I said it seems horrible.
I see now it was.
Harry
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Ray wrote:
Harry,
The US government has rules for what constitutes and Indian that is tied to belonging to a recognized "tribe" (Their word). It is not a racial connection or a blood quantum although each group is requried to have a quantum card of original blood (how much) if you belong to one of those groups. The make up of the group is determined by membership on certain roles that were put together by the government in the late 19th century. Many of the people were not included because it involved terminating the National status in favor of tribal status with land be divided up and the Nation and National governments being terminated as were the religions of the individual nations. Here is a timetable of all of that:
TRADITIONAL NATIVE RELIGIOUS TIMELINE LEADING TO THE PRESENT
(Emphasis on Cherokee Keetoowah Faith as an example of government relationship to Traditional Native Faiths)
BEFORE COLUMBUS LANDING 1492: ALL CHEROKEES ARE OF THE KEETOOWAH FAITH
1670: CHARLESTON, SC FOUNDED begins Anglo treaty manipulation and
200 years of trading Keetoowahs and other traditional people as slaves Forced "breeding"
Indian women to African men in pre-eugenics experiments. Indian men killed above 14 YOA.
1757: FIRST PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES to the Cherokees (at the Overhill Band).
(Proselytizing is considered an affront to the Creator who gives each their spiritual path.)
1828: 1/10TH OF THE CHEROKEES ARE CHRISTIAN (some Cherokees no longer Keetoowah)
Cherokee's approve their first Constitution
1838: THE TRAIL OF TEARS 1/3rd of the nation dead through assault, rape and disease at concentration camps &
on forced march to Oklahoma.
*1859: TRADITIONAL KEETOOWAHS AND KEETOOWAH CHRISTIANS INCORPORATE
to fight slavery & support the north.
two groups live together cooperatively for 23 years.
1864: U.S. CIVIL WAR ENDS, US Duplicity Punishes North's Cherokee Allies "from the midst of their darkness a new
Cherokee Nation would arise." The Keetoowah Society central to that rebirth."
1883: THE PRACTICE OF TRADITIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGION BECOMES A FEDERAL OFFENSE.
1884: Elk v. Watkins, Slavery not abolished for Indians because the 13th and 14th Amendments do not
apply to Native Americans.
1893: DAWES COMMISSION to dis-enfranchise all Indian People from their national property.
1898: CURTIS ACT dissolves all Indian governments, courts & public pressure increases suppression of
traditional Keetoowahs and other Native American Faiths.
* 1903: KEETOOWAH CHIEF REDBIRD SMITH JAILED for practicing the Keetoowah Faith,
traditional Keetoowahs remove to hills or hide traditions in churches.
1913: SUPREME COURT declares all Indians "wards of the government" with no rights. White guardians
of Osage wealth murder over 300 of the wealthiest Osage.
1924: CONGRESS CONFERS US CITIZENSHIP to Indians who renounce sovereignty but
cannot vote. 14th Amendment now applies and Indian Slavery now illegal.
* 1928: NUYAGI KEETOOWAH BEGINNINGS; Sacred Fire secretly brought East to NJ.
6 year old future Nuyagi Keetoowah Founder designated future Keeper of Fire.
1936: OKLA. IND. WELFARE ACT provides for rebuilding nations dissolved by Curtis act.
The People now have standing in court.
1948: INDIANS GIVEN RIGHT TO VOTE in national elections. Most states come later.
* 1972: TEMPLE ADANELO ADANUTO IS FOUNDED by future Nuyagi Keetoowah Founder
as an umbrella "Temple" for traditional religion without police harassment.
*1977: CONGRESS BANS SECRET INVOLUNTARY STERILIZATIONS OF INDIAN WOMEN (40% STERILIZED)
* 1978: CONGRESS PASSES THE AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT.
(Reservation Churches decline)
* 1983: FIRST OPEN NUYAGI KEETOOWAH SOCIETY (NKS) unity meeting held in NYCity under Adanelo Adanuto
* 1984: FIRST NKS COUNCIL determines the public climate now right for acceptance of NKS open incorporation.
* 1990: STOMP GROUND FUND BEGUN & FIRST NOT-FOR-PROFIT STRUCTURE for NKS recognized by NYState.
Since 1978, Christian members of the Supreme Court have been slowly removing the guarantees of the 1978 law.
* 2000: COMMUNITY, BRIGHT FUTURE WITH NEW KEETOOWAH RELIGIOUS SITE.
So Harry, there is a political and material side to all of this. The "Tribal" membership (downgraded from dependent Nation status accorded in the US Supreme Court of John Marshall) requires a certain number of people to qualify as active. When a tribe is declared inactive, it is officially declared extinct. At that time its land which was held by the Federal government reverts to the government and can be disposed of however they wish. They have a built in incentive to make it difficult for Indian Nations to survive because we have so much land at stake. This has take a murderous turn as in 1913 when the Osage Nation, which was the Kuwait of that time with the wealthiest individuals in the world, was put in the hands of white "guardians" who murdered and stole until they were bankrupt once more. Many of today's oil companies spring from those "guardians." So by downgrading Indians to both Hunter/Gatherer and Tribal status (both historically an attrocity) you can then decide who the hiers are and wait for them to die off or be deleted to such a low blood quantum that they no longer fit the "tribal" rules and are not longer declared "Indian" of recognized governmental "tribes." Of course there are many extinctions that are false and the gambling revolution of today grew out of the Mashintucket Pequots who were supposed to be extinct but were only an extinct gleam in a governmental developer's eye. The 1996 Arts and Crafts Act put out by the first Bush is an example of finding a non-National basis for "indianship" and declaring that only members of recognized "tribes" are elegible to be called Indian Artists. There were fines of over a million dollars for perpetrating such "fraud." Except "tribal" membership is and has always been arbitrary with members of families not being eligible because they were hiding from the government, didn't agree with the equivelant of "numbers on the arms," and in the case of the Cherokee, didn't live in Oklahoma. There are whole communittees of Cherokees in Arkansas who are disenfranchised because they settled in Arkansas in an earlier time than the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma. So membership is not truly based upon anything except relative crony standards built between collaborators and the duplicitous US government.
So that is the root of my statement. And it is only the tip of a very dirty iceburg.
Regards
Ray Evans Harrell
----- Original Message -----
From: Harry Pollard
To: Ray Evans Harrell ; Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Subject: Re: Privatizing the Public: Whose agenda? At What Cost?
Ray,
You said:
"When you read the extinction laws for Native Americans you realize that the US government is already planning for our extinction and I don't mean extermination."
Explain - it seems horrible, but probably impossible considering how Indians have done well among the white-eyes.
Falstaff is a favorite opera of mine. At first, I didn't much care for opera - until I found the emotion that can be conveyed by song even more than instruments. It seems to me that there is only one tune that can be hummed in Falstaff, so I don't know why I am so fond of it.
Must be just great music.
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Henry George School of LA
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