Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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Pat Doyle’s article in the
Tuesday, June 14 issue of the Minneapolis Star Tribune quoted
expert
witnesses for the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians who claimed that
Chief
Hole-in-the-Day did not speak for the Mille Lacs Chippewas. An anthropology professor who testified for
the 1934 I.R.A. Mille Lacs Band of Indians said, “I don’t know who Hole
in the
Day represents.”
Hole-in-the-Day was no
different from all of the other White Paper Indian Chiefs who were
created by
the White man and recognized by the United States during the Indian
Treaty
years under the provisions of imported Roman and British law. Using these European laws, the immigrant
Europeans’ governments have always owned both sides of the Indian
Treaty
process, as well as the subsequent court cases. This
was made very clear in 1805, when U.S. representative
Zebulon Pike recorded in his diaries that he had appointed Indian
Chiefs and
issued them U.S. Government Chief Medallions at Leech Lake. In Baraga’s nineteenth-century Chippewa
Creole language, the word “ogima” refers both to Indian Chiefs and to
U.S.
Government agents. There is no word for
“chief” in the egalitarian Ahnishinahbæótjibway language.
The U.S. Government has
always chosen Indian Chiefs who endorse United States interests. These Federally Recognized Indian Chiefs
have all been genetically and culturally European—U.S. Chippewa Indian
Chiefs
are by definition Squaw Men and/or descendants of Squaw Men. The U.S. is an outside force which
artificially created both Indians and a centralized Indian government
designed
to illegally sell what the U.S. Government called (using alien Roman
legal
terminology) the “usufruct” of [Ahnishinahbæótjibway] land.
The
U.S. paid their professional Indian Treaty Chiefs handsomely for
selling
fictitious Indian “rights of occupancy.”
Their Feudal European system was unilaterally “modernized” by
the U.S.
Government under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act, but remains
structurally
unchanged.
According to Treaty
transcripts,
Hole-in-the-Day was acting in an European capacity as a centralized
agent, and
he was quoted as saying, “The Indians don’t own anything.
I own this land,” which he did not. Hole-in-the-day
was part of the imported
European government, which sold land in a “democratic way,” without
referendum
or consensus. He sold “Indian right of
occupancy” in the same way as the European Sovereign of France sold
“eminent
domain” on the same land as a part of the Louisiana Purchase. This is how the land claimed by the United
States was stolen. The United States
Government’s claim to the Aboriginal Indigenous peoples’ land they call
the
United States is based on racist immigrant Roman Law.
Part of the perennial
waste
of taxpayers dollars is promoting crime and compounding the fiction of
the
legitimacy of U.S. claims to Ahnishinahbæótjibway land.
The
three-ring Barnum-and-Bailey Treaty Case presently being held at the
Federal
Court in Minneapolis, is a trilogy of artificial entities which have no
claim
to this land: the Indians, the State of Minnesota, and the United
States. They are using imported Western
European Law
on Ahnishinahbæótjibway land, and
their alien and violent system has no jurisdiction on this Continent. The Mille Lacs Indians are erroneously
stipulating, along with the State of Minnesota and the United States,
that the
cessions made in the 1837 Indian Treaty by U.S. Medallion Indian Chiefs
are
binding on the Ahnishinahbæótjibway. Their
purported selling of our land is
obscene.
In the foreign U.S. Indian
Treaties, there is no provision for protection of the gravesites of the
Aboriginal Indigenous people. This was
not important to the Indians, because these graves are not the graves
of their
ancestors. All three parties in the
three-ring trilogy have apparently agreed, under racist Roman Law, not
to talk
about the crucial issues. The In-House
Indians at Mille Lacs are not challenging the legitimacy of the
Europeans’
claims to eminent domain by “right of discovery” under foreign European
pre-Colombian Papal Bull, because the 1934 I.R.A. Indian Leaders at
Mille Lacs
are a part of the White man’s system under Roman Law; and as such they
are in
complicity with the genocide of the Ahnishinahbæótjibway.
NOW
AND THEN NEWS:
In the Letters to the
Editor
section of the Sunday, June 19 Minneapolis Star Tribune, Phil Bemis’
letter
from a Western European perspective was printed. Mr.
Bemis “hopes” that Judge Diana Murphy will hold the
[devastating] change in the ecosystem over the past 157 years,
“foremost in her
mind.” He writes that in 1837, “there
was no corner grocery store to pick up bread and milk,” although for
the Ahnishinahbæótjibway our intact ecosystem was
a supermarket providing
everything that we needed, and we did not need food stamps or Kommod’s. That was then, and the immigrant Europeans
have been on welfare for the past 500 years, devouring the ecological
infrastructure of our Continent. That
was then, and it continues now.
Judge Murphy should
understand that the destruction of the environment which came about as
a result
of the Chippewa Indians’ agreement to sell our Ahnishinahbæótjibway land resulted in genocide
of the Ahnishinahbæótjibway, who never agreed to the
sale of land.
Phil Bemis writes that
when
the Treaty was signed, “that was then—and this is now.
In the late 1800’s, the Native Americans
were still taking the white settlers’ scalps, but that was then—this is
now.” He writes his own racist and
Eurocentric version of history, claiming that White immigrants were
being
scalped. If he were to research what he
writes, he would find that it was the Whites who were doing the
scalping, and
getting paid big bucks by the State of Minnesota to do it—as much as
$500. per
scalp. The vast majority of the scalps
taken, were not White peoples’ scalps taken by Indians, but the scalps
of
Aboriginal Indigenous people murdered by Whites and their Indians. That was then, when $500. was more than a
year’s wages. This is now; they don’t
take scalps anymore. But, the bounty is
still being paid out, in the prison economic system, where under Roman
Law,
bounty-hunters get more than $40,000. per year for their role in taking
the
whole body: hapless people who have accepted the stereotypical labels
and
definition of “criminal,” and become entrapped as Europeans’ slaves.
In the non-violent Ahnishinahbæótjibway language, there is no
word for “War” or “peace” or
“warrior.” In the hierarchical
Indo-European Chippewa language by Baraga, and in the Indian culture
which was
created by the immigrant Europeans for the subject people descended
from their
Squaw Men, there is a word for “warrior,” and there are words for
warfare and
peace.
Phil Bemis goes on to
write
that “All men are created equal,” and that “this great country” was
built on
principle. The underlying principle
that he refers to is violence, including the violent theft and rape of
the
land. That was then. Maybe
that’s why there is violence clear
around the world dominated by the European superpower, the United
States,
because of this “principle.” This is
now, and it needs to change. Violence
is perverted and unnecessary, and only creates more violence. The policy-makers of Western European
$ivilization know this, and profit from it.
Mr. Bemis also writes,
“It’s
time all Americans lived by the same rules”—this is now.
What rules does he refer to? The
racist Roman and British Law which the
White immigrants brought with them from the bankrupt European countries
they
fled? This is now. From
an Ahnishinahbæótjibway perspective, it looks
like what he really means is,
“Now that we Whites have the land, the law and the guns, everybody
plays by
[the White man’s Imperial Roman] rules.”
The Roman legal system, and gambling, have the same structure. That was then, and that is still now. It’s always been designed so that the House
wins. It’s long overdue that these laws
be integrated and desegregated, and there urgently needs to be reform
to make
this a better world for everyone.
They say the United States
is a “culturally diverse” country, but it is founded on Western
European laws
derived from the Romans and Hammurabi, and the allowable “diversity” is
all
Western European. Under this $ivilized
system, the upper-class Whites are bamboozling everybody else on this
Continent,
holding five aces of clubs up their sleeve, and go unchallenged when
they say,
“heads I win, tails you lose.” Their
European laws are the Europeans’ own business in Europe, but they
should have
never been exported. The
Euro-Americans’ so-called “Indian” laws are apartheid codified under
their
imported Roman and British legal system, and are stacked in the White
man’s
favor. Every time the Good Ol’ Boys of
Western Civilization use their Law on another race of people, the
Whites
inevitably end up committing genocide and human rights violations. That was “then,” and now, their violent laws
and languages need to be changed, so that they are in harmony with the
Aboriginal Indigenous peoples’ ancient Laws of this Continent.
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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