Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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Greetings.
Boo-zhoo. Parlez-vous
Française,
eh? That’s Real Indian talk!
According
to the news media, some more strange events have
been happening in what the immigrant Europeans call “Indian Country.” In the case involving the hunting and
fishing rights retained in the Treaty of 1836 by the Mississippi
Chippewas,
some of the heirs of the Mississippi Chippewas, including Chief
Bug-o-nay-ge-shig VII and Dale Hanks, have been excluded by a decision
of a
low-ranking Federal Judge. The United
States Government is focussing their settlement efforts on the 1934
Indian
Reorganization Act Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians, and is defining
all of
the Mississippi Chippewas who were removed to White Earth or Red Lake,
as well
as any other Chippewa Indians that they want to, as being excluded (for
not
having maintained a “Federally Recognized” Band Organization). Did China stop existing when the U.S. didn’t
“recognize” them?
The
United States Government is expediently defining and
re-defining “Indians” to fit their diabolical scheme of stealing. While the negotiations are in process, the
eligible “Indians” are defined as the “Mille Lacs Band.”
They are using the word “Band” as the
Catch-22 word. The negotiations are
being carried out with the three people who are, under the 1934 Indian
Reorganization Act, defined as having “Indian Sovereignty” to represent
the
“Mille Lacs Band.” None of these
three
people are Anishinabe Ojibway—if they were Aboriginal Indigenous
People, the
United States Government wouldn’t be dealing with them.
Dale Hanks and Bug-o-nay-ge-shig VII are not
presently “federally recognized,” and the way that the United States
Government
is defining “Indians” this week, they have no “Sovereignty.” After the crooked Mille Lacs “Treaty
Settlement” deal is finally cut and pushed through, however, then
Bug-o-nay-ge-shig VII and Dale Hanks will be brought back into the
Mississippi
Chippewa family again by the U.S., and will have had their hunting and
fishing
rights negated by “settlement” with the “recognized” Mississippi
Chippewa, the
Mille Lacs Band. In other words, the
United States Government is going to make these “Indians” into White
people,
again. To compound the problem, they
won’t have any land, any hunting, fishing, or gathering rights, and, in
another
generation, any “Federally Recognized Indian Blood Quantum” either. Everything will be gone. The
long-term agenda is to abrogate the
Treaties and terminate the Indians. The
allotment process was set up, and promoted to “Friends of the Indians”
in the
1880’s, as designed to eliminate the “party of the second part”
[“recognized
Indians”], in the “Indian Treaties.”
Another
case in point, of the United States Government
categorizing people into whatever they need at that particular moment,
is
what’s happening with WELSA (the White Earth Land Settlement Act). The United States is not only re-defining
peoples’ “Indian blood quantum,” they are also giving people a
different set of
ancestors. The Hinton Rolls defined a
number of people as “full-bloods.”
Several years later, Ransom Judd Powell did extensive
“investigations”
into the genealogy of people who had gotten allotments at White Earth,
and
re-defined many of the people on the Hinton Fullblood Rolls as “mixed
bloods,”
including a number of people who were unilaterally re-defined with the
mathematically unsound category of “Mixed Blood, 4/4 Indian Blood
Quantum.” The reason for this
sleight-of-hand was that “Mixed Blood Indians” (who were really Whites
who already
had U.S. Citizenship) were defined as “competent,” U.S. Citizens [by
reason of
allotment], and able to sell land (which still belongs to the
Anishinabe
Ojibway). “Full Blood Indians,” on the
other hand, were defined as “incompetent,” but under “Indian
Trusteeship” the
U.S. could re-define them any way they wanted to, so that their
allotment was
salable, and, under “trusteeship,” could even sell their land “for”
them,
without having to consult with the people the U.S. claimed were the
“individual
owners.”
The
people who have challenged the hocus-pocus being done at
WELSA, as “Indians,” have been told, “too bad.” The
deck is stacked, and no matter what loopholes they find, any
low-ranking bureaucrat can close the loopholes on an “Indian,” and
re-define the
White man’s slippery mythology of “Indian” again. What
the United States Government is telling them is, “we
created, and we own the Indian identity.
As long as you buy into our crooked definition of ‘Indian,’ we
can
define you however we want, including giving you different ancestors.” This scam rests on the United States
Government’s ownership and definition of “Indians” and “Bands.” The U.S. is using their created and fully
controlled “Indian Bands” as the brokers.
Through the 1934 I.R.A. “Indian Bands,” individual “Indians” do
not own
any land, any rights, their own identity, or even their own ancestors. The White man claims that he owns it all,
with the “Indian Band” as a front.
I
have always been Anishinabe Ojibway, of the Bear
Dodem. I have never been an
“Indian.” I admit that when I was
younger, and didn’t understand Crooked English, I tried to be an
“Indian,” but
it’s impossible to live out all of the racist stereotypes and
projections that
the immigrant Europeans have built into their “Indian” identity. That’s what the “Indian Boarding Schools”
were all about—to take away our Aboriginal Indigenous identity and
brainwash us
into being “Indians,” so that the immigrant Europeans could justify
their land
theft and genocide. Another facet of their
evil strategy was to try to convince us that we were “ration Indians”
on
“Welfare.” We haven’t been on
“welfare,” not on our own land. The
immigrant Europeans have been stealing our resources to underwrite
their dollar
and pay for their own welfare. The U.S.
Government has been using our Anishinabe Ojibway resources to pay their
appointed “Indian leaders” that they’re using as a front to steal from
us. The self-righteous, finger-pointing
immigrant Europeans (including certain “Indian leaders”) need to ask
themselves
the question, “why am I on this Continent, instead of still in Europe.” In case you haven’t noticed—you have been on
“welfare” since you got here.
The
United States Government has passed unilateral
legislation to turn Aboriginal Indigenous People into “Indians” [and
has yet
another such garbage bill in the pipeline, the Indian Freedom of
Religion Act,
under which the Judeo-Christians are defining “Indians” and “Indian
Religion”],
but neither the U.S. nor the Judeo-Christians have any jurisdiction
over the
Anishinabe Ojibway, nor over our land and resources, nor over our
ancient
religion and philosophy the Midewiwin.
I turned in my “Indian Enrollment Card” to the U.S. Supreme
Court
(Justice Thurgood Marshall), with an explanation that I am Anishinabe
Ojibway,
and not “Indian.” If I call myself an
“Indian,” I am lying to myself and everybody else, and I refuse to get
caught
up in this vicious fake identity.
IN THE MOVIES: On
the propaganda circuit, there have been
complaints about not having any “Indian Actors” in the movies to play
“Indians.” This amazes me, because
throughout the Europeans’ theft of this Continent, the whole “Indian”
thing has
been has been played by a bunch of bad actors following an insanely
violent and
greedy script, portraying values which have absolutely nothing to do
with the
Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples of this Continent. The
movie, the “Last of the Mohicans,” saturated with violence of
Indians killing Indians. Why weren’t
you Indians out there, demonstrating against this movie glorifying
fratricide? The next time you
demonstrate against “Indian Mascots” and “Indian Logos,” I suggest that
you
also demonstrate against the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for sustaining
the whole
fake “Indian identity.” Then you would
be contributing something that is positive to this Continent again, and
doing
your part to make this World a better place to live, instead of
promoting
stupid, mindless violence, and lies.
There were no “Indians” here, and there still are no “Indians”
here.
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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