Disappointment, Discontentment

Irene Folstrom has exploited her sex life, that is not what Anishinaabe women do, they have respect for themselves, it is too late to be a role model to her people after this, at least for now, I do not want my daughters looking up to a woman who exploits their personal sexual relationships, this childish act of trying to draw attention to herself is disgusting. I think everybody is getting tired of seeing this woman in the media, not in this way, yes, it is interesting, but I don’t believe anyone cares except her that she was once involved with Tiger Woods. Look at how she defends Tiger Woods even after he himself acknowledges his short-comings? If I was trying to get help for an addiction, I wouldn't appreciate any one using it to their social advantage. Her article presents many facts of her accomplishments, most of them being self gratifying, and self exploiting; she has done nothing to help the Native community or the white community of Bemidji nor Cass Lake. Her over-indulgent self gratification will not belong to the Native people, that belongs to her alone. She has made a mistake for openly forsaking these 'American Indian' candidates along with these so-called 'tribal leaders' by attempting to belittle our struggle to just 'American Indian issues' these so-called 'Indians' like Irene, and the tribal leaders of Leech Lake do nothing for their people except re-enforce stereotypes and social disparities. A lot of self -centered behavior and corruption are evident, John McCarthy with his Indian Gaming agenda is the source of these evils, he believes hes manipulating all of us through his involvement in the political process, hes john Perrsells and Mary Olsens campaign manager, I wonder how much he paid Irene to come out in opposition of us, these 'American Indian' candidates they have failed to support are doing this for our people and our people alone, to improve our community, and our community relations, and our people are all of you that we share this community with, red, white or whatever, that's why our real Native people will not stand behind her or these tribal leaders any more, but they have enlisted the help of every 'sit-around-the-front' every 'apple' and every 'indian scout' in the area to come to their defense. Everywhere we go we meet supporters of Nicole Beaulieu and Gregory Paquin; Darrel Auginash is also soon to join the fight for a better, unified Northern Minnesota. It is very overwhelming and flattering to be met with such open arms and open minds, because we are not the savages most assume we are, we are up to date on all issues facing Minnesotans. We're seeing all this corruption from the outside looking in like everybody else up here. Irene is obviously ignoring the corruption at hand, or maybe shes just out of touch, these Native candidates are not only running for Native issues, how dare her, this woman is nothing short of disappointing, this woman knows very little of our Native candidates, I for one am ashamed of her, Irene can hide behind her credentials all she wants, she can support whomever she pleases, we are still going to fight for our equality which she is willing to sacrifices for her own selfish needs. Who is she to take it upon herself to decide what Minnesotans deserve? We are going out to ask the people, they deserve better community where there is unity, where the harmony is not being disrupted at the cost the mistreatment of my people. I'm sorry but this enough, we must let these people who we have welcomed as our brothers, but who have made us their enemies know that we are people worthy of their respect. We will be reckoned with regardless of Folstrom's envious feeble attempt to discourage these Native candidates that have the will to persevere what she couldn't. Folstrom gave way to depression when she lost her little 'popularity contest' our Native candidates only become more determined in the face of opposition, our Native candidates will not fold to oppressive opposition, Irene is obviously unstable, She is not only a insult the Native women, but women in general, she is a mockery of our integrity as Leech Lake Ojibwe People. There is unresolved matters that afflict the Anishinaabe people today which she and whoever put her up to this re-enforces with this obvious treachery, we too are responsible for the welfare of our community. We must bring council back to all people, away from these weak-hearted leaders, that carry out these harmful polices amongst us. That have robbed us of our humanity, that has driven these ignorance between us, our leaders are suppose to protect us, not make us vulnerable to this harm. These are not leaders. You do not deserve to be manipulated by this woman's fiasco, that weak-hearted spirit was given to these people to teach us how to be stronger, stronger then these weaknesses that endanger the lives of every Minnesotan red or white. For one hundred and fifty five years we have allowed the senate to ravage the way of life of the Ojibwe people, putting our communities in a discontentment that disrupts the harmony of our shared community, all we want is to do our part, to improve where we see those that are failing us as a whole, to improve what has been neglected, nobody should have to earn their right to a better Minnesota, we are entitled to it, now is the time we must fight to be counted, now is our time for our compassionate voice to be heard, we must come together to help heal what we left behind, so we may move forward in unity, in brotherhood. We must help all see that we care for all families, that we care for the communities we share. We are still brothers and we will fight to let everybody know we do care for them, we must fight to let them know that it bothers us that they make little effort to acknowledge our long forgotten brotherhood. That brotherhood helped our ancestors (White & Red)build Minnesota, we must help them remember the value of their Ojibwe brothers, to break this routine of neglect, so we may re-establish and nurture this kinship we once shared for one another, for a better, stronger Minnesota. We are the original caretakers of these lands, we feel it is our duty to take care of all who reside within them, regardless of Folstroms exploits, we must confront all forms of treachery, before they rob our community of an opportunity of a better district 4. I am not only a concerned citizen, but I am also Nicole Beaulieu's Campaign Manager and good friend of Gregory Paquin, and we do not appreciate being included in her ridiculously shameful article. All her years combined nor any of her achievements do not compensate for the pure-hearted dedication that these Native candidates have for their people, maybe if she utilizes her abilities for the good of all, and their people are all of you that want a equality and unity throughout district 4 and beyond, not just 'American Indians'.

Mi'iw minik!(This is enough!)

Mi'iw minik!(This is enough!), we must let these people who we have welcomed as our brothers, but who have made us their enemies know that we are people of consequence. Insult after insult, injury after injury, yet we have been gifted with time to heal ourselves from their treachery, to re-group, to be re-born into this struggle that has worn down my ancestors, yet there are is unresolved matters that afflict the Anishinaabe people today, Kichi Manido has breathed a new life into the Anishinaabe. This is the greatest gift that has ever been given to the Anishinaabe people throughout America, we all must receive it, we must bring our council back to the people, away from these weak-hearted tribal leaders that carry that old defeated spirit around with inside of them, that carry out these harmful polices amongst our people, that has let them rob us of our humanity, our leaders are suppose to protect us, not make us vulnerable to this harm. That weak-hearted spirit was given to us to teach our people how to be stronger, stronger then these weaknesses that endanger the life that our ancestors fought to gift us with, we must honor their struggle by not allowing ourselves be victim to the inhumane insensitivity of their senate. For one hundred and fifty five years we have allowed this senate to ravage the way of life of the Ojibwe people, now is the time we must fight to be counted, now is our time for our voice to be heard, we must come together to help them heal what we left behind, so we may move forward in unity, in brotherhood, we must help them see that we care also for them and their families, that we also care for the communities we share, that they are still our brothers. We must fight to let them know we do care for them, we must fight to let them know that it hurts us that they make little effort to acknowledge our long forgotten brotherhood, that brotherhood helped their ancestors build Minnesota, we must help them remember the value of their Ojibwe brothers, to break this routine of neglect, so we may re-establish and nurture this kinship we once shared for a better, stronger Minnesota.

Credentials of corruption written in the blood of my people

If we Anishinaabe gave way to doubt, we would not be here today, those that put their energy into educating themselves in these ignorant practices have the best credentials to re-enforce these corrupt practices that victimize our people. They have conformed themselves to let this system put them in place to keep the so-called progress of discrimination running smooth, assimilated into this machine that runs on the suffrage of our people, thee Anishinaabe, but this machine is old and broken, so we're here to 'indian rig' it and hitch a ride to justice, and when we get there, we're going to help them fix this machine so it runs on unity, and it won't give off these emissions of poverty that pollute our native communities. It doesn't matter where we learned the mechanics of politics, just as long as we have the patience and know how to repair these damages we sustained on this long bumpy road to equality, from the land of the free, to the prisons of serfdom, the Native American today is still attempting to wedge themselves into this racist mess, door after door is slammed in our faces, every chance we get our foot in the door, they force it shut, severing our foot, injuring our chance to stand on our own feet, we lie outside the doors of justice pleading for help, we know they can hear us, yet they ignore our pleas. Once and awhile they open the door to check on us, asking if we're okay, saying' what are you talking about? your foot is still their, get up and walk back to your reservation, away from these doors, your not injured' we tell them' no, you crushed our foot off, we can't stand' we can see our foot on a mantle, upon a trophy case, eroded away to bone, useless, so now we have enlisted these elite Native American political engineers to create a bionic leg, a leg so powerful it will shatter the doors that are shut before us. It will crush any barrier that stands in our way of equality, today we have the social technology to rebuild what was neglected and damaged in our plight for justice, technology that will make us stronger then our ancestors could have ever imagined, utilizing these instruments will allow us to mend ourselves, to defeat any villain that attempts to harm our well being. We will harness the energy of our ancestors to empower our struggle into progress. Our dedication to our people is our credentials, the testament to the suffrage we endured is our credentials, the voices of our ancestors that echo through us is our credentials, the tobacco I put out as prayer is my credentials.

This is chess not checkers!

Today I witnessed our so-called tribal leaders turn their backs on our Anishinaabe candidates running for Senate and House seats. I'm not surprised, or disappointed, because we suspected this, they are the reason we embarked on this movement, to remove their corruption from our Tribal offices. Archie, 'Ribbs' and their band of defective indian scouts have been traitors to our people long before today. I suspect they have been bought off in a pathetic attempt to discourage our defiant voices, little do they know we do not look to them for guidance in anyway. McCarthy is the real chairman of Leech Lake, heck, he's probably the chairman of all the MCT; they're all in bed with him and his crooked partners manipulating this campaign through casino interests. John McCarthy is Stanly crooks ' re-incarnation of General George Custer, they agreed to resurrect ol' George as long as he seeks their shared ignorant unresolved hatred for the Ojibwe, but ol' john'Custer' McCarthy is just happy to be victimizing the Native people once again. These are cowardly acts meant to impoverish my people by means of manipulating our economic crisis we were suffering from prior to the the gaming pacts that enslave our tribes today, we are selling our souls to this criminal enterprise we know as Indian Gaming, where we cannot own our own slot machines. Legalized extortion is victimizing this revenue, 60% of the dollar made in our casino goes back to the slot machine owners in Vegas, that money could be going towards the interest of Minnesota. As a supposed share holder of the Leech Lake Gaming Industry, it would be my honor to share the revenue with our beloved State and all it's inhabitants, but no, it's being robbed from the interests of us all, plus they hired this little manipulative crook 'skip' as the veteran indian scout to guide them threw our corrupted tribal politics. Now 'skip' is leading the charge for the Calvary once again in attempts to conquer the the unconquered Ojibwe people. Its disgusting I tell you, these Vile villains of our people are being implicated as re-enforcements to squelch our peoples attempts of 'going of the reservation' as they say, to free ourselves from discrimination and obtain equality within American society, life, liberty, and justice are prevented from the Native American. Regardless we are here to prevent further harm upon our integrity which these inherently raciest majority of non-natives knowingly victimize my people with by this institutionalized racism. Why do we need to fight for our voices to be heard? We should have a mandatory Native Representative in those senate halls that aren't confined to corrupted tribal politics, our representatives have been misappropriating our issues long enough. It's appalling to see these ignorant individuals repeatedly deny us our voices to be voiced by one of our own, what's with these non-natives trying to take on our problems without any adherence to the reality of our daily struggle to succeed in todays society as Anishinaabe people. It''s getting pretty frustrating dealing with these obtuse people, they think their manipulating us, they hire all these crooked indians to justify their injustices, empowering these defected corrupted Ojibwes to prevent our people if we so even attempt to reach for equality. I don't know who they think they are trying to under mind Nicole Beaulieu, they attempted patronize this pillager patriot; she might be young, her dedication to the welfare of her people are only rivaled by her brilliance. Where were these people when they were 22? I bet they weren't trying to champion issues facing their downtrodden people. I bet they weren't trying to better their communities. I bet they weren't as involved or as dedicated to their community as she is. She's only 22, give her 10-12 years, we might have our first female Native American president, then we'll see where all these corrupt loyalties are then, but we'll just have to wait and see won't we? I find it disturbing to think of how these evil men (and women) can live with themselves, how can they look in the mirror knowing that they are directly involved in the inhumane condition my people are being subject to. I'm not fabricating or exaggerating these facts, we are constantly sacrificing our humanity to provide our non-native counterparts with this racist harmony they fuel off our neglected human needs. In the ever so true words of Thomas Aquinas, "He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust."

Aaniin dina Anishinaabedog?

Nicoles been receiving a lot of negative vibes from some cowardly acts of people that have issues dealing with their confused emotions with her candidacy. Its pretty obvious these apparent charlatans will attempt to become a nuisance when they muster the courage between them to demonstrate their shared ignorance, that's fine 'to each their own.' Yet their uneducated suspicions will be met with the same defiance we reserve for any opponent upholding these unsatisfactory conditions amongst our people, that will soon be my childrens' problems if we do not acknowledge them to formulate solutions to better our community for them. The jobbery that threatens my childrens' future, of those corrupted individuals will be thwarted as they stubbornly 'go down with their ships' they captain, floating upon their vast ocean of deceit that they choose to honor instead of the logical upright solution for our constantly declining slump we have found ourselves in as a community. Jealousy and envy are apparent, refusal to adhere to the younger generation's voices is disturbingly in attendance with their poorly veiled jealous attitudes that they brazenly displayed, along with their lack of encouragement. Dis-trustfulness will ensue, for we must protect ourselves from those that wish harm upon our plight for equality for our children that they openly choose to not effectively take part in, but not against those that openly engage us with their concerns no matter where they stem from. Honor is a word most commonly ignored today in these issues that embroil our shared community, respect is a word most commonly misused and neglected, loyalty and dedication are almost non-existent, in most situations, respect is not mutual. Although I maintain my composure in most situations where I or one of my loved ones are attacked with disrespect. It is expected in an excessive manner by those that take the word 'respect' out of context, and use it to manipulate us younger people. I demonstrate the utmost respect for those that have nurtured the quality of the share respect we initiated upon introductions. Yes, it is polite to honor those with honor and esteem that have endured the rigors of being a Native American elder, and when I say elders, I'm talking of anyone older then me, yet some refuse us a chance to appreciate them for their wisdom that they supposedly hold and choose to withhold from those of us that they do not approve of in their high standards that they have set as a trap in preventing us from exceeding their reputations as the backbone of our communities. Who are they to refuse us our equality? This is also a form of discrimination I have suffered at the hands of some of our elders, where is this attitude stemming from? I doubt that this is how our ancestors conveyed their dedication towards their younger counterpart in effort to help them maintain the harmony of our community. Why do I question these routines our community has fallen into, because it is a logical question to be asked why these feelings of faithlessness are creating distance between these generations of our people. The harmony of our community has been absent for quiet a long time, long before our generation became involved in the struggle, I am not blaming our predecessors, but we young people are taking on a lot of unresolved problems that have been afflicting our people for generations, and yes, we need your guidance, we need your confidence, we need your approval as elders, we need your respect also, it is this respect that will help us reclaim and maintain this balance that was disrupted long ago. Even before the elders today were born, the influential elders I encountered are few and far between, I am in no way passing judgment on these elder that I have experienced these issues with, I am just asking what has come between us from preventing those elders from heeding to our young voices of change that echos the truth and love of our ancestors. I might be young, but I was gifted with the intelligence to identify these problems but I was also gifted with the courage to speak out against them, I know when I become an elder this false entitlement to dismiss our next generations concerns for our community will not belong to me, not if they are effectively addressing matters I may have failed in preventing from becoming their struggle, we need to stand behind our strong young people, so we may guide them on the right path, so that they may lead our people into prosperity.

Giizhaawaasodaa!!

..The repetitive humdrum monotone reciprocates though the pitiful pleas of my people as we come out of this seventh fire. It doesn't matter what happened to us, not any more. What matters now is what are we going to do with what we have left of our Anishinaabe people. What are we going to do with these gifts that have fell through the hands of our enemies? Only to re-kindle the fires that have been constantly threatened to be doused by the blood of our ancestors. Why are we standing around fighting each other, pointing fingers and blame at one another as if we took part in the tragedies that befell our ancestors? None of us are responsible for what has happened to them, we are only responsible for what happens today, and today we must look around at each other and see who needs tending to, so that we may help them mend and once again stand, standing with us against our enemies, we have smiled through our enemies last insult, now we must stand together and let them know that they cannot heal themselves without us, for they are sick. We must sing for them, tell the spirits that they need our help, we've been asking the spirits to protect us from them long enough, yet their sickness has infected our young warriors that have wandered off, those are our protectors, and we must ask the spirits to help these young men, wake them up from their nightmares and ask them to join us around the fire. We must listen to the children as well as the elders, for they have just joined us from the spirits and their innocence is medicine that can wash away the disease that hatred has brought upon our people. Our children will lead us all back to the fire where our elders sit waiting for us, it is there where we will come together and celebrate the gifts that have made us stronger as brothers so that we may honor our children with those long forgotten bonds of brotherhood.

You cannot polish away the majestically rustic beauty of truth

It never amazes me of the boundless energy those put into their criticism of people who are standing up for those that are being wronged. Over emphasizing on those courageous individual's qualifications is robbing their energy from focusing on their tasks at hand, and deprives those in need of their services a chance to rise above their socially afflicted predicaments that are constantly overlooked by those that are inadvertently benefiting from their suffrage. Least I hope that it's inadvertent, but regardless, injustice is present here in Bemidji Minnesota. How and where those oblivious narrow minded individuals may retort in our faces? My answer is, it is alive and well hidden away from my injustice death squads scouring and marching for equality within your despicable excuse of poorly disguised socio-economic racist cesspool you refer to as 'Bemidji.' This isn't Bemichigaamug, that's disrespectful naming this racist city in the native language of the people they systematically victimize through racism. They should have called it Paul Bunyanville, because their living in a fantasy world where they believe themselves to be the magical children of privilege whisked away to a mystical land bountiful in resources for them them to exploit in their selfish greedy over-indulgent child-like joy, swatting the dirty savage natives away from their overflowing plates as they attempt to gobble everything up in sight. As we grovel on these reservations in dirt, that they think they gifted us with as a parting gift for our efforts in wars that they somehow gotten their decedents to believe they have won. My people were never defeated by the United States, not in war, not us Ojibwe. In the Senate was our fate to be reviewed and revised constantly to eventually diminish the indian people into oblivion. My people, thee Ojibwe, never wanted to harm the white man, we accepted him as our brother and allowed him to live amongst us, ensuring their survival so that we may share in a society of brotherhood and prosperity, but every chance they have gotten they systematically excluded us discretely within their senate halls, out rightly ignoring our voices or opinion in any and all matters that concerned the welfare of my people. The obscurity of our horrific treatment is also ignored and defended by an unlearned notions handed down by a ever more ignorant predecessors that believes the "injin" loves living in dirt, because that's all they proved for the "injin," promise after ever promise was dishonored to make way for this extreme era of racism devastating the native people of Minnesota's human rights. They have sweep the sturdy legs of our traditional tribal government right from underneath us, and as we attempt to regain our footing on this battlefield of injustice that was once our homelands, we are continuously excluded from help to stand on our own two feet in this society that is not meant to meet my needs as a Ojibwe person. This angers me as it would my ancestors, this is not the way we intended to share our beloved communities with you, just for you to take it upon yourselves in doling out what little humanity you believe the Ojibwe deserves after we treated you with the utmost respect and honor in all our matters. When we supposedly signed away our lands for the white man to own in 1855, we did not give up our rights to these lands to live, we did not relinquish any of our rights to public matters, we are the original occupants of these lands that told your ancestors to 'c'mon over n make yourselves at home, here, let us help your people survive and prosper here.' Despite the skirmish at Battle Point which ended in the favor of the Pillager Band of Ojibwes, we did not wish harm upon our white brothers, we had respect and honor for those that only wished to live as free and proud as my ancestors once did. Now we are shackled to these injustices that are meant to prevent us from involving ourselves in say over our matters, so yes, we do need something removed from the status quo in the Senate of middle-aged christian white men that uphold their divine futile conquest to conquer the heathen native, they have conquered some of us, but they haven't defeated us all. They have acquired scouts to navigate them through our tribal politics so that they can keep the hostiles in check if they so try to raise up in anger and say 'excuse me sir, but I believe those are my rights your hiding behind your back'

redressive grievances for patronized promises

Its very difficult containing my frustration and anger when you see things for what they really are here, and not how the media encourages the public to react to these blatant injustices victimizing the native people here in bemidji, in most situations I'm left feeling nothing but total outrage by the pretentious conceptualizations my people are being made subject to here in bemidji, being cast aside to make way for the white mans excessive necessities that are encouraged to overshadow our basic human needs, neglect and racism ravage the very fabric of the native Americans humanity here in bemidji, you have these grown men talking about civilization, and how we lost these ideals, when in fact we've been making progress. It might not be that much, but at least today I can go to walmart without someone trying to kill me for my scalp, but supposedly we let go of these ignorance's to move forward in a civil manner because supposedly we let go of these ideals of 'white privilege' that held America captive for so many generations of my people, so that we may move forward in equality throughout america, but not here in minnesota, not in good ol' Bemidji. This society which the white man evolved around our communities and on lands which I have rights to by Treaty of Law. They share this notion that they believe they have a right, no, they believe its their privilege to overlook our grievances because it may disrupt the comfort they have provided themselves with at the expense of the suffrage of my people. From the working class to the blue collar, the white man shares compensation, whether it be public and psychological wages of giving themselves priority in public matters, functions and programs they have discretely devised to ensure that they remain in their positions of power, to regulate what they believe the Native American is allowed to have, not what we need, but only as long as it doesn't interfere with their agenda or interests. This 'lets just give em enough to keep them settled down' theory is evident, this summer a young native man was killed by the police (which white men have drawn from their ranks). If this was a white man, they would have shown up and given him a warning to settle down and give him a ride to a safe environment, but no, they seen this native man which needed them to put their foot down on. They killed him in cold blood, claiming they did everything they could have in preventing this tragedy that claimed this young mans life, why was he fatally shot? Why not in the leg or in the shoulders? I also suspect from my experience with dealing with these cops here, that they antagonized an already sensitive matter with their notorious lack of humanity of the whole situation. This is an act of 'white privilege.' This leniency is encouraging lawlessness, where as a white man can legally kill an indian without any consequences what so ever. Poorly veiled legalized discrimination exist here in Bemidji, white democrats and white republicans differ on many things, but when it comes to preventing the Native American equality, they walk hand in hand, and react very fondly on these notions they inherently share when it comes to our matters. Most whites of Bemidji haven't dealt with their own issues of inherent racism, because yes, they did inherent this society from their predissessors which treated my people even worse, and it gets worse the farther we look back, and not dealing with it isn't going to make it go away, because very little progress has been made here in Bemidji concerning natives since ol' Tams Bixby and his buddies got together to turn Bemidji in to a health resort for rich white men. Like those of which fuel the institutionalized racism plaguing the work force and devaluing the quality of life of the native people that live here today. We've lived here before Bemidji's founding fathers came here to turn it into this health resort/hate factory fueled on the suffrage of its native people. Property taxes have been raised to push the poor that come here for opportunity out of the city, and back to the reservations, once again this is an attempt of ridding Bemidji of its guilty pleasures of denying anybody who is not concerned with their interests and the poor ideals they reserve for my people. They can exploit the indian dollar, yet they systematically attempt to prevent us from involving ourselves unless we're token to their 'idealistic' on how we indians should deal with their degenerate perspective of us. This system of privilege is ravaging the future of my children's human rights. Whites are afforded opportunities that are unavailable to me here, suburbanization of Bemidji is happening in front of our eyes, do these summer vacationers that frolic in this playground of discrimination see these problems? Do they even care? Or do they manipulate electoral demography to vote here to re-assure that their working class counterpart is here to maintenance the good ol' health resort in their absence so the natives don't get any bright ideas and formulate a plan to release ourselves from these shackles of discrimination? Well, its too late, and you aren't fooling us that those aren't human rights your hiding behind your back either, my father, who was a full blood ojibwe man raised me to refuse these injustices from consuming me like it has consumed so many of our people, we need to re-dedicate ourselves to one another, not let the white man drive these ignorant practices between us here in our community of bemichiigamug, we must take pride in our resistance, we must change the way native people think, wake them up to these injustices and stand strong together in the face of our oppressors.

THIS IS NOT MAFIA WORLD DUMBY

I refuse to let our community to be know as 'MAFIA WORLD.' I refuse to let these men be comfortable that want to bring about their evil enterprise of corrupting our people, and exploiting our community. This angers me beyond words to see these hateful malign men that have this delusional depraved idealistic of their rights to our communities interests and resources. This is disgusting to see their brazen audacity of blatantly demonstrating their offensively destructive foul behavior, exposing our people to their delusional fantasies that they themselves can not even live up to. Most of them find themselves in prison or buried pursuing these selfish polluted fantasies they devise, and thats where they belong. We can not re-educate these men into being Anishinaabe, they are too ignorantly stuck in their ways of fictitiously conducting themselves in the harmful manners that they have become notorious for. Why must we let these simpletons knowingly obtain asylum within our community? What did we do to deserve this? And why aren't we doing anything from preventing these despicable men from having access to our meager resources meant to meet the needs of our children. Not to squander it the name of native mob and their debasement of our communities integrity. I too, have the 'mob' backing the movement I set forth to purge our community of this scourge of native mob, but these are common people, upright citizens determined to take our community back from these despicable men, and return it to the interests of the welfare of our children,and their some that care not to acknowledge their presence within our community,not out of fear or ignorance,but because they live their lives in such a good way they do not concern themselves with the claims and banter of these 'native mob' idiots,but they to must heed to my request to give our attention to this problem,we need our leader to confront these enemies of the ojibwe,we need leaders not corrupted with their influences. We are many in number, but we all must stand against them, together, we need strong brave leaders that will not allow this to happen to our community. And if you align yourself to these men of native mob and subscribe to their harmful theories of being 'native' and belonging to their 'mob,' then I do not feel sorry for you, but only contempt for your self centered stupidities and corrupt notions shared amongst your circle of villains of the Ojibwe. This is Gaa'Oziskwaajimekog and Gaa Miskwaawaakokog! Not 'MAFIA WORLD.' You should all be ashamed. I wonder how such evil men can live with themselves trying to convince our people their way is authority over our people and land, when most of them have to answer to parole agents and abide by guidelines set forth by the courts to protect our community from their irresponsible conduct. Yes, the system is failing them, but they choose first to fail our people, that's why they are sent to prison, then in there, they embellish their uncivilized, childish behaviors and share or subjugate it upon those they find themselves caged with, and it take only these few stupid rotten apples to ruin the whole bunch if nobody conscientiously honors our ancestors wishes and sacrifices,a hundred years ago,before the white man involved himself in our matters any one of our great native leader or warriors would have killed these 'native mob' men with their bare hands and scalped them, and have a real man raise their children the right way,else banish them and their families to the wilderness, we ojibwe we're a civilized, honorable people, not these savages they ignorantly pride themselves on being,but that's when being anishinaabe meant something,we must give that meaning back to our people.

Bemichigamaag indoonjiibaa!

In light of the DFL-Labor Union sub-caucus this past Sunday, it became apparent to me and my fellow Anishinaabedog in attendance of how much native issues really matter to the white democrat of Bemidji. We grouped and they attempted to dupe us into rallying for their cause and abandon our struggle for equality, they attempted to under mind our voice to the degree they attempted to re-arrange the rules in front of our own eyes so that our issue would be once again be swept aside to make way for their agenda that they believe is more of a priority then Native American equality, and what's this with Mary Olson questioning the validity of Gregory Paquin's run for her seat? Why are our discrepancies even in question when we speak out against discrimination? Yeah I can understand these politicians don't want to be viewed as the ugly monster ravaging the Native American's humanity, but c'mon, we as Americans weren't presented a door of opportunity until 1924, when we were finally made citizens of this country. The last battle in the Indian wars was fought 26 years prior to this legislative act by my ancestors at Battle Point. So 26 years prior to this act, which Americanized the Native American, this country was attempting to extinguish Indian problems altogether in this country, let alone in little old Northern Minnesota; but my ancestors fought, we fought for our survival, we fought for our rights for humanity. Long ago we viewed the white man as our brother, and we haven't received that same sense of kinship within the society they evolved around our communities, they confined us to reservations, they still do today, constantly questioning our concerns of matters outside our reservations, and today I'm left feeling like a refuge or an immigrant in my own country. Why? Because I have left my government designated homelands to seek opportunity outside my country, so that my family isn't expose to the poverty, corruption, violence and lack of resources that are rampart within my country of Leech Lake. I can identify with the Central American immigrants that seek opportunity outside their beloved homelands, because yes, I am very proud to be a Leech Lake Pillager Band Ojibwe, but I am also an American citizen, I am also a Minnesotan, and my human rights matter, my equality matters, my voice matters. This discrimination we speak out against isn't a figment of our imagination, its validity is very much alive in the Native American community of Bemidji. Its very much alive in the court systems here in Bemidji. They fight tooth and nail to discredit our defiant voice for equality. Why? Because we're not suppose to be here, this government was to be built on the bones of the Native American. It was built on the failed presumption that we as Native Americans would not survive the legislative barrage of laws meant to eventually extinguish the Indian problem further in light of the failed war campaign to eliminate the Native people, so that they can make way for white settlers, their attempt of political genocide of social degradation to wash away the Native community into oblivion has also failed. So yeah, I don't think that we are being represented fairly in the media nor in the senate today by these politicians that attempt to speak out on our behalf. We need one of our Anishinaabe people amongst them, to speak out about the reality of our situation, not to question the validity of our social incongruous state we are meant to be left to rot away in within this cesspool of convoluted tribal politics. We need someone that will meet the needs of these proud resilient people that only want equality, and we will continue to fight until our children have those rights.

decree of banishment from ojibwe lands

i hear by invoke the council of my fellow ojibwe to adhere to the matters of an enemy amongst us, so that not one of us may be bias in the eyes of our community, but so that we can come together and reach fair judgment of those we see as a threat to the welfare of the ojibwe nation, i also ask for the clarity of our ancestors to help us restore the balance that they once maintained in our once untainted society, so that we may renew our nation with this sense of awareness, so that these problems do not become our children’s nor our children’s children and so forth, there are men amongst us, evil, vile men, corrupted by the white mans vices and selfish pursuit of luxury, obdurate in their ignorant ways to the degree that we must abandon them to their vices, and banish them from the vicinity of the lands we hold in trust for our children to govern over our peoples matters, such as these men that conform themselves to these organization of criminals, their treachery amongst the ojibwe is blatant, their betrayal to our welfare is evident, they are endangering our most precious resource, our children, we must give our children a chance to rise above the downfalls that afflict these corrupted men by removing these men from our lands, we will devise a council to investigate reputed gang members amongst us, send notice to their families that we request his or her attendance to stand before council, and have them defend their integrity which the council believes should be questioned upon evidence of their involvement in organizations that endanger and exploit our community, if they openly denounce their gang or involvement with those culprits that threaten the livelihood of the ojibwe people, then they will be allowed to live amongst us, under intense supervision, and if they fail to met our expectations of them,then they will be removed by force of our lands by our appointed enforcers, we will drop their enrollment and give them funds to relocate themselves outside our boundaries, which they will be in violation of trespassing on our lands, and we will seek the harshest penalties available to pursue punishment of these individuals that violate our orders of banishment, this is how we will secure the safety for our people, by removing those that refuse to incorporate themselves in the harmony of our community and those that attempt to endanger the stability of our ojibwe way of life.


i wrote this up as a rough draft of something i believe our people need to renew within our tribal government, banishment is nothing new to our people, this is how we kept our people safe from those that wish to do our communities harm.
mii’gwich

Not a leader amongst us

I never considered myself political until I found myself in the midst of political issues. I concerned myself with these issues pertaining to the welfare of our Ojibwe people, but being a young naive man, I did not take this on as my responsibility until I became knowledged in these truths preventing prosperity amongst our Ojibwe communities of Minnesota. This corruption that's implicated by these Minnesota politicians influence within our own tribal government and the perversion of our tribal sovereignty astonished and disgusted me. Yes, inadequate leadership is also culprit here on our part for electing such uneducated men to represent us as delegates of our people, only to be manipulated and cowed into these illusions of sovereignty and economic self sufficiency that Indian gaming in reality is not providing our Ojibwe people. Providing us with poverty wages in smoke filled work environments, all the while preventing us from organizing ourselves in the face of these obstacles of equality, this is not a justice met for the Ojibwe of Minnesota. Nor is it just that our casino revenues goes towards campaign funds of these insensitive politicians that rarely if never touch on issues that meet our needs as citizens of Minnesota. There is not one Native American that sits on the Minnesota state legislature, but that's kind of a tale order to fulfill on our behalf if we can not even elect or produce a adequate leader into our own tribal offices. Where have all our leader gone? None of our educated Anishinaabeg want to dedicate their compassion or comprehension of government toward the benefits of our people. Are they to scared, or are they too smart to involve themselves in such a corrupted enterprise of political office? Well I guess the white man will fix everything for us I hope, WELL THAT'S BULLSHIT! Someone amongst us needs to grab the reigns from these imbeciles that empower themselves off our suffrage. We need to educate our people on these issues so we can make the right decisions that benefit our community. We need intelligent leaders that provide these truths to our people, not puppets 'dumbing' us down with the falsehoods of our tribal rights and sovereignty. Yes knowledge is power, the truth will set us free, education is our key, it will help us put smart strong Anishinaabeg in offices to fight for our equality. For too long has our voices gone unheard in those senate halls, for too long have our needs gone unmet by our white brothers in the senate, for too long have our people been exposed to the elements of poverty and all its wretches, we must fight to give our people a chance to rise out of these ruins of degradation we've been wasting away in for far too long. Equality will help us squelch the drug addiction, the alcoholism, the scourge of gangs in our community. If we embrace the prosperity of equality, we will give ourselves the opportunities to re-build our ethics we as a people for the most part has lost due to the constant bombardment of discrimination we suffered and afflicts our surviving population after such a harsh era of inhumanity, we are at least owed equality, we are at least owed the opportunity to re-build what was almost lost and destroyed by our would-be conquerors, now we must rely upon the means of educating ourselves until we are all aware of our part we play in our demise so that we can change our inadvertent practices diminishing our vanishing way of life as Anishinaabeg.

time for some change around here

to those of us anishinaabeg that call bemidji home and to those of you anishinaabeg that come here for provisions,i want to make you all aware of the racism that has a strong deep rooted presence here amongst us here in our community,when we first allowed these white men to come here and live amongst us,i do not believe we could imagine a reality such as we deal with here today as we struggle to make a life for ourselves within this city,i am more them positive that you,my fellow anishinaabeg have been exsposed to and have experienced discrimination here in bemidji at one time or another,and it will continue to go on until we make a stand against these white peoples stupid ignorant points of view of our integrity, we have been subjected to 100 years of degradation as the white man has made himself rich off of our exploitation and suffrage, as our people have been pushed into poverity as most white men deny us equal opportunity here, i ask you, why make them richer, why should we allow our children to be exposed to the white mans inherate ignorence of our people, we need native businesses here, we need native opportunities here, we need our native dollars going back into native interests, that'll benifit our community and our population here, there is little to none to offer to the native american here in bemidji, why, because we allowed it, now it is time to make a stand against the white man once again, i have recently become involved with Gregory Paquin, he is making his stand for us against these racist practices afflicting our native american population here in bemidji,he is currently running for MN-DFL Senate seat for our area, he has a lawsuit against the city of bemidji for discrimination this city has practiced since it was formed, he is fighting for us to have a voice amongst them, to speak out on our behalf and make some long needed changes for our anishinaabeg people in bemidji,heres his link Native American Indian Labor Union # 12 or http://nativeamericanindianlaborunion12.blogspot.com/ if these sites don't load,open a new window or tab and search using the link information i provided,
i encourage all my fellow anishinaabeg to support greg for our equality, someone is finally speaking out for our sake, its time to put an end to this discrimnation before our children are subjected to it.

an anouncement to our guerrilla youth

when i was a young boy living in red lake i was exposed to the tactless and crass reality of gang life infiltrating our anishinaabe communities,although 90% of these so-called gangsters are phonies and wannabes,(but in reality,what is a 'real' native gangster but just a young misguided anishinaabe defecting from a community to embellish their harmfully selfish means,i'm quite tried of hearing the excuse that they needed to belong,they wanted a sense of belonging,because they do belong,they belong to our communities,they belong to a family,a clan,our tribe,our nation,they knowingly turn their backs on our community to pursue these delusional selfishly harmful fantasies encouraged by their overindulgent abuse of mainstream american media) yet it still gave me this sense of responsibility to prevent this dangerously ignorant idea from infecting the vulnerable minds of my fellow anishinaabe youth,yet i witnessed the upheaval of our culture which gave way to an era of absurdity amongst our ojibwe communities,ravaging the very fabric of our sense of humanity and community and replacing it with this corruption and detrimental notion of belonging,which in reality is tearing our community apart by ignorantly segregating the people of our community into a state of idiocy, so i ask you,youth of our nation,our young guerrillas,our strong young anishinaabeg to free yourselves and throw of these shackles of stupidity cast upon us by our would be conquerors that wish to defeat the ojibwe people even further into the oppression that has been holding our people captive for generations,they push these stupid ideas that rob our nation of your energy, we need you,your family needs you,your nation needs you, our ojibwe nations need to unite under our neglected clan system, that is our belonging set forth to us by our ancestors,we need to pick up what we knowingly left behind to pursue this false lifestyle we will never fit into,this is not our way,we have so many responsibilities as anishinaabeg,and following these ways will not honor our ancestors nor the community we all share,so I'm ask you to become aware of the outcome if you so choose to pick up this despicable notion of belonging to a gang, become aware of the positive benefits of returning our energies to the welfare of our people so that your children one day will reap the benefits of our enlightenment,do not let this trend of allowing yourselves to be victimized by these villains amongst us,they want nothing more then to fulfill their evil selfish means,why feed into those corrupt ideas when you can re-streghthen our nation and honor what our ancestors sacrifced for our survival.

Ojibwe jihad

I used to be bewildered at the idea of the violence I witness watching the war on the television, the senseless killings occurring daily involving our military and the insurgents, yet in what I can only describe as a moment of clarity, I can imagine the social desperation of which a suicidal bombers mentality derives from, I can understand the frustration of succumbing to impossible odds, the sacrifice you are willing to dedicate to your people in the name of your god,in the eyes of your nation, I can imagine loosing all that I love and hold dear to too those that have made us their enemies in the name of their ignorant selfish greed, but I can also imagine my children being victimized by these hateful men in my absence, I can imagine that destruction our ancestors endured re-visiting us, people pushed to the edge of humanity lashing out desperately at their oppressors in their last act of extreme violence in hopes of disrupting their evil conquest, just long enough for a glimmer of their conscious awareness of their responsibility in the disparity they breed amongst us, but I am a man of honor, and that would be cowardly to bring harm to the innocent, but who is really innocent in the oppression we allow to thrive amongst us, somebody is allowing these native mob villains to lay waste to our community, i blame everybody not willing to defend our community, but its that idiot archie, that dumb fucker ribs and that punk mike bongo, why the fuck does rob aiken have a active native mob members as his assistant, why the fuck is konskis Mcarthers car parked in front of the RTC building when hes not selling pills out of the dikinagin parking lot to parents of the children within the building, drug addiction is ravaging our community as we sit here on our computers,who is profiting from our suffrage, native mob is, they think they can intimidate us into allowing them to ruin our community, why the fuck is my community so overrun with this native mob scourge, achie failed to let our situation be revealed to obama in his visit to the white house, why?because he profits from their pressense here in our community, plain and simple, achie might deny my claims, but his actions fail to discredit them, he rather sacrifice the future of our children so he can feel superior amongst us downtrodden pillagers, i am ashamed to call archie a fellow pillager, he doesn't embody the essence of our survival just to let these gang bangers have access to our community, this is utterly stupid that we continue to knowingly let ourselves be victimized by these heinous corrupt men, when will we rise up and struggle to retain our community from these men before our children become causalities to the fear we allow to prevent us from saving them, has all our people become lazy greedy cowards, or is their still some real anishinaabes amongst us, for if there is, we need your courage now.

Aspirations of the Ojibwe traitor

To you traitors of our ojibwe people, and let me end your speculations now, i'm talking to all of you that have not openly supported the movement my colleagues and I embarked upon to raise awareness of the obstacles that we face today as Ojibwe people in our Ojibwe communities. Why do you bound yourselves to anything that may be preventing us from our social, cultural and physical survival as a tribal entity? That is not what our ancestors sacrificed to ensure our presence here today. Our ancestors refused to perish, refused to be forced into anything that jeopardize our preservation. Resistance is part of our heritage, resistance is pertinent to overcoming the burdens we failed to prevent from ravaging our communities today. Sacrificing the welfare of our tribal community by utilizing the burdens these evil men have exploited amongst us is not in any way relevant to the idea of our survival that our ancestors provided for us, yet you insist on inadvertently enabling the oppression that has overwhelmed our community, all the while acting out in a false manner, with false intentions, portraying yourselves to be some what involved in our livelihood as a people. When in fact you are doing nothing what so ever to ensure a better life for our children, your faithless participation within our community is unappreciated. Your diluted, delusional mind-set has become hazardous to our welfare and well being as a people. Our culture is declining due to the fact of your lack of ambition and involvement in our survival that most if not all of you are benefiting from in our toil. You 'do-nothings' and 'sit around the fort indians' play a vital role in opposition of our survival. I ask for the strength daily to not act upon my frustration, and discontentment that afflict me. I ask for the strength to understand you traitors so I may open your eyes to the damages you inflict upon my people and our community. You are not apart of my community, nor do I consider you an Anishinaabe when you are brazenly living your lives contradictory to the struggle we are born into. I cannot emphasize enough on the urgency of our situation so these problems do not become our children's. I will continue to raise awareness of your integrated presence amongst us, so that your laziness, fear, or ignorance isn't handed down to your child, the future of our people, the Anishinaabe.

Decree of Defiance: Restistance of the Colonization of Native Mob

They have dug their greedy bloody hands into the souls of our children. They pass around their collection plate amongst us of misery to fund their campaign of despair. disrupting the harmony that our ancestors fought so disparately to provide us with, Medicating our downtrodden Ojibwe pain of our burdens with poison, leaving yet another generation of our warriors despondent to the pleads of our children. Leaving our young mothers and daughters incoherent to the needs of our young. Leaving our elder in a state of taciturn do to their repugnance of the condition of the community they have succeeded to us.I believe we as a whole have betrayed our people by failing to reject and oppose these individuals from the irreparable damages they are knowingly inflicting upon our community. We have become indolent in the comfort that our fear provides in our self denial of the duty we are to uphold for the sake of our children. We let these individuals manipulate our proprieties we have relied upon that ensured our survival.Are we to let them pillage the land of the pillager? Are we to offer all we have left? All that was given to us as sacrifice to the wickedness of these vile despicable men? They care not of the welfare of our people or our community they casually affront, their treachery is evident to us all, yet we abjure from our responsibilities that our fore bearers preserved as our birthright for our children. Well I refuse to abandon our struggle, I refuse to be satisfied with these conditions we are subjected, I refuse to take notice of your doubt, I refuse to become apart of your fear, your ignorance, or your adverse option of the reality you choose to dismiss in your overindulgent stupor. I refuse to acknowledge your presence completely unless you are involving yourself in our plight or unless you take part in the distress our community suffers. This is my proclamation of our Anishinaabe preservation, I pledge my life to uphold my responsibilities to our people. It would be my honor to die for those not yet brave enough to stand strong for our children. It would be my honor to die by the hands of those that have made themselves enemies of the Anishinaabe, ahaw.

native pride has become our social shame

For too long were we made to be ashamed of our native heritage and culture, too long were we prosecuted for practicing our way of life, but that was our grandparents, and in some cases our own parents struggle. We are at least a generation or two removed from that reality our community once suffered, since then we witnessed our human rights movement that re-established pride in our way of life, in a sense of pride which gave us back our sense of worth as human beings, but as a integrated part of the civil rights movement, Our plight was overshadowed, yet we became vulnerable to social downfalls that were not meant for our demise, we profited in the awareness to other americans of our inhumane conditions we were being subjected to within our own country, shedding light upon our inhuman neglect, and the disparity of the conditions our people suffered at the hands of our government, but we unlike blacks, we became militants. We empowered our people with our heritage, which was outlawed to practice until the indian freedom act of 1978, blacks which promoted gang life within their communities to empower their down trodden, were socially manipulated ,corrupted and slandered by the white americans fear of black unity. Criminalizing the black man for organizing himself and implemented the criminal element amongst them to discredit their attempts of prosperity, and since then the African American has become aware of this effect. Gang life is becoming less common within the urban African American community, yet gang life thrives and has a very overwhelming presence today within our native communities, I do not feel obligated in describing the black man's struggle within America, but I can only sympathize and identify. Today I see a lot of this campaign for native pride, and we as a whole have received this notion, and it thrives within our communities very strongly, but the misuse of this word has now become an excessive vice which is blinding us from its self-centered symptoms of vanity. We have lost our humility in the process, much to the degree of becoming oblivious to assimilating ourselves into the place of our own oppressors. Our original oppressors now fuels their indirect involvement by degradating and denying us opportunities,such as employment and implementing guild lines to discourage us from pursuing equality within our community by using the senate to pass insensitive laws meant to impoverish and criminalize the native community and its population. This is why we must educate ourselves so we may involve ourselves in the say of our matters. This is why we should not be proud, how can we be proud of allowing gang life to integrate itself in our community to oppress us even further and jeopardize the future of our communities welfare. How can we be proud of our suicide rate do to the disparity of these conditions, drug addiction they fuel amongst us, alcoholism and the glorification of its use they promote to our youth, senseless violence, domestic and gang. Gangs promote these elements to ravage our people that are exposed to the ignorance of pride. Pride is now obsolete in the struggle we face today, today we need our humility, to realize what we are letting happen to ourselves, and to make those ashamed for the repercussions of their ignorant pride.

sacrifice

How can I inspire my fellow Anishinaabe to heed to the situation that has befell our communities through deculturalization, and I say deculturalization because I believe we as a people for the most part were not assimilated, but robbed of our culture, the society that the white man has provided for the red man has not in reality adsorbed the native population of America as a whole, racism is apparent in most situations, for we have unique issues that continue today to separate us from mainstream society, for we have had a unique relationship with the united states as a minority group under their constitution, today we continue to be under the oppressive hold of the vices set forth upon our population by mainstream society in premeditation of destroying the native american pressence, the absence of humanity,and empathy for the Native American has played a large part of the desensitizing of the Native Americans needs as citizens of modern day America, yet our socially afflicted practice their vices in a 'Indian' manner, taking note that we are still living within native communities ravaged by generation after generation in what I can only describe as inhumanity and neglect, now that after we survived the constant bombardment of genocidal attempts on the native population of America,whats to come of my survivial? whats to come of my dedication?, whats to come of my sacrifice to ensure my children the opportunities I was deprived of due to the assimilation and deculturalization my parents suffered? although much was lost, my father and mother,whom of both dedicated their lives to teaching native youth within native communities,did their best to give me what they could of what was left of our culture and heritage, and they encouraged me to pick up what they might have overlooked in my journey to learn of who we were, and what we've become,so that we as a people can mend and prevent further injury upon our communities, for it is our community that makes us anishinaabe.
Now it is our responsibility to become conscious of the harm and dismay that assimilation, deculturalization has created within our native communities, and go back and pick up the pieces that we're stolen for our grandparents, so that we may replace and fill the holes that deculturalization has left within our communities, to denounce any and all elements of destruction that have been allowed to run rampant throughout our communities for far to long, to enrich and take strength in what gave our ancestors the will the endure against such impossible odds, for today we face odds in favor of our extinction as a people because we have lost so much, and we have taken on overwhelming social downfalls that evidently we can not afford, we are left in a state of great peril re-enforced by those that abandoned and forsake our culture and heritage, deliberately transgressing even farther into the abyss of assimilation, involving themselves in redundant matters that in noway what so ever embodies any relevance of the struggle that we are born into as native Americans, is it your child who is to be victim of your shiftlessness and corruption?whats to bring those responsible for their involvement in the deculturalization of our communities awareness?will it be the day your burying your child because they got lost and drowned in the mainstream? I pray not, all I can say is, I pray that I may be there to provide them a hand in your absence.

Enemy of the Anishinaabe

Once again I am amazed by the utmost ignorant stupidity I have yet to have wittnessed. Some of my colleagues have brought some things to my attention that they found while exploring the internet. Although I ignore most of these cowards' mindless banter, I believe this new representation they are trying to promote themselves will jepordize the movement we embarked upon in hopes of giving our community back to our people. Apparently the oppressors of our way of life are now claiming to be somehow involved with the guerrilla movement our people are intrenched in. Gang banger lowlifes in no way what so ever embodies the survivial we are attempting to attain with our culture. Their culture is gang culture, they exploit the idea of the Native American struggle to promote their destructive selfish corrupt agenda. That just goes to show us that we who are actually living this reality of surviving in the guerrilla front know as our Northern Ojibwe communities, that these individiuals are truly aware and threatened with our resistance. They are attempting to blend in and infiltrate our movement to more adquately exploit our people and make their money, they are claiming to be 'guerrillas' and attempting to discredit our struggle for survivial. I believe we must be wary of all those that claim to be 'guerrilla' so that we may prevent them from collapsing our struggle from within. I believe any and all Anishinaabe with the awareness of our struggle that utilize our culture to socially empower our Anishinaabe children in the face of oppsition in our ojibwe communities are the real guerrillas, and i'm proud to say i see that guerrilla lifestyle in 90% of the Anishinaabes I encounter everyday within our community, because we rise above all this ignorance and we live our Anishinaabe way of life regardless of those that oppose it, and wrecklessly endanger the future of our people,i do not know how they can identify themselves as the oppressed when they themselves are directly involved with the problems oppressing our community, so i ask you to be aware of those gang bangers passing themselves off as guerrillas, so that their ignorant deeds don't become our responcibilities,our responcibility as members of this community is to bring about knowlegde of their harmful activities these evil corupt men promote amongst us.

Guerrilla Strength

Guerrilla Strength

I refuse to let any of you who choose to read my blogs under mind them.Yeah, you might have good intentions, but I don't see anyone else attempting to organize ourselves in the face of our opposition. I don't deserve to be criticized by those who haven't the courage to speak up for what they believe in. Cultural renewal of the Ojibwe heritage within our Anishinaabe communities has been my lifelong passion handed down to me from my father, Charles Buckanaga. I have dedicated too much of my time and effort to just let someone who thinks their in some way obligated to dismiss my social retorts as an exaggeration of a invalid discrepancy within our community. And once again, let me point out that there may be some social,mental, or financial reasons you cannot, or choose not to identify with the obvious problem within our community I am trying to address. Also, to those defected guerrillas that lay dormant and useless to the cause you once rallied to that,you that have forsaken your people. To those that live in fear of the opponents of our struggle, and to those misguided individuals that have somehow gotten themselves to believe they are the official voice of the struggle, their is no limelight to be stolen here in matters such as these.The ones that must benefit from our struggle is our children, so if you choose not to be part of the solution, at least support those who are working towards a solution. If not, you're obviously part of the problem, and it is you who I am speaking out against if that is so.

Quality not Quantity

I would like to ensure those that have stood behind me on the issues that I have been so vocal on, that I have not been distracted from the tasks at hand in speaking out against inept advocates of our people. I have held onto what is important to our community, which is ridding the glorification of gang life amongst our youth, and halting the de-culturalization of our youth through the overindulgent, desensitizing abuse of the media. To revitalize our community with our Ojibwe heritage, and to continue speaking out on the oppression we (we that are aware) share as a community. I appreciate all those that have voiced their concerns on issues I raise in my blog ethics, and it gives me hope and happiness when I see those of you who support our plight for survival of our culture, and why it is so important to strengthen our dependency upon our culture for our children. You may be asking yourself, whom am I to be speaking on behalf of our community on such matters, and sometimes I question my involvement, but when I look upon my children , the answer is obvious. It is my responsibility as an Anishinaabe to bring these matter to solutions for our children. All the while teaching my children, it is their responsibility to hold on to what is important for the sake of our community.

Fake Ass Anishinaabes

As charlatans attempt to purloin a geniune attempt of a revolutionary renaissance within our ojibwe communities, I ask myself this question, where does this ignorent attitude convey from that blinds the apparent adherent of the ideas and beliefs we supposedly share to come into conflict, I believe they are too overstimulated with their own lives that they are oblivious towards their harmfully assimilated mindset, and that's not their fault, for they inherited their parents assimilations, they were raised to distingish their diffences and praised when they excercised their assimilative behaviors, and that also falls back upon my frustrations with those apparent activist militants that live a oxymoronic lifestyle. They believe themselves to be the epidemy of the struggle, when they are obviously de-sensitized towards the real issues that we directly involved are subjected to, their selfish agenda is apparent in the attitude they display. They believe they are in some way obligated to recignition they do not deserve for false intentions, when they in fact are more interested in personal gain then accutally going about things in the correct manner that will benifit those they are suposedly concerned. I myself, am not one to be swayed by such elaborate facade, for I believe I have invested enough study of any opponent of our survivial to distinguish those geniune from those fake ass Anishinaabes,and I'm more then confident your aware of whom I speak of wether or not you choose to acknowledge your blatant act of attempting to undermind those more adequately qualified to convey our empathetic involvment within our Anishinaabe communities,i refuse to let the momentum of our movements infrastructure be infiltrated and jeopordized by those not dedicated to our main goals,which is equality,survivial,and revivialization of our anishinaabe way of life.

Real Guerillas, my life-an ode to Che

Real Guerillas, my life-an ode to Che

Before you confuse yourself on what some of you may think you know about Curtis Buckanaga, let me enlighten some of the dimmer audience I attracted to my blog. I noticed some of these so-called guerrillas claiming to be guerrillas because they stumbled upon the late great Che Guevara,when in fact I been a guerrilla before I even knew about Che Guevara and his life work, 3 years ago I read about him,15 years ago,as a very young conscious man, i formed the cannibal clan,also know as the chippewa guerrilla regime,in hopes to revitalize interest within our own cultures warrior societies and take back our young warriors from gang life, now that I am aware of him, I believe his job wasn't finished, but its not like I'm telling anyone anything new, because it's just the same old bullshit just new assholes. Like up here in northern Minnesota, police cooperation has brought about a new era of police corruption. I'm not calling anyone stupid but c'mon,gang bangers(mostly native mob) can go around selling their poison to our people because the task forces are in their pockets, if not just getting manipulated by these confidential informants, their still out there pulling their every day bullshit, paying the police off with bullshit information, and you may be asking yourself; how do I know all this? Simple, so before you go playing yourself and insinuate,for i am well aware that my name has been slandered because i oppose the harm drugs create within our community,when in fact that if that's how you view this situation then you your self is the one who is enemy of our plight for survival as a people,take a look in the Sunday Court Reports, that's where I learn about the tactics of these so called C.R.I, and the drug task forces. That's proof that cooperating with task forces don't clean up our community because their just as corrupt as the individuals their out there being funded to chase around. They constantly re-release these individuals to bring them more assholes, because those people have an agenda, which is getting high,and doing whatever it takes to stay high. My agenda is strengthening our community,so we can give it to our children without some of the bullshit that we as a community are allowing within it today,and I myself, would love it if someone came along and dragged all of you who are harming our community off to a prison cell where you will no longer hurt and oppress our people with your selfish bullshit, and give us back our chances of survival. Shit I wish I could do it, but to tell you the truth I'd probably execute all who opposed our survival like Che did to his enemies, and I know one thing for sure. I know the cops won't be hauling any one that needs to be revealed of their destructive duties, because if they cleaned up the community, then whose to give them money to be oppressive assholes? Then where will they go? They're not brave enough to go Iraq and pull that bullshit, so they feed into the problems that's bringing down our community, why? Because that's their coward ass pay check, plain and simple. So FUCK Native Mob, Vice Lords, Red Nation Click, Bloods, Crips, The Paul Bunyan Task Force or any other agency that white men put in place to criminalize the minorities of Minnesota, or any other lost fools running around playing cowboys and Indian. We Guerrillas will remain in the tree lines watching you play your reindeer games,and I'm not one of those silly fools that think hes guerrilla because he think it sounds cool to wear a Che shirt,i bet Che won't appreciate some of the douche bags i see running around with his face on their chest,being a guerrilla is a very hard road to walk for your people,and i am not revealing myself to my enemy out of stupidity,or self glorification,for i have honor,and my enemy has a right to be aware of my opposition of his/her oppression so he may know why and what we are fighting for,but our time will come when our community needs us,and then you will see the real guerrilla fighters of the Ojibwe nation,and not one of these defected guerrillas that got lazy and to comfortable,for i have never put down our struggle,we are the guerrilla front,we been guerrillas before guerrillas were cool,society made guerrillas of us,constant oppression gave birth to our militant mind set,it give us courage to fight a stronger overwhelming opponent,we didn't choose to be this way,i was unaware of my guerrilla lifestyle until i became a young man with a mind of my own,so i surround myself with those i call my brothers because we share the same beliefs of survival of our culture and people,we are the underdogs,we are the oppressed,we are the forsaken,we are the forgotten,we are the anishinaabe,and if your not standing amongst us,your not part of the guerrilla front that is our homelands,your just a frontin ass guerrilla.

IGNORANT ASS INDIAN PARENTS vs.RESPONSIBLE ANISHINAABE PARENTS

i really don't see to many native parents nowerdays wanting a better life for their childeren,alot of them are to assimilated to realize the harm their feeding into,conquered people,thats what they are,defeated from birth,carrying on their parents burden,thats why they gang bang,and exploit their people,trying to be anything but native,because they suceeded and assimilated most of us,it pisses me off to see this stupidity thriving in our native households,not to many of us native parents stress our ansestors belief apon our childeren,we held on to what makes us anishinaabe,not to many of us realize its our responcablity to rehabilitate our community from this blow our ansestors endured,we're bleeding our culture out of ourselves,alot are to ignorant to realize its their own doing thats corrupting our communities,giving their children these beliefs and way of thinking,and alot of these dumb ass parents are drinking and doing drugs with their babies,giving way to our F.A.S. population,i myself believe we should set up programs that meet the needs of our F.A.S.native people,and we should hold their parents accountable for the harm they inflicted apon our community,charging them with premeditated attemped murder,tie their tubes and send them off to rehilitation,if they can't be responciable with our next generation,they should have no part in creating it,the reason i am writing this blog is because i have childeren,and they come home and constantly tell me of the ignorant bullshit they see in school demostrated by their classmates,and i blame their ignorant ass parents,and if your child hurts mine out of inherent ignorance,then i'll probably be showing up to your front door to teach you some manners and respect,and i hope that lesson trickles down for your childeren so they don't make lazy ignorant dumbass kids that go around harming our community,cuz if you allow this,your not only ignorant but also lazy,its your responcablity as a parent to teach these kids a good way to live,not to be teaching them how to swear,give the middle finger,hit,and call names,those are your doings as their parent,and your parent obviously didn't teach you any manners.

long live the Anishinaabe!

long live the Anishinaabe!

I recently came to a conclusion after consulting a few elders, I was told to let go of these negative feelings I hold onto because of my frustration with this whole native mob and gang problem our community suffers from. I was told to put out my tobacco and ask the spirits to give it back to them. I was told I didn't need any medicine or direct help because the spirits see our pain, and are already here with us protecting us. I was told not to worry, for they will recieve what they deserve, for I already have done my part, yet I still feel like I am not doing everything within my power to dissolve this situation as quickly as possible. But this corrupt way of thinking and their lost cause to break and bend our community to their will still thrives here today, is it just karma they are continuing to accumulate? Or do more have to be harmed by this preventable problem we deal with day in day out? It is hard for me to put down these feelings of hatered, for I do hate them, I hated them with all my heart for many years, with good purpose, because I have been a victim of their hatefulness, and I am not going to indulge, but they too have been a victim of my shared hatred. I wanted nothing more then to cut out the hearts of all of these traitors of our people, and stomp it into the dirt. But now I am asking for the streghth to put down those negative feelings that have fueled my personal campain to rid them from our community, because I am told mine and the prayers of so many affected by their disgusting lifestyle of these evil men have been heard. President Obama is giving his attention to our plight, Al Franken has promised us he will help us clean up our community and give it back to our people, but how quickly will their aid arrive to us? How many more of our people will be hurt before they step in and rid us of this burden? are we to take the Taliban approach with these gang bangers,and i ain't no fuckin sell out,i keep it real to my people,just like my ansestors have done,are we to have a surge of FBI, Task Force and local police agencies root them out of our community,just as they are doing now in afganistan with the taliban. Home by home, all the while providing training for our own people to police ourselves so we may prevent these problems from re-occurring within our fragile community, so we may re-streghthen ourselves in a proper way that helps us re-build our community that they, the United States who are also guilty of breaking down, making us vulnerble for situations such as these,and are they to withdraw from our lands as a occupying force. It is the least we are owed after so many years of mis-managment of our people, purposely planned mis-management that was ment to exstingish our presence all together within the United States, yet we are still here, fighting amongst ourselves in the ghettos they provided us with to die in. So yeah, I'm happy the white man wants to help us clean up the mess they helped create amongst us, but I refuse to be delt with as a helpless native victimized by this mordern day problem, for I been here fighting a guerrilla war with these men all my life, and so has my father. My father went to the grave fighting the corruption brought on by the outside inflences we suffered as a people threw out his life time. He made it a better tommorrow for me, so I will honor him and do the same for my childeren, honoring our ansestors will honor our childeren, honoring our childeren honors our ansestors. Death to the native mob, long live the Anishinaabe!