Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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On
Sunday, the Bemidji Pioneer headlined their in-house
editorial, “New Credibility for BIA with Deer appointment.” They wrote, “the B.I.A. has long been
mistrusted by Indians and tribal governments alike.”
That’s putting it mildly, and only refers to the European
“Indians.” The Bemidji Pioneer made no
reference to the Aboriginal Indigenous People whose land and resources
are
being ripped off under the auspices of the Bureau of White Indian
Affairs.
The
anonymous editorial writer commented that a “breath of
fresh air is needed in the B.I.A.” It
needs more than fresh air—it’s more like hot air. “Indian”
government is by definition apartheid, and the very
people who are supposed to be representing their “constituents” are
busy
plundering, for example all of the I.R.A. “Tribal Chairmen,” who former
B.I.A.
Commissioner John Collier described as having a “white-plus psychology.” The problem is not the moral integrity of
the particular individual in office—the real problem is the nature of
the
institutions: “resource” Corporation lobbyists, the Bureau of Indian
Affairs
and the Indian Reorganization Act “Tribal Councils” they control. A “breath of fresh air” won’t do anything to
improve the pigsty of special interests slopping at what they claim as
a
W.A.S.P.’s public trough, or an upper-income Welfare Trough. Just exactly who is on “welfare” here? There needs to be honest and sincere
dialogue about “welfare reform.”
The
analogy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs is the “fox guarding
the chicken coop.” Putting Ada Deer as
Commissioner is like a turkey lobbying for, or against, Thanksgiving
day—either
way, your goose is cooked. The more
things change, the more they remain the same, and it’s business as
usual. It doesn’t matter who is appointed
as
Commissioner of Indian Affairs. I’m old
enough to remember the termination of the Menominees, and who was at
the
forefront of that termination. I also
remember the hoop-la that heralded several other fine people who were
appointed
as Commissioner, which, as former Indian Commissioner Lewis Bruce told
me, is
the ultimate job as cosmetically correct “token Indian.”
The
Bemidji Pioneer quotes Ada Deer as saying that “90
percent of [Bureau] employees are Indians.”
If you add up the actual ancestry of all of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs
employees put together, you would get 99 percent European or African
ancestry. Maybe one percent of the
ancestors of the Bureau’s “Indians” were at one time Aboriginal
Indigenous
People of this Continent—and probably none at all on the patriline. Blood runs thicker than water.
As I gaze into my crystal ball, at the
Department of the Interior, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and their
Tribal
Councils, I see nothing but crooks and rip-off artists, and business as
usual. Nothing will change.
I’ve
been watching this a long time. Peoples’
hopes are always raised by promises
of a “New Dawn in American,” but the same old scams go on, and on, with
only
minor variations on the same old thieving theme. If
there is going to be real change, it has to come from socially
aware grass roots. Change will never
come from the Euro-American élite at the top—the problems are
designed to
entrench the hierarchy as it has evolved over the centuries. All you have to do is look at the ecosystem
here to see concrete evidence of immigrant European values. Quit blaming “Acts of God” for the
consequences of your own greed. That
makes as much sense as blaming the Corps of Engineers for fact that the
Mississippi River floodplain is under water, which has always been a
natural
state of affairs for a floodplain.
Sending the U.S. Army on a campaign against Mother Nature and
Grandmother Earth is just plain dumm.
CROOKED TREATIES: The
Minnesota lawmakers are scapegoating
their own blood brothers. According to
the a Sunday article in the Minneapolis StarTribune, the Minnesota
legislators
are “angry” at the Indians. The rip-off
“Treaty settlement” did not go as planned.
If you state lawmakers had done your homework, you would know
that the U.S.
Congress passed a law, on March 3, 1871, saying that there would be no
more
treaty-making with Indians. If you want
to make “treaties,” why don’t you go to Congress, and get them to
repeal this
statute which abrogates the “Indian Sovereignty” which never existed in
the
first place. The Aboriginal Indigenous
People of this Continent are not under the jurisdiction of the
Euro-Americans,
because they are not “Indians.” We still
have our Sovereignty, whether the Europeans recognize it or not, and
this is
still our land and our birthright.
Aboriginal Indigenous natural rights supersede any imported
European or
Euro-American law.
The
Red Lake Chippewa Indians began celebrating the “1889
Treaty” during Roger Jourdain’s I.R.A. administration.
Butch Brun continued celebrating this grand
theft of more than three million (3,000,000) acres of Anishinabe
Ojibway land
with a Métis and Wanna-Be pow-wow. The
reason that these Indian Tribal Chairman are promoting this nefarious
unilateral legislation mis-represented as a “Treaty” is because their
French
Métis ancestors were packed on top of the Red Lake Anishinabe
Ojibway people
under the crooked provisions of the 1889 Minnesota Chippewa Commission. There is no “1889 Treaty.”
The
provisions of the unethical Act of January 14, 1889,
under imported European “democracy,” did not require the consent of the
Anishinabe Ojibway at Red Lake for the U.S. Government to unilaterally
claim
alienation of our land. The Red Lake
Anishinabe Ojibway also did not sign the 1863 Treaty or the 1864
Amendment. We couldn’t sign it, we
cannot sell it, and we cannot give it away.
It is sacrilegious, under the ancient Midewiwin religion, to
sell
Grandmother Earth, and it is sacrilegious for someone to steal it or
wreck the
ecosystem on our land. It’s about time
that the people who claim to be “United States Citizens” confront the
reality
that the Europeans’ alleged claim to the land on this Continent has
very
clouded title.
TAXES: In
Crooked English, “stumpage” is an
euphemism for “taxes.” The Indians who
are cutting down the Anishinabe Ojibway forests are paying taxes called
“stumpage.” If these trees actually
belonged to the “Indians” who are running big logging operations and
destroying
the ecosystem and the fishing grounds, they wouldn’t need to pay
“stumpage.” (They also wouldn’t be
wrecking everything like there wasn’t any tomorrow.)
Under the crooked Trust, the United States Government is
fraudulently claiming the trees, and they are claiming your “Indian”
identity,
and that’s why you Wanna-Be Indians pay “stumpage” taxes to the United
States
Government.
FOREST PRODUCTS: Paper.
To all you Civil Rights promoters who
interpret “freedom of the press” as deciding what somebody else can and
cannot
read, especially the ones who stole free newspapers, you will notice
that this
newspaper is not free anymore. It costs
fifty cents. What we need is a hotline,
Turn In Paper Thieves, especially the ones who are self righteous
self-proclaimed guardians of the First Amendment. What
the Press needs to do is apply the Fourth Amendment to get
our papers back.
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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