Pudgy Indian

I found an article on Indianz.com where the Cherokee plan to kindly and gently ethnically cleanse their rolls. They are going to vote as to whether or not to allow the Cherokee Freedmen, blacks who were once slaves of the Cherokee turned members of the tribe after the Emancipation Proclaimation, to remain Cherokee tribal members. In other words, they are cutting off one of their arms in order to protect racial purity.

Of course, let's not include the fact the the Cherokee are using the "White Man's" definitions of "racial purity," in order to make such a decision possible. "What's your blood quantum, Tonto?" "You're not a real Indian?" How many times have Indians heard this from non-Indians, and now the Cherokee are attempting to set a trend by defining some of their own people out of existence. This is called "auto-genocide," ahy the Bush administration isn't doing the same -- or threatening to -- in the Che term coined by Inga Muscio meaning a group of folks who faced genocide continuing that genocide without the help from the Master Race which usually comes with it.

In the article, the judge basically states it is a sovereign right of the Cherokee to make such a vote possible.

http://www.indianz.com/News/2007/001496.asp

"This is strictly an intra-tribal matter," [Diane Hammonds] told the judge.


Intra-tribal matter? Sounds like what Reagan and Bush 1 said about Saddam Hussein committing genocide against the Kurds. It's an intra-tribal matter.

"The United States does not inject itself into elections, in intra-tribal matters," said Catherine Blanco of the Department of Justice.


That must make it legal for the Whiteplumes to grow hemp on the rez property then, right? Then this quote follows:

In a closely-related case, the Interior Department did take a position when the Seminole Nation voted to deny citizenship to its Freedmen. The Bureau of Indian Affairs refused to recognize the leadership of the tribe and cut off all federal funding until the Freedmen were restored.

The last paragraph of the article states this:

The roll includes Cherokees, Delawares, Shawnees and Freedmen. But the upcoming election would only deny citizenship to the Freedmen because it would require them to prove they have Indian blood.

Ethnic cleasing...Indians are doing it, too! We've learned a lot from you colonialist invaders. We've learned self-hatred, auto-genocide, and how to define ourselves using your dictionaries in order to make such things possible.

Oddly, there are Cherokee that cannot be federally recognized because their names are not on the original roles. They could be "full-bloods," and still not be able to "register" because they cannot be linked to a person on the original roll. Again, this is our white colonialist masters defining who and what we are and the Cherokee using it as a tool in order to commit "auto-genocide."

There are so many ways to keep us divided, and DAMMIT! IF WE AINT GONNA USE EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ONE SO THE WEALTHY OF THIS NATION CAN CONTINUE TO OPPRESS US ALL FOR THEIR OWN GAIN! But that's OK, we'll do the oppressing for them. Their precious arms might get too tired if they had to pick up a gun and actually use it in one of the many forms of war that create their wealth. We'll do it for them.