[PEN-L:29967] Imagine

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Farmelant's letter
(http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism%40lists.panix.com/msg36370.html) was
moving; he is indeed a "Nee-tse-tapi-kse" (that's Blackfoot for a
"mensch"). His letter strongly parallels, in eloquence and substance, the
opening of Roland Chrisjohn's "The Circle Game" "What if..." (which I will
attach here).

According to the Musquiem Decision of the Canadian Supreme Court in 1983,
the "presumptive title" of all the lands of present-day Canada is
"Aboriginal"; meaning that the burden of proof for assertion of "legal
[bourgeois legal] title" is on the non-aboriginals.

The is the kind of vile racism Indians deal with every single day. By the
way, in a limited respect, the Zionist scum has it right: Palestinians are
commonly referring to themselves as "Palestindians" and our most respected
Elders, who know very little about the history and complexities of the
Middle East, commonly refer to us as "The Palestinians of Noth America".

From "The Pikunii Sun" Vol 1 No. 2 Newspaper of Pikunii (Blackfoot People)
and other interested persons. Also printed in "The Eastern Door" a
newspaper of the Mohawk Nation of Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada

Imagine... by James M. Craven

There is a great deal of sensitivity to one of the most notorious of the
many Holocausts humankind has suffered: the Nazi Holocaust against Jews,
Gypsies and others. Movies like Schindler's List are a constant reminder of
massive suffering that must never be forgotten and historical lessons that
must be learned. Most believe that something like the Holocaust of the
Nazis against Jews or Gypsies or other victims tageted by the Nazis could
never happen here in America or in Canada.

Imagine that something like what happened to Jews in Germany happened in
America or Canada. Imagine that Jewish children were forced to repeat
Christian prayers and were beaten or even murdered if they spoke or prayed
in Hebrew or Yiddish and spoke or prayed Jewish prayers. Imagine if Jewish
children were forced to eat pork that was not only forbidden for religious
reasons but was also rotten, insect-infested and of the lowest quality so
that many children could be "fed" cheaply and very profitably.

Imagine if vulnerable and trusting Jewish children were routinely sexually
and physically abused by "clergy" and when the sexual and physical abuse
was discovered, those who reported it were beaten or murdered while those
who committed the ugly deeds, were protected by powerful and rich churches
and sent elsewhere to do more crimes to other Jewish children. Imagine that
Jewish children were used for medical experiments or used to test new drugs
or surgical procedures. Imagine if Jewish children were used as sexual
objects for powerful pedophiles--"dignitaries"--when visiting the isolated
institutions in which the Jewish children were kept away from their
families and communities.

Imagine if Jewish children were sterilized through coercion or decption.
Imagine if Jewish children were registered and controlled by a BJA (Bureau
of Jewish Affairs) that had a long history of fraud, theft, abuse and
dereliction of trust responsibilities with respect to traditional Jewish
lands and resources. Imagine if throughout the Jewish Ghettos, corrupt and
sell-out Jews were selected or elected through fraudulent elections to
control other Jews in the interests of non-Jews bent on the eventual
elimination--through murder, intermarriage, redefinition, assimilation or
sterilization--of all Jews.

 Imagine if Jewish children were forced into special Boarding/Residential
Schools designed to beat, torture, intimidate and brainwash the
"Jewishness" out of them.

Imagine if there were football teams with names like the "Kansas City
Kikes", the "San Francisco Sheenies" or the Jersey City Jew Boys" and at
half-time, some caricature, of what the bigoted and ignorant consider to be
a "typical Jew", came out to do the "money-grubbing tango". Imagine if Jews
were forbidden to celebrate Jewish holidays or to wear traditional Jewish
yamulkas or prayer shawls. Imagine if all the precedents of Nuremberg and
International Law (Treaties) were routinely broken by non-Jews while Jews
were expected to keep all promises and responsibilities under those laws.

You say it could not happen to Jews in America or Canada what was done in
Nazi Germany? You say that especially after Nuremberg, and the horrors that
were revealed there, "Never Again", anywhere? With respect to Jews in
America and Canada, perhaps all of the above and more could happen and
perhaps not. But there is no "perhaps" that all of the above and much more
was done--and is being done--in America and in Canada and elsewhere in the
world to Indigenous Peoples.

When do Indians and First Nations Peoples get movies like "Schlinder's
List" that expose the past and present of the American and Canadian
Holocausts? When do non-Indians care about the American and Canadian
Holocausts against Indigenous Peoples as much as many non-Jews do --and
should--care about the Nazi Holocaust? When do Indians get the precedents,
legal protections and demands for justice of Nuremberg applied in--and
to--the very Nations that so piously and hypocritically sat in judgment at
Nuremberg?

Jim Craven
Kainai/N.Peigan Pikunii
Blackfoot Nation

"It is readily acknowledged that Indian children lose their natural
resistance to illness by habitating so closely in these schools, and that
they die at a much higher rate than in their villages. But this alone does
not justify a change in the policy of this Department, which is geared
towards the FINAL SOLUTION OF OUR INDIAN PROBLEM."    (Department of Indian
Affairs Superintendent D.C. Scott to B.C. Indian Agent-General Major D.
McKay,   DIA Archives, RG 10 series).  April 12, 1910

 The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards Indians; their
land and property shall never be taken from them without their consent."
(Northwest Ordinance, 1787, Ratified by Congress 1789)

"...but this letter being unofficial and private, I may with safety give
you a more   extensive view of our policy respecting the Indians, that you
may better comprehend  the parts dealt to to you in detail through the
official channel, and observing the  system of which they make a part,
conduct yourself in unison with it in cases where  you are obliged to act
without instruction...When they withdraw themselves to the  culture of a
small piece of land, they will perceive how useless to them are
their  extensive forests, and will be willing to pare them off from time to
time in exchange for necessaries for their farms and families. To promote
this disposition to exchange lands, which they have to spare and we want,
for necessaries which we have to spare and they want,we shall push our
trading houses, and be glad to see the good and influencial individuals
among them run in debt, because we observe that when these debts get beyond
what the individuals can pay, they become willing to lop them off by
cession of lands...In this way our settlements will gradually circumscribe
and approach the Indians, and they will in time either incorporate with us
as citizens of the United States, or remove beyond the Mississippi.The
former is certainly the termination of their history most happy for
themselves; but, in the whole course of this, it is essential to cultivate
their love. As to their fear, we presume that our strength and their
weakness is now so visible that they must see we have only to shut our hand
to crush them..." (Classified Letter of President Thomas Jefferson
("libertarian"--for propertied white  people) to William Henry Harrison,
Feb. 27, 1803)

"Hitler's concept of concentration camps as well as the practicality of
genocide owed much, so he claimed, to his studies of English and United
States history. He admired the camps for Boer prisoners in south Africa and
for the Indians in the Wild West; and often praised to his inner circle the
efficiency of America's extermination--by starvation and uneven combat--of
the 'Red Savages' who could not be tamed by captivity." (Adolf Hitler, by
John Toland, p. 702)

"Set the blood quantum at one-quarter, hold to it as a rigid definition of
Indians, let intermarriage proceeed...and eventually Indians will be
defined out of existence. When that happens, the federal government will
finally be freed from its persistent Indian problem." (BIA Document quoted
in Patricia Limerick, "The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the
American West" p. 338)




Louis Proyect
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