Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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Indian
identity is in the news. On Sunday,
October 17, Jodi Gregory of the Bemidji Pioneer
reported that Dr. Gerald Hill of the University of Minnesota, Duluth,
said that
Indians do not want to become physicians because they are “afraid to
lose their
identity as an Indian.” I telephoned
Dr. Hill to confirm that he really made this amazing and unique
statement, but
he did not return my call. I wanted to
ask him, how can he take an abstract identity like “Indian” and make it
real?
Dr.
Hill is quoted in the same newspaper article as saying
that “33 percent of Indian people die before they reach age 45.” I wanted to ask him how these statistics
were calculated. Were these figures
weighted for blood quantum—in computing them, was only the “Indian
blood” taken
into consideration, or was the whole person counted?
Do sixteen people of 1/16 blood quantum have to die before the
statisticians count one dead Indian, and are they also counted as
fifteen dead
White people? If they’re going to
invent blood quantum Indians, they might as well be statistically
accurate
about them. Since Dr. Hill is quoting
these numbers, he should know how his data were cooked.
The
numbers that Dr. Hill is quoting reflect the European
immigrants’ philosophy that “the only good Indian is a dead Indian,”
and
according to Dr. Hill’s figures, the European settlers continue to
create
conditions that kill Indians. But,
their genocidal agenda is running into a quandary with blood-quantum
Indians. Most of the Indians have 1/16
Indian blood, so in order have one “good dead Indian,” statistically
speaking,
they also have to kill fifteen White people who have been turned into
Indians.
Dr.
Gerald Hill was in Bemidji to attend the 9th Annual
Minnesota Indian Education Banquet, at which awards were given to
Outstanding
Indians. It must that the people who
parade around in the Media as Indians know that they have a fake
identity, and
this is why they do not invite Aboriginal Indigenous People. If you were trying to steal somebody’s land,
identity, and resources, would you invite them, or recognize them with
awards?
POLITICS: Now
it’s known that Butch Brun has taken off
his White hat, and thrown his Indian turkey-feathers into the ring—he
is going
to run for Tribal Chairman again. Butch
has been preparing for a long time. As
a candidate, he’ll have to make stump speeches—and we all know that
there are
plenty of stumps around the Rez. Butch
and his cousins have made sure of that.
I have heard rumors that the reason Brun’s running is that he
hasn’t yet
fulfilled the election promises he made four years ago, and that he
needs four
more years to straighten out the mess he’s made during his first term.
When
I asked Chairman Brun about running for Chairman again,
he said, “Why should you care? You’re
not a tribal member anymore, you don’t vote.”
I told him, “my interest is because you White guys are on my
land.” Brun, if you want to play Indian,
go some
other place, and take your I.R.A. Tribal Government and your
inter-related
clique of French Feudal Indians, with you.
Rumor
also has it that Butch is running again because he and
his cousin Chunky are trying to evade paying taxes on the timber that
they have
stolen from the Anishinabe Ojibway.
While Brun is Tribal Chairman, the legal fees on their tax cases
are
being paid by the Feds out of so-called “Tribal Money.”
The United States Government subsidizes
their ecologically destructive timber operations, so why is Brun &
Co. biting
the hand that feeds them by tax-dodging?
How greedy can you get? The
Bruns also have not paid full stumpage on the miles of forest and
wildlife
habitat that they’ve destroyed. I know
that if I were given a subsidized business to go to Europe and clearcut
Chairman Brun’s Teutonic Aboriginal lands, in the tree farm they call
the
“Black Forest,” I’d gladly grease the wheels and pay my taxes, and
everybody
would be happy except the indigenous German people, who would be
understandably
upset about having their trees cut down yet again.
The
foreigners who call themselves Indians are plundering
Anishinabe Ojibway forests at Red Lake, abetted by sweetheart contracts
and
backroom deals. If Earl Barlow was
winning big money gambling at B.I.A.-supervised Indian casinos, what
about the
influence peddling and kickbacks from the forest products corporations?
MINNESOTA SCHOOL DISTRICT
38: The United States Congress is responsible for
Indians, since they created Indians by legislation and implication, and
use
U.S. statutes to define this counterfeit identity to meet the needs of
the
moment. The U.S. Congress also invented and controls the 1934 I.R.A.
Governments for their Federally Recognized Indian Tribes.
The U.S. Government put their White and
mulatto Indians on land which does not belong to them, and that’s an
act of
violence. On a smaller scale, it’s the
same as going into somebody’s house, breaking and entering, and then
having the
burglars set up housekeeping and holding the real owners prisoner.
The
United States also passed unilateral laws mandating
compulsory education. The policy-makers
who saw compulsory education as a more publicly acceptable form of
genocide
than a war of annihilation, had two separate agendas for what they
called
“Indian education”: totally destroying Aboriginal Indigenous language
and
culture; and simultaneously turning Europeans and Indo-Europeans into
“Indians.” The Aboriginal Indigenous
People who survived a century of genocide are learning crooked English,
and
understanding the White man’s strategy.
When Aboriginal Indigenous people take on the Indian identity,
they give
up everything: their land, their children, their natural resources,
their
Sovereignty, their religion, even the air they breathe.
According to Tuesday’s Minneapolis Star
Tribune, there are Aboriginal Indigenous People from South Dakota, who
are
taking back their real identity, who don’t want to pushed into the
Wanna-Be
identity of “Sioux Indian” anymore. I
applaud and admire you for your courage.
It’s about time.
But, the Red Lake
Schools are promoting racism and segregation; they are still caught up
in the
19th-century cowboy-and-Indian frontier daze of making people into
Indians. They say that they have
“Indian Education,” which doesn’t fit any of the children who are
forced to
attend these European-curriculum schools, because there are no such
people as
“Indians.” The compulsory school
education system is being used to brainwash Indo-European children into
the
non-existent identity of Indians. That
is child abuse, teaching children to hate themselves by encouraging
them to
hate White people and hate Black people, which is who they really are. Instead of trying to mold children into
something that doesn’t exist, why not teach them the skills that they
will need
to succeed in this world: physics, political science, chemistry,
calculus, and
reading and writing fluent English. The
way it is now, Indians educated on the Reservation don’t know enough
math to
figure out the implications of their own mythological Indian blood
quantum.
There
needs to be a public Congressional investigation into
what the United States has been doing with their invented Indians since
the
first Continental Congress. Some of the
White people who have been turned into Indians have legitimate grounds
for lawsuits
for damages incurred by forcing them into a fake identity.
The monetary value of these damages far
exceeds the carrot-on-a-stick dollars involved in potential per-capital
payments and illusory “land settlements,” for example WELSA. The U.S. has consistently violated their own
Federal Civil Rights legislation in the way that they have treated
their
invented Indians. That’s why the U.S.
Congress passed the Indian Civil Rights Act, which makes civil rights
for “Indians”
as mythological as the Indians themselves.
How many Indians have won big-money court settlements for civil
rights
violations under the I.C.R.A.?
My telephone number
is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN
56601.
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