Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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Mark
Neuzil, of the Associated Press, put a story on the
wires which ran Sunday in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
He wrote, “according to legal precedent, the
treaties can be overridden by acts of Congress. The
president even has the power to declare entire tribes
extinct.” In plain layman’s terms, this
is abrogating the Treaty and terminating the Indians.
When
the Anglo-Europeans created “Indians,” they were insane
with greed, using their own European English language as a weapon
against the
Aboriginal Indigenous People. At that
time, we did not understand English.
Now, we have studied the oppressor, and his language tells us a
lot
about him and how he looks at the world.
It is significant that the A.P. disseminated the information
that the
president “has the power to declare entire tribes extinct,” but the
published
article did not add the complimentary pieces of information that these
“Indian
tribes” are an European concept, and the “tribes” over which the U.S.
President
has jurisdiction are “tribes” invented by the U.S. Congress and other
Europeans. “Tribe” is an European
concept, and has nothing to do with Aboriginal Indigenous Nations. I’m sure glad I’m Anishinabe Ojibway. I am not an “Indian,” and trying to trying
to put the “Indian” label on me, or any other Aboriginal Indigenous
Person, is
racism. The racist U.S. has no
jurisdiction to declare me “extinct,” although they have murdered most
of my
Anishinabe Ojibway relatives trying to send my people into extinction. We, the Anishinabe Ojibway have a right to
exist. The United States openly
admitted genocide when they created “Indians” and the “Indian religion.” The World Community ought to take a very
cautious second look at any European Nation-State which talks of
declaring
entire groups of human beings “extinct.”
The very word “Indian” is racism, and the United States is still
committing genocide against the Aboriginal Indigenous People, hiding
their
Final Solution behind the “Indians” they have manufactured and are
promoting
very heavily.
In
the same Sunday paper, Mille Lacs Chippewa D.N.R.
Commissioner Don Wedll was quoted as saying that the way to resolve the
“Treaty” issue was to ship all the Europeans back to Europe. The irony of it is that he is not Anishinabe
Ojibway, either, and the Mille Lacs “Indians” who voted to abrogate the
Treaties and terminate themselves are European Métis who might
as well go back
to Europe along with their White fathers, if anybody’s getting sent
back to
where they came from. I see part of the
issue as being that we are all here now—we can’t turn back the clock. In order to live here harmoniously, people
need to be honest about the reality of history, and about their own
identities. The “Indian” identity is a
dishonest, artificial identity created by the Europeans with malicious
and
thieving intent.
INDIAN RELIGION: Indian religion is in the news again, being
legislated by Whites, which it should be—because the people caught in
the
Indian identity are defined by the Whites.
They become Wanna-Be’s. But,
Indian religion has nothing to do with the Midewiwin or other
Aboriginal
Indigenous religion here, which is much older than either Christianity
or
Indian Religion.
The
United States Government has a vested interest in confusing
the Aboriginal Indigenous People with the “Indians” and Métis,
both to hide the
genocide and to assure their hold on the land they have stolen. As Indian Commissioner Thomas Jefferson
Morgan wrote in 1892, to suggest that mixed-bloods with a White father
were not
Indians “would unsettle and endanger
the titles to much of the lands that have been relinquished by Indian
Tribes
and patented to citizens of the United States.” Morgan
also observed that if patrilineally White people were not
“Indians,” then there was a serious question as to whether the
Aboriginal
Indigenous People might not have an equitable claim against the U.S.
Government
for the misappropriation of their annuities and their land, among other
claims. Former Vice President Charles
Curtis, who was an “Indian” without Aboriginal Indigenous ancestry
himself,
supported Commissioner Morgan’s position, and realized that “Congress
could
make or unmake an Indian regardless of genealogy, ethnological data,
treaty
commitments, or tribal preference. So
could an employee of the Indian Office, acting under his interpretation
of
federal law or the directive of an administrative superior.”
After
a hundred years, you’d think they would know
better. But, the Senate Select
Committee on Indian and Insular Affairs, of the United States Congress,
is at
it again. They have been having
hearings on “Indian religion.” The
Aboriginal Indigenous People retain our own Sovereignty, and do not
need the
permission of the United States nor any other dependent Nation-State to
practice our own religion in our own land—and it’s not “Indian
religion,”
either. Senator Inouye’s “Indian
Religion” legislation is yet another hokey and fake ploy to use
“Indians” for
the Unites States to gain jurisdiction over Aboriginal Indigenous
People.
The
Senate Select Committee is also using their “Indian
Religion” to try to claim jurisdiction over the Black Hills, as well as
the
burial sites of the Aboriginal Indigenous People, which they are
erroneously
claiming are “Indian Sacred Sites” and “Indian burial mounds.” The mounds in which my Anishinabe Ojibway
ancestors are buried, especially those at the “outlet” of Red Lake,
were
plundered and robbed sixty years ago.
The European (Métis Indian and White) grave-robbers are
trying to cover
their ass by re-writing the “Indian Freedom of Religion Act.” Has Senator Inouye read the “establishment”
clause in the Constitution?
ALWAYS GET A RECEIPT: A
Christianized Métis Indian had taken two
dollars from a merchant. He was
afterwards converted and was taught that it was sinful to steal. So, he went to the merchant and gave him the
two dollars. The merchant praised him
for his honesty, but still the Indian showed no disposition to go. Not knowing what he wanted, the merchant
asked him if he wished to buy anything.
He replied, “I want a receipt.”
“Why do you want a receipt? Have
I not credited it in my book?” asked the merchant, “and is that not
sufficient?” “Well,” said the Indian,
“St. Peter has the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and when I go up
there he
will ask me if I was a good man, and I will answer, ‘Yes, St. Peter,’
and he
will ask, ‘But have you not sinned?’ and I will say, ‘Yes, St. Peter,
but the
Blackrobe has forgiven me.’ St. Peter
will ask, ‘Did you return those two dollars you stole from the
merchant,’ and I
will say, ‘Yes, St. Peter.’ When St. Peter asks, ‘Where is your
receipt’—I
don’t want to have to chase all over Hell to find you.”
The
moral of this story is, always get a receipt in writing.
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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