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Oppression, drudgery, enslavement, surveillance, collectivism, failure, unforeseen circumstances, slow fucking internet, betrayal, ostracized, injustice, abuse of power, corruption...
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Who art thou Satan?
The fallen, exiled, ostracized, and banished So many names, so little time Judgement is eternal, there's no escape, only retribution So much hatred, so much pain The sheep must be destroyed
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Does God exist?
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Precisely.
Unjustly arrested, fabricated evidence against me, harassed prior to arrest...when native cops oppress native people, that is problem.
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I am happily married to a cunt, everybody hates her, she’s bold, cunning, and insensitive. She speaks her mind, unafraid of judgement or criticism. She’s well known, her ancestors were labelled heretics, freethinkers, nonconformists, apostates, pagans, heathens, and atheists. No holds bar her words cut to the core. Ironically, every once in awhile she would change history, with discoveries such as the Big Bang Theory, Plate Tectonics (geology), and the Theory of Evolution; all of which undermine mythological doctrines in the mainstream (Christianity, Islam, etc) and the minority (Indigenous origin stories). She doesn’t give a fuck if it offends peoples beliefs or worldview, she tells it like it is and I love her for it. Her name your wondering? Oh I’m sure you’ve guessed it, that’s right; throughout history society called her blasphemous, sacrilegious, and impious, but her real name is truth.
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Tribalism: A Postmodern Indigenous Perspective
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines tribalism as "behavior and attitudes that are based on a person's loyalty to a tribe or other social group." This is synonymous with conformity (Schaefer & Haaland 2009 3rd Ed.) and groupthink (Feldman & Dinardo 2009 3rd Ed.) ;within the context of reservations, institutions, and society we see examples of this everyday. More specifically the unequal distribution of power in the existing Chief and Council (CC) system; which is intended to serve the people. However, tribalism, conformity, and groupthink are top-tier values in this bureaucratically corrupt system. The offspring is the unwritten policies of nepotism, oppression, and discrimination distributed to those who fall outside the ingroup, deviate from the norm and you will be punished (often unjustly). This double dose of positive and negative punishment manifests itself through gossip, shunning, unemployment, and especially a lack of access to Band resources. CC preaches the value of education, yet when an educated individual (deviant) initiates proposals designed to help the community, they are denied. Why? They are a threat to power; a symbol of truth that would expose corruption and tyranny. This cadre of hypocrites must be crushed under the weight of skepticism and rationality.
Enter The Dragon
How does one reconcile the prevalent issues in First Nations (FN) communities as mentioned above within the ideological paradigm of the Anishinaabe 7 Grandfather Teachings? Advertisements of this hypocrisy are abound; websites, posters all preaching an ancient ideal in a postmodern time. In practice, they evaporate and are replaced with a set of commandments:
The Anishinaabe 7 Commandments
Thou shalt play bingo
Thou shalt take children in vain
Thou shalt scorn the unbelievers
Thou shalt rule unjustly
Thou shalt judge for eternity
Thou shalt speak with forked tongue
Thou shalt waste the land
These cogent codes of conduct are embedded in the form of memes, a linguistic mind virus passed from generation to generation. Sneer, scorn, and scowl take place backstage, behind closed doors; crows chirping the commandments. Reinforcement is validated by social conformity and adherence to group norms. Individuals are primed to believe this counterfeit belief system, a colonizing intelligence imbued with confirmation bias.
Indigenous Enlightenment
The purpose of enlightenment is to transcend the darkness, to be enlightened is to see and speak from a position of strength, wherein purified truth claims reign supreme. There are provisional moral truths (Shermer 2011) that base their foundation on reason, logic, and evidence. Countless studies attest to the benefits of kindness on the mind (brain), yet it`s rarely seen on the reserve. Such sentiments are viewed as weak, or in the words of one Councillor, "kissing ass." I strongly disagree with this statement, one must distinguish between a genuine kind act and false sincerity, because there is a difference. All we have to go on within this context is our subjective compass, people intuitively know when another is genuine or if it`s just "bullshit" (same Councillor). In practice, nuerological synaptic connections light up and are positively reinforced in both the initiate and the receiver. Therefore, the first provisional moral truth here is,"kindness is practiced because of the reciprocal benefits it has on individuals, and in turn strengthens social relations, period."
Indigenous Elitism
Within academia there’s been a rise in prominent Indigenous scholars, in particular Taiaiake Alfred, Glen Coulthard, Daniel Justice, and Leanne Simpson, the four horsemen (aka Indian Horsemen) of an intellectual apocalypse--drudging a teleological facade unimpeded by skeptical inquiry. Careers built on perpetuating a utopian decolonial occupation where inherent rights reign supreme. These delusional constructs defy any basis in reason, rationality, or logic and are fed to undergraduates as doctrine. The pedestal of Indigenous elitism must be obliterated with seasoned skepticism, their ideas buried in the existential graveyard with Jesus, Buddha, and Nanabush. This cadre of political academics tyrannizes the scope of Indigenous scholarship, idolizing a lost and forgotten cultural identity that no longer exists, the headdresses are gone and deer flaps aren’t in fashion.
These metaphorical connotations towards a complete decolonization is riddled with paradox. While I agree with Taiaiake’s criticisms against the settler-colonial stronghold on Indigenous soveriegnty (see Alfred & Tomkins 2011, pg.3), I disagree with the necessity that “...fishing, hunting, or picking medicines...”(Alfred & Tomkins 2011, pg. 15) is the proper initiation to Indigenous identity. A postmodern analysis of reality indicates a trend towards diversity in identity politics wherein outdated mechanisms of survival and passage are blasphemous. The Indian Horsemen’s feeble attempt to resuscitate tribal identities in bona fide fashion depicts sustained ignorance in the face of actuality.
Critique Of Anishinaabe Culture
Lost within the confines of colonization are the remnants of a dying culture, a flickering of light caught in the storm; awaiting its demise. On its last stand against reality, the Judge; their Creator cloaks his mantle under the guise of faith, nothing more than a decaying corpse--the culture clings to symbiotic slavery in the form of the 7 grandfather teachings.
Bureaucratic organizations such as Anishinaabe Abinoojii Family Services (AAFS) tote these teachings as if they're gospel, and they practice what they preach in the form of unjust child apprehensions, meeting quotas for financial gain and increased funding opportunities. Malice is at the core, ideological incompetence drives this mechanism into the hearts of defenseless children, incapable of recognizing deceit. They ponder the possibility of never seeing their parents again or that the current situation is permanent, and the social workers are oblivious to their discontent. Social Worker 1 and Social Worker 2 have a propensity for obesity, their self-indulgent behavior signifies intolerance towards change. The nature of their crimes induce disgust, loathing, and prejudice; their incrimination techniques have been carefully crafted over years of child apprehension cases, they know what to ask and how to ask it.
The misinterpretation of AAFS synaptic social policy justifies professional errors made in vain, covered up in the stench of apathetic guilt; mired in hypocrisy. The dissolutionment of their atrocities owes credence to the myths of antiquity, origin stories run parallel to that of the Bible; the sinister propogation of unfounded truth claims untested by reason and guilty of epistemological treason. Families are mislead into believing that the Creator of the universe will somehow intervene, the efficacy of their prayers descend into a shadowy mist of nothingness, forever mourned by their unsung hero who's diabolical impotence is only preceeded by the propensity to incite genocide.
Million of Indians were slaughtered throughout the course of settler-colonialism, left in the wake of massacres such as the Trail of Tears and Wounded Knee. It takes incredulous forms of ontological suffering to conceive that despite the historical evidence, Anishinaabeg are the original (or chosen) people in the eyes of Gitchi Manitou. This incorporeal entity lacks any suffusion with actuality, the misinformed notions of idealism are yoked in hypocrisy.