Reflections from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People) |
The
State of Minnesota is trying to turn the 1837 Sandy Lake Treaty into
the “1934
I.R.A. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians Treaty,” and at the same
time the
I.R.A. Tribal Council at Mille Lacs is trying to change from Chippewa
Indian
into Anishinabe Ojibway. Researching
the history and genealogy at Red Lake, we find that the Aboriginal
Indigenous
People here were neither Chippewa nor Sioux—they were Anishinabe
Ojibway. We, the Anishinabe Ojibway, are
not the same
people as the “Indians.” The people who
signed the 1837 Treaty were Government Agents, Fur Traders, and
Métis
Indians. We also have been noticing
that a number of Métis have begun erroneously referring to
themselves as
“Anishinabe Ojibway.” It takes more
than stealing an identity to live the values of the Anishinabe Ojibway. For most of these people, it’s too late by
quite a few generations.
With
regard to “Treaty Settlements” and “Agreements,” the question is, where
did
these Indians get land? There were no
Indians on this Continent before the Europeans got here.
Did the Indians get it the same way that
Columbus did, by “discovery”? The
Euro-American history books are full of “Indian wars”—did they use the
European
tradition of stealing land by violence?
Or, were the “Indians” simply mythologized into having a claim
to the
Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ land on this continent by European
abstract
thinking? The Anishinabe Ojibway did
not sign these Treaties. One does not
sell their religion, their birthright, their identity, the very
foundation of
their existence. The Aboriginal
Indigenous people are an inseparable part of the land through our
Dodems and
the rest of our spirituality—our relationship with the land is
something which
cannot be sold, unilaterally legislated away under foreign European
law, nor
otherwise alienated. The “Indians” do
not have the same values and deep connections to the land as the
Aboriginal
Indigenous people, and so they’ll sell anything that their White
relatives tell
them to. That’s why the White man
created “Indians” and used them to sign treaties selling land which
does not
belong to them. The proof of this is
clear at Red Lake—all you have to do is look at the ecosystem which has
been
plundered and polluted into wreckage with the help of these “Treaty
Indians.”
The
State of Minnesota is resting on a very fragile fiction of “land
titles,”
although this has nothing to do with the “fishing” that they’re
promoting in
public. Read the Mille Lacs “Settlement
Agreement,” word for word, in the foreign shyster European language
that they
use. Then, read the “Treaty,” and the
Committee Hearing Reports, and the Bureaucratic Regulations, and all of
the
other “fine print” that isn’t even distributed publicly.
[In our research, we found that the Treaties
were so shamefully crooked that some Treaty documents relating to Red
Lake were
still “classified” or unavailable after 128 years, including land
records of
the Chipp-Away Indians who helped steal my peoples’ Anishinabe Ojibway
land with
Halfbreed Scrip. The descendants of
many of these same Halfbreed Chipp-Away Indians who got Scrip are now
sitting
on the I.R.A. Tribal Councils, still stealing from the Anishinabe
Ojibway.] The Treaties are not in the
Anishinabe
Ojibway language, nor even in “Chippewa,” they are in Crooked English. At that time, the Anishinabe Ojibway called
this European language “forked tongue speaking,” and understood that
they were
lying but didn’t understand all of the details.
A
group of Euro-Americans, led by Bud Grant, are claiming that both the
water and
the fish belong to the “state,” and thus to them. What
did they ever contribute here? All they
have been doing is taking, “gimme, gimme, gimme
...” Stumps and polluted water is all
that immigrant Western European $ivilization has left here. If the environment were intact, the way the
Anishinabe Ojibway kept it for millennia, there would be enough fish
for
everybody.
INDIAN RELIGION: The people
promoting the amendments to the Indian Religious Freedom Act are
Wanna-Be’s who
are advancing the genocidal U.S. agenda by implying that the Lakota,
Anishinabe
Ojibway, and other Aboriginal Indigenous People are the same people as
the
“Indians.” The Aboriginal Indigenous
People do not need a United States law promising “Freedom of
Religion”—under
U.S. regulation. What we need is a
World Court which recognizes the legitimacy of Aboriginal Indigenous
People all
over the world, rather than an agency of the United Nations using
European Law
and composed of European subject people who form de facto colonial
governments
for their European grandfathers, just like the Indian Tribal Councils
do. We need a “Mind Your Own Business”
law,
directed at the wild-eyed fanatics trying to run other peoples’ lives,
when
they can’t even manage their own lives.
This M.Y.O.B. Law would, by its very nature, take precedence
over the
cults promoted by the “Indian Religious Freedom Act.”
When
the Europeans and their Indians got here, they did not protect the
Aboriginal
Indigenous Peoples’ sacred sites and burial grounds.
They plundered them and robbed the graves. Under
what the U.S. calls “sacred
trusteeship,” they continued the plunder and desecration.
Why would yet another amendment change
anything, with the imported European greedy mentality?
What the U.S. is trying to do, with the help
of bleeding-heart liberals who don’t understand what they’re promoting,
is
unilaterally proclaim jurisdiction over the very foundation of
Aboriginal
Indigenous Peoples’ existence. By
passing this law, does that make the Secretary of the Interior an
Archbishop? Does that make Senator
Inouye a Prophet? Will this law make
Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell a Federally Recognized Indian Medicine
Man? Will we have to genuflect at the
B.I.A. Office, and be sprinkled with polluted Holy Water?
The
whole “Indian Religion” thing is a fraud and a fake, from Sun Bear to
Princes
Moon Beam and Chief Red Fox. “Indian”
is a dishonest identity—it’s an ugly and racist stereotype created by
the White
man. By denying who they are, the
“Indians” are defeating whatever good intentions they may have. Go get your real identity, and then you’ll
be able to use the power of who you really are. Is
the White culture so racist that the White fathers of the
Métis Indians won’t accept them—or is it so bad that the
Métis Indians created
by the White man don’t want any part of Western European Civilization?
INDIAN EDUCATION: According to
an March 27 AP article, a Cloquet Indian parents group wants to fire an
“Indian
culture” teacher because she’s White.
Since the racist “Indian” stereotype was invented and is defined
by
Whites, it seems as though this White teacher should be eminently
qualified to
teach children how to be “Indians.” The
AP quotes the chairperson of the Cloquet School Board, presumably a
Federally
Recognized Indian, as saying that she thought this White teacher was an
“Indian” because she has “an Indian name, dark hair, and dark eyes.” The B.I.A. could solve the problem by turning
her into an “Indian” with a fancy fractional “blood quantum,” just like
they
did for the White “Chip-away Tribal Chairmen” Butch Brun and Sonny
Peacock. The people who are complaining
about the White Indian teacher should research their own genealogies,
and start
facing reality. If you have to look at
your Federally Issued plastic laminated identity card to figure out who
you
are, you’re in deep doo-doo.
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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