Ojibwe Bibliography – part 10

[01-19-04]

3941. Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1993). Reflections from the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation: According to Star Tribune staff writer Pat Doyle, who wrote an in-depth article on the Mille Lacs Treaty re-negotiations in last Sunday’s paper ... Ojibwe News.
Abstract: According to Star Tribune staff writer Pat Doyle, who wrote an in-depth article on the Mille Lacs Treaty re-negotiations in last Sunday’s paper, the people of Mille Lacs are “Chippewa, or Ojibwe...” For you media writers who mold public opinion, we would like to clarify that the “Chippewa” are an entirely different group of people than the Anishinabe Ojibway. The Chippewa Indians have European or Indo-European fathers; the Chippewa Indians have the same values as their European fathers; and if they ever had any Aboriginal Indigenous ancestors, the Chippewa Indians have lost their identity because of their White fathers. (The only reason that the “Chippewa Indians” are a distinct and identifiable group of people, separated from the Whites, is because of European racism, superstition, guilt, genocide, miscegenation, lust and greed.) The Anishinabe Ojibway are NOT! the same people as the Chippewa Indians! The Anishinabe Ojibway are the Aboriginal Indigenous People of this land, who still have our patrilineal Anishinabe Ojibway Clan and Dodem. Our fathers, and their fathers and grandfathers, for time immemorial, were all Anishinabe Ojibway of this Continent. We can prove—with your own U.S. Government documents—that the Anishinabe Ojibway did NOT sign the “Indian Treaties” because we are not “Indians.”
The external governments which were brought in here by the colonizing European nation-states, also brought in relocated people from other places, and turned them into “Chippewa Indians.” Since the Anishinabe Ojibway people own the land, and the Chippewa Indians signed the Treaties “selling land” which the Chippewa Indians did not own, it is in the vested interests of the immigrant Europeans to confuse the two groups of people using Crooked and slippery English.
ABOLISHING OF TREATY-MAKING, MARCH 3, 1871: The United States Congress, in 1871, in an obscure rider to the Indian Appropriations Bill, outlawed further treaties with Indian tribes. The U.S. Congress outlawed more treaty-making because both the “Indians” and the Whites who made the treaties were “outlaws.”
Treaty-making is, along with “peace” pipes, a foreign European concept, and is not indigenous to this land. The Treaties were written only in the alien European language of English. The parties negotiating the Treaties were the European Whites and the European “Indians.” Stealing and then dividing up somebody else’s land, which is what the “treaties” did, is uncouth and shows that the Europeans have bad manners, if they have any manners at all.
On February 8, why weren’t you Indians celebrating? Last Monday was the big day—where were you Chippewas? On February 8, 1887, the Dawes General Allotment Act was passed by Congress. Chip-away Halfbreed Scrip was issued under almost all of the Chippewa Treaties. A generation later, many of the people who got Halfbreed Scrip (180 Acres) got “allotments,” along with their children and grand-children. Because of their genocide, the United States “Indian Agents” were running out of Aboriginal Indigenous People, who they deliberately mis-identified as “Indians,” for the purposes of their parasitic social engineering. Under the Dawes General Allotment Act, countless numbers formerly White people were turned into “Chippewa Indians,” and used to alienate Anishinabe Ojibway land through the “allotment” scam. The genealogical records show that many of these “Indian Allottees” were White or Mulatto people prior to 1886.
The United States Indian Office tried to “legitimize” their Instant Indians by giving them names stolen from Anishinabe Ojibway people who were killed in the genocide. The Indian Agents also gave their New Indians Chippewa Creole names, like Wah-bish-ku-kush and Gi-chi-e-quay-zaince. It’s obvious that the U.S. Government planned on exterminating all of the Anishinabe Ojibway. In their racism and arrogance, they never once thought that any Aboriginal Indigenous people would survive, much less understand Crooked English as well as their own language, and would be scrutinizing the U.S. “Indian” records.
I looked through all of the Red Lake Halfbreed Scrip for my great-grandfather and my grandfather. These Anishinabe Ojibway men, whose land was being “given away” by the United States Government, did not get any “Scrip.” They also did not get allotments. My grandfathers were Aboriginal Indigenous People of the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation. My grandfather’s grandfathers have been here for a hundred millennia. It is Anishinabe Ojibway land which the “Treaties,” the “Halfbreed Scrip,” the “Allotments,” the “Indian Claims Commission,” and now the “Agreements” are trying to steal using the White man’s Chip-away Indians, who have the same values as their Indo-European fathers.
The public ruckus over fishing is a smokescreen to distract people from the real issues of the “Treaties.” The “Agreement” with the State of Minnesota is a vicious document. With one stroke of the pen, they are going to abrogate the Treaties, and “terminate” the “Indians.” They’ve been threatening the Chip-away Indians with “one stroke of the pen” for at least two generations, but what the White man is going to use is “White Out.” The “Treaties” do not affect Aboriginal Indigenous People; as far as we the Anishinabe Ojibway are concerned the “Treaties” are fraudulent and irrelevant. We, the Anishinabe Ojibway have a right to exist.
HONORING THURGOOD MARSHALL: On January 24, 1993, a great man went to the next world. In Thurgood Marshall’s eulogy, his colleague Justice Renquist quoted the inscription on the Supreme Court Building, “EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW.” However, Thurgood Marshall has explicitly said, “We are Not Free,” because the United States operates under racist European Law. All the United States guarantees their citizens is the elusive “pursuit of [the illusion of] happiness,” and “The American Dream,” which, people should have noticed by now, isn’t real. The United Nations’ World Court also operates under ethnocentric European Law, and tries to maintain “Peace” through violence and force. As long as “International Law” operates only from a narrow European perspective and world-view, there will not be harmony, justice, equality, nor freedom in the world. Western European $ivilization’s track records prove it.
POLITIKING IN THE LOBBY: There is a story going around that scientists are yielding to the demands of the Animal Rights movement. Instead of using laboratory rats, they are now using Lobbyists. There are certain things rats won’t do. Also, the United States Congress is ignoring a terrific source of revenue. Instead of trying to bleed Joe Sixpack dry and put even more taxes on minimum-wage slave laborers, they should put a sin-tax on the Lobbyists, and make them pay their fair share.
Exploiting other people is an inherent part of Capitalism and the Nation-State. If you don’t believe me, all you have to do is take your head out of the sand, and look around. Whose land are you on, you immigrant foreigners? Making Zoe Baird a scapegoat is unfair—she was just following Capitalist traditions, and she had nothing to do with creating the policies which entrapped her. Hiring “illegal aliens” as domestic servants is a fringe benefit of the élite. So-called “aliens” are preferable to U.S. Citizens—because they don’t speak English, and so they cannot go to the Tabloids and sell gossip about what’s going on in their employer’s household. Also, because they are considered “illegal,” their behavior is rigidly controlled by the threat of deportation hanging over them. The U.S. Immigration knows that—they are the foreigners who let the “aliens” in.
Now, one of the main concerns in Washington is paying Social Insecurity Taxes on household help. Are they going to issue Social Insecurity numbers to “illegal aliens,” and then deport them? The question is, if they are deported, who gets to keep the money that was paid “for their retirement?” It looks like there’s a good scam and cover-up going on here (ho-hum—business as usual).
MILITARY PROTOCOL: During his campaign, candidate Clinton was called a “Draft Dodger” by the rear-echelon heros who make up “war stories” with their elbows on a bar. President Clinton is now your Commander-in-Chief, and with due respect and admiration, I take off my grey (neither black nor white) hat.
My telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
Wub-e-ke-niew

3942. Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1994). Reflections from the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation: According to Sunday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune, “the Clinton administration has discovered India,” and “the [real] Indians are miffed,” ... Native American Press/Ojibwe News.
Abstract: According to Sunday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune, “the Clinton administration has discovered India,” and “the [real] Indians are miffed,” because they don’t know whether Clinton is bringing the White man’s Manifest Destiny, or whether he’s touting Western European Democracy. Either way, the Indians lose. The Clinton administration recently appointed an Indian ambassador, so presumably they’re getting ready from some Indian Treaties. We all know what that means.
The Indian fakirs’ political opinions on these Indian fakirs’ affairs have not been heard in the outside world, unlike the opinions of the Indian fakers in Washington, D.C. The voices of these latter, mythological, Indians, are amplified and repeated, so that it seems to the world that the Indians are alive and well in the U.S.A., and nobody notices what’s happening to the Aboriginal Indigenous people.
The Minneapolis Tribune also commented, in their “World and National News” summary, on the old, worn-out issue of Indian land cessions giving Indians the “right to an education.” The focus this time is Head Start: that every Indian should have the inalienable right to be taken away from their family as a very young child, again, and placed in an institutional setting like Head Start, where the State can teach them how to be a real B.I.A. certified Indian, regardless of family income, religious preference, or national origin. The anonymous writer parroted the tired, trite phrase, “tribes traded land for education,” without bothering to think about who traded whose land to whom, and exactly what is meant by “education.” If Western European civilization is that great, why does the educational system have take near-infants away from their families and brainwash them into being Indians?
SWEETER NEWS:
The sap is rising in the maple trees. In harmony with the rest of Grandmother Earth, everything is starting to wake up from the Winter’s big sleep. The crows are back and making a racket; and there are big clouds of steam coming out of the sugarbush. Making maple sugar is a lot of hard work, but it’s worth it. The sugarbush is connected and in harmony with Grandmother Earth, and maple sugar is a Traditional Ahnishinahbæó^tjibway food which is healthy, and in balance.
EASTER DINNER:
The White man’s rites of Spring include Easter dinner. I was going to have Easter Bunny and dumplings, but there were no rabbits. The White Indian loggers cut down the woods, and then the crazy White man sprayed the ditches and powerline right-of-ways with Agent Orange and D.D.T., and the only Easter Bunny I’ve seen this year has been in the Sunday Comics. I try to be tolerant of other peoples’ traditions, so we had an Easter dinner anyway. We got a ham, and then to honor Passover, we got some Matzo bread, and had ham sandwiches on Matzo, with deviled Easter eggs on the side. I figured I might as well try to be culturally tolerant, rather than discriminating among competing White-man traditions. I went and looked for an Easter-bunny tree, but they’d already been logged out.
PRAIRIE ISLAND:
The debate over expanded high-level nuclear waste storage at Prairie Island is approaching meltdown. Lobbyists on both sides are diverting the debate away from the critical issues. The White man’s mis-understanding of relationship to the land is that a few greedy leaders can ruin an ecosystem for what amounts to eternity, make money, and then walk away to another new frontier. Their language is disconnected from nature, they do not know what is real and what is not real, and they apparently have not gotten it through their thick heads that there is no place else on this Earth to go. If the Mississippi Valley is contaminated with high level radiation, it can not be fixed. There are no more new frontiers. The Circle has come around, and even the White man will not be able to run away from the consequences of his abuse of this land.
Nuclear power—“Atoms for Peace”—is about the White Man’s guilty Burden of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and Bikini and Eniwetok and a lot of other places), and it is about the ultimate in greedy centralized control and mindless worship of the abstract God of Technology. There are alternative energy sources, and even if there weren’t, what possible use of electricity, what conceivable job, is worth a twenty-thousand year legacy of cancer, birth defects, AIDS-like radiation sickness, mutant new diseases, and devastation of the ecosystem? The White man tells those he tries to exploit, “be civilized like us.” You cannot keep raping Grandmother Earth.
INDIAN HOUSING:
One political wag asked me about the Housing Authority at the Red Lake Tribal Council. They wanted to know about what happened to the birch veneer, and some missing French Doors. Rumor is they were part of a sweetheart contract with kickbacks. The person who told me the story was hard-of-hearing, and thought they had lost some French Moors. I don’t know why anybody thought I would know where French Doors (or French Moors) go to when they’re missing—I stay as far away from Frenchmen pretending to be Indians as I can. Anyway, they came and asked me to solve their problems for them. I told them to go to the White man in charge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, because he’s the one who created Indians. They didn’t like that idea, so I suggested they ask Chairman-for-life Roger Jourdain, or his sidekick Butch Brun; they know all about those French immigrant things that got lost.
My telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
Wub-e-ke-niew

3943. Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1993). Reflections from the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation: According to the news, the United States Government is colluding with the State of Minnesota to restructure, re-entrench and re-organize the apartheid structure of Indian Tribal Courts ... Ojibwe News.
Abstract: According to the news, the United States Government is colluding with the State of Minnesota to restructure, re-entrench and re-organize the apartheid structure of Indian Tribal Courts, after operating these kangaroo courts without any legal basis other than unilateral bureaucratic degree for more than a hundred years. These Western European foreign governments are currently re-defining their Constitution, violating their own White citizens’ civil rights, and destroying the lives of the children they use as bait. If they want to justify the racist apartheid structure, a separate (and unequal) federally-established court with jurisdiction only over U.S. citizens with fractional non-White ancestry (these people are called “Wanna-Be’s”), why don’t they get a Constitutional amendment legalizing discrimination by degrees of Aryan “racial purity,” which is what Indian blood quantum is really about. I suppose that the reason that they aren’t worried about violating the Bill of Rights with their Indian Courts, is because the U.S. Constitution has racism written into it, and was intended from the first draft, to create a government which favored the merchant W.A.S.P.s who wrote it. The kind of violent hierarchial thinking embodied by the U.S. Constitution has no place on this Continent.
The agenda hidden in the crooked English of the recent Minnesota Court of Appeals decision, C1-93-1352, in Re the Matter of the Custody of K.K.S., and the present litigation over the adoption of children categorized as “Indians” by Eugene and Carol Campbell, is trying to abrogate Anishinabe Ojibway Sovereignty and Natural Rights, and create ethnic conflict like that in Bosnia, between the Indians and the Whites. Did the judges who ruled on these cases realize that the “Tribal Code” defines “Indians” as non-persons, and makes no provisions for the civil rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution for other U.S. Citizens? The worn-out trick is using “trust Indians” as the means of accomplishing their dirty deeds. Both the Indians and the Whites have yet to answer for the violations of the International Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, with regard to the Anishinabe Ojibway children—over whom neither the United States, the States, nor the Indians have any jurisdiction. I and my family, personally, have been physically and psychologically injured by the genocide and human rights violations committed by the foreign Western European Governments and the Europeans who are posing as Chippewa Indians. None of the Europeans’ violence belongs on this Continent, and I have a moral obligation to speak out against the on-going genocide of the Anishinabe Ojibway of the Bear Dodem. What the Europeans do to each other in Europe it their own business, but here, they are on my land. Saying that the “Indian sovereignty” delegated by European-law U.S. statute to the U.S. Department of the Interior is somehow connected with the ancient Anishinabe Nation is a lie. Abusing anybody’s children with these legal fictions is a personal insult. The kinds of conditions which require that children be removed from their families were brought here by the Europeans—now they want to write laws which only entrench the underlying problems, and then blame me for the U.S. Government violating their citizens’ rights. “Indians” have been getting blamed for the White man’s atrocities since the days of the Boston Tea Party and the Cavalry, with the insinuation that the Aboriginal Indigenous People are “guilty,” when we continue to have nothing to do with it.
CROOKED ENGLISH TERMINOLOGY: Last week at Reno, the National Congress of American Indians resolved to ask The Buck Stops Here, a.k.a. the Honorable Attorney General Janet Reno, “to investigate possible violations of federal law in cases where public money is spent to support [organizations] that use offensive names and mascots.” The target was the Washington Redskins, who play in a stadium built on supposedly “federal land” and rented by a big-money sports corporation for a dollar a year. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who is patrilineally Scottish, calls the name Redskins offensive, and is quoted as saying, “A slur is determined by those who are being called the name, not those calling it.” Senator Campbell apparently does not object to being called an “Indian,” because he is not an Aboriginal Indigenous Person. A lot of the publicly visible Indians get good money for becoming living caricatures of this racist stereotype. The very word Indian, which is being funded by the U.S. Congress, is a derogatory name, historically much more damaging than “redskin.” The word Indian is an English word, derived from Indo-European roots, and is worse than a racist slur against the Anishinabe Ojibway—it is also a human rights violation. While shouting to the world, particularly China, about human rights violations and implying that the worst that they have to worry about is fictional mascots of mass entertainment, at the same time the Federal Government funds a large bureaucracy of institutions based on the racist delusions of “tainted blood” and the artificial concept of “Indians,” including the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The National Congress of American Indians was supposed to have been organized to protect peoples’ rights and resources. I suppose that the N.C.A.I. and similar “Indian organizations” are diverting public attention away from the serious issues of land, water rights, environmental degradation, and genocide, because the “Indian leaders” know that they are not the Aboriginal Indigenous People who own the land, water, and resources, and who are the most deeply affected by the genocide. These “Indian leaders” do not want to deal with their own assumed identity, nor endanger their well-paying status as token Indians.
WHITE AND INDIAN LA-LA LAND: A lot of Wanna-Be’s apparently don’t mind being called “Indians,” because even this racist insult is better than being categorized by their blood brothers as “low-class White trash with tainted blood,” which is how the World Leaders in the allegedly egalitarian democracy of the U.S.A. consider the Metis people who were among the first Europeans on this continent, and without whom the more recent European immigrants would not have been able to steal this land. The White man and the Wanna-be Indians keep saying that this is “Indian Country” and “Indian land,” when they know perfectly well that the Indians never owned any land. The White man is the biggest Indian Giver around—some of the acreage in the U.S. has been “given” to the Indians and then taken away four or five times—a local example is some of Becker County. The Indians never owned any land, and the land that they claim now as “Indian Land,” or “Tribal Land” is really Aboriginal Indigenous peoples’ land, illegitimately claimed by the White legal fiction of “Indians,” with the illegal title held by the United States Government, under “Trust.” “United States Government” is the owner of record in the land plat books—not the Indians—and neither one of them own the land. No matter how many times the Indians “sell” the land to the Whites, and no matter how many times the Whites “settle” with the Indians, the Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ inalienable title to the land has not been abrogated by this Western European hocus-pocus and their abstract thinking.
THE END OF THE TRAIL: Dr. Kevorkian has been arrested again for helping terminally ill people commit euthanasia. All that Dr. Kevorkian is doing is being honest and explicit about an old Western European medical practice. Instead of focussing on people who only have a few weeks of pain-filled life left, why not take a good hard look at the quacks who peddle legal, and illegal, means of suicide to healthy young people, including alcohol, crack cocaine, marijuana, and other drugs. There is a much higher rate of suicide among non-White young people, who, under Western European capitalism, are confronted with racism, discrimination, a contaminated environment, and what looks like a very grim future. This needs to change.
WANNA-BE’S AND OTHER INDIANS: If your land is held in trust by the White man, you’re an Indian.
If you buy land, and then give it to the “tribe” to be held in trust, you’re a dumb Indian.
If you buy reservation license plates from the Tribal Council, and they keep the title to your car, you’re a trusting Indian.
If you use the Chippewa word “boo-zhoo,” you’re a Metis Indian.
If you call yourself a Red Laker, and you helped bring in the 1934 I.R.A. “trust” for Chippewa Indians, you’re an outsider-Indian.
If your two-story house is owned by the bank and the Red Lake Housing Corporation on a checkerboard trust allotment, you’re a trust Indian in deep doo-doo.
If you’re travelling down the Red Road, and all you see are Real Estate and “land for sale” signs, you’re a real Indian.
My telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
Wub-e-ke-niew

3944. Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1993). Reflections from the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation: After five hundred of Western European occupation, genocide, and grand theft of the Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ land and resources ... Ojibwe News.
Abstract: After five hundred of Western European occupation, genocide, and grand theft of the Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ land and resources, the Europeans and their Indians, who have been on welfare for five hundred years, celebrated Columbus Day. At Red Lake, the Chippewa Indians marked Columbus Day by celebrating the White Sovereignty that was given to them by the United States Government. 1934 I.R.A. Tribal Administrator Judy Roy was quoted in the Bemidji Pioneer as saying that the Red Lake Indian Pow-Wow “began last year as part of the quin-centennial celebration of Christopher Columbus, ... and ‘our celebration of our sovereignty that we are still here’.” From an Anishinabe Ojibway perspective, what Ms. Roy said can be interpreted as that colonial governments and their subject Indians are still here, celebrating five hundred years of colonial occupation and complicity in genocide.
Also quoted was Frances Brun, who said that Red Lake was a closed Reservation, meaning, according to the Bemidji Pioneer, that “all the land is held in common, with no individual allotments.” Francis Brun was speaking on the basis of Western European Indian policy, and what the U.S. Government calls “Indian law.” These Indians that Brun was talking about, have European patrilines, and are thus subject to imported Roman Statute law, British Common Law, and the colonial occupations called United States Law. Brun did not mention the Anishinabe Ojibway, because he was speaking on behalf of the U.S.A. as one of their subject Indians, and Brun does not have any Anishinabe Ojibway ancestors at all. Brun did not say, and probably does not understand, that according to the ancient laws of the Anishinabe Ojibway Midewiwin, this land is not held “in common,” particularly with the Chippewa Indians. This land is held jointly by the patrilineal Dodems of the Anishinabe Ojibway—and the Indians promoted in the media have been packed onto land which does not belong to them by the United States Government.
The Indians celebrated their Sovereignty, which is Protestant Sovereignty, operating under the French feudal philosophy of the subject Chippewa Indians at Red Lake. I am not an Indian, and I do not belong to the Chippewa Tribal structure created by the United States Government. The B.I.A. listed me on their “Chippewa Indian Rolls” without my knowledge or consent, and I sent my resignation as a Chippewa Indian to then-Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, in respect of the procedure described in the U.S. Constitution for one Sovereign dealing with another. Justice Marshall accepted my resignation, and these papers are now in the Library of Congress. I explained to Thurgood Marshall about the dishonest identity of “Indian,” and that I have my own Aboriginal Indigenous identity. I am a Sovereign Anishinabe Ojibway on my own land, and British Indian common law, United States law, and the Chippewa Indian Tribal Code do not have jurisdiction over the Sovereigns of the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation. We are on our own land, and have been here for millennia, long before the White man, the Pillager Indians, the French Métis, and the Chippewa Indians got here. We, the Anishinabe Ojibway have a right to continue existing on our own land, without the wanna-be Chippewa Indians trying to steal our identity and our traditions, abetting the Whites in trying to steal our land and resources, and covering up the genocide.
To you, Brun, I challenge you, as you try to use and abuse my Aboriginal Indigenous Sovereignty to get out of paying taxes on money you made plundering my resources and destroying my forests. Try to kick me off of my land, which has belonged to the Anishinabe Ojibway, including my family and my Dodem, for more than the last hundred thousand years—we’ll see who leaves. Why don’t you Chippewa Indians practice the Protestant Ethic, and go to work, instead of spinning your wheels trying to live out all of the projections, labels, and stereotypes that the White man created for his subject Indians? One moment, the United States Government tells you that you have Sovereignty, and then out of the other side of their mouths, they tell you that with “one stroke of the pen, we can terminate you.”
TRUMPING THE INDIANS:
According to Saturday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune, “Casino mogul Donald Trump” testified on Indian gaming regulations to the Natural Resources Committee of the House of Representatives. Trump is quoted as saying that many Indians who want to operate casinos “don’t look like Indians to me, and they don’t look like Indians to Indians.” You’re right, Don—the Aboriginal Indigenous people of this Continent did not have curly hair, blue eyes, nor the other Moorish and European features that characterize most Federally Recognized Indians. The U.S. Government is using some inconsistent logic that has nothing to do with the Anishinabe Ojibway and other Aboriginal Indigenous People. “Indian Blood Quantum” is irrelevant—both to whether or not a person is an Aboriginal Indigenous person, and the way that the United States has calculated it, it has nothing to do with whether or not a person who claims to be an “Indian” has any Aboriginal Indigenous ancestry. The U.S. is hurting because of past genocide, desperately trying to re-create the Aboriginal Indigenous People that they destroyed. Re-defining 1/32 as 1/4, and then saying “this person is an Indian because their great-great-great grandmother was an ‘Indian princess’” [she was probably one of the so-called King’s Daughters involuntarily exported from France to Montreal] makes as much sense as would re-defining an African-American as “Lily-White” because they have 1/32 White blood. Maybe because Math is an abstraction, this can be done.
GRAND LAND THEFT:
The following is an excerpt from the chapter on “Language” in my upcoming book, We Have a Right to Exist. The publisher revised the printing schedule, and it will now be coming out in January of 1994:
Chief Joseph did not understand Western European abstract thinking in detail; Aboriginal Indigenous People usually described the language generated by it as “forked-tongue speaking.” Because he could not speak English, he did not know how to defend himself against the abstract Indians and the abstract laws which were used to steal his land. The United States Government gave Chief Joseph four abstract, artificial identities: Chief, Nez Perce, Joseph, and Indian, in order to steal his land. (The U.S. wanted to make absolutely certain they clinched the deal they had stacked in their own favor, so they overdid it with the fake identities. I haven’t figured out yet, why they changed the names of a lot of Aboriginal Indigenous people, as well as many of their White Indian Chiefs, into Joseph.) Neither the Europeans nor the Euro-Americans have clear title nor eminent domain to any of the land on this Continent. Western Europeans can write all the Title Abstracts that they want, but they can’t change reality. This is the way Chief Joseph was interpreted as describing what happened—I don’t know what was lost in translation:
Suppose a white man should come to me and say, ‘Joseph, I like your horses, and I want to buy them.’ I say to him, ‘No, my horses suit me, and I will not sell them.’ Then, he goes to my neighbor, and says to him, ‘Joseph has some horses. I want to buy them, but he refuses to sell.’ My neighbor answers, ‘Pay me the money, and I will sell you Joseph’s horses.’ The white man returns to me and says, ‘Joseph, I have bought your horses, and you must let me have them.’ If our lands were sold to the government, this is the way they were bought.
The “neighbor” that Chief Joseph describes as selling things which do not belong to him, was not an Aboriginal Indigenous person. Neither Joseph, nor any other Aboriginal Indigenous person, can sell land, because of the Autochthonous religious and philosophies of this Continent.
My telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
Wub-e-ke-niew

3945. Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1994). Reflections from the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation: After reading the 1991 and 1992 management agreements between Chip Wadena and Gaming World International, I was taken back in time to the Indian Treaty-making era. ... Native American Press/Ojibwe News.
Abstract: After reading the 1991 and 1992 management agreements between Chip Wadena and Gaming World International, I was taken back in time to the Indian Treaty-making era. I said to myself, “this agreement sounds familiar.” The faces have changed, and times have changed, but the Euro-American paradigm of relationships with Indians is the same as it was a hundred and fifty years ago. The moral obligation of Manifest Destiny is still there—the White invaders are still acting as though they have a God-given right, and also a duty to steal from Aboriginal Indigenous people, using Indians, which is an European perspective. The Indian Agents like Barlow, and the Indian Traders, have always gotten a hefty commission, although in the late twentieth century there isn’t more land to steal and give away, so some of the payola was in vouchers.
The management agreements, which have been informally called “compacts,” gives Gaming World International 70% of the Shooting Star Casino’s take. 30% goes to the “Tribe.” (Under the definitions used by the B.I.A. to describe 1934 I.R.A. Indian Governments, an “Indian Tribe” consists of the three executive officers of the Tribal Council, so Darrell “Chip” Wadena is the “White Earth Tribe,” and Indians remain P.O.W.’s without any legal rights.) Gaming compacts are just a bad re-run of the broken treaties: the only “Indians” who benefit are the Chiefs that the U.S. Government created, just like at the Treaties. The scam artists are still at it, and the band plays on, and on.
TRAIL OF STUMPS:
The Sovereign Red Lake 1934 I.R.A. elections are starting to heat up, and Indians are coming out of the brush (which is all that’s left of the woods now) and throwing their hats into the ring. In the March issue of the Minneapolis Circle, there is an ad promoting laminated plastic photo I.D. cards for all of their Indians. This is political ploy to get all of the absentee voters registered to vote—this is one of very few services that the I.R.A. Tribal Council offers to people who live off of the Reservation (who the in-group call “outsiders”). Chairman-for-life Roger Jourdain passed a resolution so that people living off the reservation—“outsiders”—couldn’t run in the I.R.A. Tribal Elections. They want to use your absentee ballots to put who they want in office, but if you need some kind of assistance from the Red Lake Tribal Council, well, the urban people I’ve talked to have been told to “Go to Hell” by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and their Tribal Councils. Now, get this: the Photo I.D.’s will be issued at the Minneapolis Indian Center on the afternoon of All Fool’s Day.
TUBERCULOSIS:
The Tuesday, March 15, Minneapolis Star Tribune, had a front-page article with a headline announcing that “Minnesotans find evidence” that Europeans did not bring tuberculosis to these continents. At the very end of the article, after the jump to an inside page, the “News Services” who wrote this anonymous front-page article admit that “there is a risk that the specimens ... were contaminated by TB bacteria in the laboratory.” This questionable science is being heavily promoted because the Euro-Americans are trying to ease their guilt about the genocide they have committed here, in a process of historical revision. If tuberculosis had been a disease of Aboriginal Indigenous people here, we would have some immunity to this imported disease. The Euro-Americans knew that we did not have any tolerance to their diseases, and openly used their diseases as a means of genocide. As the good Christian policy-makers discussed at the 1890 Lake Mohonk Conference, 1890 (from a paper, “The Indian Health Question,” by Dr. Martha M. Waldron). These Friends of the Indians were trying to change the identity of the Aboriginal Indigenous people into Indians, and slandered us by stereotyping us as “full-blood Indians.”
“The full-blood Indians [sic] have less endurance than the half or mixed-bloods; and when attacked by tuberculosis or any form of scrofula, they perish more quickly. ... The well-attested fact that consumption is the scourge of the Indian [sic] in the climate of Dakota, where pulmonary diseases among whites are almost unknown, points conclusively to the fact that there has been and is that, in the peculiar conditions of Indian [sic] life, which engenders the disease. ... The more thoroughly the contagious nature of tuberculosis is established, the more terrible the present condition of the Indian appears. It is stated on good authority that tuberculous cattle are constantly sold to and consumed by the Indians [sic]. Their only hope is in a common knowledge of every-day affairs, which shall protect them from their enemy, the unscrupulous white man ...”
I lost both of my parents to the White man’s disease of tuberculosis and my great-grandfather (and most of the rest of my relatives) in the many smallpox epidemics which were planted by the United States Government at Red Lake. These diseases were intentionally brought into Aboriginal Indigenous communities as a part of Western European Civilization’s Divine Mandate of genocide.
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3946. Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1993). Reflections from the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation: Al Gore, the environmentalist Vice President, is so serious about the environment that when he takes a walk in the woods ... Ojibwe News.
Abstract: Al Gore, the environmentalist Vice President, is so serious about the environment that when he takes a walk in the woods he’s thinking about the ecology and forgets to pay attention to where he’s going. He does not have an Aboriginal Indigenous person’s connection to the land; the woods may be beautiful to him, but they are also alien. He learned about the forests from his ancestors, immigrants from an Europe without forests or lakes—and so he gets lost in the woods, along with his S.S. bodyguards, who don’t know the way back to their European “civilization” either.
Recreational fishing is an imported European colonial leisure activity, like the English ritual slaughter of the predators of imported vermin (“Fox Hunting”). It is increasingly defined in terms of the values of the British upper class. People who fish for food are caught up in the mess created by the catch-and-release fishermen, stuck with a limit of one fish per day. The U.S. Government wants to terminate the “Indians” and abrogate the Treaties, because there are no more resources. The social welfare system for immigrant elite has finally plundered the whole continent, and even though “Indians” are the Europeans’ invented proxy for the Aboriginal Indigenous people, they serve as a reminder to guilty consciences of what was once here. Hunting and fishing has always been an inherent part of the Anishinabe Ojibway culture, and is an entirely different thing than the Europeans’ idea of “hunting and fishing.” Fish and game are a part of our permacultural ecosystem, and a traditional part of our food supply. Hunting and fishing for subsistence are not in the European culture, and under immigrant European management, it’s all been destroyed. The Europeans do not understand the harmony and the balance of Grandmother Earth, who gives us all life. It’s time that you come to terms with reality.
In Europe, there is a forest they call the “Black Forest,” which is not a forest, it’s a tree farm. It’s all been planted. I’ve walked through the Black Forest, and I couldn’t see any resemblance to the intact Anishinabe Ojibway forests I knew as a child. I remember the soft carpet of pine needles, the harmony. The ecosystem here has been plundered, and the European immigrants are trying to fool people by saying they “have planted trees.” Those planted trees are not the same as the natural ecosystem. They are out of balance, disharmonious, barren window-dressing. When you walk though a tree farm, it’s like walking through a plowed field, going through rows of trees and ditches in between. From an Aboriginal Indigenous point of view, it’s really ugly. Nobody can get lost in a tree farm—all you have to do is follow the ditches.
When the fishermen complain about no fish, they should also complain about the trees being cut down. Everything is connected. The birds depend on the trees, the fish depend on the trees—and so do you. You are cutting your own throat when you cut the trees down. Professional Foresters can have all the Advanced Degrees they want, and they are still out of touch with the land and the life on it. They don’t know what’s happening with the delicately inter-related ecosystem. Respecting the harmony of Grandmother Earth is a part of the non-violent Anishinabe Ojibway religion and philosophy. In the Europeans’ arrogance, he cut down everything, and tried to “manage” the living systems of this Continent with abstract thinking, lifeless linear mis-understanding and greed. Their greed far outweighs their common sense. The United States forest service’s inventory of Potemkin forests, which flourished “on paper” for twenty years before people figured out that there weren’t really any trees there, is a good example of abstract thinking and capitalist greed. Greed is a dangerous mental illness which must be addressed in the proposed National Health Care system.
HEALTH CARE: If Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to talk about health, she also needs to talk about the air, the water, the other living beings that are part of the web of life. It’s all connected, and if you want to have healthy people, you have to have a healthy ecosystem. A noxious brown cloud has been hanging over the cities of the United States for the last forty years. When people in Los Angeles complained about the smog in the 1950’s (when the freeway system was in the planning stages and there was an intact mass transit system), the public was told that the smog “won’t hurt you, it’s no worse than two packs of cigarettes a day.” They have warning labels on cigarettes now. They need to put warning labels on the roads going into the cities, “Surgeon General’s Warning: Breathing this Air is Hazardous To Your Health, Causes Cancer, Respiratory Disease, and Other Problems.”
Smog is a symptom of the mental illness of runaway greed. When the Europeans first applied the “Divine Mandate” of Manifest Destiny on this Continent, they stole the Aboriginal Indigenous Nations’ land and resources to subsidize the imported welfare system for the European upper class (which they called the Industrial Revolution). At that time, our relatively intact ecosystem absorbed the worst of the consequences of their criminal greed. The immigrants plundered our resources over several generations, and their descendants are still stealing from the Aboriginal Indigenous People, they are still here wrecking our Continent and their immigrant elite are still on welfare. The Lily-White-Liberals are still beneficiaries of the grand Land Theft and the genocide. I’ve got news for you immigrant Europeans. You have finally arrived, and you’d better start dealing with reality. Linear abstract thinking is pure hogwash, no matter how many of the “experts” of Western European Civilization certify it. You can’t run from away from the truth forever.
If the Clinton Administration is planning on having any form of “socialized medicine,” I suggest that they evaluate and take a lesson from the U.S. socialized medicine that they already have, for example the Indian Health Service. Better yet, go get a second opinion—maybe you should have several reservations about it.
MORE EUROPEAN EPIDEMICS: According to the newspapers, the people who are concerned about violence are finally being heard. Violence is really in epidemic stages. Violence and the police are caught in a positive feedback loop—the more police they hire, the more violence there is. Many of the people who are supposed to be “fighting crime” are getting rich off of somebody else’s suffering, and the violent crime rates keep going up. When you see “crimefighters” without any other source of income driving B.M.W.’s and wearing Florscheim shoes, you know that society is way out of balance and out of harmony. Hiring policemen, judges and lawyers, building more jails, doesn’t solve the problem of crime, although it’s an economic system that puts bread and butter on the tables of law enforcement officers and the legislature. Crime is a part of the Western European economic system, and if the problems which generate crime were solved, then a lot of the elite would be without jobs. Violence and crime exploit non-W.A.S.P.s who don’t speak fluent English, and provides barriers which protect the status and privileges of the elite. The Europeans who call themselves “Americans” need to look at the social baggage their ancestors brought from Europe—the imported European language, values and religion. That’s where the problem is embedded in the immigrant culture, and that’s the only place where it can be addressed effectively.
Violence and racism are necessary to maintain the social class system the way that it presently exists in the United States. When grassroots movements seriously addressed racism, the establishment re-defined the issue on their terms, and centralized the “solutions.” The same thing is happening now with the issues of violence and crime. Violence is being re-defined in terms of unreal abstract thinking. For example, children’s television cartoons are being excluded from the proposed “warning label” system proposed by the media. Hitting and kicking people, maiming them and then laughing, is not funny—it’s an insidious brainwashing of the world’s children. Violence and crime presently kill more people than AIDS, and take away more years of life expectancy than any other illness. The unending waves of violence from the media, which makes big money with “cheap thrills,” is like a vaccine, desensitizing people to an appalling reality. There need to be warning labels on the news and on children’s’ programs. The self-righteous right-wing monopolizers of the First Amendment need to take a hard, honest look at themselves (if they can).
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3947. Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1994). Reflections from the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation: Amendments to the Indian Freedom of Religion Act are currently under consideration by the United States Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs ... Native American Press/Ojibwe News.
Abstract: Amendments to the Indian Freedom of Religion Act are currently under consideration by the United States Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, in the U.S. Legislative Branch. In the Executive Branch, the Bureau of Indian Affairs is putting a lot of lobbying pressure into passing this unique piece of legislation in a form under which protection of the practice of Indian Religion will be granted only to Federally Recognized Indians. So-called “Indian Religion” is an Indo-European hierarchical cult based on Christianity. Using apartheid legislation (euphemistically referred to as “protection”) to abrogate Constitutional provisions of Civil Rights for Indians, and limiting the practice of so-called “Indian Religion” to Federally-defined “Indians,” entrenches the U.S.’ control over the Indians they created, and draws public attention away from the Aboriginal Indigenous people and religions—over whom the U.S.A. has absolutely no defensible jurisdiction.
Real Chippewa Indians are always pestering me, either asking me some irrelevant detail about how to be an Indian, or telling me how to be a proper, Real Indian. I am Ahnishinahbæó^tjibway. I am not an Indian. I don’t care about how to be an Indian, and I don’t want to be insulted by being mis-categorized as an Indian. (If Wanna-Be Indians have questions about how to be a Real, Federally Recognized Indian, go ask the White men who created the Indians, and who are the self-appointed definers of Indians—and, it’s a venerable American political tradition, the God-given right of the W.A.S.P.’s to make sport of such hapless Indians.) So-called “Indians,” and the Ahnishinahbæó^tjibway, are two entirely different groups of people.
Indians are, by their acceptance of definition as “Indians,” citizens of the United States, so the question arises as to why the ordinary Constitutional guarantees purporting “freedom of religion” to all U.S. citizens do not provide freedom of religion for Indians. Even the often-cited issue of sacramental use of peyote by Indian subject people has legal precedent in the White Christian mainstream. During Prohibition, the U.S. Constitution banned “beverage” alcohol. There was no religious-use exception made in the 18th Amendment. This was circumvented by tacit in-house agreement: sacramental wine was produced by licensed wineries, for sale to approved religions. Why not license “Indian Medicine Men” and other Indo-European Shamans, under this precedent? (The Branch Davidians were licensed Christians.) That established, presumably legal, precedent is not being used, means that the issue is something other than the surface explanation. Could it be that, under the joint provisions of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, “Indians” are categorized by the founding documents of the United States Government as P.O.W.’s, occupied peoples defined as enemies of the State, inherently without rights or representation? ... and, that these subject Indo-European peoples, the Indians, are in complicity with the White Euro-Americans in masking the centuries of genocide of the Aboriginal Indigenous people.
The vast majority of the people who are Federally Recognized as “Indians” by the United States Government, have European patrilines (and many have nearly pure Indo-European and African ancestry). Most of the Federally Recognized Indians have little or no connection to the Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples of this Continent (which is why Gerald Torres, counsel to the U.S. Attorney General’s Office, claims that Indians are not “classified as a racial group.”) Almost all Indians are European subject peoples. As I was growing up in the Boarding Schools, we were told quite forcibly that “Indians are the Vanishing Americans” and that “Indians must assimilate.” It’s not clear what the White man wants his Indians to assimilate into, and the U.S. Congress keeps legislating roadblocks to keep the “tainted-blood” Indians out of the White mainstream. The present U.S. Indian policy entrenches an apartheid system, socially engineering pseudo-ethnic “minorities” out of ordinary White Trash and a few Métis. Although the United States Supreme Court determined, nearly forty years ago, that “separate but equal” was unconstitutional for Euro-African Americans who are not categorized as Indians, the U.S. is continuing to elaborate their institutional structure of “separate and less than equal” for those people classified as Federally Recognized Indians.
If the U.S. Indian policy was really assimilation, why would Indians need: a separate and inferior Civil Rights Bill (which does not provide actual civil rights); a separate health-care system which promotes diabetes and creates the lowest life-expectancy in the United States; and a separate governmental system which is so corrupt it can only be described as “unique.” This medieval legacy of French fur-trade feudalism is entrenched by U.S. Government funding of what the U.S. Congress privately calls “Federal Instrumentalities,” labelled in NewSpeak as “Indian Self-Determination.” Why has the United States created a White puppet government, patterned after the worst of the European-style governments, and claimed that the White Indians who they have empowered in this “Indian Tribal Government” are “Sovereign,” meaning “separate under apartheid.” Indians are not Aboriginal Indigenous People, and Indians have no concept and no inkling of what We the People, our Dodem values and our traditional Midé religious philosophy, are about. The Euro-American “Indian” structures and mythologies have absolutely nothing to do with the Ahnishinahbæó^tjibway.
In researching this column, I telephoned every major Washington agency involved in the amendments to the Indian Freedom of Religion Act, from the White House to the Justice Department, trying to get some sensible explanation about the U.S. policy reflected in this legislation. There are not any “Honest Injuns” in Washington, D.C., although I was told some Lily-White lies. The most enlightening response I heard was “no comment.” Since the dedicated public servants I talked to did not want to be quoted (and some refused to tell me their names), something must be even more rotten than usual in D.C.

BAD, BAD PRESS:
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has deleted some sports-team designations, including “Redskins,” “Chiefs” and “Indians,” from their sports pages. They have apparently decided that these terms are potentially offensive, and will refrain from using them until the politically-correct climate shifts again. If these words can no longer be printed in the paper, I don’t know how—or if—the newspaper will report on White Indian militants’ protests of sports mascots, or the Real Indians’ demonstrations against the use of the term “Washington Redskins,” etc. It’s a strange kind of abstract wishful thinking, where not writing a word can solve a problem. The caricature “Indian mascots” will still parade around at half-time, reflecting Western European Civilization’s foolish racist heritage, whether or not the Star Tribune writes about them. After all, one of the main purposes of sporting events is to make “Big Bucks.” How are the Federally Recognized Cherokees going to get their “Indian Bucks” for Bingo and Gambling, if they can no longer manufacture Tomahawks for the Redskin fans?
THE EIGHTH CAVALRY:
The State of Minnesota Legislative House passed a bill to ban Crazy Horse Malt Liquor, and any other alcohol named after Indians or Wanna-Be’s. If Heileman Brewery wants to sell booze so badly, why don’t they make a beer called Custer’s Malt Liquor? The Brewery could even build a bar, and call it the “Little Big Horn Corral.” If they put it across the river in Wisconsin, they could sell Crazy Horse Malt along with Custer’s. Heileman’s could promote a new cocktail, mixing the two Malt Liquors, and instead of having a “Happy Hour,” they could have a “Treaty Hour.” The toast could be “as long as the grass shall grow and the rivers shall flow—drink to broken promises,” and everybody could get “wiped out.” The last one standing gets a prize: an arrow shirt; and the first one “out” gets a Tomahawk Chop and a one-way ticket to the ethnically appropriate Detox.
GASTRONOMIC GOURMAND:
Linguistic cleansing has not been limited to Minnesota. According to Boston syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman, the élite arbiters of culture are seeking language purity. The French are exorcising English impurities, and the American W.A.S.P.’s are in quest of their Germanic roots, eliminating one French “loan-word” after another. The latest is that the White House (French) “Chef” has been replaced by another European food-handler, who Ms. Goodman calls “Le Cook.”
Speaking of gourmet cooking, a friend of mine was telling me about his grandson’s favorite sandwich. The recipe goes like this: spread a layer of potato chips on a slice of bread. Then, add a slice of baloney, a second layer of potato chips, another slice of baloney, and then a third layer of potato chips. Finally, top it off with a slice of bread. This is the recipe I was given for the sandwich. When I first heard about it, I said “yuck.” But, curiosity got the best of me, so I bought bread, potato chips and baloney, and made one of these renowned but unnamed sandwiches. I was hungry from working all day in the sugarbush, so I don’t know if it just seemed like it tasted good, or is it terrible nutrition, masquerading as a delicious sandwich?
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3948. Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1993). Reflections from the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation: Another hunting season has passed, so it’s fairly safe to go out in the woods again. ... Ojibwe News.
Abstract: Another hunting season has passed, so it’s fairly safe to go out in the woods again. The people wearing red have finally gone back home, and the D.N.R. are counting the piles of money they made selling licenses to kill deer that belong to the Anishinabe Ojibway. The textbook name for this is “capitalism,” but it’s really socialism for the Western Europeans, using the resources of the Aboriginal Indigenous People of this Continent.
All the guys wearing red, who are driving around with dead deer strapped to their cars or piled in the back of their pickup trucks, are a poor role model for young children. It isn’t too long before another guy in a red suit will need deer to pull his sleigh, to bring the children presents. It’s confusing: one month the people in red are killing deer, and the next month the man in red is driving with them, and he’s not a very good role model, either. He doesn’t have a very big vocabulary. All he seems to say is “ho, ho, ho!,” maybe because he never gets caught for drunk driving, or even for driving while impaired, after having a tankard too many of Holiday Cheer, or spiking his eggnog.
INDIAN SOVEREIGNTY: Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Jim Klobuchar wrote about “Tribal Sovereignty” and how it is being used to insulate casino owners from liability for sexual harassment and other civil rights violations against their employees. Such maltreatment of employees is nothing new, but when it was organizations like the Red Lake Indian lumber mills and the Bureau of Indian Affairs discriminating, refusing to provide any compensation for employees who were injured on the job, and not contributing to any retirement plan (even social insecurity), nobody cared. Now that officially White people are being affected by policies which have been in place for fifty years, all of a sudden it’s an issue.
Indians are, by their White patriline and their values, already assimilated members of the Euro-American society. The Sovereignty which is being abused by the Indian Casinos is not Anishinabe Ojibway nor other Aboriginal Indigenous Sovereignty. The European immigrants, Indian law and Indian Sovereignty, have no jurisdiction over Aboriginal Indigenous Sovereignties, which belong on this Continent. The “Indian Sovereignty” under which the casinos, B.I.A. officials (who are also White people), and other so-called Indian employers have abused their employees for years is White Sovereignty, held specifically by the United States Secretary of the Interior, and his boss the U.S. President. The Euro-American laws under which this “Indian Sovereignty” belonging to the U.S. Executive Branch is generated include United States v. Anglin & Stevenson (1944, CA10 Okla) 145 F2d, cert den 324 US 844, 89 L ED 1405, 65 S Ct 678, among others. In this particular case, the legal interpretation is, in part, “Where the Secretary of the Interior held funds in his custody as guardian and trustee of the ... Indian, ... he had exclusive jurisdiction over them in his sovereign capacity and they were not within the reach of the judicial process unless by authorized consent ... When the Secretary of the Interior, acting within the scope of his powers as guardian of the Indian wards, ...” Indian Sovereignty is a sham. It’s held by the Whites who created the Indian identity.
Euro-Americans Whites are supposed to be protected by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. But, then the U.S. Government comes along with Indian Sovereignty, and violates their own Constitution by taking away every vestige of Constitutional Rights for the Whites they call “Indians,” under Indian Sovereignty. “Indian Trusteeship” and “Indian Sovereignty” can’t exist in the same paradigm, even in Crooked English, unless Indian Sovereignty is understood for what it really is: apartheid dictatorship, without accountability, over the low-class White people who the U.S. Government has defined as “Indians.” I’m glad that I’m not an Indian. If employees have problems with their Indian employers, the buck stops with President Clinton, telephone (202) 456-1414. He’s in charge of Indian Sovereignty. The Executive Branch co-operated with the Legislative Branch, and the U.S. Congress created the I.R.A. Tribal Councils. If you have a problem with the Tribal Councils, call Senator Wellstone at 1-800-642-6041.
By Act of U.S. Congress (August 27, 1954), codified as U.S. Statutes, Title 25, Section 677w, the United States Government provides for the Termination of Indians, even those defined by the U.S. as “full-blood” Indians. This means that, after the United States Government terminates the Indian identity of those who they have defined as Indian, these former Indians cannot use either the Secretary of the Interior’s “Indian Sovereignty,” nor the Indian identity. I suppose if the Indian Police caught a person trying to say they were an “Indian” after they’d been terminated, they’d throw them in jail (if they weren’t already there). If they were persistent, incorrigible Indians, and they still wanted to play Indian, they could deport (relocate) them to India. I would gladly nominate Barlow, Roger Jourdain, Butch Brun, and their councilmen, for the first boatload on the new Indian relocation program.
NAFTA: Al Gore and Ross “The Boss” Perot had a serious debate about whose family had more money and less ethics. In the part of it I saw, they didn’t even discuss Free Trade—the content of this policy discussion was controlled by politician Al Gore, who was questioning the ethics of Ross Perot’s family. Why didn’t Ross Perot ask about the shenanigans that Al Gore’s dad, who was also a Senator, pulled? If they were going to talk about families, and totally disregard Free Trade, why didn’t they talk about the families of all the people who were losing their jobs, the families of those unemployed both on this side of the border and on the other side. Ross Perot showed a picture of a big corporation, surrounded by shanty-towns. This photograph shows that Manifest Destiny is still alive and well, unchanged since the days when the Hang-Around-The-Fort Indians (who had White fathers) built their shanty-towns of “teepees” around U.S. Forts in order to be near their Great White Father. Al Gore responded by saying that Free Trade was going to raise the standard of living of the people in these shanty-towns. They’re going to move them up a notch on the socio-economic scale, Upward Bound, and guess what, they’re going to move them into a ghetto.
Anything that the Europeans call “Free,” you can be sure that the hidden costs are high. Nothing is free, and in my experience, “Free” is a dirty four-letter word.
If NAFTA is going to improve the standard of living in Mexico, what is going to happen to the people on this side of the border, who have to go south for a job? Are they going to throw the Gringos in a Mexican jail, because they don’t have a Green Card, and the WASPs who own the corporations aren’t paying social insecurity taxes in Mexico? What word are they going to use for the Anglos sneaking south across the Rio Grande desperate for a low-paying job—are they Wetbacks, or are they going to be called Greenbacks?
MORE FREE TRADE: The present argument about Hillary’s program of socialized medicine is who is going to pay for what. Hillary wants Sin Taxes to pay for her program. If taxing sin is going to pay for health care, why not focus on the real sinner: the corporations who have polluted the water, and destroyed the environment. Tobacco is being scapegoated by the Clinton Fundamentalists and Al Gore’s right-wingers, for a litany of diseases caused by pollution. The health program legislation should include an “exit fee” for corporations going South like rats leaving a sinking ship.
During the first few months of the Clinton presidency, Senator Dole had a press conference almost every day. The Senator from Kansas is one of the best politicians that money can buy, and he was vehemently protesting everything that the Clinton administration proposed, but he’s been mum on NAFTA. I suppose he’s on the Dole, lining his pockets with Pesos and Greenbacks, getting ready to be the first Senator from Mexico.
One of the hidden agendas in NAFTA has to do with the Spanish-speaking people in the United States, who are starting to outnumber the English-speaking people. The W.A.S.P.s are hoping to buy about a generation’s worth of time with NAFTA, hoping that they can destroy the Spanish-speaking community in the United States. They want to make these people speak Anglo-Saxon, and bring them under their control, and re-entrench the hierarchy with the Good Ol’ Boys on top—they want English First. If everybody’s native language was English, rather than having a diversity of cultures, then centralized control would be much more rigid. This is why you don’t hear the Protestant clergy speaking out in favor of multi-lingual communities. What a shame they forget their own history so quickly. Hitler did the same thing.
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3949. Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1993). Reflections from the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation: Attorney General nominee Zoe Baird withdrew from the Cabinet confirmation process last week, ... Ojibwe News.
Abstract: Attorney General nominee Zoe Baird withdrew from the Cabinet confirmation process last week, because she did not have the support of the Good Ol’ Boy network. Zoe Baird was a victim of the disparity between rhetoric and reality: the point of Capitalist Democracy, and its blood brother Communist Democracy, has always been to “make money.” By paying her employees as little as she could get away with (just like “everybody else”), Zoe Baird was following the unwritten laws, “playing by the rules” of the Good Ol’ Boy élite. “Cheap labor” is the Eleventh Commandment of St. Avarice. Zoe was targeted, not because of her minor infractions, but because her Senatorial inquisitors felt insecure about what they themselves have done under Capitalist money-making values, and did not trust her to adhere to their code of “honor among thieves.”
Capitalism is always a parasitic relationship with other people: it has left its mother country and is in other peoples’ homeland, doing what this dogma of the élite does best: stealing, enslaving, and raising havoc with other peoples’ land. The Colonial English term for this is “Making Money,” although what it is really doing is destroying ecological infrastructure which is not theirs, plundering the future. The ethics of the other political appointees are even murkier than Zoe Baird’s—but the Senate confirmed them because they fit within the boundaries of “business as usual.” The way that Capitalism (and Socialism and Communism) have always worked, is that if the Ol’ Boys can’t con other people out of their resources, they set themselves up as the “legitimate government” and pass laws, or else they use violence including going to war to steal them (and then they sign a “peace treaty,” which is more violent yet). Capitalism is a foreign ideology on this land, one which has been developing during thousands of years of violence and theft and wars/peace under Indo-European dominion.
Nominee Zoe Baird was eased out of the picture using the excuse that her husband hired “undocumented workers,” referred to in the mass media as “illegal aliens” rather than “immigrants.” According to the newspapers, her barrister husband hired servants, nannies and domestic workers at a licensed employment agency. Where did this employment agency get these “illegal aliens,” and how did they get through the immigration barriers to Connecticut (which is quite a few border crossings from Peru)? Since the European immigrants first got here, they have been using their alien European immigration laws on this continent to entrench their foreign European Capitalist class system. The U.S. offices of Immigration and Border Patrol have been using various kinds of prohibition as “social engineering” for a long time. The way that the immigration laws are presently enforced, there is a “Green Card” stigma attached to the people they call “aliens.” (From the Anishinabe Ojibway perspective: all you other descendants of illegal aliens, including the Chippewas—where is your “Green Card?”)
Immigration laws promote the importation and exploitation of “illegal aliens” at wages which are much cheaper than the “minimum” slave-labor wage. Prohibition sounds good, particularly when applied to drugs which are intentionally used by the élite to destroy individuals, family values and entire communities [and “make money” in the process]. What “prohibition” accomplishes is keeping illicit drug prices high, the profits in the hands of a few selected special interests, and wages exploitatively low. This transplanted European Capitalist/Communist scheme of indirect slavery is one of the fundamentals of colonialism. Alcohol on Indian Reservations, opium in China ... Indo-European history is filled with violent precedents. What the Honorable Senators say they are “trying” to do, and what they know they are doing, are two entirely different things.
Part of the ruckus was that Zoe Baird did not initially pay “Social Security” for the people she was allegedly hiring illegally, although she later paid a lump-sum “settlement.” The people that she made the “Social Security” payoff to, should have also been sitting in the box in the Senate Hearing chamber, because the Peruvian couple will never see a penny of the about $2,900.00 “Social Security” which was paid under their names, and the bureaucrat who took Zoe Baird’s check knew that. The U.S. Treasury collecting money on illegal transactions becomes an “accessory after the fact,” just like Iraq-gate. A former union leader was sent to prison, convicted of stealing from the Teamster’s Pension Fund. What about the Social Insecurity Pension Fund?
From the Anishinabe Ojibway perspective, the question of foreign Euro-Americans hiring Peruvians, and then being criticized for their employees being “illegal aliens,” does not address who this Peruvian couple was. The chances are very good that the Peruvian couple that Zoe Baird hired have a lot of Aboriginal Indigenous ancestry from these Continents. The irony is that descendants of illegal immigrants: Senators, were questioning another descendant of illegal immigrants: Zoe Baird, about “hiring aliens.” Neither the Anishinabe Ojibway, nor any other Aboriginal Indigenous people, asked the immigrant Europeans, nor their fake “Indians” nor slaves, to come here. We also did not ask you to bring your excess social garbage and your European criminal problems to these shores.
RED INK: Sunday’s Minneapolis Star Tribune reports the “budget deficit” this year as “a record $327 billion.” In response to a phone call about this figure, one of the Star reporters said that this was the red ink accumulated under some fiscal definition of “this year,” and that the actual debt was “somewhere between four and five trillion dollars.” Nobody can run a business, nor their own personal affairs, like that. What kind of role model is the U.S. Government, when they can’t balance their checkbook? If you or I wrote rubber checks, “give or take a trillion dollars,” (that’s $1,000,000,000,000.00) we’d be practically immortal in the Federal Pen. Even presumably well-educated Euro-Americans are amazingly vague about how much their future is in hock for, and about where their taxes are going. Under Democratic hierarchial thinking, people are numb to their own victimization, because the Great White Father is supposed to have promised, “I’ll take care of you, my children.” Most people haven’t thought through what this kind of patronizing relationship does (the Great White Father has done nothing but steal from me, from all Anishinabe Ojibway). Most Euro-Americans don’t seem to know what’s real, and apparently they’ve never learned how to think for themselves, because “Father Knows Best.” Paternalism is their system. Instead of wasting time grilling Zoe Baird about “illegal aliens,” and quibbling about how to put more Sin-taxes on Joe Sixpack so the Honorable Senators can fund their pet projects and pay off their political hacks—why isn’t somebody absolutely raising the roof about selling this country out from under the [immigrant] American people?
The numbers are so big that people apparently don’t think about them very clearly. The “mortgage” [dollars debt per acre] on the stolen Aboriginal Indigenous peoples’ land which the U.S. claims as “public lands,” is, right now, more than its market value. In plain English, when a person’s debts are more than their assets, this is called “bankrupt.” I can laugh at it, because the land never belonged to the immigrant people who call themselves the United States anyway. Neither the alien people who created the “deficit,” nor the alien people to whom the “deficit is owed” have any claim whatsoever on Anishinabe Ojibway, nor any other Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ property. The Russians are on their own land ... the Japanese are on their own land ... but you who call yourselves “Americans” and “Canadians” are not on your own land. You have been duped. When the really big bills start coming due, over just the next few years, you will find out that you, and your children, and your grandchildren ... are back to being indentured slaves of the Nation-State, and that you were never “free.” The Circle goes around.
OLD WORN-OUT TAX INCENTIVES: The first thing that the politicians do when they get elected is ask for the public checkbook. The “Good Ol’ Days,” when the main function of the U.S. Government was to distribute stolen Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples’ resource plums to selected Good Ol’ Boys, are gone. There are no more frontiers to run to, no virgin territory to exploit anywhere in the world. You are here, on this land, and you had better take a very careful look at where you are going. The Good Ol’ American Boys are living in a make-believe world, and they have to come to terms with reality. There is no more to steal. Maybe you immigrants will start seeing what’s real; then you will understand your history and your culture, and your European identity. Maybe you will become civilized, yet.
LINGUISTIC TRIVIA: Roget’s Thesaurus defines a synonym of the English hierarchial word, “Chief” as “cock of the walk.” “Chief” is an imported European term which is not indigenous to this land, and it is not in the Anishinabe Ojibway language. (In Black-Robe Baraga’s Chippewa-Creole language, his 19th-century dictionary translates both “Chief” and “Government Agent” into the same Chippewa Indian word.)
My telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
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3950. Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1993). Reflections from the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation: Bemidji Mayor Douglas Peterson proclaimed last Friday, May 7, to be Arbor Day in Bemidji. ... Ojibwe News.
Abstract: Bemidji Mayor Douglas Peterson proclaimed last Friday, May 7, to be Arbor Day in Bemidji. According to the Bemidji Pioneer, in his proclamation address he said “I urge all citizens to support efforts to care for our trees and woodlands and to plant trees to gladden the hearts and promote the well-being of present and future generations.” (I guess the City of Bemidji’s icon, Paul Bunyan, wasn’t thinking about the next generations. For Arbor Day, they should have taken Paul Bunyan’s statue down, tarred and feathered him, and run Paul and his Blue Bull out of town—and planted a tree there by the lake instead. Paul Bunyan and Arbor Day go together like drinking and driving.) Mayor Peterson said that whenever trees are planted, “they are a source of joy and spiritual renewal.” The Pioneer quotes nothing about primeval forests providing joy—and also nothing about the abundant and beautiful ecosystem which the Anishinabe Ojibway maintained. Apparently, the only trees which the White man sees as “beautiful” is the ones that he’s planted and “owns.” The Bemidji area economy depends, in large part, on the continuing destruction of the ecosystem. You are just now starting to glimpse the price you will pay for plundering and squandering the fat of this land.
A healthy forest is much more than trees, and planting trees will not restore an ecosystem which has been demolished. They say that the Europeans “can’t see the forest for the trees.” Don’t get me wrong—I’m certainly not against planting trees—but no matter how many trees you plant or tree farms you make, no matter how much public pomp and circumstance, and no matter how many scientific foresters with Ph.D.s, a tree farm has very little resemblance to the harmonious, intricate, and balanced ecosystem of the Anishinabe Ojibway. A tree farm will not stop your lakes from drying up; it will not provide what forests must provide in order for the lakes and rivers to be full of fish. The spear-and-release fisherman [that’s how the Europeans think—the D.N.R. had to publicize a regulation prohibiting spear-and-release for the White spearfishing season] are going to have to do more than plant a few trees (or scapegoat “spearfishing Indians”) in order to have fish.
The ecosystem in this area is in serious trouble. The forest products companies will not—and cannot—restore what they are looting and ransacking. A few trees cut down, will grow back in an intact forest, but forest ecosystems, once destroyed, are not renewable. Just one example is what we called “fish flies.” Ask any old-timer about the clouds of fish flies, so thick they looked like smoke, that swirled and hummed every May. I haven’t seen even one fish fly in four or five years. They may be “pesty,” but they are a necessary part of the ecosystem. When you destroy the forests, you destroy everything. If you fishermen really cared about the fish, instead of hollering about “Indians,” you would be chasing the wood-butchers out of the woods, and doing something about the D.N.R. poison-spraying programs that are killing the fish flies. All of the insects (including mosquitos!) are here for a purpose. Everything is a part of the ecosystem—it’s about time you immigrants came to terms with that. But, most of the White people I’ve met are either so domesticated, so brainwashed, or so afraid, that they’ll swallow the propaganda about scapegoats hook, line and sinker, and not even dare to think about addressing the real problems.
FIRST “ENVIRONMENTALISTS”: Have you noticed that this concentration camp called a Reservation doesn’t have as much garbage laying around as it used to? There have been people out in crews, picking up garbage along the roadside. The Red Lake I.R.A. Tribal Council finally provided some leadership, at least with roadside litter. Congratulations. This is a milestone event, which should have been done years ago—but better late than never. Picking up roadside trash is only half the project. Not only is the clear-cutting wrecking the ecosystem, but the loggers are really leaving a mess: piles of slash, stumps, wasted wood, oil spills, oil cans dumped all over the place, trash everywhere. The slash and trash of the Anishinabe Ojibway forests is going on under the misnamed “Forest Management” bureaucracy of the racist crooks in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. They have no jurisdiction to be cutting Sovereign Anishinabe Ojibway forests in the first place, and they’re adding insult to injury by letting the irresponsible wood pirates who leave such a mess come back and cut again on another contract.
Several people have asked me to write about taking the asphalt removed as a part of the Nebish Road repair, and dumping it in the woods. The road crews should have crushed it, and used it again in the road. It looks like they’re going to cover the mess they made up with dirt—it will be here for millennia. There is also absolutely no excuse for taking “cleanup” toxins from a Bemidji oil spill, and dumping it up here on the Reservation. Did the Tribal Council take a payoff and grant them permission to do this—or is it that they don’t have the power (or the guts) to stop outsiders from dumping poisons on this land and in the water. Maybe the Red Lake Chippewa I.R.A. Tribal Council’s paper “sovereignty” doesn’t have any substance.
ROGER JOURDAIN’S DREAM COME TRUE: Former Chairman-for-Life Roger Jourdain finally got a “National Indian Month,” which is happening this May. It would been better to have a “invite a mythological Wanna-Be to dinner month”—guess who’s coming to dinner. The National Celebration could be kicked off with stereotypical colonial “Indian Food” like fry bread and hangover soup.
THE TRUTH IN LYING: Senator Packwood of Oregon is weaseling out of the hot seat, using crooked linear thinking. Now that he squeaked back into the Senate, Packwood admits that he sexually harassed women. The Oregonians are accusing Packwood of lying to his constituents, and are pressing the Senate to expel him for telling lies. The Catch-22 is that the Senate can’t set the precedent of invalidating Packwood’s election for telling lies—because if that precedent were set, the entire U.S. Congress would have to pack their bags and go home, and admit that they’re liars. If that precedent were set, then the U.S. Government would also have to abolish the Bureau of Indian Affairs, because the entire “Indian” identity is a lie. There are no “Indians” here, and there never were any “Indians” on this Continent. The entire “Indian” mystique is a myth, and it needs to be debunked. I am not an Indian. I am Anishinabe Ojibway. We, the Anishinabe Ojibway and other Aboriginal Indigenous People have a right to exist as a Sovereign People on our own land, without being saddled with the projected European identity and racist lie of “Indian,” which is an illusion and a demeaning caricature, and an abusive mythology which serves the vested interests of the European colonializers.
My telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
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3951. Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1993). Reflections from the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation: Dr. Michael Trujillo was nominated by Clinton to head the Indian Health Service, “a troubled agency,” ... Ojibwe News.
Abstract: Dr. Michael Trujillo was nominated by Clinton to head the Indian Health Service, “a troubled agency,” according to an Associated Press report. In this report, the I.H.S. is “often criticized by Indians for being inattentive to their health needs.” What do you expect from external forces running socialized medicine for another group of people? The Indian Health Service serves at least two functions, one of them mandated by the International Rules of War for Occupied Territories.
Emily Seegar, Washington-based spokeswoman for the Mille Lacs Band of Chip-away Indians, is quoted by the A.P. as being “happy with the president’s choice.” Dr. Trujillo is described as a “full blooded Indian.” I don’t know whether or not Dr. Trujillo is an Aboriginal Indigenous Person, but I know that he is not a full-blooded Indian. There is no such person as a full-blooded Indian on these two Continents, and if such a mythological invention of the Europeans shows up, he should be in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.
There are many horror stories that can be told about the I.H.S. When a person goes into an Indian Hospital with a ruptured appendix, the doctor says, “take two aspirin and call me in the morning [if you’re still alive].” I wouldn’t send my pet dog to the local Indian Hospital, and if I had any say about what’s being done on my own land, I’d kick the I.H.S. out of here, and send their Indians with them.
The United States needs to be seriously concerned about what the Indian Health Service has done in the past. For one example, ask all the women who have been sterilized without their consent by the I.H.S.—this needs to be publicly documented. Then ask about the medical experimentation done by the I.H.S. No matter what kind of person is nominated to the I.H.S., or as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, they cannot change the structure of the racist institutions for which they become time-buyers and scapegoats. No matter who gets the job, the entrenched bureaucracy and their bosses the special interests, do not change. It’s in the nature of bureaucracy to become crooked and corrupt. The whole bureaucracy of the I.H.S., and the Bureau of Indian Affairs could be filled up with “fullblooded Indians,” and it still wouldn’t change the nature of these racist institutions. Former B.I.A. Commissioner John Collier described the kind of Indians who will work for these institutions as having a “white-plus psychology,” by which he meant that such “fullblooded Indians” have a White patriline and super-White values.
TREATIES, RETROACTIVE: Under the Treaties, and the U.S. Trust Responsibility, any relationship between “Indians” and the U.S. is deemed “purely political,” and the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government did not tread on the Executive Department’s Indian Country. Retroactive Willie has now assigned the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government to help with the Mille Lacs Chip-Away Treaties. The present Mille Lacs “Tribal Government” is based on United States Government legislation unilaterally enacted in 1934, part of the purpose of which was to abrogate the Treaties. The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe was created by U.S. legislation unilaterally enacted in 1889, and the purpose of the Act of January 14, 1889 was to abrogate the Treaties and steal the land. The “Indian Treaties” and the “Indian Tribes” which made these Treaties, exist only at the pleasure of the U.S. Government, and have nothing to do with internationally valid land title. The Honorable State Senator Charlie Berg got off the hook, because the United States’ negotiating with itself and the State of Minnesota over the 1837 Treaty will drag on for decades, obscuring the real issues.
One reason for dragging the Treaty process out, is that there are no more forests. The ecosystem has been destroyed, and the fish and the wildlife have nearly vanished. As the last of the fish and game disappear, the Indians are setting themselves up for some good ol’ redneck and Fundamentalist Indian-bashing, being blamed for the consequences of the White man’s shameful and disgusting policies toward the environment. If you Indians are so interested in hunting and fishing, I suggest you go on a real “fishing expedition,” up to the State Legislature and to Washington. There are some real sharks there, though, and catch-and-release might not be such a good idea. (You might have to use another White man’s fishing technique, spear-and-release.) Don’t let your lawmakers tell you any whoppers—ask them some serious and hard questions about their policies of destruction toward the ecosystem. What’s the point of having “hunting and fishing rights” if there’s nothing left to hunt or fish? While you’re at the Capitol, ask the U.S. Department of the Interior why they are intentionally destroying the ecosystem, polluting the water, and blowing up ducks’ nests.
I notice that nobody’s saying anything about the Black Hills Treaty. Another reason for dragging the Treaty Process out for another couple of decades, is that in 1977 the U.S. Senate American Indian Policy Review Commission predicted that the Final Solution (genocide; in modern politically correct terminology, “ethnic cleansing”) would be finalized by the year 2027: that there will be no more Aboriginal Indigenous People on this Continent in thirty-four more years. This Final Solution has been the U.S. Government’s agenda since the days of the Continental Congress.
As Mr. Austin Abbott praised Senator Dawes (of the Dawes Allotment Act) during the 1890 Lake Mohonk Conference of Friend of the Indians, “These treaties are made with tribes. You have already signed the death warrant of the tribal relation in disestablishing the reservation system: and, when the reservation has gone, the tribe has gone. The party of the second part no longer exists.” The United States Government has not changed its genocide policy toward Aboriginal Indigenous People, and now they tell their Indians, “with one stroke of the pen, you will no longer exist.” According to my crystal ball, the U.S. Government will abrogate the Indian Treaties, and terminate the “Indians.” Their agenda has not changed.
PURLOINED SCROLLS: In the Opinion section of Sunday’s Star Tribune, Robert Treuer wrote an article fostering the lie that the Anishinabe Ojibway are not from here. Much of his information comes from U.S. Government Bureau of Ethnology writings done around 1889, when the United States had a vested interest in promoting their Chippewa Indians, who did migrate from the East and who were warring with their European brothers. The researchers were locked into their own culture, and even when they talked to Aboriginal Indigenous People, saw only European mythology and stereotypes. The introduction to one of the documents on which Treuer based his article reads, “the purposes of the [‘Mide’] society are to give a certain class of ambitious men and women sufficient influence through ... exorcism and necromancy to lead a comfortable life at the expense of the credulous.” As Midewiwin of the Bear Dodem, I will tell you that in our culture there are birchbark longhouses, but there have never been “Grand Medicine Lodges” where we were falsely alleged to worship the Devil. The Anishinabe Ojibway never had a Devil until he immigrated with the White man from Europe, and we never “worshipped the Devil.” We have no Hell, and we have no Hierarchy. What the U.S. Government researchers wrote were projections of their own racist minds: slanderous misinterpretations of our language, our values, our culture, our writing, our history, and our spirituality.
As Treuer implies, language plays a formative part in culture. The major informants cited by Hoffman and Treuer’s other sources were not Anishinabe Ojibway (which means “We, the People”); they were Chippewa Indians with White patrilines who were not part of the Midewiwin, and who did not speak the Anishinabe Ojibway language. We have read their names in these old books, and have done their genealogies. Why talk to Chip-away Indians? There are living Anishinabe Ojibway elders of the Midewiwin who will tell you the truth of our very ancient Traditions: we come from Grandfather the Midewiwin, and Grandmother Earth—and we have always been right here, we are the Autochthonous People of this very place. We tell the Europeans who we are, and they still don’t understand. They are so imprisoned by the limitations of their European languages that they can’t see what’s right in front of them.
Treuer’s “migration story” interpretations of our Midewiwin scrolls are about as accurate as Nazi “interpretations” of the Torah would be, for many of the same reasons (maybe Treuer doesn’t know what he’s doing, promoting this propaganda). I don’t lay all the blame on the Nazis—I haven’t met any publicly acclaimed Judeo-Christians who have gotten their Ten Commandments right yet, either. Why don’t White writers get their Traditions straight, before they try to scramble up my culture? The way that these European immigrants have destroyed the environment says more than enough about their own Traditions, culture, and language.
My telephone number is (218) 679-2382 and my mailing address is P.O. Box 484, Bemidji, MN 56601.
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3952. Wub-e-ke-niew = (a.k.a. Francis Blake, Jr. (1993). Reflections from the Anishinabe Ojibway Nation: Gassing and burning the Branch Davidians was the top story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Friday, April 23 ... Ojibwe News.
Abstract: Gassing and burning the Branch Davidians was the top story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Friday, April 23. On the same front page was an article about the Holocaust Museum commemorating the gassing and burning of Jewish and other ethnic people in Germany fifty years ago. President Clinton went along with blaming the victims of the fire in Waco; in his televised appearances he didn’t bat an eye about the way the F.B.I. went about killing the children of a religious group. When Hitler committed genocide against religious and ethnic groups, he was a democratically elected product of Western European Civilization, just like the people here who are sedated by the Spin Doctors into complacency. Adolf Hitler was not unique; both he and the Euro-Americans are a part of Western European Civilization. The Aboriginal Indigenous people here (not the “Indians”) were scapegoated for being the owners of the vast wealth of these two Continents, and the Euro-American version of history blames us for the genocide of our own people. Hitler also blamed the victims. Whether the Waco Jesus was a “monster” or not has nothing to do with the deaths of innocent (although perhaps misguided) men, women and children. The F.B.I. blamed the Branch Davidians for the G-Men psyching themselves up, and created a rationale (“see what you made me do”) for escalating a situation until many people died unnecessarily. The Feds should have had neutral negotiators—and the children would still be alive. There needs to be a monument in Waco commemorating fratricide: White people killing White people.
One of countless many massacres of Aboriginal Indigenous People committed by the Europeans occurred in the winter of 1890-91 at Wounded Knee. The United States Government justified the genocide of unarmed men, women, and children by calling it a “battle,” and awarded 23 Medals of Honor to the soldiers who did the killing—to mold public opinion that this was honorable behavior. In the psychotically warped linear thinking of Western European Judeo-Christians, maybe genocide is “honorable.” The U.S. Government blamed the Lakota people for getting killed, claiming that they were members of a cult which the B.I.A. labelled the “Messiah Craze.” There are already millions of Good Christian churches in this country, and they don’t seem to be solving the problems of killing and other violence. What the moral leaders need to do is stop building new churches, and start turning some of the churches they have into monuments and holocaust museums—all around the world—to commemorate the billions of victims of Western European violence. The Aboriginal Indigenous People of this Continent need to begin the process of building monuments and museums, in Germany and Japan, honoring and commemorating the more than 1,000,000,000 Aboriginal Indigenous People who were annihilated in genocide committed by Western European Civilization.
Crooked English and euphemisms play an important part in the unjustifiable and uncalled-for killing and violent behavior by the leadership of Western European Civilization. These people are going to have to face reality—it can’t go on. “Ethnic Cleansing” is outright genocide, hidden by an innocuous-seeming word. “Ethnic Cleansing” sounds like you’re using a patented detergent to scrub the color out of people, so that you can make them White, rather than killing them, burning their bodies, wiping them clean out of existence and destroying every trace that they ever lived without a speck remaining, so that all is sparkling white. I want to know if the international Jewish Community is going to build a memorial to the people who have been slaughtered in the former Yugoslavia? No matter whether it’s eighty people or eight million people, it’s genocide. All people from around the world must stand up and stop this genocide, this fratricide, and all of the other violence that’s going on in the world, caused by Western European Civilization’s “war and peace” and other violent values. From what I have seen in the media, the Holocaust monument in Washington, D.C. is impressive. But, do you t