Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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According
to the headline
in the October 6 Minneapolis Star Tribune, “Show of force evicts farmer
who
didn’t pay tax.” The problem is that the Gibbon, Minnesota farmer
who
lost his farm, Oliver Kramer, thought he owned “his” land—and he
didn’t.
Under the British/Roman legal system exported from Europe, White
property-holders have a feudal relationship with the State—the very
terms for
land “title,” like “fee simple,” are derived from the old European
feudalism. In this foreign way of thinking, “landowners” receive
certain
rights and privileges to a piece of land from the state—for which they
must pay
property taxes. Although the entire structure on this Continent
is based
on stolen Aboriginal peoples’ land and resources; the White economic,
legal and
political system favors the upper artificial socio-economic class of
Whites,
the so-called “property-holders,” who then cry about the high taxes
that
they’re paying and point their fingers at the people who are
disenfranchised
and exploited by their White system. The privileged
self-righteously
label these people “welfare queens,” “food stamp recipients” and
“dead-beat
dads”-—although the smug “taxpayers” fail to look at where they came
from, and
how they are also pigging out on “welfare” and profiting from property
stolen
from the Aboriginal people of this Continent.
When the United States
Constitution was written, the only people who could vote were
“property-owners,” and also written into the U.S. Constitution is the
discriminating phrase, “Indians not taxed.” “Indian land” is not
property, in the legal real estate White man’s definition of the
word.
The White “untaxed” Indians are created to be used as proxies,
scapegoats and
brokers. They have never actually owned any land, and under the
imported
European property-structure, never will. There are no “Indians,”
and the
mythological “Indian Title” is created by the White man for his own
greedy
purposes. The Western European culture has
always been
parasitic, and there is someone always waiting in the wings or the
smoky
back-rooms to take advantage of another’s misfortunes which are created
by the imported
European system to keep the class system intact. In the case of
Kramer
the farmer, Reuben Meyer (a County Commissioner) knew all about
Kramer’s tax
problems, and bought the land for a fraction of its market value.
Something’s fishy in Gibbon, Minnesota.
THE GANG OF TEN: Speaking
of something fishy, there have always been private sales of fish by Red
Lake
fishermen, which are defined by the State of Minnesota as “bootlegging”
under
their White economic system and their White racist laws. These
fishermen
are forced into “bootlegging” by economic exclusion—the White man wants
them to
use their money, but not to participate in the inner sanctum of the
Whites’
economic and law-making system. If these guys had been
upper-class
Whites, they could have bought a Congressman, a Senator and probably
George
Bush—then they would have been wheeling-and-dealing “entrepreneurs,”
but
instead they’re labelled as criminals and law-breakers.
Also on October 6, the Bemidji
Pioneer reported the indictment of ten men for illegally buying and
selling
fish. The charges resulted from using taxpayers’ money to create
a phony
corporation, Can-Am foods, which created employment for the in-group
running a
three-year sting operation. The indictments mention only a few
hundred
fish at a time, because clear-cutting has destroyed the ecosystem and
decimated
the fish population. The “good guys” and their families and
friends ate
so much “bootleg” Red Lake Walleye, I hope they get mercury poisoning
from the
pollutants they’ve been pumping into the Blackduck River, the air, and
the rest
of the environment.
WHITE-WATER CASE: In a
related, crooked scheme, several Chippewa Indians were arrested
recently for
setting two and a half miles of gill-net in Upper Red Lake—on what the
State of
Minnesota claims as the “White-Water” side. (That they were
greedily
setting too many nets was not the issue.) The State of Minnesota
just
went to court about Indian hunting and fishing rights, and a decision
was
handed down that Indians could hunt and fish on ceded lands, even
though the
Treaties were not made in Chippewa or French, only in English, and
neither the
Europeans who call themselves “Indians” or the Europeans who call
themselves
“Americans” own the land, which belongs to the Aboriginal people.
In this local scam of White-Water
fish, the land and water in question have never been ceded—maybe this
is why
the Indian fishermen were arrested for exercising
“treaty-rights.” On the
one hand, the State of Minnesota is using their Indians to claim Red
Lake Ahnishinahbæótjibway
land and water under the Northwest Ordinance, “because it was never
ceded.” On the other hand, the State of Minnesota is using their
Indians
to claim Red Lake Ahnishinahbæótjibway
land and water—including
the Eastern half of Upper Red Lake under the provisions of legislation
passed
by the U.S. Congress on January 14 of 1889. The Nelson Act reads:
“... and such cession and
relinquishment shall be deemed sufficient as to each of the said
several
reservations, except as to the Red Lake Reservation, if made and
assented to in
writing by two-thirds of the male adults occupying and belonging to
such
reservation, and as to the Red Lake Reservation the cession and
relinquishment
shall be deemed sufficient if made and assented to in like manner by
two-thirds
of the male adults of “all” [sic] the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota.”
The 1889 Nelson Act was
unilaterally passed by the U.S. Congress in January. Six months
later, in
July, the Minnesota Chippewa Commission showed up at Lac Rouge (the
foreign
French Métis term which in foreign English means Red Lake) to
“negotiate the
Treaty,” meaning getting the consent of Indians to rip off more than
three
million acres of Red Lake Ahnishinahbæótjibway
land. Both
the oral history and U.S. Government documents state that the boundary
line
drawn by both the Indians and the Whites would be a mile East of Upper
Red
Lake. (The Chippewa Commission covered their ass in Washington by
amending the official transcript, referring to “mistakes” in the
lines.)
The 1889 Nelson Act was unilaterally drawn up and enacted, and it would
be
mighty White of you if it was unilaterally repealed.
The “Red Lake Band” and the
“Tribe,” who are claiming to be “Sovereign,” are the ones who should be
standing up for their enrolled Chippewa fishermen. But, neither
the
Bureau of Indian Affairs or the foreign 1934 I.R.A. Chairman, Bobby
Whitefeather—who is paid more than $60,000-plus dollars a year to be a
mythological full-blooded Indian are defending their Tribal
Members. Just
like Whitefeather’s predecessors, “Butch Brun” and Chairman-for-Life
Roger
Jourdain celebrated the hundredth anniversary of 1889 Chippewa
Commission
rip-off with much fanfare, and a fake medicine man with a pipe.
These
burnt-stump immigrant Frenchmen foolishly proclaimed the “founding of
the Red
Lake Nation in 1889,” hoping that all the Aboriginal people were
dead.
These Chippewas need the Indian identity that’s given to them by the
White Man,
and the fraudulent 1889 “Agreement” is a crucial part of the Minnesota
Chippewa
Indians’ identity. The January 14, 1889 legislation is also very
important to the State of Minnesota, which is collecting illegal taxes
derived
from the more than three million acres of Aboriginal land stolen in
1889, and
still selling resources from this stolen land.
My telephone number is
(218)
679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
Wub-e-ke-niew
