Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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The
Sunday, July 24, Bemidji Pioneer featured an article by Pioneer
staffwriter
Jodi Gregory, “‘Kids Count’ study paints bleak picture,” which began,
“While
the media often paints a picture of a nation delving deeper into
poverty and
crime, a recent study documents that the majority of Minnesota’s
children are
faring well, ... however on the local level, trends slowly move in the
wrong
direction.” According to staffwriter
Gregory, the study was “created” by the Anna B. Casey Foundation. Upon inquiry, I was referred to Laura
Cadwell, at (612) 870-3660. Ms. Cadwell
no longer works at the Casey Foundation, and the only information
available at
that Foundation was the “Kids Count” study is for sale as a ten dollar
book. The Anna B. Casey Foundation
apparently did contract research for the Children’s Defense Fund and
the
Minneapolis Council of Churches’ organization, Congregations Concerned
for
Children.
These
organizations are trying to solve the social problems inherent in
Western
European/Judeo-Christian social structure by entrenching that society,
using
“social service” programs which will end up benefitting only selected
children. The people with whom I spoke at
these
agencies offered neither rationale nor apologies for their society’s
genocide
of the Aboriginal Indigenous peoples, and had no defense for the
involvement of
their Judeo-Christian institutions in this heinous crime.
Although they knew that it had happened,
they did not understand how to prevent similar atrocities from
happening
again. When I questioned them about
their agenda for the future, including what kind of family role models
they
proposed to offer the shattered single-parent families which are the
consequence of generations of Western European social engineering, they
had no
idea. They insisted that they are not
“blaming the victims of poverty,” although the statistics presented in
the report
they commissioned are being used that way, including the false
insinuation that
forty-six percent of single mothers are so promiscuous that they do not
have
“clearly established paternity” (in plain English, that these women
don’t know
who fathered their children).
Western
European tactics in this Ahnishinahbæótjibway land began with rape and
plunder. In doing the genealogy and the
history of Red Lake, the number of documented bastards left by the
White
invaders is large. Who supported these
fatherless children? The United States
Government blamed the women for being raped, and at the same time
condoned rape
as one of the perks of the occupation forces.
When these children were born, the Ahnishinahbæótjibway provided for them—our
resources and our land took care of these children who were abandoned
by their
White fathers. The breakup of
Aboriginal Indigenous families was a very strongly advocated part of
U.S.
policy, proclaimed by a U.S. President as “pulverizing” our community.
The Ahnishinahbæótjibway did not invade Europe; we
are on our own land and we have always been here. We
did not claim the Europeans’ countries, and then destroy the
ecology, salt the fields, burn the forests and the longhouses, plant
epidemic
diseases, scalp the men and rape the women—and then adopt official
policies
designed to destroy the families (Dodems) and the rest of the
Aboriginal
Indigenous social structure. The Ahnishinahbæótjibway are a non-violent people;
our language and culture do not even include swear words.
In our world-view, such atrocities are unthinkable
and unspeakable. The U.S. social
policy, endorsed and promoted by the Christian churches, focussed on
the
annihilation of everything pertaining to the Aboriginal Indigenous
people,
while at the same time they endorsed and promoted the Tribes and Bands
of fake
Indians and Wanna-be’s which the White man created to replace the
Aboriginal
Indigenous people.
The
Western Europeans apparently have very short memories, and now that the
consequences of their social engineering, including low-grade class
warfare in
every American city, have become firmly entrenched, they want to blame
the
victims. The upstanding White citizens
are complaining that “single Indian mothers” are on welfare. But, what are you White people complaining
about? Why didn’t your ancestors stay
in Europe, and live off your own European resources?
Since the Europeans (including most of the Indians) have been on
this Continent, these immigrants have been on welfare, living off of
the
capital of Aboriginal Indigenous peoples’ resources, plundering the
ecological
infrastructure (without seeming to understand that they are stealing
from their
own future generations as well as ours).
The robber barons whose vast fortunes underwrite U.S. high
society got
rich from “welfare.”
The
U.S. policies, since the early nineteenth-century days of grand theft,
have
been formulated on a dishonest foundation: simultaneously blaming their
crimes,
including genocide, on God [as in “Manifest Destiny”]; and socially
engineering
the communities they assaulted, to cover up the reality of their crimes. “Compulsory school education,” with
curricula designed to destroy indigenous communities, was a more
important
aspect of the Indian Treaties than “cessions” of land already claimed
by the
U.S. Once they got Aboriginal
Indigenous children brainwashed into being their Indians in the
boarding
schools, the U.S. policy-makers figured that they could get off
“welfare”—that
there would be no Aboriginal Indigenous survivors to challenge the
“legitimacy”
of their theft of two Continents.
The
schools at Red Lake, and the “Indian education” programs throughout the
State
of Minnesota, also reflect the United States’ social engineering. The children who are tracked into becoming
“Indians” are being mis-educated in a Chief Jim Crow curriculum: the
schools
are training them to wear feathers, do beadwork, dance, make a fire
with two
sticks, and talk Chippewa. Instead of
being nurtured in a creative and supportive environment, encouraged in
the
study of chemistry, physics, sociology, history, and English
writing—which
would provide these children with the tools to understand how they are
being
exploited and ripped off (and the means with which to survive in the
society
they’re asked to assimilate into)—children from single-parent families
in
particular, are being channelled into becoming the scapegoats and
fall-guys for
the Western Europeans’ crimes. Rather
than integrating and desegregating the curriculum, these children have
a
“disadvantaged” identity imposed on them, and are being trained to hold
pow-wows and otherwise play out the Indian mythology as a tourist
attraction. The other alternative with
which they are presented, is to provide well-paying jobs for welfare
case-workers, the legal system, and the prison system.
To you kids who think you’re being “smart”
and “tough” because of the stereotypes—the White man has mapped your
path right
down the Red Road and into Stillwater, where he’s planning to make big
bucks
off of you in prison.
The
way the Indian system has been set up by the Western Europeans, the
majority of
the people who accept the fraudulent identity of Indians, have less of
a chance
than a snowball in Hell. They are
exploited mercilessly by their White-appointed “Indian leaders.”
SKIMMING THE 2% CREAM: According to the media, the
Indian Leaders have been “denounc[ing] Senate gambling legislation.” The question is, why are these puppets, who
the United States calls “sovereign nations,” wards of the government
and under trusteeship,
testifying in the U.S. Senate? It seems
to be as though the White men who run the States, the Federal Executive
Department, and the U.S. Congress are using their Indians as pawns in a
turf
war. The present Senate hearings are
about which bailiwicks and bureaucracies get to skim the Indian gaming
industry. While the governments are
spending millions of dollars debating who gets the cream, other
Government
social-service agencies are exploiting and skimming the children in
poverty,
painting a “very bleak picture” and no future.
If this 2% was put away for the children’s’ future, then they’d
have
something. But, the Indian leaders
presently testifying in the Senate have neither the guts nor the
backbone to
invest in the grassroots of what they claim as their communities. All they’re looking for is hand-outs and
affirmations from the White man that they’re Real Important
Indians—without any
plans for the future.
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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