Ojibwe Bibliography – part 9

[01-19-04]

 

 

3889.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1995). From its beginning, the United States of America’s policy toward the indigenous people of this continent has been genocide ...
Abstract: 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

3890.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1996). In the Metro Section of the Thursday, February 15 Star Tribune, there was an article headlined “Heritage of Indian firefighters questioned.” ...
Abstract: TO: MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE COMMENTARY PAGE—EDITORIAL           DEPARTMENT
       FAX number: (612) 673-4359

In the Metro Section of the Thursday, February 15 Star Tribune, there was an article headlined “Heritage of Indian firefighters questioned.”  According to the article, Leonard Thompson, leader of the American Indian Fire Fighters Association, charged that “as many as half of the 24 people claiming to be Indians in the Minneapolis Fire Department either are not legitimate Indians or cannot prove that they are [Indians].”
There are several issues at stake in the Wanna-Be fire fighter fracas: discriminatory hiring in the fire fighting department, who owns and controls the Indian identity, and exactly what is an “Indian.”  The Strib quotes Thompson as saying that undocumented and self-proclaimed Indians are “taking our jobs;” according to the article, firefighter Thompson wants all those who were preferentially hired as Indians in the past to meet current documentation standards for being “Indian:” either through the U.S. Department of the Interior or its Indian Reorganization Act tribal councils; or by showing that “either a parent or grandparent is an enrolled tribal member.”  This sounds good, but there are “Indians” on the White Earth enrollments, for example, with 1/32 or less “Indian Blood,” so city-sanctioned discrimination in hiring can be based on as little as 1/128 “Indian blood”—one great-great-great-great-great grandparent, born about two hundred years ago, who is now “federally recognized” as having been an Indian.  For all of the disputed Indians to qualify under present standards, this well-publicized fuss adds up to less than 10% of one “full-blooded Indian,” and eleven (and nine-tenths) Black or White guys.
The real irony is that “Indian blood” does not have any genealogical correlation to having ancestors who are indigenous to this land.  During the second half of the nineteenth century, Federal designation as an “Indian” was a purely political process—and it still is.  Some U.S. Department of Interior regulations explicitly directed recording the ethnicity of certain white men as “half breed” (or other blood quantum) Indians.  For example, Bazile Hudon Beaulieu, born 1815-16 and the patrilineal ancestor of the Indian who is presently director of the Minnesota Human Rights Department, was changed from a White man into “3/8 Indian” for the purposes of determining Minnesota Chippewa blood quantum, so that his descendants could sell land and participate in U.S.-supervised “tribal politics” ultimately intended to alienate the Aboriginal Indigenous peoples’ property and resources.  In the process of researching a book, I have documented the genealogy of more than 50,000 so-called Chippewa Indians in Northern Minnesota.  Less than two hundred have an Ahnishinahbæótjibway Dodem—an Aboriginal Indigenous patriline and extended family; the rest have an immigrant European or African Moorish patriline and a culture based on nuclear families and fragmented French feudal social structures.
In order to receive federal funding, preferential hiring, grants for pow-wows, recognition as Indian Chiefs or artists, etc., Indians are dependent on White institutions to “authenticate” their identity.  This is but a continuation of the Euro-Americans’ long and cozy relationship with their manufactured Métis and White Indians, beginning with Columbus, continuing through the treaty era (when European and Mediterranean people identified as “Indians” ceded lands which were not theirs), to the I.R.A. Tribal Councils’ Reservation and Indian gaming politics of today.
The policy of the Republican party, which the Eisenhower administration executed on a tribal level, was the termination of the Indians.  United States policy and American culture have been directed toward making Indians into the Vanishing American since the Dawes Allotment Act of 1878 (as a part of Manifest Destiny); depriving people identified as “Indians” of land ownership and civil rights has been part of the American agenda since the United States Constitution described “Indians not taxed,” a Jim Crow category which so-called Indian leaders cling to as the basis of the apartheid and illusory “Indian Sovereignty” (both Whites and Indians get upset at the idea of amending this racist clause out of the Constitution and thereby creating a more level playing field and making affirmative action superfluous for protected-class Indians).
U.S. Congressional policy papers still carefully detail the legal foundations for terminating the Indians at any time.  The problem with termination was not that Indians would lose their identity, but that political-spoils jobs would cease to exist for the Party faithful and political hacks—terminating the Indians hurts the Whites worse than it hurts the Indians, most of whom have a preponderance of White ancestry (almost all the rest could assimilate into the Black community and nobody would notice).
The real issue isn’t job discrimination or job creation, though—it’s the White man’s guilt at having committed genocide of the Aboriginal Indigenous people on a massive scale, and having despoiled this entire continent.  As a community, as a culture and as a cohesive people, we the Aboriginal Indigenous people are extinct: intentionally destroyed by explicit U.S. Government policies including the Indian boarding schools.  The Indians’ main purpose is as pretenders and imitations, “reel” Hollywood style Indians who are a living portrayal of the Euro-Americans’ mythology, projections, and stereotypes.  Instead of wasting time and valuable resources playing games with minimal potential benefits, the Minneapolis firefighters and police could be lobbying for a Constitutional amendment to eliminate the built-in discrimination of “Indians not taxed,” and start protecting their own property as well as that of the people they serve.
Why not accept one’s real identity, and begin to address the root problems that plague the immigrants’ Euro-American society: violence, the destruction of the ecosystem and the extended families, water pollution, and the dehumanization of Euro-American culture, based on the nuclear family.  This is reality, and sooner or later you immigrants won’t be able to run from your past—you’ll have to face it.
                                                Wub-e-ke-niew
                                                Bear Dodem, Ahnishinahbæótjibway
                                                P.O. Box 484
                                                Bemidji, MN 56619
                                                (218) 679-2382
Wub-e-ke-niew lives on his ancestral homeland at Red Lake, writes a column for the Native American Press/Ojibwe News, and is the author of We Have the Right To Exist, A Translation of Aboriginal Indigenous Thought, The first book ever published from an Ahnishinahbæótjibway Perspective (Black Thistle Press, 1995).  Wub-e-ke-niew is Ahnishinahbæótjibway—an Aboriginal Indigenous person—he is not an “Indian.”

3891.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1993). Indians have always accused the Whites of racism, using racism as a bludgeon of guilt ...
Abstract: Indians have always accused the Whites of racism, using racism as a bludgeon of guilt to keep Whites from looking at who the Indians really are.  These accusations of racism keep people separated and polarized, rather than talking to each other and solving the problems.  Indians’ complaints of racism are also used as an excuse to justify their failures caused by living out the Indian stereotype.  What the Indians are complaining about is not racism, although there is discrimination.
The Indians should look in the mirror before they say a word about racism.  It’s always been the Indians and the Whites, who have been racist towards the Aboriginal Indigenous People.  Racism is there so that the average person will not see the social and genetic engineering that is being done to American society.  Racism prevents dialogue, discussions, and having people from all backgrounds get together to make this a better world.  Racism works to the advantage of the policy-makers at the top of the social hierarchy—that’s why it’s there.  Simply going by the identity of Chippewa Indian is racist.  To call the Anishinabe Ojibway, “Chippewa Indians,” is racist and apartheid.
An example of the White and Indians’ racism is the environmental destruction of the Anishinabe Ojibway homeland, by the Indians.  If this was Indian land, the Indians wouldn’t be destroying it.
There is not one issue that the Indians can get together on, in solidarity.  Their identity is one manufactured by outsiders, and it’s pretty hard to live out a stereotype and a projection.  The only issue that there isn’t any division in the Indian community about, is destruction of the environment—they’ve gotten together on stealing and destroying the Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ land.  The Indian identity perpetuates and promotes racism.  The time has come for the people who call themselves “Indians” to be honest about who they are.
BOARDING SCHOOLS: On Sunday, August 29, 1993, the Bemidji Pioneer ran a quarter-page ad promoting Wahpeton Indian School, which according to the ad is “Honoring Old Traditions.”  Which old traditions?  The racism, and the violent abuse which characterized the Indian Boarding Schools for three generations—are these the old traditions that Wahpeton wants to honor?
When I was in boarding school, it was U.S. Government policy to beat young children for speaking our own language. I couldn’t mention my grandfather’s name without getting whipped with a strap.  Now, the ad says that the Wahpeton Indian school wants to teach “Whole language” and “Native language,” as well as “Singing.”  At Wahpeton, they’re not teaching the Anishinabe Ojibway language; they are going to teach the pidgin language of Chip-away Creole, which is a bastard language made up from stolen words.  Rather than being an egalitarian Aboriginal Indigenous language, Chippewa is an hierarchical Indo-European language.  Why waste valuable educational time teaching nonsense?  Why not teach these children English, so that they have a language to defend themselves from United States Government crooks?
The curriculum at Wahpeton includes Home Economics, Arts and Crafts, and Industrial Arts.  It is not advertised as including History, Chemistry and Science.  If the children attending Wahpeton are the élite of the Indians’ future generations, then it looks like the future of these children is termination and abrogation of the crooked Treaties.  It looks like Wahpeton Indian School is still trying to hide the genocide (in which this school played a part), and the grand theft of the land.
The ad says that Wahpeton Indian School will be “Teaching Indian Values,” including “Honesty.”  The very name Indian is dishonest, an identity which perpetuates the lie that European people with European values, called “Indians,” are the Aboriginal Indigenous People of this land.  Indians don’t have Aboriginal Indigenous values.  To see what Indian Values really are, all you have to do is step out your front door and look at the terrible destruction of the ecosystem done by Indians.  All you have to do is look at the “Indian Communities,” which are filled with crime, alcohol, and violence.  Indian values are reflected in the corruption and racism in Indian Organizations such as Tribal Government, the Indian Health Board, etc.  These conditions reflect Indian values, and, my friend, Indian values are no different than European values.  Indian values are not the values of the Aboriginal Indigenous People.
TREATIES: At the Treaties, there were some honest White men, who said, “these Treaties will come back to haunt us.”  These men knew that the Indian Treaties made by the United States Government were fraudulent and fake, and that the Indians who signed the Treaties were not the Aboriginal Indigenous People who own the land.  If the people in this country want to call it, “The Land of the Free,” then they have to come to terms with the genocide and grand land theft that was committed here.  Americans can no longer hide behind their brokers, the Indians.
RETROACTIVE TAXES:  Your President is talking about balancing the budget with retroactive taxes.  Under the Clinton tax plan, taxes will go back retroactively to January.  I wonder if the legal basis for retroactivity also applies to the presidential elections?  Does the legal philosophy that Clinton is using mean that he can be recalled—retroactively?  I don’t see why the leaders who raided the U.S. Treasury shouldn’t be the ones who are paying for the deficit.  Reagan’s cronies in the Savings and Loan industry, Bob Dole’s friends—these are the people who should pay retroactive restitution to the U.S. Treasury, with interest.
 My telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
                         Wub-e-ke-niew

3892.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1996). Maple sugaring time is almost here—it’s time to start checking your taps, cleaning your kettles, and getting your wood supply ready to make a good healthy food. ...
Abstract: Maple sugaring time is almost here—it’s time to start checking your taps, cleaning your kettles, and getting your wood supply ready to make a good healthy food.
We’ve still been using that old method, of the four poles in the ground, with a fork.  The old way of hauling sap, and tapping the trees is just about gone—using wooden stakes.  We’re now using drills and tapping... we’re using new methods now ...

3893.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1994). The Minneapolis Star Tribune has turned over a new page, and edited their stylebook. ...
Abstract: The Minneapolis Star Tribune has turned over a new page, and edited their stylebook.  In their sports section, they’ve gone from bashing stereotypical Indians, to being politically correct and promoting good-guy Indians.  They are doing some ethnic cleansing, deleting some potentially offensive terms from their sportswriting, like “Redskins.”  It’s no longer sporting to make fun of Indians, at least as ** But, this doesn’t mean that in the other sections of the paper, they aren’t still using Indians a political football.  Now, Clyde Bellecourt and his crew of Wanna-Be’s don’t have to demonstrate against the Washington Redskins, and the Washington team doesn’t have to change their name, either.  They can keep on doing the Tomahawk Chop, too, because the sports apologized.  If they’re worried about ethnic slurs and racist mascots, why don’t they look at their own home team?  If they’re worried about calling their “Redskins,” why don’t they call the Vikings “White-skins.”  Maybe because most of the Vikings are African-American players with black skins.
Knight-Ridder News Service ran a story on the wires from San Jose, printed in Sunday’s St. Paul Pioneer Press.  The Asian Indians and the American Indians are having a conflict about who’s the real Indian.  Probably it’s the Indian fakirs from India and the Indian fakers from America.  They’re worried about who is the real Indian.
There is a problem here.  How do you get government officials to accept change, in renaming these Indians, with all of these Indian treaties.

3894.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1994). The October-November, 1993 issue of International Gaming & Wagering Business had a front-page article by Matt Connor, “Corruption on the reservation: Cause for concern?”.
Abstract: The October-November, 1993 issue of International Gaming & Wagering Business had a front-page article by Matt Connor, “Corruption on the reservation: Cause for concern?”  In this article, White Earth enrollee Erma Vizenor is described as “infuriated at her tribal administrator,” because $12 million dollars worth of funds for developing the Shooting Star Casino came from the White Earth Land Settlement Act.  She says that this money rightfully belongs to the White Earth people, and is quoted, “It is almost impossible to get [accountability] because the tribe is insulated by sovereign immunity.”
The same article discusses casino security, referring to Potawatomi security director Roger Miller talking about sending confidential information back and forth from tribe to tribe, “Our attorneys told us that as sovereign peoples we could transfer that type of information without being liable for the types of penalties other organizations might be.  For our own protection, we’re allowed to do that.”  Just who are the “sovereign peoples” Miller is talking about?
Matt Connor writes, in the same article, about the gaming contracts, “And once the contract is approved, it’s extremely difficult to remove a management team who’s signed on the dotted line.  Connor quotes “Chip” Wadena as saying, “My word is my bond.”  Why are some White Earth people complaining about the casino?  Chip gave you his word!  Matt Connor also quotes Mystic Lake Vice President of Planning and Development, Allene Ross, “Once the contract’s approved and whatnot, tribes have no legal remedies.”  Now, get this, folks, once the Bureau of Indian Affairs approves the contracts, as trustee for their legally incompetent Indian wards, there are only illusions of Indian sovereignty, and the “sovereignty” that makes it impossible to get information, belongs to the Secretary of the Interior.
Ever since the Treaties, White intermediaries have been taking the lion’s share: they take part of it as brokers, and then they take the rest under trusteeship.  At the Treaties, the Indian Traders were collecting big bucks on what they called “depredations.”  Now, the White media are molding public opinion, in a diversionary tactic that “organized crime” might be involved with Indian Gaming.  Don’t worry about the Mafia moving onto the Reservations—organized crime has been involved since the European Whites and Indians invaded Ahnishinahbæótjibway land.  The treaties are analogous to a giant garage sale, giving away land and resources that never belonged to either one of them.  The concerned public doesn’t need to get overly optimistic, and look for a different set of criminals or a change in their behavior.
GETTING THE FACTS:
Instead of complaining, there are a number of ways that anybody can find out what’s happening with the Indian Casinos:
In the business section of the February 15, 1994 Minneapolis Star Tribune, under Consolidated Stock Listings, Grand Casinos (GrdCasn s) was listed under the G’s as a National Over-the-Counter stock with a price-to-earnings ratio of 34, 3064 shares traded, and a closing price of $26.50 per share—stock prices are listed Tuesday through Saturday in the Business Section.  On January 26, the price was listed as 27 5/8, which means twenty-seven dollars and 62 and a half cents, according to a wise old sage I asked.  This elderly gentleman, who understands the wheeling and dealing of the stock and bond markets, told me that the 5/8 comes from the Spaniard’s plunder of Aboriginal Indigenous peoples’ gold.  The Spanish used a gold coin called the Real, and to make change, they cut it up into eight pieces.  This is where “two bits” comes from, and this old European plunder currency is still quoted in the stock market every day.
I was also told that stocks are usually sold in blocks of 100.  This the message he gave me for you White Earth people: Legally incorporate a stock-buying co-operative, and keep accurate records.  If a hundred people get together, for about $30. each (stock price plus stockbroker’s “points”), you will be part owner on both sides, and the Casino will send you quarterly or annual reports, probably on expensive glossy paper with four-color printing.  Stockholders also can attend stockholder’s meetings (according to the old sage, often held in Delaware, Texas or Nevada, since these states have bigger loopholes in their business laws and tax shelters), and vote on the people who are running the company.  If a hundred Indians show up, with one share of stock each, at the next stockholder’s meeting, Chip Wadena will be very surprised to find out he has a new boss.  Don’t blame me, I’m not a rabble rouser.
Anybody who can get to the library can also find information on any company, including Grand Casinos and Gaming World International, in such reference books as Standard and Poor’s, Dun and Bradstreet, and many others to which a friendly librarian can direct you.
Companies which sell stock to the public must register with the Securities Exchange Commission—and some of the information they file is public information.  All companies are incorporated, and their articles of incorporation, and owners of record, are public information.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has copies of all of the contracts with Gambling Management Companies—and if the B.I.A. is doing its job, they also have a file of the information they found when they investigated the company before approving the contract.  This is public information, and the Bureau is legally obliged to answer Freedom of Information Act letters.
I gave you all the good news.  Now, the bad news is that Indians are under trusteeship, and are wards of the Government governed by Chief Jim Crow and his squaw A-par-theid.  Indians don’t have any legal rights, and I suppose that the U.S. Government can take away any stocks an Indian buys, under trusteeship, and if an Indian acts too uppity, remember that the U.S. Government can take away your Indian identity, with one stroke of the pen.
TRIBAL ELECTIONS:
Momentum is gathering for the elections which will be held in May at Red Lake.  Some of the candidates are starting to politick, and the loggers are busy making stumps, so everybody will have a choice of stumps of their very own, when the time comes for stump speeches.
After every election, since the Indian Reorganization Act brought Democracy onto Red Lake, there has been a petition circulated, contesting the election.  (What these petitions really do, is authenticate the crooked political system that the Bureau put in here.)  There has been one dissident, and a few malcontents, who have spent thirty years trying to get Chairman-for-Life Roger Jourdain out of office with petitions.  Now, this dissident and his malcontents have good jobs inside the system.  The Florscheim’s on the other foot, and the former “outsiders” are the ones trying to keep the Chairman-for-Life from getting his job back.  During his tenure, Roger Jourdain made it tough for other candidates to run against him—but some of the laws that he passed are boomeranging back on him, close enough to the ground that they might hit him where it hurts.  One of Roger’s own laws, that he now has to live under, is that a candidate for Tribal Office has to live on the Reservation for a year.  Roger has a trailer in Redby, but the New Chairman, Butch Brun, won’t hook up his water or his electricity.
The dissidents and the malcontents could get ahead of the game, and start circulating their petitions now.  The Bureau of Indian Affairs has already had a closed-door election, and using proxy votes under trusteeship, the B.I.A. has already decided who won the election—the new Tribal Directories are probably at the printer’s now, so they can be passed out the day after the elections.
SELL-OUTS:
In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, words we used to hear quite often were “sell-out” and “apple.”  Now, we don’t hear these seemingly obsolete words anymore, because the people who were hollering “sell-out” the loudest, now have well-paying jobs as professional apples.  Years ago, you weren’t a militant until you could use the word “sell-out” as a part of your vocabulary.  A Real Militant Indian wore sunglasses, cowboy boots, braids, and walked kind of bowlegged down the street, practicing how to say “sell-out” with a condescending sneer.  Hmmm, how times change.
 My telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
                         Wub-e-ke-niew

3895.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1993). One of the reasons that the people in the higher levels of Western European hierarchy put everything they have into keeping their position is that they’re afraid of getting a taste of their own medicine ...
Abstract: One of the reasons that the people in the higher levels of Western European hierarchy put everything they have into keeping their position is that they’re afraid of getting a taste of their own medicine.  The people at the top, like George Bush, are so isolated they don’t even known what’s going on.  They live in their own little Utopia, and self-righteously parrot the slogan that oppression is the fault of the oppressed.  Rather than addressing the social problems from which they personally benefit, they buy more locks, more keys, more prison cells, and more police “protection.”  Why don’t they just put barbed wire around the whole country, and admit that it’s a prison and we’re all slaves.  Gassing and burning people who think differently is not the answer.  All of us are human beings—we must stop this “war and peace” and work for a non-violent and harmonious society, and make this a better world.  It can be done.

3896.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1994). Reflections from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway Nation (We, the People): According to the Bemidji Pioneer, the 1994-95 Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians’ Royalty were named earlier this month ... Native American Press/Ojibwe News.
Abstract: According to the Bemidji Pioneer, the 1994-95 Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians’ Royalty were named earlier this month at what the Pioneer called the “Red Lake Nation Fair.”  I telephoned the Bemidji Chamber of Commerce to ask if they knew anything about this Tourist Attraction called Indian Royalty.  After I identified myself, they put me on terminal hold.  It’s a long-distance call from Red Lake Reservation to Bemidji, even though it’s only thirty miles away.  I suppose that the toll rates have something to do with royalty.
The question I wanted to ask the Chamber of Commerce is: why do these upstanding pillars of White society call this the Red Lake Nation, when it began as a concentration camp created by the United States Government on Ahnishinahbæótjibway land.  Years ago, the U.A. Indian Agent was in absolute military control.  The mixed-bloods could only leave with a pass from the Indian Agent; the Aboriginal Indigenous People could not leave the Red Lake prison-camp at all.  This policy of the U.S. Government was one of many designed by the Euro-Americans to destroy the Aboriginal Indigenous People.
Now, there has been a 180 degrees turnaround: from a concentration camp to a “Nation.”  Most of the people here who call themselves “Indians” and “sovereign” have at least 7/8 White blood, and most of the rest of their ancestry is North African or Indo-European.  (Many do not have any Ahnishinahbæótjibway ancestors at all.)  How can these White people call themselves Indians—and be Federally Recognized as card-carrying Chippewa Indians?  (A person who had 7/8 African-American ancestry would probably not call themselves “White”—although if they had a White patriline, I don’t know why they couldn’t.)
The New Yorker magazine quoted U.C.L.A. Professor G. Reginald Daniel, “We are the only country in the world that applies the one-drop [of black blood] rule.”  The “drop-of-black-blood” is a White concept, which is used by their upper class for social and genetic engineering.  The corollary “drop-of-Indian-blood” rule is a part of the same diabolical scheme, which creates an artificial social class of tainted-blood “Indians,” who can be eliminated with one stroke of the White man’s pen when they are no longer needed.  Indian blood-quantum serves several purposes: it keeps the fractionally-tainted-blood Indians from marrying the White man’s supposedly “lily-white” daughters.  Indian blood quantum also maintains the illusion that the White man’s hands are clean, and creates millions of hypothetical blood-quantum Indians to obscure the heinous genocide of the Aboriginal Indigenous People on this Continent.  White blood-quantum Indians act out the White man’s sick fantasy role of Indians—no self-respecting Ahnishinahbæótjibway person would act that foolish.  Most of the Indians are deluded into thinking that they are Aboriginal Indigenous people (and in fact the U.S. Department of the Interior supports this perversion, paying their Indians big bucks to be pathological liars about their real identity).  But, these cheap imitations don’t know anything about the people whose identity they are trying to steal.
The paradox of the one-drop-of-tainted blood rule is that because of the many wars that raged back and forth across Europe, and the rape and other social diseases that are an inherent part of Western European wars: every White person has been mongrelized and hybridized, and there is no White person of pure White ancestry.  The Euro-Americans are running away from their past and their real identity, just as their European ancestors have done for two thousand years.  European languages are abstractions which obscure reality, and disconnect the people who are trapped by these languages from Nature.  Their subject peoples’ languages have also been distorted—for example, the hierarchical Creole language of Chippewa.  The people who created and mutated this Indian language (stealing words from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway) also spoke a Creole language: English is a mongrelized, bastard language which has war and other violence, misogyny and racism built right into it.  Because English has a patched-up Creole structure, the English-speaking women of the world should feel no qualms about getting together to make up words and grammar to fit their needs as women.
MURPHY’S LAW:
Murphy’s Law is based on an old superstition blamed on the Irish, “if anything can go wrong, it will.”  Years ago, the 7th Cavalry followed the Boston patriots’ tea party precedent, and dressed up as Indians to assault the women and children of the pioneers’ wagon trains—these atrocities were then used as an excuse to annihilate Aboriginal Indigenous People, leaving the hang-around-the-fort Indians.  They claimed the 19th-century West was “wild,” although the West was not wild before the White immigrants got here and made it wild with their greed.  Now, the West really is wild: shoot-em-in-the-back drive-by shootings, O.J. Simpson, Rodney King police protection, and inner-city riots.  The ecosystem is demolished, and the White settlers are caught in a self-fulfilling prophecy of the violent English language: the “west” has become really “wild.”  Go ahead, Euro-Americans, sing “This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land ... This Land was Made for You and Me.”  When I first heard this song by Woody Guthrie, it seemed gross and repulsive—but we the Aboriginal Indigenous People do not want to claim this violent mess the Euro-American immigrants have made on our land.  What goes around, comes around, and the consequences of Euro-American irresponsibility are closer than you think.
In Minnesota, the 8th District Federal Court has superseded the 7th Cavalry.  The recent hunting-and-fishing Treaty-Rights decision rendered by Judge Diana Murphy is being presented in the media as a “victory for Indians,” but if you look closely at it, the Court decided with a flip of a one-sided coin, in favor of the Euro-Americans.  The money involved has always been printed and controlled by the White man.  At the time that the Treaty was signed, the Ahnishinahbæótjibway did not need the White man’s money, and as long as our ecosystem remained intact (into the 1930’s at Red Lake), we were self-sufficient, so the White man’s money was irrelevant and useless.  (We had a pristine water system, there was plenty of fish and game, and we had not been trapped by the immigrants’ greed-ridden mercantile infrastructure.)  But, the White man’s Indians have a White patriline, and because they were created by the Euro-American immigrants, they have always been tied into the White man’s money system.  The Ahnishinahbæótjibway had no reason to sign an Indian treaty drawing us into the alien White and Indian economic system.  The Indian Treaties had nothing to do with the Aboriginal Indigenous People—which is why the State of Minnesota has a vested interest in upholding the crooked Indian Treaties.
Using the forked-tongue English language, the State of Minnesota thinks that they have come up with a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose foolproof scheme to steal the land that still belongs to the Ahnishinahbæótjibway.  On the one hand, they are “upholding” crooked treaties while encouraging White “Bud Grant” backlash to create the illusion of legitimacy; and on the other hand, they are preparing another court case to claim Red Lake Ahnishinahbæótjibway land—on the grounds that it was never ceded.  To further compound their crooked scheme, the State of Minnesota is in collusion with the United States Government, using crooked English to claim that their Indians are “sovereign nations,” which is both a fraud and a big joke. Instead of promoting White racism, Bud Grant and his fishing buddies ought to research the genealogies of their Sovereign Indians with European patrilines.  The State of Minnesota knows that neither the Chippewa Indians nor the other immigrant citizens including the Mille Lacs “landowners” are indigenous to this land, and they are re-entrenching the con job of the 1837 Treaty, trying again to steal the land, and then hoping to use the White resentment they’re molding to horn in on the Federal turf of Indian gaming, and get their 20% cut off the top while crying about compulsive gambling (I hope these greedy people get 50% of the gaming gross, so they can take the blame for all the misery that’s been created by breaking up families).  The Indians, who are White wards of the U.S. Government under Sovereign Trusteeship, have become pawns in yet another power play of the apartheid and Jim Crow European immigrant government.  If the State of Minnesota was honest, they would trash the Indian Treaties, and admit their thievery and complicity in genocide.
If the United Nations did not operate as a puppet of the Western Europeans under Roman Law, the Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples of this Continent could sue the State of Minnesota, the 1934 I.R.A. Indian Tribal Councils, the United States Government, and the Mille Lacs resort owners, who are all illegally here.  Unfortunately, the name “World Court” (operating under Roman and English Law) is an euphemism for the Great White Kangaroo.  The European Nation-States are stealing Indigenous Peoples’ land and resources and destroying Aboriginal Indigenous ecosystems world-wide, using the alien pirate-laws of Western Civilization, while perverting any semblance of justice in the so-called World Court.
My telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
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3897.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1995). Reflections from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway Nation (We, the People): “Activist heads home from China,” according to the front-page headline in Friday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune.  American citizen and human rights activist ... Native American Press/Ojibwe News.
Notes: “Activist heads home from China,” according to the front-page headline in Friday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune.  American citizen and human rights activist Harry Wu was expelled from China after having been convicted of spying.  Mr. Wu had been videotaping documentaries about human rights violations and prison labor in China, but his arrest was used by the Good Ol’ Boys in the United States as a pretext for boycotting the United Nations World Conference on Women to be held in Beijing September 4-15.
Women around the world have not had an effective voice in international—or national—politics.  The International Conference on Women is finally providing a forum for women to have dialogue, debate and discussions about the systematic oppression of women, worldwide, under the Romanized Western parody of international law.  The Good Ol’ Boys have used all kinds of strategies to keep women from gaining the voice which is rightfully theirs: from witch-burning to polarizing discussion into volatile and inflammatory divisive issues like the “abortion debate.”  The world is changing; the entrenched male hierarchy has had their chance and has created nothing but wars and other violence, poverty, pain and suffering, and ecological devastation.  Hey guys, wake up and smell the coffee!
LABOR DAY: Labor Day will be celebrated September 4.  Union-busting intensified under the Kennedy administration and has further escalated since the Reagan administration, and we need acknowledge the changes by re-naming this national holiday.  A more accurate name would be “Slave-labor Day,” or, better yet, “International Human Rights Day,” recognizing the people who will be working the whole three-day weekend in the highly touted “service sector” at $4.25 an hour or less, and the migrant laborers who will be sweating in the fields for far less than the minimum wage, harvesting the food for your Labor Day picnic.  And, what about the guys in the newly-formed chain gangs, bringing back the good ol’ days of prison-labor, do they get a 3-day holiday?  Harry Wu, where are you?
CRIME WATCH: In the cities, local police departments sponsor “Neighborhood Watch” programs under which neighborhood residents report criminal activity.  We also need “Neighborhood Watch” groups in the Northbrush: the tree-huggers need to organize to stop fly-by-night wood-butchers from terrorizing the local environment and destroying the habitat of the bears, birds, deer, and other local residents.  If you see any suspicious bulldozers, tree-skidders (especially the kind that takes 40 acres to turn around, and wrecks everything in front of it)... if you see people in hard-hats or orange vests, building roads that go nowhere; if you see any questionable-looking politicians with that greedy look in their eyes, especially ones with bulging back pockets—that’s when the people who care about this land should be able to call a hotline and report crimes against the environment.  The only problem: what’s the phone number?
BROKEN PROMISES: When I was growing up at Red Lake, when we met someone, instead of saying “Hello,” we usually said, “When’s Payment?”  That was standard etiquette on the Rez a generation ago.  But, things change, although people still don’t greet you with a “Hello.”  Now, especially at White Earth, the usual greeting is “When are the indictments coming down?”
John Collier, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs who was the Founding Father of the Indian Reorganization Act (I.R.A.) Tribal Governments, was quoted as saying the Indian politicians he wanted had a “white-plus psychology,” meaning that they were greedier and more corrupt than the white politicians that Collier knew in Washington—if that’s possible.  But, there is always “the good and the bad” in every politician, including the Federally-Recognized I.R.A. Indian leaders.  I try to see the good in everybody, and these Indian politicians are good at stealing, they’re good at lying, and, in a Democratic way, they’re very good at putting their own interests ahead of their constituents’.  (The “mismanagement” of the recent Indigenous Games is one of many examples.)
FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED INDIGENOUS GAMES: The White man has been playing games with his Indians since he invented them.  On one hand, he says “Indians are sovereign,” but on the other, he says that “Indians are wards of the government, under trusteeship,” which means “incompetent.”  Under the English common law used in the U.S., in order to be guilty of a crime, a person must be competent to stand trial—maybe this is why certain Indian Leaders can rip off tax dollars.  The White immigrants used “Indians”—specifically adult Indian males—to sign treaties and land cession “agreements.”  How can documents signed by incompetent people be legally valid?
FOURTH PARTY: Rumor has it that Senator Bill Bradley is throwing his grey hat into the political melee.  He publicly announced that he is leaving the Senate, but he hopes to make some changes in Washington, D.C.  I don’t know what his platform is, but he sounds inspirational and patriotic; as though he sees some fresh air and a light at the end of the tunnel.  His Party needs to start with cleaning out the bull-pen: some of those old bulls and over-fed steers have been fouling the barn for 200 years (and rats have infested the foundation), and the stench and pollution from Washington, and the brown cloud that hangs over it, are sometimes remarkably vile.
Have a safe holiday—drive safely and wear your seat belt.
My telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
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3898.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1997). Reflections from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway Nation (We, the People): Another new deal: Newt Gingrich and his cronies are making moves ... Native American Press/Ojibwe News.
Abstract: ANOTHER NEW DEAL: Newt Gingrich and his cronies are making moves to bring one of Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt’s projects, the “New Deal,” to an end.  Their “reform” package includes privatizing social security and abolishing FDR’s social safety net, welfare (which has become a dirty word).
Before the 1929 stock market crash, most of the United States economy had been privatized under President Hoover.  Even small investors were encouraged to put their life savings into Wall Street—and then the stock brokers sold them more stock on credit.  As long as the patterns remain embedded in the language, history will repeat itself.  If the reform to do away with FDR’s new deal, and privatize the economy again, succeeds, then the money in the Social Security trust fund will be invested in the stock market.  Stock prices will rise dramatically.  Then, more credit will become available for the U.S. Government investors to buy even more worthless stocks.  You guessed it: the stock market will crash—it will be 1929 all over again.  The only difference is that along with your social security number, you’ll be assigned your own private window to jump out of.  That’s progress.
CRIMINAL CULTURE: In the editorial section of Tuesday’s Star Tribune, the editorial staff writes that the new Congressional “juvenile-crime” legislation “forbids the use of its funds for crime prevention.”  The policy advisors to the U.S. Congress are not fools, and in their criminal minds, they know perfectly well that investment in prisons increases the crime rate.  So, why are they voting to condemn another generation of children to a marginalized life of crime and imprisonment?  Ever since the Europeans got to this continent, they have developed their criminal culture: stealing land through crooked treaties and unjust wars, killing all of the indigenous people and replacing them with Indians, ripping off resources, polluting the water, and creating mayhem everywhere they went.  The funny part of it is, they’re so crooked they won’t even admit to what they did.
The congressmen who are voting to build more prisons, create gangs by forcing single mothers into a marginal job market, destroy communities with “urban development,” and continue their generations-long strategy of attacking women and families, know perfectly well what chaos their policies will create.  They are buying time, and making money for themselves and their good buddies in the prison-contracting business, while the taxpayers pay to entrench the police-state more deeply.
The propaganda and spin doctors of the mainstream media are very effective in hiding what the elite policy-makers are doing in this “land of the free and home of the [apartheid] brave.”  The electorate looks straight at the schemes and con jobs, and most of them are so brainwashed by crooked English that they don’t see what’s right in front of them—or, they’re into denial.  According to the July 15 Strib, Green Bay Packers’ defensive end Reggie White told a group of high school students in Knoxville that the white government and white police “provoke young black men in order to put them behind bars, thus allowing the government to deprive them of education.  [They] want young black males to sell drugs, join gangs and use guns, so they can be arrested.”  Sportswriter Patrick Reusse dismisses Reggie White’s observations by implying that his comments referred to a “conspiratorial view” of the white electorate, but, the common person in the U.S. lost his power with the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.  It’s hard to see from inside the English language, but the feudal history of medieval Europe is repeating itself.  Serf’s up, peon the peasants.
MORE SCANDALS: While we’re on the subject of crime, congressman Fred Thompson of Tennessee is described by Robert Reno, in an editorial reprinted in the Star Tribune, as “soldiering bravely” through the muck of campaign finance.  There are different categories of financing the political parties, and nobody seems to have a handle on what kind of money they’re upset about—it remains nameless in this bastardized English language (as the Indians would say, “it’s so sacred, we can’t talk about it”).  The issue of the moment is that somebody got caught publicly doing business that is supposed to be discretely conducted behind closed doors and remain part of the good ol’ boys’ exclusive tradition.  In the old days, some kinds of foreign relations were called “gunboat diplomacy,” and very few people protested about that kind of influence in other peoples’ governments.  Desert Storm was another example of sticking your nose into other peoples’ business, a “world policeman’s” shakedown for well-entrenched vested interests.  But, now that the circle’s come around, and the former victims of gunboat diplomacy are using their finances to protect their own interests, the good ol’ boys don’t like it, but nobody knows exactly what to call it: is it soft money, hard money, cold cash, clean money, laundered money, hush money, Indian money, bread, lots of dough, or good old fashioned influence peddling?
GOLD DIGGERS: When the colonial investors wanted to get Europeans to leave their homeland and come to this continent, they planted rumors about the streets on this continent being paved with gold.  When they wanted to get settlers into California, they had the Gold Rush of 1849.  Then, when they wanted people to go to Alaska, there was another gold rush.  They make their advance settlers into fly-by-nights, crazed with gold fever.  Unwilling participants in these gold rushes and settlement schemes are “transported” prisoners—a lot of prison-boats were unloaded on these shores, and it looks like their descendants are going to take another flying leap.  There hasn’t been a good old American gold rush in a long time, so Uncle Sam sent Pathfinder to Mars to look at rocks.  If you’re going to invest in the stock market, I recommend stocks in pick-and-shovel companies ... good luck to you Martian prospectors, and don’t forget to be inoculated for gold fever.  ‘Bye.
My mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56619, and my telephone number is (218) 679-3984.                                                          Wub-e-ke-niew

3899.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1995). Reflections from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway Nation (We, the People): “Chip Wadena” was the headline of a staff editorial in Tuesday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune. ... Native American Press/Ojibwe News.
Abstract: “Chip Wadena” was the headline of a staff editorial in Tuesday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune.  Sixty-one years after the fact, the mainstream media is finally waking up to the human rights abuses of 1934 I.R.A. Indian tribal government, writing, “problems with reservation administrative, political and electoral processes are often the rule, dating from the federal government’s creation of elected [sic] tribal governments in 1934.”
In reality, the so-called “Indian constitutions” are abusive client documents, written by White bureaucrats within the Euro-American power structure, designed to benefit the good ol’ boys in the resource and real estate industries.  The Strib writes that power is centralized under the 1934 I.R.A. constitutions, but does not identify the primary problem of the 1934 I.R.A., which is that the people defined as Indians are wards of the U.S. Government under trusteeship—without any power at all.
The corruption at White Earth (and on the other Indian reservations) has always been a three-ring circus, involving the Federal government, the State government, and the so-called “Tribal government.”  The corporations are the ring-masters, and the Indian and other government puppets are fulfilling P.T. Barnum’s maxim that “there’s a sucker born every minute.”
If U.S. Attorney Lillehaug gets his way with U.S. Government jurisdiction under Indian sovereignty, then Wadena and his cohorts will probably push for application of Public Law 280, in the hopes that the good ol’ boys in the State of Minnesota will only give him a slap on the wrist.  The Indian Dissidents at Camp Justice have been cheering ever since the indictments came down, but now’s the time for them to get busy and go after the D.F.L. party hacks and members of the State Legislature who have been behind the scenes in making life miserable for Indians on the Rez.  If you settle for another round of broken promises, we’ve got news for you.  The good ol’ boys are planning to write a new Indian Constitution for the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, with the same basic structure (the U.S. Government will still be autocratically in charge)—but with more refined lawyerese and more paragraphs of Crooked English.  My advice to you dissidents and malcontents in Camp Justice: if you don’t keep up the pressure, and if you just sit back and wait for justice to take its course, things will only get worse.  You might as well stand out in your front yard, place your hand on your ass, and wish for the moon.
“HONEST BOB:”  The Honorable Senator Bob Dole is on the campaign trail.  One of the planks in his super-patriotic platform is “English First,” mandating that all American citizens be fluent in the language of the British heirs of the Roman Empire.  I don’t know how he’s going to manage that, since the public education system is a shambles, and many of the students who complete their term of compulsory school education speak only a few words of rudimentary English, and can neither read nor write.  With all the funding cutbacks that the Grand Old Republican Party is pushing through Congress, it sounds like the bill he’s campaigning to introduce is some more Crooked English.
In my experience with compulsory education, the Red Lake schools beat me for speaking my native Ahnishinahbæótjibway language, but only taught us a few words of English.  I learned the English language from reading, and looking up every word I didn’t understand in a dictionary.  I am not a linguist, but from where I stand in the Northbrush, I see it to be a violent language; a pseudo-male language with undertones of homosexuality—programming men to be “macho,” self-destructive and insensitive; a hierarchical language which oppresses and denies the identity of women and everyone else who has only a rudimentary grasp of English.  English is a linear-thinking language—a con job which makes it impossible to win an argument with those who have superior knowledge of this insidious language.
The 1934 I.R.A. Constitutions are a good example of how the good ol’ boys use Crooked English.  That the United States Secretary of the Interior holds all of the Sovereignty and all of the power in the so-called “Indian Nations” is written right into the Tribal Constitutions, but because most of the Reservation Indians don’t understand Crooked English, they believe the hocus-pocus about “Sovereign Indian Nations” which has been promoted by the media, and stand up right on cue to holler, “Honor the Treaties,” which is some more Crooked English—the U.S. is honoring the treaties, they are the ones who wrote these fraudulent documents in Crooked English (the Treaties were land cession documents and the U.S.A. has the land).  Would you buy a used car from “Honest Bob?”
Senator Bob gives speeches in Crooked English, promoting the illusion that English First will bring this country back together.  The Demo-Publicans put a lot of energy and effort into destroying Aboriginal Indigenous families and communities, as well as using the old Roman “divide and conquer” strategy to promote ethnic, class, and racial strife.  Now, the very same people who proclaimed themselves “our brother’s keepers” and claimed God told them to use Manifest Destiny, are complaining about “ethnic separation.”  The English language is a masterpiece of manipulative deceptions, abstract illusions, mixed metaphors, violently twisted dichotomies and subtle falsehoods.  It’s an amazing work of con artists and the foundation of centuries of suffering and wars; but I love this language, because like all of the other monumental achievements of Western Culture (such as destroying the environment, wrecking Indigenous communities all over the world, and sending everything toward extinction), it’s so magnificently and disgustingly crooked.  English is a slave language, and promoting English First is a big step in the direction of Euro-American feudalism.  It goes something like this: “Serf’s up, peon the peasants.”
The English language does not belong on this continent, and immigrant Westerners mandating English as the official “American” language is an open admission of genocide.  Go ahead, Honest Bob, make my day.
MORE INDIANS: The blood quantum strategy has taken its toll, and the B.I.A. is running low on Red Lake Indians—as planned.  The shysters and backroom chiefs at the Bureau are at a loss for crooked terminology re-defining “Indians” yet another time, so the white men who run the 1934 I.R.A. Red Lake Tribal Council have amended the “Tribal Code” to create more Indians.  They’re really getting cheap: the only “Indian benefit” these new Indians get is prosecution by the B.I.A.’s kangaroo Indian court under the new “beefed up” tribal code.
The Euro-Americans’ Indian identity has always been a lie, and the people who give up their own identity to play Indian are hypocrites.  In Indian affairs, the White man has always been a hypocrite, promoting a fraudulent identity which is a human rights violation.  Because the Euro-Americans think in Crooked English, they thought they could get away with using Aboriginal Indigenous resources—which made them rich—to destroy the Indigenous peoples of this continent.  But if you listen carefully, you can hear the circle coming around.
            My telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
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3900.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1997). Reflections from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway Nation (We, the People): “Clinton is the first president to level about race,” according to journalist Syl Jones ... Native American Press/Ojibwe News.
Abstract: “Clinton is the first president to level about race,” according to journalist Syl Jones in the Commentary section of the June 17 Star Tribune.  Historically, all of the U.S. Presidents were “level” about race—most of them were prone, although Lincoln went toward a vertical dimension in Mankato.  Clinton, like other second-term presidents, is playing politics for future history writers, wanting to leave his legacy.  But, like most politicians, Clinton’s noble posturing is meaningless: just another slogan.  Nixon’s Clean Air Act was a slogan, Johnson’s War on Poverty was another slogan, and Affirmative Action is another empty slogan.  Without a serious plan of action, these words are nothing more than hot air.  Like the Ten Commandments, which are ten slogans, they are meaningless: hypocritical catchphrases and empty platitudes.
APOLOGIES: Ever since the Roman Catholic Pope apologized to Galileo (about five hundred years late), public figures have gone ape, monkey-see, monkey-do, making headlines with meaningless apologies.  Sunday’s Star Tribune mentions a number of these would-be apologists, including British Prime Minister Tony “Radical Center” Blair, who apologized for the Irish famine of 1845.  From another British colony, former U.S.A. President F.W. De Klerk apologized, “on our knees before God Almighty” for living at the wrong time, and getting caught.  The Star Tribune quotes de Klerk as begging God’s forgiveness (but not the forgiveness of the South African Blacks’) for being “the product of the cultural and political circumstances into which we were born and with which we grew up.”  From yet another continent of the stolen British Empire, Prime Minister John Howard of Australia “rejected recommendations” that he apologize to the aboriginal people of Australia for more than a century of British genocide, rape, forced removals and other human rights violations.  And, from still other heirs of the British, state of Minnesota representative Martin Sabo is said by the Star Tribune to be “not prepared to respond” about either slavery or racism.  Sabo is the DFL Party’s in-house Congressman.  Another apartheid statesman we haven’t heard from yet is Nelson Mandela: who has been a highly touted advocate of “democracy” and “freedom,” but whose administration is henching for European globalization and NATO imperialism.  “Democracy” and “freedom” are some snake-oil salesman crooked English words, and in spite of the positive “spin” on them, what they really mean is “exclusion” and “apartheid.”  What Nelson Mandela should be doing, is apologizing to De Klerk for kicking out the old horse-and-buggy form of European apartheid, and bringing in a newer, updated, “electronic age” form of European apartheid.  If Nelson Mandela does the manly thing and apologizes, watch De Klerk’s face light up with a big, devious smile.
MILITARY PROMOTION: The Major Crimes Act has been promoted to the General F--k-up Act at Red Lake.  The Major Crimes Act, now known as the General F--k-up Act, was passed by the White man in the 1800’s, as encroachment legislation to control the community on Indian Reservations, and that’s just how Attorney General Lillehaug is using it.  He’s throwing the blame for recent reservation violence onto the people of Redby, and hiding behind the “60 to 70 day” countdown “to make a case.”  What Lillehaug is doing is even more encroachment, social engineering to give the FBI and the federal government an excuse to create a police state at Red Lake, and get their hands into the casino coffers at the same time.  Lillehaug could have easily arrested the people who were part of the school-party murder.  “60 to 70 days” is an empty excuse, because the Feds could have arrested the murderers on other trumped-up charges, like they do for everybody else.  Lillehaug’s delay is a part of a long-standing strategy, an old Machiavellian concept, of creating conflict in communities which the Europeans have invaded and occupied.  The people at Red Lake need to sue Lillehaug for the “consequential damages” caused by his unnecessary social-engineering delay—and, as a part of the wanna-be White government, Lillehaug needs to make an apology for the pain and suffering that his high-handed apartheid policies have inflicted on people at Red Lake.
KA-LAI-JA: Years ago, when former vice-president Hubert Humphrey was still campaigning for Congress, Chairman-for-Life Roger Jourdain adopted Humphrey into the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians.  Not so very long ago, when Roosevelt’s machine politics were still running smoothly on well-greased wheels, Roger Jourdain didn’t need a medicine man to help him play Indian, and he didn’t need a shaman, either.  He adopted Hubert Humphrey, but through the Indian grapevine, it was always said that they gave Humphrey the wrong name—that his real name was “Walking Eagle.”  And now, you know the rest of the story.
As long as I can remember, all the White man had to say about Indians was “assimilate, and be civilized like us.”  Now, politicians have given up on kissing babies, and are being adopted into Indian tribes.  Under the authority of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal I.R.A., the Red Lake Tribal Council has adopted Roger Moe (presumably with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior or his duly authorized representative).
Back in the 1950’s, when the Bureau of Indian Affairs was “precipitating factions” to get the Indian Reorganization Act onto Red Lake, the landless Indians who aren’t from here, like Roger Jourdain and his flunkies, backed the I.R.A. because the United States Government was promising to give these outsiders land at Red Lake.  (The United States Government has never had any legitimate claim to the land at Red Lake, but that’s another issue.)
Bobby Whitefeather isn’t an Indian Medicine Man, like Roger Jourdain was.  So, he had to go get the Minnesota Legislature’s Indian Shaman to make Roger Moe into an Indian.  The newspapers don’t report how much blood quantum they gave Roger Moe when they adopted him—back in the old days, when they turned White men into Indians, they usually made them into “halfbreeds.”  There’s something strange going on, with the highly advanced civilization that the White man was forcing us to assimilate into.  Now, the children of the White Man who said that God entrusted them with Manifest Destiny are regressing, and their guilt is showing.  (Guilt makes people do strange things.)   They’re so civilized they’ve degenerated, and they all want to become “natives,” “New Age Indians,” and White Federally Adopted Wanna-be’s.  If you Republicans really want to get rid of Roger Moe, all you have to do is terminate the Indians.  With “one stroke on the keyboard,” you’ll get rid of that degenerated half-breed Indian Roger Moe, and then your troubles are over (or maybe they’re just beginning).  Well, anyway, the rest of you, who aren’t adopted Indians and wanna-be’s, have a nice day.
My mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56619, and my telephone number is (218) 679-3984.                                                                      Wub-e-ke-niew

3901.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1996). Reflections from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway Nation (We, the People): Governor Arne Carlson is “firmly opposed to any increase” in Minnesota’s poverty-level minimum wage ... Native American Press/Ojibwe News.
Abstract: Governor Arne Carlson is “firmly opposed to any increase” in Minnesota’s poverty-level minimum wage, according to the Tuesday, February 20 Minneapolis Star Tribune.  (If Arne thinks the minimum wage is that great, he should be paid $4.25 an hour for being Governor.)  The Strib also reported that Republicans explained the increase would put rural businesses at a “competitive disadvantage.”  But, rural businesses are not all small businesses, and some of the “rural businesses” which pay minimum wage are major, multi-national corporations.  The minimum wage for small-town Ma-and-Pa stores which have a high school kid helping out after school is one thing, and a livable-wage minimum wage law which exempted rural businesses with less than ten employees could be fair.  But big businesses which sell stock on the New York Stock Exchange paying the minimum wage to their 39-hours-per-week (and no benefits) employees, and million-dollar bonuses to top-level executives, is exploitation—sanctioned by the State, and subsidized by tax breaks for the wealthy and condoned with meager poverty-programs for the “working poor.”  But, then again, the imported European Capitalist, Communist, Socialist, etc. philosophies advocate the concepts, “greed is good” and “exploitation is healthy,” although the people who are being exploited have never had a forum to air their grievances and broadcast how they feel about it.

BLOWING SMOKE: Since Grassroots Party leader Arlin Troutt’s eloquent speech at his conviction on drug charges, the controversy over the Government’s role in “morality legislation” has become more public.  If the government is using selective prohibition to “protect the citizenry,” why don’t they also prohibit sugar, tobacco, coffee, chemical food additives and alcohol other than untaxed moonshine and Crazy Horse Malt Liquor.  I detect a more than a hint of hypocrisy—it looks like the Great White Father is using drug laws as social engineering: to keep the class system intact, to tear apart inner-city communities, to divert attention away from the shenanigans and rip-offs done by the elite and their henches the “democratic leaders,” and to make money for the good ol’ boys through economic opportunities created by the criminal justice system (like sweetheart prison contracts).
In the 1960’s, some of the Hippie Generation used a mild form of marijuana as a religious sacrament.  The Generals in the Drug War are afraid that a new religion will become formalized, something like the “Peyote Cult” of the Native American Church.  If prohibition continues, that’s probably what will happen... schisms from the Grassroots Party could form outdoor churches and little cults like “Rope-a-Dope,” “Heap-Big-Smoke (but no fire),” and “The Congregation of the Church of Good Shit,” to name a few.  The Good Christians use alcohol as a sacred drug, burn incense, and have canonized some far out visions described in their Bible, so this kind of “new religion” would be Constitutionally protected.
Marijuana is a medicinal herb, and like all medicines (even aspirin), can be abused.  Just as the British promoted opium abuse in China, and rauwolfia in the water supply in India, the U.S. Government is tacitly promoting certain kinds of drug abuse to keep non-white communities subjugated in a re-run of the same kinds of exploitive colonial thinking that they’ve been using for centuries.  The present prohibition “drug laws” are intended to create criminal behavior and social disintegration—and to fragment communities into powerless nuclear families.

THE “GOOD GUYS:” According to the social science textbook, Theories of Deviance, edited by Stuart H. Traub and Craig B. Little, “Crime is a definition of behavior that is conferred on some persons by others.  Agents of the law (legislators, police, prosecutors and judges), representing segments of a politically organized society, are responsible for formulating and administering criminal law.  Persons and behaviors, therefore, become criminal because of the formulation and application of criminal definitions.  Thus, crime is created.  ... Crime is not inherent in behavior, but is a judgement made by some about the actions and characteristics of others. ... Crime is seen as a result of a process which culminates in the defining of persons and behaviors as criminal.  It follows, then, that the greater the number of criminal definitions formulated and applied, the greater the amount of crime. ... Criminal definitions describe behaviors that conflict with the interests of the segments of society that have the power to shape public policy.” [emphasis theirs]
From an Ahnishinahbæótjibway perspective, many of the actions and values of these powerful “segments of society” are those of criminal con-artists.  If the European culture and values which have been imposed on this Continent had been balanced and harmonious, then the Europeans would have never had to cut themselves off from their roots and leave their homeland.

 BROWNSHIRTS: Using innuendos and allegations, the young Republicans are demolishing each other with “negative campaigning;” the anonymous alligators need to come forward and act responsibly.  When all the bashing is done, and the primary melée is over, will there be anybody left?  How about Newt?
To solidify his constituents in the New Hampshire primaries, perennial presidential candidate and former Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchanan reluctantly suspended militant right-winger Larry Pratt, who was adept at rabble-rousing, and getting out the riff-raff and redneck vote.  Four years ago, Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard and neo-Nazi David Duke was suspended by the Republicans, and because of his “tainted blood” suddenly dropped out of politics and went back to selling insurance in the Aryan Nation.  Both parties want the reactionary vote, but don’t want their enthusiastic public support or “kiss-of-death” endorsements.
Buchanan is extremely sensitive to the mood of the disenfranchised lower classes, and is effectively promoting issues which attract and motivate them.  But, he is also attracting another element—and creating scapegoats to blame for the economic woes of blue-collar workers.  Remember the last time such a charismatic and expedient leader got involved in politics: the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930’s was accelerated by his apparent sympathy to the woes created by high German unemployment, and the urgent need for scapegoats to protect the upper classes and motivate the working people.
Can you hear the faint cadence of hob-nailed jackboots marching through the distant night on cobblestones, to the strains of Richard Wagner.  They say that music “soothes the savage beast,” but Wagner’s is a wake-up call for the beast; it stirs nationalism and ethnic cleansing, pseudo-morality based on judging others—creating unhappy groups and thus legitimizing hate.
As long as the Westerners are prisoners of their hierarchical, disconnected and violent language, their history will continue to repeat itself.  Rodney King said, “why can’t we all get along?”  But then again, it’s not a level playing field.

My telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56619.
                                                            Wub-e-ke-niew

3902.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1997). Reflections from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway Nation (We, the People): Greetings and hello to all of you peasants and you immigrants, and boozhoo to all you Indians, eh.  When Mike Tyson telephoned Ross Perot, what did Perot say? ... Native American Press/Ojibwe News.
Abstract: Greetings and hello to all of you peasants and you immigrants, and boozhoo to all you Indians, eh.  When Mike Tyson telephoned Ross Perot, what did Perot say?
NICOTINE FITS:  This year, the city of Bemidji is celebrating its Centennial.  For sixty of the past hundred years, since 1937, Paul Bunyan has been standing on the western shores of Lake Bemidji.  This rugged individual, who was the first mercenary and eco-terrorist for the paper mills and lumber companies who lobby in Washington, D.C., has been the icon of Bemidji, and a role model for the local youth who wanted to grow up to be lumberjacks like Paul Bunyan.  Now, the timber is gone, clearcut, but Paul still continues to influence children: he has a pipe in his mouth continually.
Rumor has it that Bemidji High School has installed surveillance cameras throughout the school neighborhood to apprehend students smoking on their lunch break, and the State is stepping up enforcement (and creating crime where there is no crime) by “carding” would-be tobacco purchasers and running expensive “sting” operations.  It seems like they’re spending an awful lot of money—and prohibition just makes illicit products seem more desirable.  The guys who are using tobacco prohibition for their own gain, making unnecessary laws to enhance their own employment, are con artists, and they should be in jail.  If they really cared about public health, they would be focussing on big polluters instead of on mickey-mouse issues and scapegoating tobacco.  They’ve already castrated Babe the Blue Ox, so the pillars of Bemidji might as well take away Paul’s symbol of manhood, his pipe, so he’s not a big example of filthy, rotten, dirty habits.
DOUBLESPEAK: The discussions about the Boundary Waters “wilderness” have reached an impasse, and so the final settlement will be hashed out in Washington, D.C.  Those of us who have dealt with Washington on a long-term basis know what that means.  The spin departments for the timber industry are already planting “trial balloons,” including improbable stories about how the ecosystems work, into the media.  Among the rationales that they’re testing for public acceptance are the “global warming” and the end-of-the world theories: that the BWCA is at the “southern boundary of the conifer forest area”—it never used to be, until the immigrant European lumberjacks came in here and cut down the rest of the pine forests.  In another year or so, the paper mills will try to persuade the public to cut down the forests in the BWCA because the forests will “die anyway” from global warming and pollution, so they might as well cut down the forests so the trees aren’t “wasted.”  Another corporate fable is that the trees in old-growth forests are “too crowded,” and “sound management” requires that they cut down two out of three trees to “make room” for the remaining trees.  The part of this fairy story that they don’t tell you is that this is the next step in demolishing the entire ecosystem: cutting down the few stands of old-growth which remain on this continent, replacing them with “tree farms,” and then telling the public that there are “more trees” than there were five hundred years ago.  What they don’t say is that these “more trees” are only about three inches tall, and in sickly, chemical-laden tree farms—like the modern agricultural cornfields with nothing but dead birds in them.
Looking beyond the doublespeak, the English language tells me what they’re going to do.  I’m making a prediction and a prophecy: the entire Boundary Waters Canoe Area is going to be destroyed: cut down, logged off, and “developed,” and the animals will be driven into extinction.  Your European English language is out of balance with nature, with yourselves, and with reality.  Even if God came down and performed a miracle, the BWCA will still go into extinction—the bottom line for the White man is making money, and the English language is filled with blueprints for exploiting women, nature ... and everything else.  That’s why the Euro-Americans left Europe and gave themselves a new name (although they kept their old criminal values).
LAND OF THE FREE: In a Strib “Counterpoint” editorial on August second, attorneys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People quoted from a NAACP position paper stating that, “segregation was and is tied inextricably to the ideology of white supremacy.”  The NAACP proposes battling the consequences of white supremacist thinking in the courts, as well as in “state legislatures and executive mansions, before boards of education and councils of local governments, with local businesses and civic organizations, and last but not least, with parents and students.”  All of these proposed NAACP “battlegrounds” are White institutions, including the NAACP, which, if it was all Black, wouldn’t be “colored.”  If they’re expecting to win “justice” with their battles, they’re in for a big disappointment.  There’s another institution, called “repeat after me, ‘our father who art in heaven,’” but that’s a dead-end White institution, too.
Dealing with problems created by White institutions inside of the context of these institutions isn’t going to solve the problems of racism and “race relations,” nor the hierarchical apartheid which is embedded in the English language.  If Euro-American language was not inherently apartheid, both the White immigrants and the descendants of their Black slaves would not be here—they would still be at home, taking care of their “motherlands” and their “fatherlands” in Europe and Africa.
Violence is a part the un-natural makeup of cultural and religion of Western Civilization, and is inherent in the English language.  It amuses me, when the Euro-Americans create all kinds of different religions, political parties and other institutions, and then fight about them.  They are stuck in the violence, abstract unreality and stupidity of their language.  If the NAACP and other organizations looking for social justice are serious about wanting change, they need to look beyond “race relations,” which is a White institution created by the language, and take a damn’ good hard look at the violence and oppression in the pathologically unbalanced English language.

Perot said, “Go ahead, Mike, I’m all ears.”  Y’all have a good day, eh.

My mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56619, and my telephone number is (218) 679-3984.
                                                                        Wub-e-ke-niew

3903.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1997). Reflections from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway Nation (We, the People): Greetings and hello to all of you peasants and you immigrants, and boozhoo to all you Indians, eh.  Achtung! to you Germans and sainted Germans ... Native American Press/Ojibwe News.
Abstract: Greetings and hello to all of you peasants and you immigrants, and boozhoo to all you Indians, eh.  Achtung! to you Germans and sainted Germans.

ONE NATION UNDER JUDEO-CHRISTIANITY: According to the Metro/State section of the August 14 Star Tribune, TV evangelist Robert Schuller was convicted for assault on a United Airlines flight attendant.  In my book, We Have The Right to Exist, I write about the violence of the Christians’ religion.  In St. Mary’s Mission School at Redlake, and in other boarding schools across the country, run by the U.S. Government and the religious reich, indigenous children were beaten daily in the name of God and civilization, so that we would become numb and immune to the violence which saturates the White man’s culture.  Now, people are concerned about the violence in Euro-American culture, about the daily gunshots and murders which are a part of Euro-American urban life.  They keep pointing fingers and blaming television as causing the violence.  Instead of blaming the symptoms, they need to go to the source: male violent language and the western religion that it molds, are the cause of their violence, and what about the Branch Davidians at Waco?  The surro-great white mother (acting on behalf of the Great White Father) burned up all of those little children to “protect” them.

TIGHT SHOES (if the shoe fits, wear it): My name is Wub-e-ke-niew.  That other name was given to my father in the Mission School by racist Christians, to destroy my people’s real identity.  My father was the first generation with the name “Blake,” and using that derogatory “Indian” name is an insult, a human rights violation, disgusting and obscene.  I have my identity—and I am not a European and I am not an Indian or a “Native American.”  The Indians, who were brought onto my land by the White man, call me “Blake” just like their racist full-White relatives do, because the Indians are hiding from their genocidal history like the rest of the immigrants.  When you claim to own stolen property, you are just as guilty as the people who murdered to steal it.
Hitler learned from the Americans, the British, and other European colonizing nations, how to commit genocide and other vile human rights violations.  These perversions remain embedded in Western European thought, and are still a part of Euro-American language, culture and tradition.  In this beginning of this century, United States Senator Albert Beveridge spoke for the mainstream when he addressed Congress: “We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world.  And we will move forward to our work ... with gratitude for a task worthy of our strength, and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world... Mr. President, this question is deeper than any question of party politics; deeper than any question of isolated policy of our country even; deeper even than any question of constitutional power.  It is elemental.  It is racial.  God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain and idle self-contemplation and self-admiration.  No!  He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns.  He has given us the spirit of progress to overwhelm the forces of reaction throughout the earth.  He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savage and senile peoples.  Were it not for such a force as this the world would relapse into barbarism and night.  And of all our race He has marked the American people to finally lead in the regeneration of the world.  [Such garbage—they didn’t take care of their land in Europe, and they still don’t know how to take care of the land here.]  This is the divine mission of America, and it holds for us all the profit, all the glory, all the happiness possible for man.”  By “man,” Beveridge and his cohorts meant the invading European white man, and not even their own women.
If anyone is looking for the Third Reich, all they have to do is look at their own Euro-American history—where did you come from, and what are you doing here?  The indigenous people of this continent did not invade Europe or anywhere else.  The European invaders and their Indian descendants have been on this continent for five hundred years, and they are behaving in a way that gives pigs a bad name: polluting everything, killing people and sending entire ecosystems into extinction.  All you have to do is look at Red Lake—the fish are gone, and the forests have been cut down by wanna-be Indians who have European values and are a part of the Euro-American parasitic culture.
Racism is a European concept, and it always has been.  It’s embedded in the European languages in order to justify stealing, enslaving people, dehumanizing and domesticating them, and taking away their real identity.  There were no “Indians” on this continent until the Europeans got here—the artificial Indian identity was created by the Europeans and Euro-Americans as a part of their racist culture, and it continues to be funded by the White good ol’ boys who run “America.”  The darker-skinned children of White men were called Indians because these Whites were so racist they excluded their own children from their community.  These Indians, who all have a White patriline, were used by their fathers’ people to destroy indigenous people and our permaculture, and to hide the near-total genocide of my Ahnishinahbæótjibway people.
The “one drop of black blood” rule segregates people.  Madame Albright points to Chinese “human rights violations,” but what about her own back yard?  The “black blood” rule remains enforced to this day, with Indians (whose ancestors were categorized as “mulattos” 137 years ago) classified down to 1/508th non-White blood quantum, and “federal recognition” of Indians based on this fictitious “blood quantum” and controlled by the White government.  Indian “sovereignty” is a part of this Euro-American apartheid, in which the lily-Whites keep all of the power and segregate their relatives who are a darker shade of White, into dependency as a part of a feudal class structure.  And, you want me to be a part of that civilized society by calling me “Blake.”  No thank you!
If the indigenous people here had been civilized like the Europeans, we would have killed Christopher Columbus—he would never have landed.  I don’t need to be civilized, and I don’t need a “soul,” because I don’t condone slavery.  Western civilization is a slave society, and I do not want to be a part of it.  By refusing to recognize me as an indigenous person of this land, the language of the invaders and their heirs like c.e. saint germaine, tells me that they want to continue creating the American Reich, dripping with the blood of my people.  And, stay away from me, saint—the further people like you stay away, the better I like it: in your arrogant self-righteousness, you have bad “manifest destiny” vibes.
“Racial purity” is an illusion and a con job, and “peace” is just another word for continual violence.  The people of Western Civilization have been mongrelized by the rape of war-and-peace ever since their violent society began.  There is no such thing as race, but there is a class system.  The egalitarian indigenous people of this continent did not have either “race” or “social class,” but we had family, the Dodem, which is my identity.  This has nothing to do with “race.”  As a diatribe-writer in last week’s Native American Press/Ojibwe News observed somewhat less than compassionately, I am among the last of my people.  All of my relatives of my Dodems were massacred in the genocide against my people.  They are gone.  To label my remembrance of my relatives who were killed in the continent-wide holocaust of half a millennium, as “racism” is bad manners and no respect, as well as being active complicity in the coverup of the White man’s perverted philosophy of “my brother’s keeper” which is an euphemism for genocide.  When I reach down into the soil, when I touch Grandmother Earth, the bones of my ancestors for hundreds of millennia are right here.  My Indodemian may be dead, but I am not alone.  I am still connected to the Earth here.
There was never any genocide against the Indians, because they all have European patrilines—those who were killed, were murdered in fratricide (like Cain and Abel) by their own father’s people for economic reasons, greed.  Both miscegenation and primogeniture were used to disinherit the White man’s children: “race” is a part of the White man’s economic system and class structure.  That’s why the Indians never talk about genocide of the Indian people, and they’re not going to.  And, they never admit to the genocide of the indigenous people, because they are in complicity with it.
According to the Christian calendar, we stand at the threshold of a new millennium.  Some Indians write about their “venture into the next millennium,” because they are a part of the invader’s Christian system.  What I have to say to them is: if you want to create a decent future for your next generations, you had better talk a long, hard look at your history, if you can.  But, you are caught up in the Euro-Americans’ language, you are into denial, you are a foreigner to this land and it still terrifies you where you haven’t completely trashed it, beaten it into submission and domesticated it—like in the BWCA, where the land is still a reflection of my ancestors’ language.  Even if you cut down every tree, become a tree farmer, and said there was “nothing here” but what you created, you would still be a stranger to this land.  Because of your alienation with everything here, you refuse to say my indigenous name, Wub-e-ke-niew.  I am among the very last of my people, and I will not vanish in silence—you will not get away with your “perfect crime” of stealing this content.  American imperialism and the Third Reich have the same roots and the same values.  You aren’t afraid of the Thousand Year Reich—you already have that, and after more than a five hundred years on this continent, you’re more than half done.  It can’t last, and projecting your immoral values and guilty fears onto me will change nothing: Euro-America had a beginning, and it will also have an end.  And, until you face reality, the violence of the American Reich will circle back around on you, again and again and again.
You need to be cleansed of some of your ignorant illusions, c.e. saint germaine—a golden shower to you, eh.  And the rest of you have a good day.

My mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56619, and my telephone number is (218) 679-3984.
                                                                        Wub-e-ke-niew

3904.   Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1995). Reflections from the Ahnishinahbæótjibway Nation (We, the People): Greetings, pilgrims! And to the rest of the descendants of the Western European immigrants, I hope all of you had an enjoyable holiday ... Native American Press/Ojibwe News.
Abstract: Greetings, pilgrims! And to the rest of the descendants of the Western European immigrants, I hope all of you had an enjoyable holiday while celebrating your “independence” in the Land of the Free, and violently pursuing your traditionally elusive happiness.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: The good upstanding, moral citizens of California have enacted an unconstitutional Proposition which denies all government services to illegal aliens, a foreign kind of discrimination against immigrants based on date of arrival—the second sons of the old European blue-bloods didn’t have green cards, either, and the U.S. Constitution is a European immigrants’ document based on imported Roman and English law.  The recent undocumented immigrants pay more than their fair share of taxes, and subsidize the economic system in California with wages which are far below the poverty level.  The fruit growers and other agribusinesses welcome these so-called illegal aliens with open arms and pats on the back, exploiting their cheap labor, and then, when the crops are harvested, instead of receiving unemployment compensation or social security, the I.N.S. has a big roundup, fines the workers a hefty percentage of their earnings, and deports them back south of the border using firearms and batons (clubs).  So much for “affirmative action” for the most recent immigrants without green cards.
Affirmative action has been touted to “disadvantaged minorities” as redressing the legacy of centuries of discrimination.  A very few Uncle Toms, Uncle Tomahawks and some Aunt Jemimahs and Pocahantases got middle-class jobs as tokens under affirmative action, which maintains the status quo—it was not designed to assimilate or desegregate the good ol’ WASP boys’ economic system.  The people who have benefitted from t