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.