Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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January 21, 1993
[uncompleted and unpublished]
When
the Jourdainian council here at Red Lake talked about
Aboriginal Rights as a Sovereign Nation—along with Butch Brun—the
question
which always comes up is “why do these people claim that they are a
sovereign
nation, or quasi sovereign nation, and at the same time the United
States calls
them ‘wards of the government’ under ‘trusteeship’?”
Either the Indians are lying, or the U.S. Government is lying,
or
they are both lying.
Treaty-making
is generally considered to be done under
International Law, between Sovereign Nations or Sovereign People. However, the United States Government
enacted their policies regarding what they claim is “Treaty Law”
regarding
Indians in a sneaky way. As though they
wanted to hide their shame, and sweep their misdeeds under the rug,
Congress
attached an obscure rider to an “Indian Appropriations Bill” on March
3, 1871,
ending the United States Government’s treaty-making with “Indians.”
The
“Treaties” which the European Nation-States signed with
people who they claimed were “indigenous” on this continent were never
Treaties
signed between Sovereign people nor Sovereign Nations.
The European Nation-States, including the
United States, have steadfastly refused to recognize Aboriginal
Indigenous
Nations existence here, let alone our inherent and inalienable title to
our own
land and resources. This particular
strategy of refusing to recognize the reality of non-European Nations
owning
their own land has been a cornerstone of colonialism for as long as the
Europeans have been marauding around the world, “discovering” other
peoples’
land.
The
original intent of the so-called “Indian Treaties,” under
European concepts of law, was the transfer of European “Title”
(to land
and resources which the Europeans did not own) from European to
European. The “Indian treaties” were
signed with the
“Hang-Around-The-Fort-Indians.” (These
“Indians” were hanging around the forts, looking for their White
biological
fathers. The Europeans held their
Sovereignty.)
In
the mid-1960’s, during the Civil Rights Movement, the
“Indians” who identified with mainstream White goals and values were
called by
their own half-breed brothers, “Sell-Outs.”
Now, the children and grandchildren of these Indians are calling
themselves “Sovereign Nations,” and are gearing up to sign some more
papers,
although this time they’re saying they’re “accords” or “agreements.”
For
more than a century, the United States has been calling
the “Indians” the “Vanishing American.”
(In the last century, the policy-makers of the Lake Mohonk
Conference
were gloating and orating about the soon-to-be non-existence of the
“party of
the first part,” meaning the “Indians,” and thereby the release of the
United
States Government from Treaty obligations.)
The “Indians” are kept on a tightrope, and both they and the
American
public are being told that they are on the verge of either
“termination” or
“extinction.”
On
one hand, the “Indians” are kept in the identity of being
“Indians,” because under the social engineering of the Indian identity,
they
are led to believe that being a “real Indian” means hating white
people—although their own biological fathers are White.
On
the other hand, the “Indians” are strung along with that
old carrot-on-the-stick of “payment, you’re gonna be rich some day.” The U.S. is going to abrogate the treaties,
because they are crooked. As soon as
it’s politically feasible, they are also going to do what they have
been
promising to do for the last hundred years: terminate the “Indian.” The “Indians” have been threatened with a
“stroke of the pen” for many decades, but technology is catching up
with
them—it will be with a bottle of “White Out.”
ATTORNEY GENERAL: It’s
been reported from the Senate
Confirmation hearings for that Zoe Baird hired an “illegal alien”
couple from
Peru as household servants. It should
have been written that European immigrant Zoe Baird hired an couple
with
Aboriginal Indigenous ancestry from Peru.
The media has taken the whole issue off in a different direction. But, get serious here: what point is there
is paying Social Security to people who are expected to leave the
United
States? They can’t file a claim here. Zoe Baird may have been ripping them off—but
now that’s she’s paid their Social Security Taxes, it’s just money from
her to
the Government, and these people will never see it.
When the immigration officials get ahold of her, she will have
to
pay some more money ... that’s business as usual in Washington. Illegal aliens have been over here since
1492, ripping off, anyway.
Wub-e-ke-niew
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