Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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On
February 16, 1996, Skip Finn appeared in court with a
“Notice of Motion and Motion to Quash” all fishing expeditions by the
U.S.
Government on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation—or at least those
regarding
1934 I.R.A. Leech Lake Band documents related to the Leech Lake
Reservation
Construction Company, the Shingobee Inn, and Band-reimbursed legal
expenses of
Alfred “Tig” Pemberton, Dan Brown and Harold “Skip” Finn.
These Indians’ legal costs are apparently
being paid at taxpayer expense under the Leech Lake Reservation
Litigation
Expense Reimbursement Ordinance, Ordinance No. 96-02 of the Leech Lake
Band of
the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, operating under the 1934 Indian
Reorganization
Act (I.R.A.).
The
1934 I.R.A. Constitution of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe
contains the boilerplate I.R.A. provision required by the U.S.
Department of
the Interior for “acceptance” of all the I.R.A. constitutions,
mandating that
almost every act of any Indian Tribal Council or Reservation Business
Committee
have the “approval of the Secretary of the Interior or his authorized
representative.” In accord with the
centralized-power philosophy of the 1934 I.R.A. Constitutions, the
establishment
and operation of Skip Finn’s Reservation Risk Management, Inc., was
presumably
approved by the Secretary of the Interior or his duly authorized
representative—and under the philosophy of Indian Trusteeship, the
Secretary of
the Interior is also in on the scam.
The
March 16 Motion to Quash is based on Western European
concepts of Sovereignty, describing what they call “Indian sovereignty”
as
“inherent” and derived from “retain[ed] ... natural rights.” Either the authors of the Motion to Quash
are trying to steal Ahnishinahbæótjibway natural
rights, or by their logic 99.9% of all U.S. Citizens have such
“inherent ...
natural rights” by virtue of their White patrilines and at least a few
non-White (probably African) ancestors somewhere in the distant past of
their
mothers’ ancestry.
The
authors of the Quashing Motion also base their definition
of “Indian sovereignty” on the “domestic dependent nations” decision of
Justice
John Marshall, who wanted to put a “civilized” veneer on the brutality
of the
19th-century U.S. genocide and land theft.
These shysters also cite “treaties,” without observing that the
very
first treaty (The 1785 Wyandot Land
Theft Treaty) in which the U.S. Government dealt with Chippewa
Indians—who were
patrilineally White real estate salesmen selling property stolen from
the
Aboriginal Indigenous people—provided in Article IX that “If any Indian
or
Indians shall commit a robbery or murder on any citizen of the United
States,
the tribe to which such offenders may belong, shall be bound to deliver
them up
at the nearest post, to be punished according to the ordinances of the
United
States.” “Kitchi-ogima” and his band of
renegades are accused of having stolen from U.S. citizens, so if
they’re going
to adhere to “treaty law,” they should have already made the trip to
Fort
Ripley, and be sitting in the stockade awaiting trial.
Skip, if you’re going to be the White man’s
Indian, you might as well play it by the book—none of this half-ass
stuff.
In
Chippewa linguist Frederic Baraga’s dictionary of the
French Creole Chippewa language, sovereign is translated as kitchi-ogima,
which is a joke in any language, and has nothing to do with the
egalitarian
Aboriginal Indigenous people of this land.
The only word fifth columnist Baraga records relating to title
is
ondenindiwin, which he translates ambiguously as “title of
condemnation”
in the English side of the dictionary, and as “anger for such a reason,
cause
of anger,” or under another hierarchical conjugation as “I have had
feelings,
revengeful thoughts, against him...” in the Chippewa part.
None of this has anything to do with the
deep and inalienable Ahnishinahbæótjibway connection
to the land. The “Indian Sovereignty,”
“domestic dependent nations,” ad nauseam that Harold “Skip”
Finn, et
al. claim in their Motion to Quash has absolutely nothing to do
with the
Aboriginal Indigenous people that “Skip” Finn and the other White
Chippewas are
pretending to be. “Indian sovereignty”
is something like affirmative action—in both of them the White man
keeps
control of his system, and uses token bucks to make big bucks.
Case
No. 5-95-12 is a strange case: the victims from whom the
defendants are accused of having stolen are banding together with the
defendants to thwart prompt administration of White Collar “justice.” “Indians” are a good racket for the
entrenched D.F.L. establishment and their cronies and cohorts, and if
the
prosecution went forward to its logical conclusion and terminated the
Minnesota
Chippewas, the White man would get hurt worse than the “Indians”
because it’s
the Whites who get the good-paying political patronage jobs in Indian
affairs
(the “Indians” just get a fake identity and a Wanna-be lifestyle
wearing
feathers and beads).
The
United States Government’s fishing expedition into
“sovereign” Leech Lake waters wanted to look at documents “that relate
to a
purported study conducted by the Band concerning the disparity in
treatment of
Indians by Beltrami County Judges.”
What if the average Leech Lake enrollee were to claim “Indian
sovereignty” as a defense for any petty violation of the White man’s
law. If the judge asked him, “how do you
plead,”
and the Indian said, “I am sovereign,” the Indian would also be up for
manslaughter, because the judge would fall off his chair and die
laughing. So much for Indian Sovereignty.
LOOSE BU-KANNON: Patrick
Buchanan is becoming the leading
candidate in the Republican party, and the spokesman for what the
Republicans
stand for. He’s talking about the
American Dream, abundance and the Good Life—but at the same time, he’s
harking
back to the good old days when the good ol’ boys had slaves and the
‘good
woman’ knew her place.
Russian
president-for-life candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky has
endorsed his philosophical clone and comrade-in-rhetoric Pat Buchanan. Buchanan’s message is aimed toward Whites,
and I have yet to see a Black contingent at a Buchanan rally or
political
caucus. Maybe the Grand Old Party needs
affirmative action to meet their quota of minority constituents. Or, is the word “conservative” a euphemism
for Jim Crow, and the word “liberal” a code-word for accepting
minorities—and
that’s why it’s become a dirty word.
FLAT [WALLET] TAX: Leona
Helmsley did the unthinkable when she opened her big mouth and told the
truth,
“rich people don’t pay taxes.”
Multi-millionaire Steve Forbes has come up with a hare-brained
scheme,
the “flat tax,” a tired old re-run of the American Dream where the rich
get
richer and the poor take the blame. If
Congress passes Forbes’ flat tax reform, they need a rider and an
amendment to
re-design the American dollar: by replacing the picture of George
Washington
with American huckster P.T. Barnum of the famous Barnum-and-Bailey
show, and
also replacing the slogan “In God We Trust” with “There’s a sucker born
every
minute.”
Intact
old-growth forests are not a “renewable
resource,” and replacing them with tree farms is ecologically unsound
and looks
ugly.
My
telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address
is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56619.
Wub-e-ke-niew
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