Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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Another
hunting season has passed, so it’s fairly safe to go
out in the woods again. The people
wearing red have finally gone back home, and the D.N.R. are counting
the piles
of money they made selling licenses to kill deer that belong to the
Anishinabe
Ojibway. The textbook name for this is
“capitalism,” but it’s really socialism for the Western Europeans,
using the
resources of the Aboriginal Indigenous People of this Continent.
All
the guys wearing red, who are driving around with dead
deer strapped to their cars or piled in the back of their pickup
trucks, are a
poor role model for young children. It
isn’t too long before another guy in a red suit will need deer to pull
his sleigh,
to bring the children presents. It’s
confusing: one month the people in red are killing deer, and the next
month the
man in red is driving with them, and he’s not a very good role model,
either. He doesn’t have a very big
vocabulary. All he seems to say is “ho,
ho, ho!,” maybe because he never gets caught for drunk driving, or even
for
driving while impaired, after having a tankard too many of Holiday
Cheer, or
spiking his eggnog.
INDIAN SOVEREIGNTY: Minneapolis
Star Tribune columnist Jim Klobuchar wrote about “Tribal Sovereignty”
and how it
is being used to insulate casino owners from liability for sexual
harassment
and other civil rights violations against their employees.
Such maltreatment of employees is nothing
new, but when it was organizations like the Red Lake Indian lumber
mills and
the Bureau of Indian Affairs discriminating, refusing to provide any
compensation for employees who were injured on the job, and not
contributing to
any retirement plan (even social insecurity), nobody cared. Now that officially White people are being
affected
by policies which have been in place for fifty years, all of a sudden
it’s an
issue.
Indians
are, by their White patriline and their values,
already assimilated members of the Euro-American society.
The Sovereignty which is being abused by the
Indian Casinos is not Anishinabe Ojibway nor other Aboriginal
Indigenous
Sovereignty. The European immigrants,
Indian law and Indian Sovereignty, have no jurisdiction over Aboriginal
Indigenous Sovereignties, which belong on this Continent.
The “Indian Sovereignty” under which the
casinos, B.I.A. officials (who are also White people), and other
so-called
Indian employers have abused their employees for years is White
Sovereignty,
held specifically by the United States Secretary of the Interior, and
his boss the
U.S. President. The Euro-American laws
under which this “Indian Sovereignty” belonging to the U.S. Executive
Branch is
generated include United States v. Anglin & Stevenson (1944, CA10
Okla) 145
F2d, cert den 324 US 844, 89 L ED 1405, 65 S Ct 678, among others. In this particular case, the legal
interpretation is, in part, “Where the Secretary of the Interior held
funds in
his custody as guardian and trustee of the ... Indian, ... he had
exclusive
jurisdiction over them in his sovereign capacity and they were not
within the
reach of the judicial process unless by authorized consent ... When the Secretary of the Interior, acting
within the scope of his powers as guardian of the Indian wards, ...” Indian Sovereignty is a sham.
It’s held by the Whites who created the
Indian identity.
Euro-Americans
Whites are supposed to be protected by the
U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
But, then the U.S. Government comes along with Indian
Sovereignty, and
violates their own Constitution by taking away every vestige of
Constitutional
Rights for the Whites they call “Indians,” under Indian Sovereignty. “Indian Trusteeship” and “Indian
Sovereignty” can’t exist in the same paradigm, even in Crooked English,
unless
Indian Sovereignty is understood for what it really is: apartheid
dictatorship,
without accountability, over the low-class White people who the U.S.
Government
has defined as “Indians.” I’m glad that
I’m not an Indian. If employees have
problems with their Indian employers, the buck stops with President
Clinton,
telephone (202) 456-1414. He’s in
charge of Indian Sovereignty. The
Executive Branch co-operated with the Legislative Branch, and the U.S.
Congress
created the I.R.A. Tribal Councils. If
you have a problem with the Tribal Councils, call Senator Wellstone at
1-800-642-6041.
By
Act of U.S. Congress (August 27, 1954), codified as U.S.
Statutes, Title 25, Section 677w, the United States Government provides
for the
Termination of Indians, even those defined by the U.S. as “full-blood”
Indians. This means that, after the
United States Government terminates the Indian identity of those who
they have
defined as Indian, these former Indians cannot use either the Secretary
of the
Interior’s “Indian Sovereignty,” nor the Indian identity.
I suppose if the Indian Police caught a
person trying to say they were an “Indian” after they’d been
terminated, they’d
throw them in jail (if they weren’t already there).
If they were persistent, incorrigible Indians, and they still
wanted to play Indian, they could deport (relocate) them to India. I would gladly nominate Barlow, Roger
Jourdain, Butch Brun, and their councilmen, for the first boatload on
the new
Indian relocation program.
NAFTA: Al
Gore and Ross “The Boss” Perot had a
serious debate about whose family had more money and less ethics. In the part of it I saw, they didn’t even
discuss Free Trade—the content of this policy discussion was controlled
by
politician Al Gore, who was questioning the ethics of Ross Perot’s
family. Why didn’t Ross Perot ask about
the
shenanigans that Al Gore’s dad, who was also a Senator, pulled? If they were going to talk about families,
and totally disregard Free Trade, why didn’t they talk about the
families of
all the people who were losing their jobs, the families of those
unemployed
both on this side of the border and on the other side.
Ross Perot showed a picture of a big
corporation, surrounded by shanty-towns.
This photograph shows that Manifest Destiny is still alive and
well,
unchanged since the days when the Hang-Around-The-Fort Indians (who had
White
fathers) built their shanty-towns of “teepees” around U.S. Forts in
order to be
near their Great White Father. Al Gore
responded by saying that Free Trade was going to raise the standard of
living
of the people in these shanty-towns.
They’re going to move them up a notch on the socio-economic
scale,
Upward Bound, and guess what, they’re going to move them into a ghetto.
Anything
that the Europeans call “Free,” you can be sure that
the hidden costs are high. Nothing is
free, and in my experience, “Free” is a dirty four-letter word.
If
NAFTA is going to improve the standard of living in
Mexico, what is going to happen to the people on this side of the
border, who
have to go south for a job? Are they
going to throw the Gringos in a Mexican jail, because they don’t have a
Green
Card, and the WASPs who own the corporations aren’t paying social
insecurity
taxes in Mexico? What word are they
going to use for the Anglos sneaking south across the Rio Grande
desperate for
a low-paying job—are they Wetbacks, or are they going to be called
Greenbacks?
MORE FREE TRADE: The
present argument about Hillary’s program
of socialized medicine is who is going to pay for what.
Hillary wants Sin Taxes to pay for her
program. If taxing sin is going to pay
for health care, why not focus on the real sinner: the corporations who
have
polluted the water, and destroyed the environment.
Tobacco is being scapegoated by the Clinton Fundamentalists and
Al
Gore’s right-wingers, for a litany of diseases caused by pollution. The health program legislation should
include an “exit fee” for corporations going South like rats leaving a
sinking
ship.
During
the first few months of the Clinton presidency,
Senator Dole had a press conference almost every day.
The Senator from Kansas is one of the best politicians that
money
can buy, and he was vehemently protesting everything that the Clinton
administration proposed, but he’s been mum on NAFTA.
I suppose he’s on the Dole, lining his pockets with Pesos and
Greenbacks, getting ready to be the first Senator from Mexico.
One
of the hidden agendas in NAFTA has to do with the
Spanish-speaking people in the United States, who are starting to
outnumber the
English-speaking people. The W.A.S.P.s
are hoping to buy about a generation’s worth of time with NAFTA, hoping
that
they can destroy the Spanish-speaking community in the United States. They want to make these people speak
Anglo-Saxon, and bring them under their control, and re-entrench the
hierarchy
with the Good Ol’ Boys on top—they want English First.
If everybody’s native language was English,
rather than having a diversity of cultures, then centralized control
would be
much more rigid. This is why you don’t
hear the Protestant clergy speaking out in favor of multi-lingual
communities. What a shame they forget
their own history
so quickly. Hitler did the same thing.
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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