Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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Gassing
and burning the Branch Davidians was the top story in
the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Friday, April 23. On
the same front page was an article about the Holocaust Museum
commemorating the gassing and burning of Jewish and other ethnic people
in
Germany fifty years ago. President
Clinton went along with blaming the victims of the fire in Waco; in his
televised appearances he didn’t bat an eye about the way the F.B.I.
went about
killing the children of a religious group.
When Hitler committed genocide against religious and ethnic
groups, he
was a democratically elected product of Western European Civilization,
just
like the people here who are sedated by the Spin Doctors into
complacency. Adolf Hitler was not unique;
both he and the
Euro-Americans are a part of Western European Civilization. The Aboriginal Indigenous people here (not
the “Indians”) were scapegoated for being the owners of the vast wealth
of
these two Continents, and the Euro-American version of history blames
us for
the genocide of our own people. Hitler
also blamed the victims. Whether the
Waco Jesus was a “monster” or not has nothing to do with the deaths of
innocent
(although perhaps misguided) men, women and children.
The F.B.I. blamed the Branch Davidians for the G-Men psyching
themselves up, and created a rationale (“see what you made me do”) for
escalating a situation until many people died unnecessarily. The Feds should have had neutral
negotiators—and
the children would still be alive.
There needs to be a monument in Waco commemorating fratricide:
White
people killing White people.
One
of countless many massacres of Aboriginal Indigenous
People committed by the Europeans occurred in the winter of 1890-91 at
Wounded
Knee. The United States Government
justified the genocide of unarmed men, women, and children by calling
it a
“battle,” and awarded 23 Medals of Honor to the soldiers who did the
killing—to
mold public opinion that this was honorable behavior.
In the psychotically warped linear thinking of Western European
Judeo-Christians, maybe genocide is “honorable.” The
U.S. Government blamed the Lakota people for getting killed,
claiming that they were members of a cult which the B.I.A. labelled the
“Messiah Craze.” There are already
millions of Good Christian churches in this country, and they don’t
seem to be
solving the problems of killing and other violence.
What the moral leaders need to do is stop building new churches,
and start turning some of the churches they have into monuments and
holocaust
museums—all around the world—to commemorate the billions of victims of
Western
European violence. The Aboriginal
Indigenous People of this Continent need to begin the process of
building
monuments and museums, in Germany and Japan, honoring and commemorating
the
more than 1,000,000,000 Aboriginal Indigenous People who were
annihilated in
genocide committed by Western European Civilization.
Crooked
English and euphemisms play an important part in the
unjustifiable and uncalled-for killing and violent behavior by the
leadership
of Western European Civilization. These
people are going to have to face reality—it can’t go on.
“Ethnic Cleansing” is outright genocide,
hidden by an innocuous-seeming word.
“Ethnic Cleansing” sounds like you’re using a patented detergent
to
scrub the color out of people, so that you can make them White, rather
than
killing them, burning their bodies, wiping them clean out of existence
and
destroying every trace that they ever lived without a speck remaining,
so that
all is sparkling white. I want to know
if the international Jewish Community is going to build a memorial to
the
people who have been slaughtered in the former Yugoslavia?
No matter whether it’s eighty people or
eight million people, it’s genocide. All
people from around the world must stand up and stop this
genocide, this fratricide, and all of the other violence that’s going
on in the
world, caused by Western European Civilization’s “war and peace” and
other
violent values. From what I have seen in
the media, the Holocaust monument in Washington, D.C. is impressive. But, do you think that Jewish people are the
only people against whom genocide has been committed?
(What about the Aboriginal Indigenous People of this
Continent?) In the Anishinabe Ojibway
religion and philosophy, the Circle comes around—and all people have a
moral
obligation to make this a better world for everybody.
The
Anishinabe Ojibway have always been a non-violent
people. Until we were forced to learn
English, we had no words for “war,” “peace,” “ethnic cleansing,”
“genocide,”
“discipline,” “punishment,” nor “prison.”
We also had no swear words, and no ethnic slurs—we didn’t need
them. The languages of Western European
Civilization have an obscenely rich vocabulary of violence,
“discipline” and
other masked ugliness.
FISHY NEGOTIATIONS: It’s
amazing to listen to the crooked and
slippery English on the television news.
According to guest politicians who spout off on T.V. panels, the
people
who are “at the table” at the “treaty
settlement” negotiations include the “landowners,” the “sportsmen,” and
the
“Mille Lacs Band,” but the descendants of the Sandy Lake Chippewa
Indians have
not been invited, although they are the people who will be affected the
most. The Sandy Lake Chippewa Indians need
to file
a class action lawsuit against the people who claim to be (by their
Crooked
English) the only relevant “landowners” and the self-serving
politicians, as
well as against the Mille Lacs Band and against Uncle Sam who runs the
mythological
Indian Reorganization Act “Bands.” This
1993 “Treaty Table” reminds me of Plymouth Rock, but this time the
“Indians”
aren’t invited. While the rascals
divide up the goodies, the “Indians” are on the outside looking in. Most of these “settlement negotiators” don’t
seem to know anything about reality or the truth—from the Anishinabe
Ojibway
perspective they look like pathological liars.
Who do they think owns the land in what they call the
“State of
Minnesota”? Western European
Sovereignty has never had any legal jurisdiction in the Anishinabe
Ojibway
Nation, and never will.
We,
the Anishinabe Ojibway, have a right to exist on our own
land. No immigrant Europeans have any
right to come in here and make crooked Treaties. The
Anishinabe Ojibway never invaded your land in Europe, but the
Europeans are sure over here dividing up our land.
Apparently European Civilization does not include manners or a
conscience—it’s uncouth and piggish to come steal somebody else’s land
and
resources. Although “Thou Shalt Not
Steal” is of the Christians’ “Ten Commandments,” this bit of religious
dogma
has had no meaning during the immigrant Europeans’ five hundred and one
years
of anarchy and lawlessness on this Continent.
Unless the Good Christians start facing the truth instead of
their
abstract “reality,” their “Ten Commandments” won’t have any meaning for
the
next five hundred years either, and by that time this place will be a
barren
rock like Europe.
TRUNK HIGHWAYS: According
to the news, a nurse reported that
the Minneapolis Police are now transporting Indians in the trunk of
their squad
car, rather than bothering to call an ambulance. President
Clinton’s deficit reduction austerity programs must
really be hitting the City of Minneapolis hard. Whenever
a patrol car goes by now, I’m going to look and see if
there are any moccasins or feathers sticking out of the trunk, and if
there’s
groaning and moaning coming from the trunk of the police cars, they’ve
probably
given the Indians some Rodney King “police protection.”
I know that the Code of Federal Regulations
defines an “Indian” as a “non-person,” but any way you look at it, in
Reservation English a “baton” is an euphemism for just a plain old club. Maybe one of the Trunk Indians still had a
bottle on him, and Minneapolis’ Finest didn’t want to violate the “open
bottle”
law. You can carry an open bottle in
the trunk, but putting these poor guys who were just trying to live out
the
White man’s stereotype of “drunken Indian” in the trunk wasn’t
necessary. Maybe one of the Officers had a
speech
impediment, and thought “trunk” and “drunk” were the same word. There’s a new stereotype, label and slogan
for the Red Ghetto’s mythological Indians now: “Nobody loves a Trunk
Indian.”
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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