Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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According
to the papers, there was a parade in Fargo
recently. On one of the floats in this
parade, immigrant Europeans featured the “tomahawk chop.”
Some more immigrants, calling themselves
“Indians,” dressed up in feathers and other stereotypical regalia of
the
Euro-Americans’ “Indians.”
The
United States Cabinet agency, the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, creates “Indians” and micro-manages their Indians’ lives. Some of my best friends are Whites, and also
some of my best friends think they are Indians—in other words, some of
these
people are descendants of immigrant Europeans, and some of immigrant
Indo-Europeans. It bothers me to see
racism against anybody, because racism promotes and entrenches
parasitic
relationships. Anishinabe Ojibway
values include egalitarian society, and the inferior-superior
relationships
created by racism are out of harmony, archaic, and out-dated.
So,
I called the Bureau of Indian Affairs in
Minneapolis. The White Europeans who
administer this United States Government Agency calculate “blood
quantums,” and
use their own obscure (Agency Regulation) formulas to decide who they
recognize
as “Indian,” who they want on in their scheme.
I asked the Bureau the question, “since you administer the
so-called
Sacred Trust, and every minute detail of your Indians’ daily lives, why
aren’t
you standing up front with your Indians, and protesting along with them
about
the Tomahawk Chop, the racist mascots, and ugly stereotypes like the
Washington
Redskins?” Although these caricatures
of “Indians” have nothing to do with the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation, it
still
bothers me to see this thing go on.
Such racism has no place on this Continent.
The
B.I.A. gave me a classical bureaucratic shuffle. They
told me, “that’s a very good question,
but we have all this paperwork to do.”
I suppose that the B.I.A. in Minneapolis has lots of important
papers
from their acting as a broker for corporate America, stealing. By remaining silent on the issue of the
Tomahawk Chop and the Indian Mascots, the Bureau of Indian Affairs is
condoning
and tacitly advocating the foreign European immigrants’
institutionalized
racism. It’s not really surprising,
because the Christianity which holds these European immigrants’
Sovereignty is
racist, and uses racism to justify their theft and genocide.
After
the Bureau of Indian Affairs shuffled me through seven
bureaucrats and then back to the receptionist, I called the Indian
Affairs
Specialist David Barris at Senator Wellstone’s office (at the Senate
Switchboard number, (202) 224-5641).
Barris also said, “that’s a good question,” but one to which he
would
not give me an answer. What kind of
World Leader is the United States of America, if their government is
actively
promoting apartheid and racism on the land these foreigners claim as
“Home”?
In
1889, the United States created the Minnesota Chippewa
Tribe by Act of the 50th Congress, Second Session (Chapter 24, codified
as 25
Stat. 652). I don’t mind if the U.S.
Congress creates “Indians,” but trying to claim that their “Indians”
are
Aboriginal Indigenous People is crazy.
The “Minnesota Chippewa Indians” were created by the U.S.
Congress as a
smokescreen for the massive genocide of the Anishinabe Ojibway People
which
they had already committed. They
assumed that their Indians could successfully appropriate Anishinabe
Ojibway
culture and values, and “replace” us just as plantations of Scotch Pine
and
other imported and genetically engineered species (like so-called “wild
rice”)
are used to “replace” the Anishinabe Ojibway Peoples’ permacultural
forest
ecosystem. (From the way their records
are put together, it also looks like what they assumed is that there
would be
no Anishinabe Ojibway People who would survive to question their
ongoing
genocide and human rights violations; nor to provide a reality check
for their
Hollywood Indians and other Wanna-be’s trying to be something that they
cannot
possibly be.) Anishinabe Ojibway Clans
and Dodems are patrilineal. This
means that Anishinabe Ojibway Clans and Dodems are passed from father
to son,
on the male line. The Europeans’
Chippewa Indians are claiming the matrilineal “clans” of a
conquered
people, because on their fathers’ side, most of them are Frenchmen who
lost the
war with England. There is no such
concept, no such word, as “War” and “Peace” in the Anishinabe Ojibway
culture
and language. The Europeans and their
Indians conjured up the “Peace Pipe,” [Anishinabe Ojibway Midewiwin
Pipes have
nothing to do with war-and-peace] “Tribes” and “Bands,” and “Indian
Chiefs,”
which are all alien European concepts. They
are projecting their caricatures onto Indo-European subject people,
making them
into “Indians.” It’s just like White
people putting on “Blackface” for Vaudeville, like Al Jolson singing
“Mamie” in
black grease-paint, or “Amos and Andy.”
The “Indians” all have Indo-European patrilines, and what the
“Indian
leaders” are getting paid to do is Vaudeville all over again, trying to
caricature the Aboriginal Indigenous People, still trying to re-define
us into
someone under European hierarchial control.
At
the Boston Tea Party, foreigners dressed up as caricatures
of Aboriginal Indigenous people and called themselves “Indians,” and
Euro-american immigrant wanna-be’s have been at it ever since. But, they’re getting their caricatures mixed
up. At the Mission School the foreign
German nuns were trying to teach Anishinabe Ojibway children how to
sing
plantation slave’s “minstrel” songs like “Old Black Joe” and “Massa’s
in the
Cold, Cold Ground” in their projection of plantation dialect. (Maybe these German immigrant nuns were
mocking the Indo-European children at the Mission School, who had been
made
into “Indians.”) The European élite
remains in charge of “Indians,” using blood quantums which are
irrelevant to
Anishinabe Ojibway people, to make and un-make their “Indians.”
POLITICAL
NEWS:
The
newspapers are winding down the United States ceremonial
rituals of “Democratic Elections” and using polls for spin control. Soon, we can go back to four more years of
apathy. When you voted George Bush in,
you jumped from the frying pan into the fire.
With Clinton, you’re jumping from the fire back into the frying
pan. (Either way, the melting-pot keeps
calling the kettle “black.”)
Euro-american political “progress” moves like the swing of a
pendulum:
nothing of substance changes, and it seems like that massive theft of
Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ land and resources is going to go on
until there
is absolutely nothing left to steal.
You are in the midst of a new era of history.
You have arrived. There
is virtually nothing left to steal—it has all been converted into a
foreign
European currency system, Dollars, an illusion of an economic system
which is
“sound as a dollar.” (What sound does a dollar make when the
inflationary
bubble bursts?) Euro-American culture has
never been in touch with reality, and the rape, plunder, and theft on
these two
Continents goes on. That’s what the
trillions of dollar of deficit are about.
What kind of man would steal from his own grand-child? and leave
piles
of poisonous filth where the water once ran pristine and pure through
magnificent forests? To me, it seems
like only A*holes blinded by the mental illness of greed, would do what
is
being done. When what the Aboriginal
Indigenous People have maintained for a hundred millennia on these two
Continents is gone, there won’t be any more—anywhere.
“You are here,” and what are your grandchildren going to do,
move
to the moon and breathe vacuum?
Some
of the Métis and Wanna-be’s have been calling me up,
asking to see their genealogy, but they don’t show up because they
already know
that they are not Anishinabe Ojibway people.
Instead of engaging in dialogue, some of these Indian
back-stabbers are
calling me “crazy” behind my back, but they won’t talk to me to my face. They live in a make-believe world of
delusions. A “Chippewa Indian”
identity is a lie. It’s a fake
identity, and it is dishonest.
Everybody has a real identity—and anybody who would get stuck in
a
shabby imitation identity must be into S & M, a wanna-be conned
into complicity
in genocide by that old carrot-on-a-stick, “you’re gonna be to be rich
someday.” You’ve lost more than you’ll
ever gain, by giving up your real identity.
As long as you “Indians” are living a lie, there is not one
issue about
which the so-called “Indian” people will be able to act in consensus. Instead of solidarity, their communities are
divided by people telling each other, “you don’t belong here.” If I was to say I was “Indian,” I wouldn’t
belong here, either—but the Clans and Dodems of the Anishinabe Ojibway
Nation
jointly own this land that both the immigrant “Indians” and the foreign
Euro-Americans are trying to claim.
I
am Anishinabe Ojibway with a patrilineal Clan and
Dodem. If I say I am a “Chippewa
Indian,” I am lying to you and I am lying to myself.
If I gave up my ancient and beautiful identity to be a “Chippewa
Indian,” then I really would be “crazy.”
Chippewa Indians do not have Anishinabe Ojibway Clans and
Dodems—they
were created by the United States Government to steal from the
Anishinabe
Ojibway People. We, the Anishinabe
Ojibway People, have a right to exist as a Sovereign Nation on our own
land,
without any interference from any foreigner, including “Indians.”
My
telephone number is (218) 679-2382, and my mailing address
is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
Wub-e-ke-niew
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