Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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“Park
status assailed,” according to the headline in Sunday’s
Duluth News-Tribune. The
headline should have read, “Voyageur National Park status assaulted.” On Friday, August 18, the Congressional
Natural Resources committees will hold a hearing in International
Falls, taking
testimony from the immigrant population “to gauge regional public
sentiment on
federal control of land, especially Voyageurs National Park and the
Boundary
Waters Canoe Area Wilderness,” according to the Duluth newspaper.
Former
U.S. Congressman John Blatnik is described in the same
newspaper as writing some of the original Voyageurs Park legislation
with the
intent that “people be able to experience the same solitude and
wilderness that
voyageurs experienced 200 years before.”
Progress is a crooked English word meaning “to destroy the old,”
and in
the name of progress, vested interests in the north-brush are pushing
to change
the wilderness designations at Voyageurs and in the B.W.C.A. Their opening spearhead is being supported
by people in the tourist industry and by fishermen, who want motor-boat
and
snowmobile access to the entire area.
But, history repeats itself, and the longer-range agenda of the
backroom
good ol’ boys, including the pulp and lumber industries, to gain access
to the
70-year-old pines in the area, is written clearly in the Duluth
News-Tribune:
“you can’t cut down trees” with a wilderness designation.
When
the natural resource industries get done with the
B.W.C.A. and Voyageur’s National Park, it will be a barren rock like
Europe,
where the ancestors of the transient (nomadic wanderers) and highly
mobile
immigrants came from, and there will not be a trace of what was
originally
here—as planned.
In
1913, botanists Nathaniel Lord Britton and Addison Brown
of the New York Botanical Garden described the tattered remnants of the
Ahnishinahbæótjibway’s original forest in An
Illustrated Flora of the
Northern United States and Canada.
These are a few of the vanishing species that were plundered
from the
now-extinct ecosystem:
White
Pine (Pinus Strobus): height over 225 feet, trunk diameter
10½
feet—White Pines taller than a 22-story building.
Red
Spruce (Picea rubens): height of 100 feet, trunk diameter 4 feet.
Red
Cedar (Juniperius virginiana): height about 100 feet, trunk
diameter 5
feet.
Black
Walnut (Juglans nigra): height about 150 feet, trunk
diameter 8 feet.
Yellow
Birch (Betula leutea): height about 100 feet, trunk
diameter 4 feet.
Red
Oak (Quercus rubra): height about 140 feet, trunk diameter 7
feet.
White
Oak (Quercus alba): height about 150 feet, trunk diameter 8 feet.
Why
not clear-cut the B.W.C.A.—the wood-butchers are expected
to win over the “tree-huggers,” and some of the “peoples’
representatives” in
Washington are getting big bucks to help speed the ecocide. The slogan “jobs, jobs, jobs” will last
about ten years, then there will be unemployment lines, soup lines, and
not
even any fish because the fish need the forest to live in balance and
harmony. There is no place on earth
left to “discover” (which is an English-language euphemism for
“invade”), so
this time some of the people pressing for “economic development” will
be forced
to live with the ruined consequences of their actions.
The
vast majority of the immigrants who call themselves
Americans don’t have any sense of their own history, their own
identity, nor of
their connection to the land. They
don’t have any roots, and so they do not realize what they will be
doing to
themselves if they trash one of the very few remaining
almost-wilderness areas. The buffalo are a
vanishing species, and
your buffalo nickels are gone.
MORE THIEVERY: Who took
those “No Wake, No Wash” signs down along the Mississippi River? The wake from motorboats washes away the
shoreline, and the signs were posted to preserve what little shore was
left
after the now-worthless Power Dam was constructed.
The sportsmen pushing for “motorized access” to the B.W.C.A. say
they are just as “respectful” as people in canoes, but actions speak
louder
than words.
TRUNK-AND-INDIANS: According
to the Associated Press, the Hennepin County Medical Center is billing
the two
Trunk Indians, who won their case in court, for more than $24,000 in
old
medical bills. It would be interesting
to see the itemized bill that they’re sending them.
Instead of calling an ambulance, they used the trunk of squad
car
to transport them—I wonder what they’ll be billed for cleaning the
trunk of
that squad car.
Is
this the way that the White establishment works under
Roman Law—billing victims for the crimes committed against them? Getting these people defined as “lower
class,” “unwashed masses” and “outcaste;” hooked on alcohol, drugs and
crime;
destroying them and their families is a reflection on the grim reality
of the
alien Americans’ imported “democracy.”
I suppose that other County and City agencies will be getting
onto the
gravy train, and instead of getting a settlement from the City of
Minneapolis,
the Trunk Indians will be going to court for owing the city money. Concerned Indians should call the Bureau of
Indian Affairs and their 1934 I.R.A. Tribal Councils, and ask them if
this is
how a “sovereign” people should be treated?
Is paying the damages after you’ve won in court another form of
the
B.I.A.’s “diplomatic immunity,” or is it only another segregation
policy under
colonial sovereignty? When A.I.M.
leaders recommend a lawyer, you’d better get a second opinion, or
better yet,
run like hell.
“I’D RATHER SWITCH THAN
FIGHT”:
Ross “The
Boss” Perot is in the news again. He’s
talking about a third party, but not with great enthusiasm. The way that Congressmen and Senators are
switching party affiliation in mid-term, does “America” really need a
third
party to compound the confusion? One
hand already doesn’t know what the other hand is doing, but you’d
better watch
your back (pocket).
What
Ross and other would-be political reformers should be
doing is talking about a law requiring those elected to keep their
campaign
platforms and promises—and party affiliation would seem to be
fundamental,
unless there isn’t any difference between the political parties anyway. If Ross Perot gets elected, could he then
switch to the Republican party, and leave his Third Party holding the
bag
without any representation? What if
Clinton switched to became a Republican?
Would the country fall apart, or would he just be another
mug-wumper
sitting on the fence like the rest of them?
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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