Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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In
my research, doing the history and the genealogy of the
Anishinabe Ojibway Nation, and of the people who call themselves the
Chippewa
Indians here at Red Lake, I find that the Red Lake Band of Chippewa
Indians was
created by an Act of the United States Congress in 1889.
There is a big sign on the Red Lake
Reservation boundary, and also on the “centennial” Red Lake license
plates,
“celebrating” this Act when Congress blatantly tried to steal the land,
resources, identity, and culture of the Anishinabe Ojibway People at
Red
Lake. This racist piece of legislation,
passed by the United States Congress on January 14, 1889, reads in
part, “...
and as to the Red Lake Reservation, the cession and relinquishment
shall be
deemed sufficient if made and assented to in like manner by two-thirds
of the
male adults of all the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota...” These “Chippewa Indians” had no claim
whatsoever to the Anishinabe Ojibway Peoples’ land that they were
allegedly
ceding.
In
order to justify their thievery after the fact, the United
States Executive Branch (including the Bureau of Indian Affairs) has
interpreted this particular devious phrase as “creating the Minnesota
Chippewa
Tribe,” including turning White and Mulatto people into “Minnesota
Chippewa
Indians.” In 1889, this nefarious
scheme had absolutely nothing to do with the Anishinabe Ojibway people,
nor the
Anishinabe Ojibway Nation. It still
doesn’t. We cannot sell Grandmother Earth,
we cannot
sell our religion, and we cannot sell our identity; although the
“Chippewa
Indians” who are claiming to be Aboriginal Indigenous People, but are
not, will
apparently sell anything if the “price is right.”
As
the United States elections near, there is the question
being asked, “if these Chippewa Indians are a Sovereign Nation, how
come are
they voting in the United States elections?”
(Why aren’t the Norwegians or the Swedes also “sovereign”—they
have
European patrilineal ancestors, just like so-called the Chippewa
Indians
do.) The second question is, “When did
they give the Indians suffrage, and why did they make the Indians
citizens,
when they all had European or Indo-European patrilines, and were
already
European subject peoples?”
“Indian
Sovereignty” is an invention of foreign European
il-legal thinking, just as “Indian” is a mythological identity created
by the
European immigrants. United States
“Sovereignty” is also a European Sovereignty which is foreign to this
Continent, just like the “Chippewa Indians” have an European
Sovereignty. According to crooked European
linear
“logic,” it makes just about as much sense as most of the things the
White
people here do. These Europeans have no
identity, they have no roots here, and the only culture that they have
is
almost indistinguishable from the violent pseudo- “culture” of their
relatives
in Europe. Whites are always saying,
“why shouldn’t the Indian assimilate, and be like us?”
I’ve got news for you—the “Indian” is your
bastard blood brother, with values exactly the same as yours. The W.A.S.P. élite distorts and
romanticizes
“Indians,” because they are trying to turn the Anishinabe Ojibway into
“Chippewa Indians” so that they can hide the genocide and the Big Lie
on this
Continent.
This
is Anishinabe Ojibway land. We, the
Anishinabe Ojibway People, are a Sovereign Nation, no
matter what any European-derived Nation, any “Indians,” or any
Christian
Church, for that matter, says or does.
Why should we give up our ancient and beautiful heritage for a
second-class status in the racist Euro-American non-culture?
There
have been a lot distortions, “spin control,” and other
misinformation told about the “Minnesota Chippewa Tribe” that the
United States
Congress expediently invented on January 14, 1889, in addition to
outright
lies. On February 5, 1936, the
Executive Committee of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe held a meeting at
Cass
Lake. According to the minutes of that
meeting, Resolution Number 7 was, “WHEREAS the Red Lake Council has
agreed to affiliate
with the Minnesota Chippewa Tribal Council until the Red Lake Band is
segregated by Act of Congress from the Chippewas of Minnesota in their
common
interests as provided under the Act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat. 642).
...” Delegates were appointed
(including “Chippewa Indian” Peter Graves) to act for the Red Lake Band
of
the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, and this was “unanimously” agreed to
by the
fraudulent Minnesota Chippewa Red Lake Tribal Council.
None of the “Red Lake Tribal Councils,” nor
any of the other “Chippewa Indian” Councils, have ever been authorized
by the
Anishinabe Ojibway People to speak, or otherwise act, for the
Anishinabe
Ojibway Nation. Chippewa Indians
representing the Anishinabe Ojibway people makes just about as much
sense as
having the Ku Klux Klan act as a “representative” for Malcolm X.
That
European-derived Nation, the United States of America,
whose Sovereignty is held by Europe through both their religion and
their
genealogy, uses European Sovereignty to claim “eminent domain” over
Anishinabe
Ojibway land. They have used their
subject people, the “Chippewa Indians,” to claim “right of occupancy”
and to
“purchase” resources which belong neither to them nor to their
so-called
Chippewa Indians. It’s about time that
an accounting was made between the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation and that
Johnny-Come-Lately pretender, the United States. We
could start by talking about the taxes that are due to the
Anishinabe Ojibway Nation, including taxes past due on all the land
ceded by the
European subjects and brokers, the “Chippewa Indians” in the “Treaties”
and
other schemes like the “1889 Agreement.”
If the Red Lake Chippewa Tribal Council were Anishinabe Ojibway
people,
they probably would have read the thing before they started
“celebrating”
it. But, very few of them understand
Crooked English, that’s why they keep trying to teach them the Creole
language
of “Chippewa” in school.
The
Pembina Métis were voting in Minnesota Territorial
elections, in the 1850’s—before they signed the 1863 “Red Lake and
Pembina
Treaty” as Chippewa Indians. The
Chippewa Indians were already citizens through their White patriline,
when they
got turned into citizens by allotment (1899), by “civilization,” and
again by
United States Statute in 1924. (They
got made into “citizens” so many times, they are second-class citizens.) The U.S. keeps trying to use the “Indians”
to claim jurisdiction over the Aboriginal Indigenous People. I am not an Indian, I am Anishinabe Ojibway. I am not a citizen of the United States; I
hold the Sovereignty of the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation jointly
with all
other Anishinabe Ojibway People. We,
the Anishinabe Ojibway have a right to exist as a Sovereign Nation on
our own
land. We do not need to vote according
to the alien European scheme of mis-representative “democracy,” nor
whatever
else they want to call their foreign governments.
NEWS FROM
THE CAMPAIGN:
Everybody’s
talking about “The Deficit.” Nobody has
even mentioned the underlying
issue, which is that the theft of Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’
resources has
sustained the United States’ economy from the very beginning. “The Deficit” is only a symptom of a sick
plunder-economy that’s running out of things to steal.
Also, into whose pocket does the two hundred
billion dollars per year compound interest on the deficit go? With tinkle-down economics, you’re all in
deep doo-doo. Vote November 3, for
small change, but hang onto your hat!
Better yet, put your hand on your ass and wish for the moon. ... Hmmm.
I wonder if the homeless ever get home-sick?
I
am solely responsible for this column. My
telephone number is (218) 679-2382; my
mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601
Wub-e-ke-niew
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