Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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It
must be a sporting event to make Indian Treaties. An
in-depth interview by staff writer Ron
Schara with Don Wedll about the Mille Lacs Treaty was published in the
Sports
section of last Sunday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Don Wedll is the Indian commissioner of
natural resources at Mille Lacs. In
this article, it is reported that the Mille Lacs Tribal Council held
community
meetings with their constituents about the resource negotiations with
the State
of Minnesota, or whatever they discussed.
However, in the last paragraph of the article, Wedll is quoted
as saying
“that [a] tribal person doesn’t have any more rights than what the
tribal
government authorizes them to have.”
This statement is in accord with the United States Congress’
position
that political, civil, and human rights for Indians—and by their
insinuation,
for Aboriginal Indigenous People—are a “purely political process.” What is the point of having community
meetings, when the decisions have already been made by the Department
of the
Interior, under their unilaterally imposed, dictatorial and
all-embracing
“trust.”
Under
the “trust” the United States Government claims the
right to refuse to recognize “democratically elected” members of the
Indian
Reorganization Act Councils, as well as taking away the “Chieftainship”
of
allegedly hereditary “Indian Chiefs.”
The entire structure of the United States’ Government’s
“Indians” is
fictitious, and dealing with real problems through this fictitious
“Indian”
context makes the problems insoluble.
The United States Government’s “think tanks” of social engineers
manage
to keep most people from even seeing the real problems by creating
factions,
diversionary schemes and illusory issues, and crippling people by not
teaching
them any language with which they can communicate.
The “Indian studies” programs are a case in point: teaching
students to effectively understand and use Crooked and Slippery English
would
help them more than the present practice of teaching them Bishop
Baraga’s
make-believe Creole language called “Chippewa.” The
effectiveness of Camp Justice at White Earth is similarly
crippled because the “Indian community leaders” depend on the United
States
Government for their position and their very identity—whether they are
on the
side of “protest” or whether they are on the side of “establishment.” They are not dealing with reality, and so they
cannot possibly effect any real change.
The
“treaties” also have no connection with reality—the one
affecting Mille Lacs as well as the rest of the 400-odd ratified
“Indian”
treaties are boilerplate land theft, in which the United States owns
both sides
of the “treaty.” These “Indian
Treaties” have no connection with the Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’
land and
resource rights, except that “treaties” are being used to try to steal
them. If the “treaties” were real,
“Indians” could
take the United States Government to World Court, instead of dickering
around
with the State of Minnesota. Don Wedll
is not an Anishinabe Ojibway: unless he is being grievously misquoted
by Ron
Schara, Wedll is discussing the issues only within the limited context
of the
Indo-Europeans’ centralized, hierarchial thinking.
If Wedll knew anything about the Anishinabe Ojibway Midewiwin
philosophy, he would know that the reason that the forests, lakes, and
other
natural resources here were kept in a beautiful, abundant, and pristine
state,
is because each individual (not the “tribe”—another English word
referring to an European import) jointly holds their own Aboriginal
Indigenous
Sovereignty, and that each individual person holds personal
responsibility for
keeping the environment the way it is supposed to be.
Now, under the slash-and-plunder management of the fictitious
Tribe of Chippewa Indians, and their puppet-masters the U.S. Department
of
Interior, everything that the Anishinabe Ojibway hold sacred is being
destroyed.
The
“Indian Tribal Councils” are hierarchial governments,
created by the Europeans. Specifically,
the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act “Tribal Council” of the Mille Lacs
Band of
Minnesota Chippewa Indians is a political hockey-puck created by the
United
States Congress by specific acts of United States Legislation in 1889
and
1934. The ultimate authority of this
“unique” “federally recognized” “Indian tribal government” is, under
United
States law and bureaucratic regulation, vested solely in the Secretary
of the
Interior, who is a political hack appointed by the U.S. President.
I
got a telephone call from a reader who stated he was not an
Indian. He proceeded to give me a
lecture on the evils of gambling, and what Indian Casinos were doing to
the
community, and categorized me as an
“Indian” presumably benefitting from the Casinos. I
told him right out that I was not an Indian, I am an Anishinabe
Ojibway with a Clan and a Dodem, and I have nothing to do with the
Casinos nor
the people who receive any benefit from them.
The people who operate the Casinos are White people:
Métis people with
White biological fathers and European values, and the more-or-less
full-blooded
Whites who get a hefty chunk of the Casino profits for “management” and
are
using the White “Indians” as a front to maintain their gaming monopoly. This reader apparently wanted to scapegoat
me for the Casinos, and when I wouldn’t accept the blame he hung up on
me.
If
the European Courts weren’t so crooked, I would file a
class-action lawsuit on behalf of Aboriginal Indigenous People, about
defamation of character by calling us “Indians,” hooking us up to
“Indian
Gaming” and crooked treaties that we never had anything to do with. The United States Government has a vested
interest in keeping the “Indian Treaties” in public view as
“legitimate,”
because their fraudulent title to the land they occupy, as well as
avoiding
responsibility for their genocide, depend on the “Indian Treaties,” on
their
social and genetic engineering, and maintaining the blurring of
Aboriginal
Indigenous People into “Indians.”
A
lot of people get hurt by the “Indian” identity. When
I was growing up, the role models for
being “Indian” were drunken, lazy, dirty “Indians.”
There was a lot of fighting and violence along with alcohol and
stress—the Europeans brought their social problems here, and
intentionally
encouraged the breakdown of social order in their “Indian” communities
so they
could steal the Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ land and destroy our
traditional
communities. The consequences of this
genocidal social engineering are still with us, and many of the
community’s
role models are still trapped in the violence of the “Indian” identity. Going through old newspapers as a part of
our research, I found a newspaper from 1952 in which the F.B.I.
reported that
“crime” was “one the rise,” and it wasn’t too long ago that Bemidji
claimed it
was the “crime capital” in order to get a new jail here.
I don’t know if crime went down after the
jail was built, but you don’t hear the Chamber of Commerce promoting
“Bemidji
the Crime Capital” anymore. This
society has to be sick, to promote violence and crime in order to get
more
funding so they can hire more Crime-fighters, and buy more weapons. Crime is still going up, and so I suppose
even more police officers will get even more assault weapons. What kind of society are you creating, where
you don’t know who is the “good guy” and who is the “bad guy,” but they
both
have machine guns? They told me I was a
“savage” in school, and told me I had to be “civilized.”
Is this terrible violence the best that
Western Civilization can do?
Over
and over and over again, the European-language media
reports on issues that concern Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ rights,
land and
resources as though the “Indians” are the same people as the Anishinabe
Ojibway
and other Aboriginal Indigenous People.
I pointed this out to a reporter recently, who said, “those
Indians are
dark, and they all look alike.” That’s
what he said. I told him that a lot of
these “Indians” were Métis people when they left Europe, because
of the Moors,
and that as a matter of verifiable fact, many of the “Indians” do not
have any
Aboriginal Indigenous ancestry at all—the United States Department of
the
Interior controls who can be Indian and who can not, because the
Europeans
created Indians.
MORE POLITICAL SHENANIGANS, and a
re-cap of Lame Duck President Bush’s four years: “Read My Lips ...
Pardon
Me” “No More Taxes ... Pardon Me” “S & L Bailouts ... Pardon Me” Did you know that Charles Keating and his
son’s prison sentences total nearly 900 years?
The judge who sentenced the Keatings has discovered what Ponce
de Leon
lost his life looking for, the “fountain of youth.”
In the sado-masochistic society which the Europeans have created
here, it figures that only people who would be allowed access to
near-immortality would be incarcerated crooks and criminals. Pardon me.
The
politicians and the lobbyists who have been doing
capitalist/communist economic engineering for the last two hundred
years have
given St. Avarice, the God of Greed, a bad name.
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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