William James Sidis was born April 1st 1898 and died July 17, 1944. A life long socialist and later, a confessed libertarian. Mr. Sidis was an American child prodigy who renounced his fame and fortune at a very young age. He would flee the overbearing personalities of his parents who were attempting to place William James (named after his godfather) in an insane asylum. The irony of the parents attempts stress the backwards thinking that accompanied the United States' perception of humanity in is earliest years during the 19th and 20th centurty, William James Sidis had an I.Q. bordering 300. The actual estimate was an I.Q. between 250-300. Regardless of the actual number, it is an alarming statistic when one compares the entrance to MENSA, which require at least a 160 scored I.Q. a "would be" member. Willaim would go on to write a countless number of volumes on Math, Philosophy, U.S. History, and even American Indian history. To say this young man, who graduated with a B.A. from Harvard at 16, lived a lonely life is an understatement. Born into affluence he had everything a child could wish for. Yet the material aspects of the "socialized" world interested him very little. Much of the trouble that he found with the law was directly related to his involvement in the Socialist Party. His histories on the U.S. and the original Native inhabitants are a timeless treasure that shows a mind driven to all that is humane and righteous.

Though labeled an outcast, his works will forever bear testament to the brilliance and love that exhorted from this true human of light.

-- The Tribes and the States, W.J. Sidis c. 1935

-- Online Anthology of Work -- sidis.net --

The utility of Spring is the renewal of life.
The utility of Summer is the growth of life.
The utility of Autumn is the harvest of life.
And the utility of Winter is the storage of life.

Lao Tze

Wasichu

The first people who lived on the northern plains of what today is the United States called themselves "Lakota," meaning "the people," a word which provides the semantic basis for Dakota. The first European people to meet the Lakota called them "Sioux," a contraction of Nadowessioux, a now-archaic French-Canadian word meaning "snake" or enemy.

The Lakota also used the metaphor to describe the newcomers. It was Wasi'chu, which means "takes the fat," or "greedy person." Within the modern Indian movement, Wasi'chu has come to mean those corporations and individuals, with their governmental accomplices, which continue to covet Indian lives, land, and resources for private profit.

Wasi'chu does not describe a race; it describes a state of mind.

Wasi'chu is also a human condition based on inhumanity, racism, and exploitation. It is a sickness, a seemingly incurable and contagious disease which begot the ever advancing society of the West. If we do not control it, this disease will surely be the basis for what may be the last of the continuing wars against the Native American people.

...excerpt from Wasi'chu, The Continuing Indian Wars,
Bruce Johansen and Robert Maestas
with an introduction by John Redhouse

"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from conviction which produces action, uncompromising action."

Malik El Shabazz, "Prospects for freedom in 1965", Malcolm X Speaks

oppression wears a mask, find greed to decipher its intent
innocence walks the streets, find love to know the truth

Two decades ago, I was attacked and demonized by the Cuban-American community of Miami because I was saying a truth that few wanted to hear at that time or were prepared to hear. But in the meantime, what has changed is the Cuban-American community itself. A new, younger and more liberal generation is on the scene. I would not even be surprised if most of these young Cuban-Americans voted for Barack Obama in the presidential elections. This generation has been socialized in American values of racial fair play, affirmative action and multiethnic politics. That is the exact opposite of the socialization that their parents -- who arrived in South Florida from Cuba, in the '60s and '70s -- had received. Their parents were socialized in a thoroughly racist, authoritarian, chauvinistic, sexist and homophobic society; and it was with the latter people that I clashed in the 1980s when I taught at FIU. But two decades later, perhaps 50-60 percent of the Cuban Americans that I am bound to meet were born in the U.S., went to school at some point with blacks and with people of various national origins, and were exposed to an extensive bath of multiculturalism. As a consequence, these neo-Cuban-Americans -- if I may so call them -- espouse liberal and moderate social views. They are more interested in leading meaningful lives in America, than residing in the myths of a past that will never return, anyhow. I feel at ease with this neo-Cuban-American generation. I believe that this new crop of Cuban-Americans can contribute much to the new Cuba that is in the making.

Carlos Moore on the racial boundries that exist in Latin America

We who are brutally oppressed and victimized cannot forever afford to spare the fortress of social reaction and tyranny because there are allegedly silent dissenters within its gates. Those who are without righteous cause of the oppressed must be prepared to suffer the consequences of the gathering storm of the violent and turbulent winds of retribution. A good man who is silent and inactive in times of great injustice and oppression is no good man at all. He is no ally to freedom and justice but is a silent partner to tyranny and condemnation. He does not deserve exemption from the condemnation and the vengeance of those whom his silence allows to be victimized. The myth of the good reasonable American who is yet to be heard is a ruse perpetrated by the psychological arm of the imperialist forces of tyranny. It is one minute to zero in racist America.

Robert F. Williams, a speech in Peking, China, about U.S. racism, August 8, 1966

A wonderful site to hear the truth that was Malcolm El-Shabazz

His credibility stemmed from the moral force of his presence, the clarity of his revolutionary rhetoric, and the clear, blazing evidence of his influence in white America.

Lebert Bethune, from Malcom X in Europe

Malcolm Man, Malcolm Man
You speak your tale of woe
The red in your face like our
blood on the land
You speak your tale of woe
Malcolm Man, Malcolm Man
The anger that you feel
Will one day unite our people
And make us all so real
Malcom Man, Malcolm Man

Folk singer from the University of Ghana at Legon,
an ode to Malcom X

I am sure that you will agree that if you put a man in prison illegally and unjustly, one who has not committed a crime and after putting him there you keep him in solitary confinement, it is doubly cruel. Now if you let him out of solitary confinement into the regular prison yard, you can call that progress if you want, but the man was not supposed to be put in prison in the first place.

Now we have 20 million black people in America who are begging for some king of recognition as human beings and the average white man today thinks that we are making progress. He can not justify the fact that he made us slaves in the first place, which was contrary not only to man's law, contrary not only to God's law, but also contrary to to natures law. I do not call that progress until we have gotten everything we originally had. If a man robs a bank he can not jump up and say: "Well, I;m sorry I've been a robber." He has to make restitution. Here you have 20 million black people who have worked for nothing for 310 years and then for the past hundred years we have been deprived of practically everything a human being needs to exist and keep his morale up. I just can not bring myself to accept the few strides that we have made as any kind of progress (interupted)-- Malcolm

Where Is The Negro Headed "Open Mind" NBC Television Sunday October 15, 1961a

Operation Moses, Joshua, and Solomon were Israeli and United States led evacuation of Ethiopian Jews. Also known as the Beta Israel community, the Jewish Ethiopians had fled to Sudan driven by the effects of famine in their homeland. The Nation of Israel would lead the efforts and with the United States help, 8000 Beta Israelis were rescued from Sudanese internment camps. In 1990 the Ethiopian government agreed to allow a further 14,000+ to emigrate to Israel. All accounted an estimated 130,000 Beta Israelis now live in Israel.

Leonard Peltier (of the Anishinabe, Dakota, and Lakota Nations) traces the roots of his political activism to the rank racism and brutal poverty he experienced every day as an Indian child growing up on the Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Fort Totten Sioux reservations in North Dakota.

Peltier was the candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party in the 2004 Presidential race. While prison inmates convicted of felonies are frequently prohibited from voting in the United States (Maine and Vermont are exceptions),[29] the United States Constitution has no prohibition against felons being elected to Federal offices, including President. (Eugene V. Debs received 913,664 votes (3.4%) in 1920 as the Socialist candidate for President while in prison for sedition.) The Peace and Freedom Party secured ballot status for Peltier only in California, where his presidential candidacy received 27,607 votes,[30] approximately 0.2% of the vote in that state and approximately 0.02% of the nationwide vote.

The Alcatraz Proclemation

We feel that this so-called Alcatraz Island is more than suitable for an Indian reservation, as determined by the white man's own standards. By this, we mean that this place resembles most Indian reservations in that:

1. It is isolated from modern facilities, and without adequate means of transportation.
2. It has no fresh running water.
3. It has inadequate sanitation facilities.
4. There are no oil or mineral rights.
5. There is no industry and so unemployment is very great.
6. There are no health-care facilities.
7. The soil is rocky and non-productive, and the land does not support game.
8. There are no educational facilities.
9. The population has always exceeded the land base.
10. The population has always been held as prisoners and kept dependent upon others.

Further, it would be fitting and symbolic that ships from all over the world, entering the Golden Gate, would first see Indian land, and thus be reminded of the true history of this nation. This tiny island would be a symbol of the great lands once ruled by free and noble Indians.

- Indians of All Nations, The Alcatraz Proclamation to the Great White Father and His People, 1969

(*picture*)The largest group of Indian prisoners to be confined on Alcatraz were nineteen Hopi "hostiles." Their crimes may have been the most unique in the 140-year history of incarceration on the Rock, they wouldn't farm as the government instructed them to, and they opposed forced education in government boarding schools. Both "offenses" were part of widespread resistance to U.S. policies designed to erase Hopi language and religion. Contact with the outside world was rare at first, and generally repugnant (theft, murder and enslavement were some results of contact with outsiders) before the uneasy establishment of the "Moqui Indian Agency" in 1870.

...in the capitalist gospel it says, do unto others, before they do unto you.

Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri, Islam as a Pastoral Life for Malcom X

Flu spotlights Canada as H1N1 sweeps First Nations and Inuit communities

By Terri Hansen
Environment and Science Reporter
Inuit Territory, Canada

For a flu that has thus far produced mostly mild disease, the high number and severity of A/H1N1 infection in Canada’s aboriginal and First Nation communities is sobering. Canada, which to date has 5,710 confirmed H1N1 flu cases and 11 deaths, has given no indication of why the surge is occurring in indigenous communities.

The sharp spike of outbreaks in the predominantly Inuit territories drew alarm from the World Health Organization last week, with senior official Keiji Fukuda saying a disproportionate numbers of serious cases had unfolded in Nunavut and northern Manitoba communities. Fukuda warned that past pandemics had hit Inuit populations "very severely."

Nunavut’s chief medical officer Dr. Isaac Sobol downplayed WHO’s report, but even as he said he didn’t see a disproportionate number of serious cases in Inuit communities, cases in Nunavut doubled from 25 to 53. The next day cases in Nunavut jumped to 96. The number has since risen to 204, and the Nunavut Health Department reported that outbreaks were spreading to communities throughout the entire region. Northeast Manitoba reported 226 cases and two deaths in their small aboriginal communities. Northern Ontario’s Sandy Lake First Nation is reporting more than 120 new cases. Over two-thirds of the seriously ill and those airlifted to hospital intensive care in need of ventilators and intensive care are aboriginals.

“I suspect, by the time this virus has worked its way through Manitoba, as many as half, if not more, Manitobans will have been infected," chief provincial public health officer Dr. Joel Kettner said. He also said that a disproportionate number of Manitobans from First Nations appear to have a severe form of the flu, and aboriginals and people aged between 20 and 60 are among the groups most at risk of H1N1 flu infection. First Nation chiefs say their communities are in full pandemic mode. The Canadian government is denying their requests to set up emergency field hospitals. Manitoba officials issued a plea asking doctors and nurses to volunteer in the remote communities. Three doctors are en route to the region, and 13 nurses, 10 medical residents and two nurse practitioners have indicated their interest. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic caused by A/H1N1 swine flu, devastated not only Inuit communities in Canada and Alaska, but other North American indigenous communities as well, and caused extremely high mortality rates among indigenous peoples. WHO’s Fukuda said any speculation as to causes such as genetic, environmental or due to underlying diseases is premature. Aboriginal leaders in Canada blame the poor health and crowded living conditions in their communities and accuse federal and provincial governments of leaving them with little help. Poor nutrition, overcrowding, and poor housing make it harder to prevent the disease from spreading. In some First Nation communities, as many as a dozen people squeeze into two-bedroom homes, and over half have no running water. They also lack full-scale medical clinics. Canada’s provincial governments are responding differently to outbreaks in aboriginal communities.

Saskatchewan First Nations, as Status Indians, must have pre-authorization before the Canadian government will authorize payment for the anti-viral drug Tamiflu. The process usually takes a week, and Tamiflu is only effective if taken during the first one or two days. While most people recover from the flu without using anti-virals, WHO said the anti-viral Tamiflu may reduce the symptoms and duration of illness, and may contribute to preventing severe disease and death. There is some fear now that the virus may travel throughout Canada’s Indian country and still active as a possible second and third wave of H1N1 hit this fall and winter.

The message to protect your family and yourself is as important as ever. Stop its spread by washing your hands thoroughly, or use alcohol-based hand sanitizers; both kill the virus. Turn your head and cough into the crook of your arm. Keep a healthy distance from sick people. And stay home from work or school when you’re sick, so you don’t infect others. The Obama administration has put out a plea for understanding from employers.

The Red Cross website counsels worried families that knowing what to expect, how to prepare and where to find needed information and support will increase your resilience, decrease your stress and minimize the impact on you and your loved ones. Information on pandemic preparedness is available at http://www.pandemicfluandyou.org/. And here’s advice for Parents on Talking to Children about H1N1 Flu: http://bit.ly/7NNCU.

The CDC, www.cdc.org/swineflu, and the federal government’s pandemic website, www.pandemicflu.gov/, are good sources of information. Or call the CDC’s toll-free hotline: 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636). The line for the hearing impaired is 1-800-232-6348.

Compiled from news reports and other sources.

'Operative Journalists trying to set up Indigenous People for Attack?'

Thursday, April 2, 2009

“OPERATIVE” JOURNALISTS TRYING TO SET UP INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FOR ATTACK?

Mohawk Nation News

http://www.mohawknationnews.com

MNN. April 1, 2009. The colonies of U.S. and Canada know we, the Rotinoshonnionwe, have a birthright to conduct trade and commerce on our homeland, Onowaregeh, Great Turtle Island. State and Federal authorities cannot legally stop us except by coercion, breaking laws, criminalizing and threatening us. We are peaceful, law abiding and take care of our families and communities. The misnomer Center for Public Integrity out of Washington DC has been putting out propaganda to produce racial hatred against us.

“Serial warfare” uses the media to set up the target for the attack. “Investigative journalists” seek the truth. “Operative journalists” use deceit, misinformation, destruction, psychological attacks and exaggeration on their “mark”. They create suspicion and biases against us by falsely connecting us to “guns”, “contraband”, “drugs”, “organized crime”, “smuggling” and “global terrorism”, to set the stage for an attack by U.S. and Canadian occupational forces, both military and corporate.

We are being criminalized by the foreigners for something that is not a crime. We have a right to trade and commerce. Tobacco is our product which we create on our homeland.

No violence is associated with any of our legitimate businesses. The only violence is that perpetrated on us by foreign cops and outside interests. No one supports those few business people who may be involved in drugs, similar to the U.S. government that was trading drugs for guns in the Iran-Contra affair, or the CIA releasing drugs in East LA [GaryWebb: Dark Alliance]. The colonists constantly criminalize almost anything we do that would make us independent. We have tried to play by the rules. The government raised the taxes and demands so high to try to control us that we could not sustain our businesses.

If most U.S. and Canadian businesses were criminalized or taxed too high to be viable, they may be forced to break their own laws to survive. The state has been trying to determine that the Mohawk People are “insurgents” to remove any human rights protections we have according to international law.

We would never carry out criminal economic enterprises like Bernie Madoff, AIG, Wall Street bankers and all the other corrupt scrum bags who have created the worldwide melt down. These are the kinds of interests that are coming after us.

The “operative media” plays a major role. Mainstream papers are losing circulation, influence and advertising. Many like the Montreal Gazette have become cheap sensation seeking rags. They divert the public from their own dire situations by ganging up on the “Indians”, a target they think can’t defend themselves.

The Center for Public Integrity is a propagandist of racial hatred which is a precursor to genocide. They criminalize and slander us for whoever hired them to set us up for the kill. This group of media whores may be lobbying for Big Tobacco and the foundations that fund them. They are "generously" funded by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. NYC Mayor and billionaire, Michael Bloomberg, constantly condemns "Indians" and tobacco and hires journalistic “hit men” to assassinate both. Other donators are the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, JEHT Foundation, John D. and Catharine T. MacArthur Foundation, Park Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and PIERS Port Import Export Reporting Services.

Their propaganda does not mention that the police forces are involved in stealing our products and money such as the Ontario Provincial Police, Surete du Quebec, RCMP, NYS Troopers, U.S. and Canada Customs Border Patrol, Cornwall, Montreal and other city cops. They hijack our products and then sell them to their own customers. This is known as the silent “blue market”. Many of our people don’t get a summons to go to court to reclaim our possessions. We sometimes find our vehicles in the parking lots of various donut shops.

Big Tobacco companies such as Rothman’s, Imperial and RJ Reynolds are headquartered in Britain. They don’t want any competition or for Indigenous to profit from trade in our own products. They want to be the only game in town, make the rules for everybody and call in the military on some made up pretext.

Tobacco is legal. The fear is that the profits are being invested in our youth, families and communities which will make us stronger. Onowaregeh, Great Turtle Island, is the richest territory in the world. The invaders want to keep us as the poorest. If we had a real share of our own resources, we would not have to resort to what they call the “underground economy”. We are not afraid to work in the light of day because we aren’t criminals.

This is not about lost revenue or health care expenses in the U.S. and Canada. It’s about loss of control over this aspect of our lives. The “extortion” they are crying over is chump change compared to the trillions of dollars they are stealing from us.

Yes, we have organized crime in our communities called “Indian Affairs” and other colonial agencies. Non-native business people and the colonial state, with the help of their “Indian” mules, use the protection of the colonial Indian Act and Federal Indian law “band” and “tribal” recognition to make money. They help build casinos and other developments on our lands from which we do not benefit or control. The “kingpins” are all on the outside. We’re left with trying to clean up their mess! [MNN “Canada & Big Tobacco..” 2/6/09].

Big Tobacco and their global cohorts want everybody in the world to be under their thumb or otherwise eliminated. They are trying to corner us and cut us off from any means to survive. The streets of Kahnawake, Akwesasne, Kanehsatake, Cattaraugus and Tuscarora are safer than any street in Montreal, New York, Buffalo or Washington, D.C. This fear mongering hyperbole by the journalistic “guns for hire” of the multinationals and their colonial agents means we better get ready to defend ourselves. A big attack by the combined forces of the U.S. and Canada may be coming our way soon!

MNN Staff, Mohawk Nation News & Native Pride www.mohawknationnews.com www.letstalknativepride.blogspot.com katenies20@yahoo.com

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The Valley Spirit never dies,

It is named the Mysterious Female.

And the doorway of the Mysterious Female

Is the base from which Heaven and Earth sprang.

It is there within us all the while;

Draw upon it as you will, it never runs dry.

Tao Te Ching, The Way and the Power

2000 U.S. census reported 2.5 million Native Americans claiming themselves as American Indians. An additional 2 million reported to be Native American and a combination of another race. One might wonder what the net total might reflect once you add in the American Indians from central and south america who are not in the U.S. legally.

43 percent of American Indians in the U.S. live in the West, 31 percent live in the south. California, Oklahoma, Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico are the states with the largest American Indian populations.

The median age for American Indians is 28.7 years, the perfect age for freedom!

U.S. Census Bureau (2002) " The American Indian and Alaska Native population: 2000"(February 2002)..

The use of Indian names or words as part of athletic team names violates Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This provision explicitly guarantees everyone, regardless of race, color, religion, or national origin, the "full and equal enjoyment" of public places, which includes sports arenas and stadiums. We are at an age where we can take account for the irrationality of our ways. We may critique the social landscape and all those who are offended may bare the right to voice their opinions. The blatantly ignorant use of Indian American names and images is a tragic example of a Jim Crow mentality that still haunts our public landscape.

Several college teams have changed their names, Southwestern College is one. Minesota, Maine, Montana, and Colorado enacted laws to change racially derogatory geographical names.

...(the white man) I do not believe that he is the devil. Because to say that he is the devil is to say that he is more than human, and I do not believe that. You know that in the Christian religion the devil was flung out of heaven; he was an angel, he was more than a man, and to believe that the white man is a devil is to attribute to him supernatural powers. That is a cult mystique. There is nothing about the white man that is supernatural. He is just exactly like we are-- this is why we can understand him so well. There is nothing mysterious about what he does. He was not condemned to be the devil for six thousand years-- he just acts like a devil because it suits his purpose, and he mistreats us, he oppresses us, he's brutal to us, because it's in his interest-- not because he is a devil.

It is closer to sat that he is a beast, and that is what Malcolm said. You would like to forget that now, but every time I talked to him, he referred to the white man as a beast. And those of you who are white here will agree that most white people are beasts-- you can't deny it. On the basis of the way the white man has treated black men in America and throughout the world for four hundred years, you cannot deny what he said that the white man is a beast. But not a devil. A beast is lower than a man, a devil is higher than a man. Certainly the white man is not a devil, but in many instances a beast.

Reverend Albert Cleage, a speech on the legacy of the murdered Malik El-Shabazz

delivered in Detroit February 24, 1967