Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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On
Sunday and Monday, staff writer Pat Doyle published a
two-part series on the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Minneapolis Star
Tribune. In his article, he quotes
B.I.A. Commissioner Ada Deer, “It’s always easy to talk about phasing
out the
bad old BIA.” In the late 1950’s, Ada
Deer was in the forefront of the termination movement for the Menominee
Indians
in Wisconsin. After White Friends of
the Bureau got choice pieces of lakeshore real estate and pine
timberlands, then
Ada Deer was recognized as an Indian Leader in the re-instatement of
the
Menominees under B.I.A. trusteeship.
According
to Pat Doyle, “BIA employees have allowed some
tribal leaders to squander money or violate the rights of their
members.” (Easily embezzled money and
sado-masochistically satisfying abusive relationships are among the
“perks”
used by the B.I.A. to control their Indians.)
Since the U.S. Congress passed the Indian Self-Determination
Act, the
1934 Indian Reorganization Act tribal “leaders” have become
representatives of
what the U.S. Congress describes as a “federal instrumentality.” Under Trusteeship, the so-called Indian
Tribal Leaders are simultaneously wards of the U.S. Government, and
working for
the U.S. Government in carrying out U.S. policy, which has never
changed from
genocide of Aboriginal Indigenous people, and eventual termination of
“Indians.” Under the present B.I.A.
blood-quantum guidelines, there will be no more Federally Recognized
Indians
born after the year 2020. Between the
lines in Pat Doyle’s article, it looks it’s going to be sooner—and
“Indian
factions” are going to get the blame.
Pat
Doyle also quotes Senator Paul Wellstone, who sits on the
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, “The tribal leadership has been the
most
visible and vocal constituency.”
According
to Pat Doyle’s article, “on the White Earth
Chippewa Reservation, when the opponents of the Tribal Chairman called
the BIA
to investigate election fraud, the agency said it lacked jurisdiction.” This is convenient for the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, which under Trusteeship has control over Indians as wards of
the
Government. The ballots cast by Indians
have no relationship to outcome of the elections, the winners of which
can
be—and have been—determined by the B.I.A. by proxy vote before the
general
elections have ever been held. Star
Tribune writer Pat Doyle describes the B.I.A.’s Ada Deer as “a former
tribal
leader [who] shows little sympathy with dissidents, saying they often
cry foul
because ‘their person didn’t get elected.’”
Super-Squaw is saying, out of one side of her mouth, that she is
going
to shake up the Bureau. The woman who
helped terminate the Menominees speaks with forked tongue, and is
saying she
isn’t going to do anything. Out of the
other side of her mouth, she is quoted by Pat Doyle as saying that she
only
wants to hear one side of the story, and that’s the one from the Indian
Leaders
in the in-group. She totally disregards
the grassroots, and the Indians in the red ghettos, who have no
representation
and who do not get any services.
According to my crystal ball, all of you dissidents,
malcontents,
protesters and sore losers who are going to go around getting petitions
signed
after the elections—forget it. Save
your energy for something constructive.
Ada
Deer is quoted by Pat Doyle as saying, “we all know that
many of these treaties were not honored, but the moral obligation still
remains.” Under the founding documents
of the United States including the U.S. Constitution, “Indians not
taxed”
cannot own land, and have neither Constitutional protections nor
representation
in Congress. The purpose of the Indian
Treaties was to use the Indians to steal the Aboriginal Indigenous
Peoples’
land under capitalist Manifest Destiny, and redistribute this plunder
to the
White invaders—isn’t that socialism? I
fail to see the “moral obligation” in documents of criminal design. Ada Deer, as long as she remains a Federally
Recognized Indian, is a ward of the Government under P.O.W. trusteeship. How can she “shake up the BIA” when, under
trusteeship, the B.I.A. owns her.
Former
B.I.A. Commissioner Ross Swimmer, who had some
Cherokee ancestry, suggested terminating the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
which
implied that the Indians would no longer be under the jurisdiction of
Chief Jim
Crow and his Squaw A-par-theid. The
problems that Indians have are embedded in the U.S. Declaration of
Independence
and the United States Constitution.
There needs to be a Constitutional Amendment, so that Indians
can take
their rightful place as human beings in society, rather than being used
as
political hockey-pucks and scapegoats—or as a buffer and a smokescreen
hiding
Aboriginal Indigenous people.
U.S.
President Clinton is criticizing China for that Nation’s
human rights violations. Instead of
being piously self-righteous, he had better take a good hard look at
his own
back yard. The Euro-Americans seem to
have a very short memory—the United States needs to come to terms with
its own
genocidal history and its present relationship to the Aboriginal
Indigenous
people whose land they are on, before they start telling somebody else
what to
do. The Minneapolis Police Department,
and other urban police departments, continue to use people that they
categorize
as “Indians” as punching bags, brutalizing and abusing them. One mild example of these human rights
violations is putting Indians in the trunks of squad cars.
Where are the Indian leaders who are supposed
to be standing up for the people? Not
one Indian leader stood up and protested to the City of Minneapolis, or
the
Federal Agencies which are funding the Minneapolis Police Department,
and
protested this and many other human rights violations.
The Indian Leaders are off worrying about the
Washington Redskins, and other non-essential trivia.
They are puppets whose strings are tightly controlled by the
White man, living in a Mickey-Mouse fantasy of pow-wow’s and turkey
feathers.
REAL INDIAN
LEADERSHIP:
In
the Ojibwe News/Native American Press, there has been a
concerted letter-writing campaign against the brotherly Indian
Leadership of
the “Broncos” who supposedly run A.I.M.
According to the paper, there is going to be a Tribunal in San
Francisco, investigating charges against these two Indian leaders. I don’t know why most of the other Indian
leaders aren’t also being called before the Tribunal—many of the other
Real
Wanna-Be Indians are just as bad as the Bellecourts (including Roger
Jourdain,
“Butch” Brun, “Chip” Wadena, Earl Barlow and Ada Deer).
As the former Red Lake Tribal
Chairman-for-Life used to say, “these crooks ought to be in jail!” Rather than getting lost in the details of
individuals, the Tribunal should be investigating what outside
organizations
are appointing and funding Indian Leadership.
If the Tribunal made some telephone calls to the people who are
funding
renegade Indian leaders, and requested that the funding be cut off, it
would no
longer be lucrative for these people to run around in the media
promoting
themselves as Great Indian Leaders. One
of the priorities of this Tribunal should be researching the
genealogies of
these Indian leaders. Some of them are
100% European frauds, and every one of them goes back to Europe on the
patriline, and if they have any Aboriginal Indigenous ancestry, it’s
back in
the 1600’s or 1700’s, on the female lines.
If a mosquito were to bite most of these Indian leaders, the
Government
would have to take away their plastic laminated Indian cards, and
withdraw
their Federally Recognized Indian status, saving the taxpayers millions
of
dollars.
WHITE
INDIANS:
The
Sovereign Chippewa Red Lake “Tribal Elections” will be
held under the supervision of the United States Government, 1934 Indian
Reorganization Act and Department of Interior regulations in May. The rumor is that present Chippewa Indian
Chairman “Butch” Brun looks too much like an White man (which he is),
for the
show-and-tell of parading Indians around Washington, and so, according
to the
rumor, he is going to be replaced in the upcoming election. The likely candidate is a “Fullblood” Red
Lake Chippewa Indian on the books, who has French ancestry on the
patriline but
is dark enough to look like a Real Indian, and has an “Indian” sounding
surname
out of Wisconsin. He speaks fluent
Chippewa, which is a hierarchical European Trade Creole language. He has curly hair, and he definitely has a
Mediterranean tan, just like Roger Jourdain—who is his first cousin
once
removed. This “Indian election” is more
French feudalism.
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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