Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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The
Red Lake 1934 I.R.A. Tribal elections are over, and Bobby
Whitefeather is the new shadow Chairman of the Red Lake Band of
Chip-away
Indians (representing the B.I.A.), just as I predicted.
My 99.99% accurate forecast did not have
anything to do with seeing into the future—the I.R.A. Indian elections
are
socially engineered, and the winners, who administer the United States’
I.R.A.
colonial government, have been chosen by the Bureau of Indian Affairs
and their
cohort political hacks long before the elections are ever held.
The
Sunday, May 29 Bemidji Pioneer describes the new
Chip-away Indian Band Chairman’s vision as “forming a number of task
forces to
define reservation problems and solutions ...”
The social problems on Red Lake Indian Reservation—and in the
relocation
urban ghettos—are an intentional and necessary part of the immigrant
Euro-Americans’ colonial structure for their Indians’ affairs. The system is now working very efficiently,
and very well, for the immigrant Europeans.
Clear across the country, on nearly every Indian reservation,
these
White man’s 1934 I.R.A. colonial Indian governments are a part of the
problem. When these Wanna-Be Indian
governments masquerade as the legitimate governments of the Aboriginal
Indigenous people, everything is going according to plan, and the
Indian
leaders are getting paid to keep the status quo. What
Chairman Bobby Whitefeather is going to accomplish, is
fine-tuning the imported Indo-European socio-economic problems to
advance the
agenda of his bosses, the White colonizers.
The New Red Lake Chairman is simultaneously claiming to be both
“Chippewa” and “Anishinabe,” but as the token In-House Indian chairman
of the
Federal instrumentality called the Red Lake Tribal Council, another
part of his
Federally-defined role is to sell resources, “Treaty rights,” etc., to
the
White élite, so that they don’t get their lily-White hands dirty.
Now
that the elections are over, the social life on the
Reservation is back to whatever passes as “normal.”
One Red Lake humorist described the I.R.A. electioneering
process: “The politicians were thicker than on fleas on a dog. You couldn’t chase them out of your yard,
you couldn’t get rid of ‘em. But, now
that elections are over, I won’t be seeing these crooks, or hearing all
the
promises they couldn’t keep anyway, for another four years. Next election, I’m going to get two pit
bulls, and sic ‘em on every politician that starts telling me White
lies.”
KA-LAI-JAH
MUSIC:
Indian
mythology has been featured in Country-Western music
since the first ecology pirate, romanticized as a Hollywood cowboy,
strummed
his guitar, kissed his horse, and rode off into the sunset. Indian caricatures have been promoted as
high-class literature since H.W. Longfellow, who was a good friend of
the
crooked Indian Agent Schoolcraft, concocted “The Song of Hiawatha.” Now, there is an Indian Uprising over Cletus
T. Judd’s song, “Indian In-Law,” which is said to be a parody of
another song,
“Indian Out-Law.” These songs about
in-laws and out-laws have nothing to do with Aboriginal Indigenous
people. Ahnishinahbæótjibway society centers around
our Dodems. Our family relationships are
very different
from the blood-quantum Indians, who do not have Ahnishinahbæótjibway Dodems, and who are
caught in the White patrilineal
system of patriarchal in-laws, so-called illegitimacy and nuclear White
family
values.
Some
National Indian Leaders are claiming that Judd’s song is
“the epitome of literary evil,” and rhetorically calling for a Salman
Rushdie
indictment. In my personal opinion, I
don’t think that the bosses of the Famous Indian Leaders (the Bureau of
Indian
Affairs and Supersquaw) would go along with such an Ayatollic command.
Cletus
Judd’s song is a typical projection of the White man’s
own self-image; the Whites created the illusion of Indians as a
scapegoat for
his own guilt. This has nothing to do
with the Aboriginal Indigenous people. The
ugly stereotypes which are embedded in the invading Americans’
mythology of Indians
have generated Big Bucks for the White people forming B.I.A. policy,
who
manipulate the Indian Leaders. These
Indian Leaders are making Big Bucks maintaining the system which
oppresses both
Indian and Aboriginal Indigenous people on Franklin Avenue and in the
many
other Red Ghettos across the country.
Why should Cletus Judd be excluded from making Big Bucks, like
all of
the other parasites exploiting and living off of the Indian mythology? Making Big Bucks from illusions and lies, is
what the White Man’s alien economic system is all about.
In layman’s terms, Euro-American economics
translates into the Rip-Off-er and the Rip-Off-ee, the exploiter and
the
exploitee. I wouldn’t give you a
plugged buffalo nickel for any of these big-name Indian Leaders.
I’ve
watched these so-called Indian Leaders who are anointed
by the White man, for the past 50 years, and the main priority of every
one of
them has been self-interest and their own back pocket.
Other than personal greed, there is not one
issue about which they can get together in solidarity.
They can’t even stand in harmony about
“Indian In-Laws” and “Indian Out-Laws,” because Indian is an artificial
identity. If Indian was a real
identity, then the B.I.A. and their Indian Tribal Councils could file
human
rights violations lawsuits—but then, the stereotyped Indian identity is
itself
a human rights violation, and the B.I.A. won’t even stand up for the
so-called
Indians they claim to represent.
MORE
ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION:
President
Lyndon Johnson lost the War in Vietnam, and then he
lost the War on Poverty. In the late
1960’s, the Generals in the War on the Impoverished had a battle plan
named
Model Cities. They tore down affordable
housing for the poor, and built freeways so that the privileged could
theoretically get out of town fast.
When L.B.J. first started huckstering about abolishing poverty,
I almost
wanted to believe him. I quickly came
back to reality when the Poverty Warriors invaded the ghettos and
started their
programs up: buying lots of office supplies, parking their new cars
outside of
gentrified office buildings, and hiring expensively dressed experts
with
ram-skin Ph.D.’s and other degrees, who had no firsthand knowledge of
poverty. I realized then, that the War
on Poverty was just another get-rich-quick scam, abusing the people in
poverty,
keeping them impoverished while the professional exploiters violated
their
human rights, and made money off of them.
Once a social services program is established to “address a
problem,”
the professionals want to maintain the problems as job security for
themselves. The B.I.A. is a good
example.
HOMELESS:
President
Bill Clinton’s social program warrior, H.U.D.’s
Cisneros, is in the process of creating jobs for the middle class, in
another
poverty-program bureaucracy. I don’t
know what this program’s going to be called yet: the Bureau of
Homelessness,
Hutlessness, Shacklessness, and Cabinlessness?
They’re making all kinds of promises, and what will probably
happen is
that they’ll create a lot of jobs for unemployed social scientists,
re-engineer
social definitions so that the homeless will be blamed for not having a
roof
over their heads, and spend a lot of time arresting everybody sleeping
under a
bridge. Cisneros is promising to give
the Homeless counseling, and provide them with “adjustments.” Translated, this means that his agency will
make the poor homeless jump through hoops, and do flip-flops and other
acrobatics (like kissing bureaucrats’ behinds) to qualify for
substandard
ghetto housing. You can place your bets
and wagers, that voter registration and political organization will not
be a
part of the Homeless programs.
CRIME$:
Crime
is another big business, where the crime-fighters have
painted themselves into a corner.
According to the White man’s Indian mythology, their legendary
West was
“wild.” In Aboriginal Indigenous
history, the so-called “West” did not become wild until the European
invaders
and their Indians came here with their violent family values. What the self-righteous media is now calling
“drive-by shootings,” are no different than the old “Wild West”
tradition of
“ride-by shootings,” when outlaws and bandits would ride through on
horseback,
and shoot up the town. Euro-Americans have
very short memories—the only thing that’s changed in the modern
drive-by
shootings is that the Old West’s White townspeople would get a posse
together,
and ride their own horses out into the hills to chase down the
renegades and
bandits. The chase is still on, but now
the duly delegated professionals use high-powered vehicles, with red
lights
flashing, sirens blasting, and two-way radios cackling with static. Can you imagine a whole posse of cars,
chasing bandits down the freeway—in hot pursuit at 25 miles an hour?
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TREATY TIES:
The
banner headline in the May 29 Sunday Minneapolis Star
Tribune was old news, “Mafia associates had ties to 5 casinos.” So, what else is new? At
Red Lake, imported European organized
crime has been entrenching itself since patriarchs Sibley and Ramsey
negotiated
both sides of a crooked treaty, aided and abetted by crooked fur trader
Norman
Kittson. Organized crime has been in Ahnishinahbæótjibway territory since the first
European fur traders opened
up shop with their Tonto Indian side-kicks.
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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