Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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The
details of the ground rules for “Indian Gambling” need to
be made clear and public. George
Washington supposedly said, “I cannot tell a lie,” but what was the
truth? On Washington’s birthday, the
Minneapolis Star
Tribune published an editorial about compulsive gambling, in which
it was written
that “Indian tribes ... sovereignty puts them beyond the reach of the
law...” The Sovereignty that the
editorial writer refers to is a phony Sovereignty, which under U.S.
Statute
belongs to the U.S. Cabinet Officer, Secretary of the Interior. This phantom “Indian Sovereignty” was
invented to hide the Euro-Americans’ genocide and theft of the land. It is one of the many lies that arise
directly from the hierarchial Judeo-Christian values which the
Europeans
brought with them. What good is this
illusory
Sovereignty, under which Indians do not have jurisdiction over
“non-Indians,”
White people, natural resources, territory, or much of anything else,
including
their Chippewa identity?
When
the State of Minnesota signed agreements with the fake
Indian Tribes, using these White Indians as a smokescreen for gambling
operations, the “Indian Tribes” waivered something, although it
probably wasn’t
Sovereignty, because the Indians never had any “sovereignty.” “To Waiver” means “relinquishment of some
legal privilege, as of a jury trial, or immunity from judicial process.” Behind those Indians’ publicly bemoaned broken
treaties and empty promises, the Indians are European subject peoples. (The Aboriginal Indigenous People are not,
and never have been, subject peoples.)
How can the Indians be “Sovereign” when, because of their
Indo-European
biological fathers, the Indians were born European subject people with
an
European patriline? The Indians did not
have any Sovereignty even before the State of Minnesota required them
to
“waiver” it in order to open casinos.
The
State of Minnesota is one of the states with stringent,
effective “Dram-Shop” laws. The
precedent of liability has already been established—and compulsive
gambling
isn’t much different from compulsive drinking.
It ruins families and destroys lives.
The “Indian Casinos” are wide open for lawsuits involving
millions of
dollars in punitive damages and “pain and suffering” resulting from
compulsive
gambling.
I
don’t know if the writer of the unsigned editorial in the Star
Tribune is purposefully dissembling, or if he or she didn’t bother
to
research the background facts about “Indian Tribes” and the Indian
Casinos. In my lifetime, I have seen
any number of schemes using “Indians” to steal from the Anishinabe
Ojibway and
other Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples. My
educated guess is that “Indian Gaming” is one more Euro-American scam. For the record: both the Minnesota Chippewas
(created by act of U.S. Congress on January 14, 1889) and the Indian
Reorganization Act “Tribal Council” of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa
Indians
are on Anishinabe Ojibway land illegally.
They have no valid claim to our Sovereignty, our resources, our
rights,
nor our land. The “Indians” do not have
Aboriginal Sovereignty. We, the
Anishinabe Ojibway have nothing to do with the “Indian” casinos, which
were
created without the consent of the few surviving Aboriginal Indigenous
People. I have not received one foreign
Euro-American penny from the casinos, and whatever liability the Indian
Casinos
incur is their problem, and is not “covered” by Anishinabe Ojibway
property.
DEFINING INDIAN LEADERSHIP: Because
the White man created the Indians,
he has a right to appoint his Indian Chiefs, as well as to do anything
else
that defines his Indians. (If you’ve
been an “Indian” and don’t like the control that the White man
exercises over
his mythological invention of “Indians,” go get your real
identity—don’t let
somebody else define who you are.) On
the Reservations, this includes creating the Indian Reorganization Act
“Tribal
Councils” and then recognizing them “subject to the review of the
Secretary of
the Interior or his duly authorized agent [and other White
organizations].” On the Reservations, the
purpose of “Indian
leadership” is mostly to alienate resources, sign “land deals” and
other
“government to government” [translation from Crooked English: “European
to
European”] agreements, and exercise nepotism by appointing their
relatives to
five or six “Indian Preference” jobs apiece.
Because the land which the U.S. Government calls “Indian
Reservations”
is part of the Aboriginal Indigenous peoples’ land which has never been
legally
“ceded,” what reservation Indian leaders really are is symbols of
non-existent
“democracy” in fake “Indian Nations,” propped up by illegal
Euro-American
occupation forces. (Read the
boilerplate Indian Reorganization Act “Tribal” Constitutions”—and the
United
States Government regulations which rigidly define them, if you don’t
believe
me. Also, read the committee hearing
reports of both the U.S. Senate and House, regarding the good ol’ boys’
backroom politics relating to the passage of the crooked Social
Engineering Law
which is the 1934 I.R.A.)
Due
to relocation, many of the “Indians” live in what is
called the “Red Ghetto.” The leadership
there is picked and paid by some do-gooder liberal Christian Churches. Because of the Indians’ artificial identity
and thus their White European values (which former Indian Commissioner
John
Collier called “White plus psychology”) and their greed, it becomes a
pocket
book issue. Others question the “Indian
leadership.” The real issue is—are
these “Indian leaders” being followed, or are they being chased?
JOURDAIN-PERPICH ELDERLY
CARE
FACILITY: Monday, I visited
Mr. George Tanner, who resides at the Jourdain-Perpich nursing home at
Red
Lake. Other community members have
raised serious questions about the quality of the care at this facility
in the
past. Mr. Tanner has fallen twice, and
may have broken his leg. He would like
to have his leg X-rayed. So far, his
requests for an X-ray have been denied, although as far as I know the
X-ray
machine in the adjacent hospital works.
Also, he would greatly appreciate hearing from friends or
relatives
around Mille Lacs. All of the elders in
the nursing home enjoy visitors.
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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