Reflections
from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway (We, the People)
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TO THE EDITOR:
Mr.
Ryan discretely labels Indian people as “sociological
factors” in his August 26 letter to the editor but then proceeds to
make it
quite clear that he is blaming Indians for Bemidji’s crime. Perhaps Ryan is ignorant of the facts.
A
close, unbiased and impartial look at history makes it
unmistakably clear that the “sociological factors” which Ryan so coyly
refers
to are white imports from feudal Europe.
Before our unwritten immigration laws allowed Europeans to empty
their
prisons onto this continent, Indian people had no crime.
We did not have, nor need, prisons, jails,
police. We did not need to lock our
doors. There wasn’t a lock or a chain
on this continent until whites imported them to fill the needs of their
own
criminal culture. The other “classical
sociological factors” that Ryan refers to: alcoholism and drug abuse,
unemployment, AFDC and truancy (“truancy laws” are cultural
genocide—forcing
children into an alien culture) are also white imports.
The
reason, plain and simple, that the city of Bemidji has
such a high crime rate, is that Bemidji is the child of a crime-ridden
European
culture, and the city itself is founded on heinous criminal acts:
genocide,
ethnocide, and land and resource thefts from Indian people totalling
billions
of dollars. The is the foundation—the
“cause”—of your crime. White people
way, “as the twig is bent, so it will grow.”
Indian people say, “The Circle comes around.”
What both of these sayings mean is that the root of your crime
rates is as old as the roots of your criminal nation.
Your
history books are gilded propaganda, one-sided lies from
beginning to end. Just a few examples
will probably suffice:
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY: Armed
dissident, Christian tax-evaders dressed up like Indians to destroy
government
property.
Indian
disguises are an old white tradition. Maybe
the F.B.I.’s “under-cover” operations
have their roots in U.S. Cavalry agents dressing up like Indians to
kill
unsuspecting white pioneers, providing the “justification” for
“punitive raids”
on Indians to steal the rest of our land and murder our women and
children.
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR: United
States of America’s high crime rates go back to Valley Forge. Ragged desperado dissidents, having rousted
the
British, proceeded to break every treaty that had ever been written and
wage a
war of genocide against the American Indian people of the Eastern
Seaboard. Whole tribes—five major
linguistic groups—were annihilated.
The
motive was greed.
The land that was stolen was used as collateral to print money. The land stolen from the Five Civilized
Tribes was used to underwrite the Louisiana purchase.
The Trail of Tears and the legislation authorizing expenditure
of
$15 million (from a country that was bankrupt 20 years earlier) were
actually
part of the same Congressional Act. The
land stolen by breaking the Ft. Laramie Treaty was used to finance the
Alaska
purchase.
The
European criminals let out of prison to become “American
colonials” arrived on the shores of our land impoverished.
Less than 200 years later, these white
transients had stolen an entire continent, murdered most of the
original owners
and concocted a vision that they were “God’s Chosen People” under the
doctrine
of Manifest Destiny.
MANIFEST DESTINY is glossed
over lightly in your history books. If
Ryan is concerned about “crime in Bemidji,” he should read it. Manifest Destiny is a Christian doctrine of
rabid bigotry and unbridled greed. And
it’s the doctrine of world conquest which Adolf Hitler used as a model
for the
Third Reich.
MISSIONARIES: In
violation of U.S. Constitutional provisions of “separation of Church
and
State,” these parasitic fifth-columnists were paid by the U.S.
Government (with
stolen Indian money) to destroy traditional Indian culture, language,
religion,
and social order. The “classical
sociological factors” to which Ryan so glibly refers were “given” to
Indian
people by these missionaries, by the U.S. Government, along with such
gifts as
smallpox, tuberculosis, syphilis, diabetes, and starvation. (The U.S. Army was the first to use germ
warfare. They used it against Indian
people.)
Ryan
claims that the Bureau of Indian Affairs Police (run by
the Justice Department, which also runs the FBI) is “stable,
professional,
non-political.” The BIA evolved from
the War Department—an occupying army for “conquered” Indian Nations. Perhaps Ryan means “stable, professional,
non-political” in the same vein as Senator Dawes (of the Dawes
Allotment Act
and Public Law 280) did when he lobbied successfully for a “stable,
professional, non-political” agency, the BIA to oversee “a permanent
solution”
to the “Indian problem.” We are still
talking about crime: Senator Dawes engineered a land theft of billions
of acres
of Indian land, advocated—and enacted—genocide, and played a causal
role in the
Wounded Knee Massacre.
To
Indian people, the BIA police are definitely
political. As Commissioner of Indian
Affairs price described the just-established BIA police and courts
systems in
1881, “a power entirely independent of the Chief. It
weakens, and will finally destroy the power of tribes and
bands.” The structure, function and
organization of these “non-political” agencies hasn’t changed since
1881.
Before
Ryan criticizes the tribal council (which is powerless
under the 1858 Constitution which the “non-political” BIA forced on
us), he
should look closely at the low pay, lack of fringe or retirement
benefits and
other racist employment practices of the BIA Police.
If
Ryan wants to write about crime rates in the Bemidji area,
he should look at unreported, unprosecuted (possibly even “legal” under
your
apartheid laws) white-collar crimes committed against Indian people:
the Red
Lake Mill run into bankruptcy by the “stable, professional” BIA; the
theft of
billions of dollars worth of Red Lake Indian land on the Northwest
Angle;
Indian money held “in trust”—without interest—in the U.S. Treasury,
etc. (He
could write a very long book.)
Ryan
complains about the lack of jail space. Bemidji
whites know that they are living on
stolen Indian land. They know that
their economy is based on stolen Indian resources.
When a Bemidji law enforcement officer sees an Indian, they want
to lock him up—both for the money that flows into the Bemidji law
enforcement
system, and because they want to “lock up their consciences.”
Indian
authors and Indian historians are coming. We
will debunk the lies your history is
founded on. Now, if I’ve made enemies,
or if I’ve made friends, so be it! This
is the way I see it.
George
Whitefeather
Enrolled Member, Red Lake Band of Ojibway Indians
Red Lake
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