Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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July 31, 1995
[unpublished]
From
its beginning, the United States of America’s policy
toward the indigenous people of this continent has been genocide. After the U.S. Senate finally passed the
United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of
Genocide,
then-Senator Proxmire of Wisconsin wrote me a letter advising that the
provisions of this so-called International Law (which is European Law)
were
“not retroactive,” although even under the imported laws of every
State, there
is no statute of limitations on murder—and genocide (and ethnic
cleansing) are
murder on a mass scale, as well as being human rights violations.
The
founding documents of the U.S.A.—both the Declaration of
Independence and the U.S. Constitution—mention “Indians.”
This is an open admission of genocide: the
European immigrants did not and still do not speak of the real
identities of
the aboriginal people here; in order to pursue their mythology of
“Manifest
Destiny,” they needed a generic term which referred to both the
indigenous
people and to the mixed-blood people under their control, and so they
used the
artificial European identity of “Indians.”
In the late 1800’s, United States policy-makers changed from
openly
murdering indigenous people (including paying a bounty on “Indian
scalps”) to
passing compulsory-education laws and institutionalizing boarding
schools
designed to transform Aboriginal Indigenous people into “Indians”—which
is also
a violation of the U.N. Genocide conventions.
But, through the magic of Crooked English and other greedy
Romanized
thinking, killing “Indians”—although it’s a human rights violation—is
not
genocide, because “Indians” have a White patriline and are not a
separate
people.
In
the early 1970’s, I worked with several political-action
groups including the Jewish Defense League and the paper-tiger American
Indian
Movement, to get justice—or at least an admission of genocide—from the
United
States in the World Court. When the
Jewish groups found out that I was both serious and an Aboriginal
Indigenous
person, they dropped me like a hot potato.
There is a big, big difference between the deplorable human
rights
involved in killing communities and families of people with European
patrilines, and the genocide of destroying Aboriginal Indigenous
people, Dodems
and communities, who do not have European patrilines.
The United Nations Genocide Convention does not have any teeth
because none of the Romanized Western European Nations, including the
United
States, want to deal with, or face the consequences of the genocide and
ecocide
of Aboriginal Indigenous people, which is still going on and is still
enriching
them. They want to deny their past and
create a new mythology and “new” (old European class-system) identities
here. The Europeans who became
“Americans” ran away from the institutionalized poverty and all the
other problems
of Europe—but because of their language, they brought their old
Romanized
social pathologies with them.
By
the late 1970’s, United States policy-makers figured that
the few, and I mean very few, Aboriginal Indigenous people who survived
in the
Indian and White onslaught, had all been successfully transformed into
“civilized Indians.” In 1978, the U.S.
Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act, described by the
Minneapolis Star
Tribune as giving “tribes extraordinary control over the adoptions
of their
members.” The Indian Child Welfare Act
is one of several pieces of fraudulent legislation which are touted as
giving
Indians the “sovereignty” to “restore Indian tradition,” which is a
pipe dream
and an illusion. How can the Indians
regain Aboriginal Indigenous traditions which they never had—the
“Indian
tribes” smugly and one-sidedly promoted by linear-thinking writers at
the Strib
are a statutory invention of the U.S. Congress; and the Indians are
patrilineally White people who have been used for centuries to sell
Aboriginal
peoples’ land, destroy Aboriginal peoples’ subsistence, and otherwise
act in
complicity with their paternal White relatives in the genocide of the
Aboriginal Indigenous people, including obscuring the ongoing genocide
by
acting as a broker and a cover in such violations of the Genocide
Convention as
the adopting-out of Aboriginal children under the Indian Child Welfare
Act. The U.S. Congress (and the United
Nations) were acting under Roman Law and their heritage of Roman
Imperial thinking
which justifies the exploitation of all people but their own elite. They are using their Indians, who are
trapped in an artificial identity which makes them scapegoats and
political
hockey-pucks, to keep their lily-White hands clean in their fraudulent
claim to
this bloodied land.
The
abusive character of the immigrants’ Roman Law and
Imperial thinking is obvious from the violent slums of the American
cities,
from the destruction of the ecosystem which indigenous people kept in
balance
and harmony, from the pollution of the water and their
institutionalized
exploitation of people. Politicians and
P-R men speak poetically of justice and exude endless speeches of fine
flowery
words dripping with honey; in reality they are snake-oil salesman
obscuring the
truth of the human rights violations they continue to perpetrate on
everybody
else. The people who are exploiting
need to become human beings, as well as the people who are
disenfranchised. The medieval thinking
which the White
leaders imported from Europe needs to change—this is a different land
than
Europe, and European Capitalism, European Feudalism, Constitutional
Monarchy,
Judeo-Christianity, Communism, Democracy, Imperialism, Socialism,
Indian Law,
Manifest Destiny and other pseudo-legalized theft, etc., etc. are all
alien
con-jobs and rip-off philosophies which do not belong on this land. The Indian Child Welfare Act is just another
one of that greedy old crook Uncle Sam’s many schemes and cover-ups.
MORE COVER-UPS: In 1972,
Richard “I am not a Crook” Nixon created the Environmental Protection
Agency
(E.P.A.), which was Orwellian legislation designed to protect the
corporate
structure which was polluting the environment.
The E.P.A. bureaucrats are tenured on pork-barrel legislation,
slopping at
the public trough and pigging out on corporate kickbacks (the Bureau of
Indian
Affairs is the same kind of “public lands” bureaucracy).
The publicly proclaimed Environmental
Protection Acts are not enforced: the big corporations may have a token
slap-on-the-wrist
fine levied against them by courts which they own (under their imported
Roman
Law), but continue their filthy business as usual.
The public is told “you have an agency to protect the
environment,” but in actuality the resources are being strip-mined, the
ecosystem is being demolished, millions of tons of toxic chemicals are
dumped
into the environment, people are crippled by industrial waste, and more
children are born deformed every year (the blame is diverted by the
abstract
scientific term “recessive gene”).
Under E.P.A. “protection,” the environment is so degraded that
the
government tells you not to eat the mercury-contaminated fish—why buy a
fishing
license just to catch-and-release?
The
reality of Roman Law is anarchy and lawlessness at the
top of the hierarchy—eighteen amendments were recently added to the
Environmental Protection Act to give the Good Ol’ Boys further latitude
in
polluting and destroying the environment.
The U.S. Congress, in passing legislation to “protect the
public,” is
like a cat playing with a mouse (or the fox guarding a chicken coop):
what they
write looks good in the press releases as parroted by a well groomed
television
anchorman—some of what these puppets say sounds like they were
effectively
indoctrinated by the C.I.A. or the K.G.B., although it’s called
“schooled in
good journalism.” Now that Disney has
moved in and taken over A.B.C. (Americans Before Columbus), expect that
the
news will be more animated, and have an even faster spin in Fantasyland. Under Affirmative Action, will Pocohantas as
co-anchor balance the color scheme and decor?
Under
immigrant Roman Law, the Ten Commandments are not
enforced, either—where do you go to get action? Maybe
you have to go to Hell.
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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