Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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Al
Gore, the environmentalist Vice President, is so serious
about the environment that when he takes a walk in the woods he’s
thinking
about the ecology and forgets to pay attention to where he’s going. He does not have an Aboriginal Indigenous
person’s connection to the land; the woods may be beautiful to him, but
they
are also alien. He learned about the
forests from his ancestors, immigrants from an Europe without forests
or
lakes—and so he gets lost in the woods, along with his S.S. bodyguards,
who
don’t know the way back to their European “civilization” either.
Recreational
fishing is an imported European colonial leisure
activity, like the English ritual slaughter of the predators of
imported vermin
(“Fox Hunting”). It is increasingly
defined in terms of the values of the British upper class.
People who fish for food are caught up in
the mess created by the catch-and-release fishermen, stuck with a limit
of one
fish per day. The U.S. Government wants
to terminate the “Indians” and abrogate the Treaties, because there are
no more
resources. The social welfare system
for immigrant elite has finally plundered the whole continent, and even
though
“Indians” are the Europeans’ invented proxy for the Aboriginal
Indigenous
people, they serve as a reminder to guilty consciences of what was once
here. Hunting and fishing has always
been an inherent part of the Anishinabe Ojibway culture, and is an
entirely
different thing than the Europeans’ idea of “hunting and fishing.” Fish and game are a part of our
permacultural ecosystem, and a traditional part of our food supply. Hunting and fishing for subsistence are not
in the European culture, and under immigrant European management, it’s
all been
destroyed. The Europeans do not
understand the harmony and the balance of Grandmother Earth, who gives
us all
life. It’s time that you come to terms
with reality.
In
Europe, there is a forest they call the “Black Forest,”
which is not a forest, it’s a tree farm.
It’s all been planted. I’ve
walked through the Black Forest, and I couldn’t see any resemblance to
the
intact Anishinabe Ojibway forests I knew as a child.
I remember the soft carpet of pine needles, the harmony. The ecosystem here has been plundered, and
the European immigrants are trying to fool people by saying they “have
planted
trees.” Those planted trees are not the
same as the natural ecosystem. They are out of balance, disharmonious,
barren
window-dressing. When you walk though a
tree farm, it’s like walking through a plowed field, going through rows
of
trees and ditches in between. From an
Aboriginal Indigenous point of view, it’s really ugly.
Nobody can get lost in a tree farm—all you
have to do is follow the ditches.
When
the fishermen complain about no fish, they should also
complain about the trees being cut down.
Everything is connected. The
birds depend on the trees, the fish depend on the trees—and so do you. You are cutting your own throat when you cut
the trees down. Professional Foresters
can have all the Advanced Degrees they want, and they are still out of
touch
with the land and the life on it. They
don’t know what’s happening with the delicately inter-related ecosystem. Respecting the harmony of Grandmother Earth
is a part of the non-violent Anishinabe Ojibway religion and philosophy. In the Europeans’ arrogance, he cut down
everything, and tried to “manage” the living systems of this Continent
with
abstract thinking, lifeless linear mis-understanding and greed. Their greed far outweighs their common
sense. The United States forest
service’s inventory of Potemkin forests, which flourished “on paper”
for twenty
years before people figured out that there weren’t really any trees
there, is a
good example of abstract thinking and capitalist greed.
Greed is a dangerous mental illness which
must be addressed in the proposed National Health Care system.
HEALTH CARE: If
Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to talk
about health, she also needs to talk about the air, the water, the
other living
beings that are part of the web of life.
It’s all connected, and if you want to have healthy people, you
have to
have a healthy ecosystem. A noxious
brown cloud has been hanging over the cities of the United States for
the last
forty years. When people in Los Angeles
complained about the smog in the 1950’s (when the freeway system was in
the
planning stages and there was an intact mass transit system), the
public was
told that the smog “won’t hurt you, it’s no worse than two packs of
cigarettes
a day.” They have warning labels on
cigarettes now. They need to put
warning labels on the roads going into the cities, “Surgeon General’s
Warning:
Breathing this Air is Hazardous To Your Health, Causes Cancer,
Respiratory
Disease, and Other Problems.”
Smog
is a symptom of the mental illness of runaway
greed. When the Europeans first applied
the “Divine Mandate” of Manifest Destiny on this Continent, they stole
the
Aboriginal Indigenous Nations’ land and resources to subsidize the
imported
welfare system for the European upper class (which they called the
Industrial
Revolution). At that time, our
relatively intact ecosystem absorbed the worst of the consequences of
their
criminal greed. The immigrants
plundered our resources over several generations, and their descendants
are
still stealing from the Aboriginal Indigenous People, they are still
here
wrecking our Continent and their immigrant elite are still on welfare. The Lily-White-Liberals are still
beneficiaries of the grand Land Theft and the genocide.
I’ve got news for you immigrant Europeans. You
have finally arrived, and you’d better
start dealing with reality. Linear
abstract thinking is pure hogwash, no matter how many of the “experts”
of
Western European Civilization certify it.
You can’t run from away from the truth forever.
If
the Clinton Administration is planning on having any form
of “socialized medicine,” I suggest that they evaluate and take a
lesson from
the U.S. socialized medicine that they already have, for example the
Indian
Health Service. Better yet, go get a
second opinion—maybe you should have several reservations about it.
MORE EUROPEAN EPIDEMICS: According
to the newspapers, the people who
are concerned about violence are finally being heard.
Violence is really in epidemic stages. Violence
and the police are caught in a positive feedback
loop—the more police they hire, the more violence there is. Many of the people who are supposed to be
“fighting crime” are getting rich off of somebody else’s suffering, and
the
violent crime rates keep going up. When
you see “crimefighters” without any other source of income driving
B.M.W.’s and
wearing Florscheim shoes, you know that society is way out of balance
and out
of harmony. Hiring policemen, judges
and lawyers, building more jails, doesn’t solve the problem of crime,
although
it’s an economic system that puts bread and butter on the tables of law
enforcement officers and the legislature.
Crime is a part of the Western European economic system, and if
the
problems which generate crime were solved, then a lot of the elite
would be
without jobs. Violence and crime
exploit non-W.A.S.P.s who don’t speak fluent English, and provides
barriers
which protect the status and privileges of the elite.
The Europeans who call themselves “Americans” need to look at
the
social baggage their ancestors brought from Europe—the imported
European
language, values and religion. That’s
where the problem is embedded in the immigrant culture, and that’s the
only
place where it can be addressed effectively.
Violence
and racism are necessary to maintain the social
class system the way that it presently exists in the United States. When grassroots movements seriously
addressed racism, the establishment re-defined the issue on their
terms, and
centralized the “solutions.” The same
thing is happening now with the issues of violence and crime. Violence is being re-defined in terms of
unreal abstract thinking. For example,
children’s television cartoons are being excluded from the proposed
“warning
label” system proposed by the media.
Hitting and kicking people, maiming them and then laughing, is
not
funny—it’s an insidious brainwashing of the world’s children. Violence and crime presently kill more
people than AIDS, and take away more years of life expectancy than any
other
illness. The unending waves of violence
from the media, which makes big money with “cheap thrills,” is like a
vaccine,
desensitizing people to an appalling reality.
There need to be warning labels on the news and on children’s’
programs. The self-righteous right-wing
monopolizers of the First Amendment need to take a hard, honest look at
themselves (if they can).
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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