Bloodlines and generations

This episode is about systematic eraser of cultures, religions, nationalities, and families in the world, and not just in the past but currently as well

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Good morning and welcome to Medicine Wheel Ministries where we challenge the heart, the mind, and the spirit to become better with the human experience and community. I'm your host Bear. Warning. Anything in this podcast is of my own opinion or thoughts only. Anything towards health, maybe coincidence only. Also, this is a mature podcast. Please do not listen to this around young audiences. Mature audience only. Welcome to Medicine Wheel Ministries. I'm your host, Bear. I want to thank you for uh returning. Sorry that we had a hiatus for about a month. Unfortunately, couldn't uh pay for uh this subscription service to uh for the publisher. So definitely need donations if you like the show, and uh to uh click like find us on Facebook at Medicine Wheel Ministries, and please do share. So today's topic we're gonna talk about bloodlines and lost generations. Now, commonly in America that would refer to the indigenous uh populations of Native Americans. Now it's not just there uh or here that that's going on. Uh many populations around the country have experienced these uh stolen generations, lost generations, uh just basic racism, even by uh standards within their own communities. You know, in uh this country to be recognized as a Native American you have to have a blood bottom, kind of like a registered horse or dog. And uh unfortunately this was part of the you know, kill the Indian, save the child policies that were part of the United States government uh to try to systematically find a way to erase Native Americans, their communities, and their basically sovereign rights to their lands and treaties and you know, it was uh kind of like the old uh policies of Britain. If you couldn't beat them out, you'd breed them out with their wars against, you know, Ireland and Scotland and so forth. I mean, countless generations have been lost by these policies, as well as continuingly be lost. Uh, you have uh so many, you know, Native Americans that were never federally recognized, entire uh cultures lost because the federal government refused to recognize them as a separate to somebody else, and just hundreds of tribes that just didn't get recognition. So now you've got it to where a lot of these communities, if you're not enrolled, you're not native, and you know I grew up around some pretty big elders back in the days, and you know, I remembered them always stating the fact that it didn't matter if you were a full blood or a tenth or a quarter, if you walk that path and you were native, then you were native. Uh blood quantum wasn't quite uh as important as the community as a whole, and now a lot of these councils to gain favor with the United States government and to also uh these tribes that have industries and casinos and so forth to make sure that their coffers get just a little bit fatter, uh basically just decide who is Indian enough, pardon the language of that, but you know, oh well you're not you're not enough quantum, so you're no longer a part of the tribe. And these are families that have been a part of these communities for hundreds of you know generations, and now all of a sudden they're being said, oh well, you're only a quarter, so you're not enough, so now we're gonna de-enroll you and kick you out of the tribe. Well, that in itself is a form of genocide to their own people, and a lot of it is due into pressure from the United States government and so forth, and some of it's a monetary collapsing and coffers. I mean, for instance, uh you know, the Oneida tribe. I've seen firsthand working with that tribe with my shop and having a tribal service contract to for these members, uh, the tribe would basically decide who was eligible and who wasn't for them to take care of their own people. And we're talking about actual enrolled members that the tribe simply refused to help pay for their auto repair, but somebody else, their family's more connected, and then they would pay for their auto repair. And this picking and choosing of who was a part of your community and who isn't, we're talking actual enrolled members going through this, and it was just absolutely disgusting. This United Nation has billions, billions and billions of dollars. I mean, they every business that's on their lands, their casinos, their water parks, they're even an airport on there, and all of these businesses, and all the people that are not native that own lands, that are living on the their land, you know, for whatever reason they bought property. I mean, all that taxes goes back into this tribe. Now, if you've got all this money, why is it you can't help the 65-year-old elder with, say, a $1,500 car repair? I mean, that kind of money isn't even gonna make a dent in your coffer, but it's all who you know, and those politics destroy the communities. It is just another way of kill the Indian, save the man or woman or child or whatever it may be, and it's absolutely disgusting this selective genocide that goes on within these communities, and then you've got communities that don't have industries, that don't have very much, who do everything they can to still say, oh well, they're not Indian enough, or oh, their family was enrolled generation, you know, a couple generations ago, but because this child was never enrolled, now the relatives of this child are not considered part of the tribe. Well, I was raised to follow the ways of the Lakota, and I have blood that days back into it. But because my grandfather wasn't enrolled, therefore his children wasn't enrolled, therefore I'm not enrolled. That doesn't sit okay with me. Um I'm native. I walk native, I live native, therefore I am native. By the ways that I was brought up for our culture and our heritage. It's absolutely disgusting, this enrollment program. It is an absolute cultural genocide. Now, this is just a very, very small snapshot of the way it is in this country, and there's even bigger atrocities that we're not gonna get into all that. Yeah, I mean, to do that means we'd have to get into every single treaty that was signed, mostly due to whiskied up natives that were so vulnerable that they didn't understand what they were signing because they couldn't even read the documents to begin with. But they overall, all they wanted was peace, they didn't want war. And you know, the Sou just celebrated their 200 and you know, their 150-year uh uh victory day at Greasy Grass Creek, uh, more commonly known as the Battle of Little Bighorn. Well, where you have something like that caught talked about, they absolutely won't admit that wounded knee was a massacre of women, children, and old people. There wasn't even warriors there, it was a bunch of people that were just trying to survive off what little land there was because the United States government had basically put a policy out to kill every single buffalo because they understood that if you wiped out the buffalo, you eradicated the entire culture because the entire culture was based around hunting-gathering. So if you wipe out the primary source of their house, their food, their tools, their medicine, well, then you eradicate the people. And a lot of that mentality is still going on to this day. And the government is like, oh, well, we're gonna give you reparations. Reparations for what? You slaughtering my ancestors? That's blood money, for one, and on the other hand, you took all the gold, silver, uranium, gems, lumber, and so forth out of the Black Hills, which by treaty was considered to be permanently belonging to the nations. Well, how are you gonna pay us in funds? A very small percentage, mind you, of funds, that you gain from basically stealing it from land that didn't belong to you, and still refuse to give back that very land. In the 70s, the United States Federal Court deemed it these atrocities were wrong, and that the land still belonged to the tribes, that the black hill should have been returned, they never have been. In the 80s, there was another case, in the 90s there was another case, and even as recent as in the 2000s, there was another case, and every single case says that no more no bigger misconduct and gross negligence was done to anything of any fit uh federal agreement than what was done involving the black hills towards the nations there, but yet nothing happens about it. Everybody only sees snapshots of it. In 2016, you uh I think it was 16, you had the uh um the Standing Rock protest, and the state police, National Guard were literally using military-grade sonic weapons, rubber bullets, tear gas, and even real bullets against these protesters to stop an absolute crooked line that would have by a company that had already had dozens of spills, dozens of spills, and I think the the overall thing of this dirty sands oil from Canada to build this pipeline to run all the way through every major waterway in the United States down to the Gulf of Mexico so Canada could ship their oil easier. Where is that a us problem? If you look at a couple of teaspoons of machinery oil, which is extremely thin, mind you, and refined, can contaminate the entire fresh water supply aboard an aircraft carrier, and now you're talking about a company that's had over a dozen spills, has transferred ownership multiple times, has been fined basically by Canada's equivalent of the EPA for failure to do their safeties and build their pipelines and everything successfully. And now here you go, this company's gonna dump off a couple hundred, couple thousand gallons of dirty sand oil into the Missouri River basin, which speeds into the Mississippi, which speeds into pretty much every single stream, river, and waterway to the entire heart of the United States breadbasket. And if that would have happened, America essentially entire grain belt would have been wiped out. And the only way to get that kind of oil out of the dirt is you've got to literally strip off all the topsoil, and then you'd have to re-put new topsoil down. It'd be an impossible task. And by the time that it was finally caught, the damage would have been irreversible. So the fact of these water protectors trying to prevent this from happening was going on for months, and I do mean months, before the media ever got involved. And the only reason the media got involved was because you had people from other countries showing up and sending, you know, posting their videos from their cell phones about what was really going on, and that's what actually stirred the media to actually come out finally and start video recording it and getting the attention onto it that ultimately stopped this crooked pipeline. The fact is that technologies have come across on more than one occasion to actually stop the entire need of petroleum oil. So many systems, and it's been going on for over a hundred years, but we would rather silence generations and erase entire bloodlines to have a microcontrol of populations just in this country alone, and we're not gonna even talk about like a friend of mine who's from New Zealand and an average listener, her people gone through much of the same thing. I'm not gonna even attempt to say what her tribe is, she belongs to in New Zealand because I would just butcher it and I don't want to cause any disrespect. Um and this didn't just happen there, it's happened in every major indigenous culture, and then to top that off, in this country up until the mid-2000s, you had a policy literally called Kill the Indians, Save the Child policy that paid basically the Catholic Church to run these Indian schools, group homes, re-education centers, where they basically cut the child's hair, gave them a white name, forced them to speak English, and these kids were brutally abused if they tried to pray in their way, sing songs in their native language, speak your native language, do anything that actually was in holdance to their traditions. And it wasn't until I believe it was PBS that did a special on this in the mid-2000s and one of their investigations that the truth of this stuff kind of came out. But it's astonishing to know that most Americans living in this country, one, they all assume that all these natives are rich on their they all get these per caps and everything else. Well, per caps are different from one tribe to the next. Not all tribes even have per caps per se. And then on top of that, how many Americans don't actually know about this policy that their tax dollars had paid for for so long? And now they are digging up these yards in these so-called Indian schools and group homes, and they're finding mass graves of all these children that were killed by these nuns and priests, and just massive genocide against entire bloodlines and generations of suffering. And then at the same breath of this kind of stuff going on, just to the indigenous cultures of this country, well, same thing happened during the end of the Civil War or the war between the northern aggression. Uh, that's the reason why a lot of the South, there's a lot of families down there, that those wounds are still very wide open because after the war was done and all the agreements were signed saying, Oh, we're now back a part of the United States, and this and this and this, supposed to be brethren again. Well, that wasn't good enough. The United States government basically sent all these carpet baggers, what they referred to, down into the South saying, oh, you owed all these taxes for all this time, and basically stripped everything from entire families, erasing generations of Americans that were there, and a lot of people go, oh, well, they own slaves. Well, you know, there was a lot of states in the north that also owned slaves. It's just like the misnomer that the Emancipation Proclamation freed the blacks in this country. Well, it absolutely did not. Anybody who actually has ever read the Emancipation Proclamation in its entirety states the fact basically in short that only the blacks within certain counties, certain districts, certain parishes, in certain towns or states, so forth, could gain freedom only if they served the northern war machine. And that's because the North was basically losing their ass in every major battle that was going on up until that emancipation proclamation was written. And it was done in such a way to where it kept the big money men, like the fell, you know, the families of Rockefellers and all them, basically just kept them in power. Because ultimately that is who is in power. Even to this day, those families have more wealth than any single family should ever have. If we were to look at the atrocities built by that, people would realize that the northern states, these textile plants, owners, and all that, they had to have cotton and everything else. And for a decade, they were basically taxing or tariffing southern farmers from being able to uh sell their goods, their harder goods, to wherever they wanted. So, say a bale of cotton in this country was you know nine cents a pound when they could sell it to say France for 19 cents a pound. Well, that's basic economics. If you're a farmer growing that, whether you had slaves or free men working for you, or did it just yourself, you're still gonna look at selling your product to the highest bidder. Pure and simple. But that wasn't good enough. And a lot of people are like, oh well, they chose to leave the United States, blah blah blah. Let me tell you something, people. Here's a fact the only states that signed the original constitution wasn't most of the southern states, wasn't any of the western states, so technically by right, they all have a business agreement with the United States to be a part of the United States to join the Union under such clause. But that also means because they're not part of the original 13 colonies that signed the Declaration of Independence forming the United States of America, any of those states technically do still have the legal right to leave to succeed from the United States. States of America. So the fact is, is most people just simply don't know their full history. And by being ignorant in any form of that is no different than what the laws are now that state the fact ignorance is of the law is of no excuse if you break the law. Has anybody actually tried to learn all the laws just within the township they let live in? Less alone the entirety, all the laws for your state, and freaking for the feds. We're talking just tax laws. Let's not talk about property laws or mineral rights laws or criminal laws or housing laws. I mean, nobody's gonna know all them laws. And they've made it to the point where ignorance is of no excuse. Well, so what? Your high-end lawyer doesn't even know every one of them laws, probably not even a tenth of the amount of laws that are out there. Hence why they've got paralegals and researchers specifically that work for them to go and actually do the research and come back with a report saying here's a law. Well, all of these little byroads and checks are basically a way of systematic erasure of bloodlines and generations. It is a way of microcontrol of the populations on every level, and it doesn't have to be say Native Americans in this country, it could be whites in a suburban, in a city, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Latinos, so forth and so on. All of these little laws and bylaws basically cripple a people, and it's gotten so double-tongued and convoluted that laws are interpreted on the fly at any given time. One officer will interpret a law one way for pulling you over for speeding, and another officer will interpret that very same law in a completely different way. And depending on the judge that you get or the district attorney that you get, those laws are going to be interpreted in a whole different way. So if everything is based on interpretation, where is it that we truly have these rules and these laws that would protect the actual citizens or the people of just this country, less alone any other country doing pretty much the exact same thing? These laws, the way that they are written to be double-tongued and have basically a reinterpretation at any given time, sets up for the systematic genocide of cultures, languages, religions, peoples, and don't even get me started on the spiritual religious side of it because the United States government, which said that they are supposed to be a separation of church and state, absolutely just violated that in the biggest way by freaking passing laws that state the fact that certain religions or certain spiritualities are no longer recognized by the United States government to be valid. So now we're actually forcing church and state to violate the basic principles of freedom of religion, freedom of belief, freedom of parenting. I've been going through that with uh stuff over my own son, whereas he's not enrolled in the state system going, well, he's not an enrolled member of a tribe, so we don't have to follow what you want for religion because he's not uh a member of a uh of a tribe for an enrolled, and therefore also the language and spirituality that you carry in your home means nothing. So where's the protection and freedom for that? So now they're further committing genocide and eraser of bloodlines to my son and his ancestors to follow in his bloodline. Now, where is that right? Lest alone my daughters, my other son. I mean, when is it that this country is going to finally have enough? When is it that the world is gonna have enough to say, you know what? We are no longer going to elect leaders, we are no longer going to support systematic genocide and erasure of entire generations of bloodlines. When is our communities as a whole, and I'm calling out every single Native American tribe in this country committing the exact same act, and they are basically helping the United States government to determine who their members are, and the smaller those numbers get, as bloodlines continue to get smaller and smaller percentage, they are allowing the basic systematic eraser of their own culture, language, individualized sovereignty. The atrocities being done in these manners makes me sick and makes me absolutely unproud to be an American. This country is supposed to be better than that. We are supposed to be the beacon of freedom, freedom of choice of our religion, freedom of choice of our nationality, freedom of choice on so many levels. There's a artist, native, that came out with a song called Why? And he talks about how when you sit there and make titles, that you're black, red, yellow, white, that's racism. And I could never have spoken truer words than what he said in that song. Why is it that we have so much wealth in this country? But yet so many are homeless, so many are starving, and if we truly wanted to fix this eraser of families, generations, bloodlines, we would start attacking the very concept of what we're doing wrong. The following episode will actually dig a little deeper on what we need to do to fix that problem. Until then, I'm your host, Bear. Be good to each other.