or
other Indo-Europeans, who were made into “Indians” by the British after
the conquest
in the French and Indian Wars. Because
of their White patriline, they have taken on the greedy hierarchial
values of
the Europeans. There is no such thing
as a “Queen” or a “Princess” in the egalitarian Anishinabe Ojibway
language,
just as there were no “Indian Chiefs.”
These hierarchial social identities were created by the
Europeans for
their fake “Indians” as a part of bringing this continent under
English-American control in their own terms; as a part of maintaining
the
illusion that the fake treaties are “legitimate.” (If
these were real Treaties, they would not be negotiated in
State or Federal Court, but rather in International Court.)
Just
recently, I filed charges of genocide and human rights
violations against both the United States Government and their fake
White
Indians who call themselves the “Federally Recognized Red Lake Band of
Chippewa
Indians” in the International Court of Justice. We,
the Anishinabe Ojibway People, have a right to exist as a
Sovereign People on our own land.
I
am solely responsible for this column. My
telephone number is (218) 679-2382, and
my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, Minnesota 56601.
Wub-e-keniew
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