Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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The
Western Europeans renamed this Continent, and called it
“America.” The Indians call it “Turtle
Island.” What it should really be
called is “Fantasy Island.”
A DIME A DOZEN: The Turtle
Mountain Chippewa Indians and other Pembina Wanna-Be’s are having the
old
carrot-on-a-stick scheme of “payment” used on them, to keep them from
figuring
out that they are White people and bribe them not to leave the Rez and
live as
a part of mainstream White society that they really are. The
In-Group Indians keep their Ration
Indians so ignorant that they don’t know they can get a hand-out just
as easily
off the reservation as they can by selling their self-respect for
commodities
and “payment” once a generation.
Guess
what, the U.S. Government is buying Indians again.
The newspaper articles reporting the “Indian
payment” are written like it’s costing the taxpayers a lot of money for
settling some ancient debt incurred buying land from Indians 98 years
ago. But, the U.S. Government isn’t buying
land,
they’re buying Indians, and $60.53 per year, per head, is cheap even to
buy a
White Indo-European Indian. The “treaty
payment” doesn’t have anything to do with land. Indians
are defined as “landless” by the U.S. statutes and
precedents that created Indians. It
says right in the U.S. documents that Indians are never to own land—an
example
of this policy is WELSA, under which the U.S. Government gave a few of
the
Great White Father’s pet White Indians a “fair price” for stolen land.
The
key word in the whole Indian hocus-pocus is
Trusteeship. Whatever land the Indian
ever might have owned under imported European law, is taken, without
compensation, away from the Indians, and the title held by the U.S.,
“under
Trust.” What’s the point of making a
treaty with subject people, transferring land that’s already held under
White
Trust, changing some aspect of abstract paper ownership from one group
of
people that never owned the land, to another group that the land never
belonged
to. “Title” is an European concept, and
has nothing to do with the inalienable Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’
right to
our own land. “Title” is an abstract
idea having nothing to do with reality, and European land title on this
Continent
is worthless.
The
European immigrants brought their foreign rules with
them, not understanding that their violent way of relating to
Grandmother Earth
has no place on this Continent.
According to their rules, from their European perspective, the
U.S.
already “owned” the land, and they owned the Indians: by discovery,
conquest,
by the Louisiana Purchase. When France
fenced the stolen property involved in “Louisiana Purchase,” their
feudally
subject people were a part of the package deal, although the Aboriginal
Indigenous People were not. The
Anishinabe Ojibway were not lost, so we can’t be “discovered,” we are
non-violent so we can’t be “conquered,” and we are not for sale, so we
can’t be
“purchased.” There is no word for “war”
or “peace” in the Anishinabe Ojibway language, and violence, including
stealing
land by killing the people it really belongs to, has no place nor legal
validity on this Continent. The Pembina
Chippewa Indians covered by the “ten-cent treaty,” however, are
Indo-European
people with violent European values, and their hierarchial, patriarchal
Chippewa language was edited from an immigrant Creole language by
Bishop
Baraga, and has all of the words and concepts required for the European
perversions of War and Peace.
The
ancestors of the Chippewa Indians who are presently
involved in the payment from the mis-named “Ten Cent Treaty” were sold
by
France and bought by the United States, in 1803. As
subject people, how could these Chippewa Indians own land and
be signing Treaties. These Indians are
living out a fantasy, and have become a cheap imitation and a
caricature of
Aboriginal Indigenous People.
The
Catch-22 is that the U.S. was (and still is) using the
Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ land and resources to underwrite their
dollar,
so the low-class Indo-Europeans who sell themselves as Indians and are
running
around giving us a bad name posing as Aboriginal Indigenous People—were
bought
and paid for with our property.
Anishinabe Ojibway don’t believe in owning slaves and chattel,
so you
Indians can quit your charade any time, and start acting like human
beings. Everybody is put on this world
for a purpose, and needs to be responsible for their actions. The Indians are acting irresponsible, and
the love-hate relationship they have with the Great White Father is an
abusive
relationship. If you make the
Aboriginal Indigenous People into “Indians,” it’s a human rights
violation.
PROHIBITION: Prohibition
didn’t work during the Roaring
Twenties, and after a decade of bootleggers and gangster’s gunfights,
the
United States passed a Constitutional Amendment to legalize alcohol
again.
The
reason that the U.S. Congress doesn’t want to deal with
the drug problem with common sense—legalization—is that the huge
amounts of
money in the drug trade do not stay in the ghettos that are being
demolished
because of it. Millions of dollars in
drug money and luxury property like Corvettes, which is never accounted
for and
doesn’t show up on the books, is confiscated in the War on Drugs and
funds a
police state and some big slush funds.
I can see why Mexican President Bob “NAFTA” Dole and his
sidekick Jim
Ramstad want to maintain the status quo, and why they’re agitating to
remove
Dr. Jocelyn Elders.
The
smug, self-righteous people who are calling for Dr.
Elders’ resignation are saying that she should mind her own business,
and not
worry about crime. But, she was
legitimately addressing a health problem.
The violence generated by the drug trade is a serious health
problem. Sudden onset lead poisoning is
in epidemic stages in the United States.
More people die violently in the U.S. every day, because of the
illegal
aspect of drugs, than die in the Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia. Could it be that illegal drugs, and the
violence that inevitably accompanies them, are being used for Ethnic
Cleansing
in the United States? Is that why Dole
is screaming to remove someone who takes a humanitarian, healing
approach to
the drug problem.
Dr.
Elders did not say that she wanted to legalize drugs, she
said that she wanted to discuss and have dialogue about all reasonable
solutions to the terrible public health problems created by the illegal
drug
trade. The Western Europeans have a
long history of changing the subject, using inflammatory rhetoric as a
diversionary tactic, and avoiding discussion and dialogue.
The guilt of the people who running Fantasy
Island, calling for Dr. Elders’ resignation rather than talking about
what’s
happening, is obvious.
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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