Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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On
Friday, April 29, the Clinton Administration is hosting an
Indian media circus, which the White House press relations office
termed an
“historic event.” More than five
hundred duly elected 1934 I.R.A. Indian Wanna-Be Leaders (including
Lame Duck
Chairman Gerald “Butch” Brun) will stand around outside the White
House,
waiting to shake hands with the President.
(I don’t know if they will let them inside the Big House if they
have to
go to the bathroom, or if other arrangements have been made for the 498
clowns—Indians on the Federal payroll—who will be attending at the
taxpayers’
expense.) The public relations people
at the White House did not mention whether Chairman-For-Life Roger
“Absentee
Ballot” Jourdain will be there.
MORE I.R.A.
NEWS:
The
Blood Quantum Chip-away Indians are gearing up for
Federally mandated Unique Indian Elections, to be held at the end of
May at Red
Lake and other P.O.W. camps called Indian Reservations.
Sovereign Chairman-For-Life Roger “Outsider”
Jourdain has been disqualified as a candidate by the incumbent I.R.A.
Tribal
Council, using an amendment to the 1959 I.R.A. Red Lake Chippewa “Band
Constitution” which was enacted during Chairman-For-Life Roger
Jourdain’s
Federally Recognized dictatorial regime: “Article 5, Sec. 5(b), Amended
[I.R.A.] Tribal Election, May 24, 1978.”
In his campaign literature, the Chairman-For-Life claimed that
his
Sovereignty (as a Federally acknowledged majority of the Red Lake
Chip-away
Band’s government) over-rode the 1959 I.R.A. “Band Constitution,” and
that he
should be automatically qualified as a Candidate. Roger
Jourdain is so Sovereign that he took away Archie King’s
Title, as Hereditary Head Chief, and gave it to Chairman “Butch” Brun’s
half-brother, another White man.
The
campaign promises are flying thicker and thicker, and one
of the benefits of holding the election in the Spring, is that people
won’t
have to buy much fertilizer for their gardens.
But, there is one candidate who is talking like an honest
man—his
rhetoric almost made me want to become an Indian again, so I could vote
for him
in the election. Then, I thought about
all of the other candidates, with what former B.I.A. Commissioner calls
a
“White Plus Psychology,” and I quickly returned to reality. The promise that this “honest politician”
made, is that when he’s elected, he will pass a resolution: “May I be
excused
from this meeting, with a year’s salary, so I can go pick up my new car. I will be available in an Atlantic City
Casino, or I will be laying on the beach in Waikiki.
Instead of sitting through a cold Minnesota winter, nodding my
head in unanimity, FAX me the resolutions, and I will rubber-stamp them
‘YES’. For an extra $50.00 a
resolution, I will nod my head while I do it.”
TREATY
NEGOTIATIONS:
The
1934 I.R.A. Mille Lacs Band of the Minnesota Chip-away
Tribe is at it again -—these Federally Recognized Indians are gambling
and
treaty-making like there was no tomorrow.
The United States Government is using their Federal
Instrumentality
(created under European Roman Law). The
U.S. Government’s Indians, with their English Law, Roman Law and Indian
Law,
are operating under an European paradigm which has no jurisdiction in
the Ahnishinahbæótjibway Nation.
The
present “Treaty Negotiations” are no more honest than the
original ones were. The
“bait-and-switch” being used, this time, is hunting and fishing in the
so-called “ceded area.” As far as I can
see it, the hunting and fishing is pretty hypothetical—the forests have
been
clearcut, the water has been polluted, mahnomen beds have been
destroyed, and rivers have been dammed up, and the European immigrants
have
raised havoc with the Ahnishinahbæótjibway
permaculture and the ecology in general.
The hunting and fishing is gone (would you eat a fish out of the
Mississippi river?). The Mille Lacs
Chip-Away Indians are allowing themselves to be put into the position
of
scapegoats: the fish have nearly disappeared, and the State of
Minnesota is (as
usual) setting up the molding of public opinion. According
to my crystal ball, the Mille Lacs Indians will be
blamed for the disappearing fish and other wildlife.
What
neither the State of Minnesota nor the Mille Lacs Band
is publicly talking about, is that the Generic Chip-away Indians ceded
whatever
eminent domain they might have had (as patrilineal Indo-Europeans, by
“right of
discovery” under Holy Roman Law), under Article 3 of the Treaty of
1826, under
which these Generic Chip-aways stipulated the United States’ “existing
jurisdiction” as the Sovereign over Chip-away Indians.
Whether the fishing licenses are issued to
Federally Recognized Blood Quantum Mille Lacs Chip-away Indians through
the
1934 I.R.A. Mille Lacs Tribal Council, by the United States Government;
or
whether they are issued directly by the State of Minnesota, the
Federally
Certified Indians (whether they are catalogued as “full-blood” or
“1/8”) still
have to jump through Roman Law bureaucratic hoops to get a hunting and
fishing
license from the White Man. It’s the
same old story—now that the fish and game are gone, it’s mighty white
of the
invading European immigrants to offer their patrilineal blood brothers
a good
deal on special hunting and fishing licenses.
The forthcoming lawsuit over the 1837 and 1855 Indian Treaties
is being
heard in United States Federal Court, rather than in International
Court,
because the so-called “Indian Treaties” have always been internal
affairs of
the European government which calls itself the United States of America.
None
of this hoop-la has anything to do with the allodial,
autochthonous and inalienable jurisdiction of the Ahnishinahbæótjibway over our land and
everything connected with it.
In
a recent Commentary article in the Minneapolis Star
Tribune, Laura Waterman Wittstock wrote that “Tribes are independent
entities
... subject only to the exceptionally great powers of Congress,” and
quoted the
U.S. Constitution that the U.S. Congress has the power to “regulate
Commerce
with the Indian tribes.” She implies
that the “Unique” relationship between what the U.S. Congress calls the
“Federal instrumentalities” of 1934 Indian Reorganization Act “Indian
Tribes”
and the U.S. Government comes under the jurisdiction of International
Law—but
the U.S. relationship with their Indians has always been an internal
affair,
although admittedly under the jurisdiction of International Law in
terms of the
Rules of War for occupied people, which comes out of Judeo-Christianity
and
Roman Law. Under this parasitic
European law, the White Indians are falsely claiming to be Aboriginal
Indigenous People, and continuing to steal our identity and what
remains of our
land and resources.
The
Catch-22 is that so-called International Law,
administered through the World Court and the United Nations, is also
Roman Law
as it has been modified through the Western European colonizing nations. It is a European concept, with no connection
to the Ahnishinahbæótjibway. There
are no Aboriginal Indigenous People in
either the World Court or the United Nations—almost all of the people
involved
in these so-called “international” agencies are patrilineally
Indo-Europeans or
descendants of hierarchical Asian empires.
It is a lie to call what comes from this European institution,
“International Law.” It has no
jurisdiction over the Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples of the world.
Schoolchildren
are taught that the “Roman Empire fell,” but
in reality it only mutated, and rears its ugly head on both sides of
the
duality of church and state. They say
“Latin is a dead language,” but it’s alive and well, embedded in the
English
language, Roman law, and Christianity: defining people into old
hierarchial
Roman-derived categories, regulating the perceptions and behavior of
native
speakers of English. The perversions of
the European colonial paradigm have come full circle, and if there is
going to
be a harmonious and viable world for future generations, both the
European
hierarchical languages and the old Roman assumptions about nature and
Grandmother Earth have to change.
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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