September 6, 2010—Phoenix, AZ

The ICGPA player’s union is honored to be branded a criminal enterprise by a notorious universal crime syndicate: Those profiteers of the international gambling syndicates, operating with impunity from within the Bureau of Indian Affairs closed racist societies.

They have, after five long years of employing extortion tactics, managed to infiltrated our State’s grand jury system. Where, they have successfully indicted our Poker players union, for leaving their crooked facilities. Their BIA* casino poker rooms steal from our prize pools, all while they are contaminating our strategic contests, with their unlawful chance gambling schemes.

Our players fled in self-defense from the BIA’s card parlors in order to avoid being constantly victimized, by their criminal gambling syndicates, that enjoy safe haven from within their compounds.

Neither the law, morality, or even the Constitution, holds any sway within their netherworld. Their gambling syndicate maintains that it has been granted a monopoly, over the professional sport of Poker, by the people of Arizona.

They pay their own DOG police to back up there illicit agreement, with brutal phony police attacks on our members and, upon the union’s own sanctioned facilities.

We have warned them many times in the past; that threatening criminal prosecution, in order to enforce a civil agreement (which is clearly what is happening here**) is a felony under Arizona law. Which, as it happens, they claim does not apply to them.

A clear violation of our civil rights! Unquestionably, done while under the cover of  their badges paid for entirely from criminality!

More than five years ago Poker players sought protection from the State prosecutors, against all enforcement actions surrounding the sport. In the process, our players agreed to stipulate to any facts necessary, in order for prosecutors to obtain a cease and desist order against our union; should they happen to disagree with our position.

This was done so that everyone would enter the Courthouse as civil litigants. Then we could conduct a civil discussion over the issues. We would simply ask the court to determine whether the players or, the State, has the right to control the sport of poker?

This civil court process could finally determine if Poker is protected conduct under law? Which the ICGPA certainly believes it is in Arizona. We did not seek an opinion from Terry or, any other authority. We only sought protection from those public officials, who appeared confused by the vagueness, and uncertainy of the Arizona statutes.

Up until last week he has provided it for us. Excepting when his office informed us that they could not control the DOG police. That we would need to contact the Governors office or the State Ombudsman.

The first time in five years that the AG ever even suggested that we were committing a crime, was when he allowed minions of the gambling syndicate, to indict our union last week. Which they did without any notice or warning, that our former accomplice and protector, now believed us to be a criminal enterprise.

Since our notice in May of 2005, we have enjoyed the uncontested support of all bona fide police and local governments were we have opened a facility. This could not have happened without the support of Terry Goddard.

The paid minions of Arizona’s illicit gambling syndicate are the only people to have ever objected to our business. Yet, Mr. Goddard didn’t even have the decency to ask us to cease and desist. Instead, he slithered into the Grand Jury room and helped the BIA gambling syndicates launch another sneak attack on Arizona’s Poker Players.

The DOG has been ruthless in demanding that we acknowledge their monopolistic claims over our sport. They have deceived bona fide police and magistrates, with misinformation and false claims.

They have branded us felons on their website for years, without a shred of evidence to substantiate their claims. This in spite of the mounds of evidence to the contrary.

The ICGPA not only refuses to recognize the authority of the DOG police, we insist that they stay within the sanctuary of the BIA’s closed racist societies. The BIA racist criminal empire is being manipulated by government agents, indifferent to the civil rights or liberties of the inhabitants.

They are able to get away with all this criminality by employing separate sets of law books, for different citizens; depending only on the race of the citizen:

The BIA has a book of tribal laws, which are only applicable to the Indians. Then, they also have Felix’s Handbook of Indian Law, intended to keep you and I occupied and confused.

A couple of decades back, unprincipled, weak leadership at the State and Federal level, supplemented the BIA’s two-law book system, with a an amoral compact agreement.

The compact is a written conspiracy allowing the international gambling syndicates to invade the mainstream markets of Arizona. They attack our communities, from their whole-in-the wall criminal sanctuary, under the BIA reservation system.

What they don‘t appear to have; is a copy of the Arizona Revised Statutes, the Constitution or, the Bill of Rights!

Until Terry turned over our grand jury to a police agency funded entirely by criminality, neither he nor anyone from law enforcement has advised us that we are committing a crime. Further, nobody has ever even read us our rights.***

No substantive evidence was presented to the grand jury that we hadn’t already stipulated to in our notice to prosecutors in May of 2005.  Actually, many of Arizona’s bona fide police have joined our union, as have some deputy county attorneys.

Only these foreign agents from the gambling syndicates have testified against our union. Even some of the DOG’s own officers admit to playing cash poker. On occasion some have been apologetic for their intrusive conduct.

While many unscrupulous leaders, such as Terry Goddard, are afraid to challenge the unlawful orders of Congress or, amoral and illicit laws proffered by unprincipled leadership, the Poker Players in Arizona are not.

Even though lawgivers may have crafted an amoral compact, to permit an international crime syndicate, to operate with impunity from within closed racist communities around the State. That does not mean that it must, or should, be obeyed by honorable people.

The BIA sanctioned contracts sanction all kinds of criminal conduct; from running slots and other gambling devices, on down to outright theft and conversion of personal property. All are provided safe refuge within BIA racial enclaves.

Arizona has been infested with 19 closed racist societies, where civil rights violations are permitted to flourish, and criminality abounds.

The gambling compact that was foisted upon the citizens of Arizona, by misguided and weak leadership, is part of a continuing fraud and subtrefuge run by the Department of Interior. It is overseen by its largest and oldest bureaucracy, the BIA .

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is itself an illicit criminal enterprise that is simply hosting another criminal enterprise. The BIA are the true owners and the originators of the gambling syndicates’s casinos.

It is certainly not the tens of thousands of indigenous tribal residents existing in third world poverty, while a few Indians are bought off by this criminal syndicate. The same one that bought off Mr.Goddard. Our only question: What was he promised in return for betraying the players association?

Mr. Goddard, you are listening to the wrong Indians. Most tribal members throughout the Country get nothing from these slugs. Outside of a bad rap for hosting them in their BIA’s  controlled communities, as if they ever had a choice.

Sadly, these are not their communities. They belong to the BIA. The BIA belongs to you and I and, we need to shut it down!

Footnotes:

*Since the BIA must approve all compacts and contracts made with the Tribes, it is not factual (nor is it fair) to refer to these compacts as being Indian gaming compacts. They are BIA contracts entered into with the gambling syndicate. The entire idea belongs to the government’s confessed criminals at the BIA. (See Cobell vs. Salazar $3.5 Billion lawsuit settlement).

**The sport of poker is not mentioned anywhere within the criminal law or the gambling statute. However, it is mentioned in their civil contract which, they have inappropriately dubbed, the Indian Gaming Compact. It is this inter-governmental contract that the DOG is insisting that we acknowledge, under threat of imprisonment.

***Big DOG Chief Rudy, did offer to read me my rights a couple of years ago, but he never did. Probably, because I informed him that I would not need to be advised of my rights, by a private cop, whose income is derived entirely from the fruits of a criminal enterprise. I suggested that he read them to himself, along with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Judge Harold Lee (Retired)

International Card & Game Players Association

Tombstone, Arizona “The Birthplace of High Stakes Poker”

Friday September 3, 2010

After five years of protecting Poker Players from the organized crime syndicates operating in Arizona. Terry Goddard has lived up to his reputation as a wimp. He caved into the pressure from the Arizona Mafioso Don, Mr. Brnvich.

Brnvich is the industry muscle and mouthpiece for Arizona’s illicit gambling interests in the State. His agency operates under the inappropriate title: Arizona Department of Gaming. Protecting the citizens of Arizona is not a goal or objective of this quasi-state agency.

The DOG is not supported by the taxpayers and, it has proven many times, that it could care less about the interest of the citizens of Arizona. This organization is entirely funded from criminality. The DOG viciously protects the exclusive interests of the criminal enterprise that pays their salary.

They are employed by Bally’s and Harrahs, as well as, all the other gambling syndicate operations flourishing in Arizona. The DOG is actually an outlaw agency; born of an illicit, amoral agreement.

A criminal compact, crafted by unprincipled leadership which, permits organized crime syndicates, from this universally banned industry, to continuely perpetuate felonies against the citizens of Arizona.

Their  criminal gambling compact is founded entirely upon lies and misnomers. It attempts to sanction as lawful, third-party theft and conversion, as well as other felonious behavior common, to the outlawed industry

However, it is all part of a gigantic fraud and subterfuge. Sadly, no part of it is more disgraceful or despicable, than claiming these casinos belong to the the Indians.

There is no such thing as an Indian Casino!

The BIA reservation residents do not own the casinos, They do not own anything. Nothing, not their lands, not their homes, not even all their rights of citizenship.

These are our wards and, we have them bound up in economic slavery into perpetuity. The Indians have become the 21st Century’s share croppers for the illicit gambling industry and, the BIA is their overseer.

This is the netherworld safe haven of Crime Boss Brnvich and his gambling syndicate. His job is to help keep Tribal communities in bondage to tbe BIA and his paymasters from the gambling syndicates.

The Department of Interior owns everything within BIA controlled lands. Including, the Tribes and their individual members. They are being held in bondage, on their own lands. All victims of a cruel government social experiment, that was designed to maintain control of their lands.

Taxpayers have been fed this B.S. for so long, that we can no longer smell it for what it really is: Rank bigotry and racism! We have been promising the tribes it is their land. However, the government (that is you and I) simply will not provide them with their title.

So we all are now cursed with amoral conduct and criminality, from our own apathy and negligence to our Constitution and the law. Mean time tribal residents have been left to live in abject poverty, at the mercy of bureacrats from the BIA and the gambling syndicate.

The BIA is now, and has historically been, an amoral criminal enterprise. It  has been abusing tribal communities and squandering their trust for 186 years. They have used their position as trustee and guardian of the Tribes, to pilfer their Trust Lands for Billions of Dollars.

They have been so abusive to our wards; that you and I presently owe in excess of FOUR BILLION DOLLARS to these poverty ridden communities.

The Indians did not choose to live in unproductive, closed racist societies. The government has forced them to live there with unmerciful acts of human genocide. We have kept them impoverished there, by withholding title to their lands and, the right to control their affairs.

They are enslaved there because of our government’s cruel, antisocial zoological experiment, which has been scammed by the moral compass of an entire Nation. It is made easy when you utilize two different sets of law books based upon race and ethnicity.

When we discovered that 100% of opposition, to players organizing Poker, came from this racist empire; we suggested that they be given all of their rights of citizenship. Especially, their right to hold fee simple title to their ancestral lands. That apparently upset too many people from the gambling industry, including Mr. Goddard.

The Tribes will one day own those lands that we have promised them are theirs. They will also gain control of the casinos, we have dumped on their communities, merely for our own personal amusement.

However, the operations of those casinos will be under the watchful; eye of bona fide police. A police agency paid for and supported by ALL the taxpayers. They will not be left to the control of a bunch of private dicks serving the interests of the gambling syndicates like the Arizona Mafia’s DOG! .

Goddard (seemingly listening to the wrong voices) apparently decided to weasel out of our long time understanding and, to turn the State Grand Jurors over to Arizona’s organized gambling syndicate police. So they could once again attempt to extort us to give up our civil rights. No thanks Terry!

We will be asking the FBI to investigate the conduct of the State AG, as well as, locating us some type of whistle blower protection, from our former accomplice,

Attorney General Terry Goddard is an unindicted co conspirator). We couldn’t have done, whatever it is we are supposed to have done, without his help.

Regardless, he has decided to hand the State Grand Jury over to forces who claim authority of an inter-governmental agency agreement. A compact to violate Arizona statutory laws, in violation of existing laws which prohibit tribal governments from violating state statutory laws.

In other words: the misnamed Indian gambling compact, was ordered up by Congress, demanding that Arizona’s leadership create a  law to overcome the will of the voters, as well as, their own existing  law? Merely to keep the tribes enslaved on their own lands under the BIA.

We were forced to learn this due to repeated DOG bites from Director Brnvich’s paid enforcers from the gambling syndicate.

Terry Goddard is unquestionably an accessory before, and after the fact, regarding any criminality arising out of the formation of the ICGPA. He is obviously a material witness to the defense of these absurd charges and false allegations.

Terry Goddard has since, decided to collude with paid agents from another sovereignty and, against citizens who are protected by the Constitution from attacks without our borders.

We need Federal protection from our criminal enemies, who have invaded the Arizona State Judicial system, from their sanctuary on the BIA reservations.

The DOG is utilizing a highly suspect, Inter-governmental agreement as justification to attack us under the color of their badges.

Goddard needs to appoint a special prosecutor, or dump the case and head for the Federal Court. Where we hope to go as soon as we can find a pro bona lawyer to help us file an injunction.

We want to enter a court were we can have a fair debate, on whether or not the Sport of Poker is protected conduct, poker players believe it to be?

Judge Harold Lee (Retired)

Co-Founder

The International Card & Game Players Association

Until that time, it is essential to maintain a public journal. We feel it is important to document our struggles, as well as, the abuse our members have had to endure, during the long and difficult Arizona Poker War.

The following is another chapter or two in our continuing saga:

Academia’s Deep Sleep

For you first time readers, we believe chronicling our ordeal, is likely to provide the best defense, to the antics of the paid enforcers from the private gambling industry. The Arizona Department of Gaming. This private police agency, is better known to our poker players association, as the The Arizona Mafia, or simply: The DOG.

This organization was born of an illicit conspiracy involving unprincipled leadership and organized crime. Together, they concocted an amoral public policy to protect two different criminal enterprises: The closed racial enclaves operated by the BIA and their funding partners the outlawed privateers of the gambling industry, along with their enforcement arm,  The Arizona Department of Gaming.

Included within their illicit conspiracy is a monopolistic claim over the International Sport of Professional Poker. For more than five years the International Card & Game Players Association (ICGPA) has objected vehemently to that claim. In fact, the DOG police know full well that POKER is not even mentioned in the gambling statutes.

Actually, we are certain that Poker qualifies for the exclusion, afforded to all bona fide businesses, provided within the gambling statutes. Regardless, Arizona does not own the sport of poker, and we believe the players have a substantive right to organize the sport. We have enjoyed virtually unanimous community support for our efforts.

This case is not about gambling. It is about intimidation and extortion, by paid enforcers from the private gambling industry. Terry Goddard already announced that they can’t get a conviction. Which, we have all known for five years.

There has been no evidence gathered by these private detectives from the gambling industry, that wasn’t already provided to the AG more than five years ago. So who promised you what to change you mind and sucker punch the union Mr. Goddard.

This is the main reason we have been publishing our ordeal on this blog (www.icgpa.org) and at arizonacardroom.com, as we have been experiencing it. After all, it is a well known, that the privateers of the gambling industry, are notorious for eliminating their competition. Often employing very painful, primitive, and permanent methods (as my friends and associates frequently remind me).

Therefore, we find it impossible to completely trust any individual, institution, or community leader, who, enjoys harboring such criminality within BIA closed racist enclaves. These gambling contracts are not with the tribes. They are with the BIA, who must sanction and approve, every single one of these amoral agreements.

All, amount to nothing more, than written documents containing amoral legalese. Contracts that authorize; an unlawful enterprise to conduct felonies, within the geographical boundaries, of the State of Arizona.

A curse on the unprincipled leadership, that has helped this criminal enterprise, gain unfettered access to our mainstream marketplace.  From where, they are being permitted to shamelessly hawk their amoral criminal behavior to my grandchildren 24/7 as good clean fun. Horse-feathers! Felonious conduct should not be advertised within mainstream media.

The media has become a major part of the fraud. Any douche bag politician, or other public official, that has the unmitigated gall, to suggest that any of this behavior is lawful or proper; is either an ignorant bigot, a racist, or a crook. We have more than ample evidence to back that statement up with facts in court. Which is why it is unlikely that this will ever be seen by a jury.

Two decades of paying for lobbyist, in order to locate political leaders, agreeable to colloborate and enter contracts with outlaws, does not mean their conspiracy will succeed before a jury. We don’t beleive it will.

Regardless, of any potential threat to my personal freedom or safety, I cannot (and will not) cede any authority to a police force, funded entirely by felonious, amoral behavior. Let alone one, funded entirely by the fruits of recognized statutory criminal conduct.

Immoral or illicit public policy, crafted by political prostitutes favoring criminality, cannot command our obedience. Nor, can we be required to recognize their amoral business as a lawful enterprise. A gambling compact, among racist and scoundrels, is of no consequence to law abiding citizens.

Their hired-hand cops have obviously agreed to sell their guns and muscle, to the highest bidder. They seem perfectly willing to ignore the criminal activities of their paymasters, from the outlawed gambling industry.

The whole time, they are caterwauling away, that they are merely following orders. Where have we heard that defense before? Were they really following orders to ignore the Attorney General’s public proclamations and conclusions?

Who ordered them (under the cover of their badges) to ignore the rights of Arizona’s Poker players and, the conclusions of state and municipal authority who licensed our business?

Who specifically, commanded that these officers disrespect state and local officials that had already ceded to us our rights? Who specifically, is the question we will be demanding an answer for, during our discovery.

However, we already know who is behind this invasion of netherworld forces, from another sovereignty: The Arizona Mafia, under the direction of its Chief enforcer Brnvich and his rabid DOG police.

“We’re from the government, we are here to help you”

Never has this been a more absurd statement than when referring to the DOG’s hired-guns. We are here from Bally’s and Harrahs’ is much more accurate. This is who the DOG’s enforcement officers take direction from and, their services have been purchased from gambling proceeds.

Their employment involves extorting our union members, into casinos owned and operated by their employer. As it happens, all are promoting conduct that is deemed to be felonious under Arizona law.

Of course, they claim to be beyond Arizona law and authorities. Ask, poor old Johnny Ray what they have said and done to him, merely for being a member of our union.

However, by using the hallow threat of felony criminal prosecution, to enforce a civil contract (their gambling compact) these private dicks are unquestionably guilty of felony criminal extortion. At least under the law within Arizona but, the DOG denies it is subject to those laws. Apparently, the wimp Goddard agrees.

We believe, since they are from a nether world sovereignty, and, have denied (by word and deed) being bound by the laws of Arizona; they have no right to utilize our State court system to adjudicate any claims (civil or criminal) against U.S. Citizens.

They should do, what Costa Rica would be required to do, if they wanted to enforce a written agreement to commit crimes, within our borders. Go to the Federal Court House.

How can any decent person, support the gambling industry’s claim to control Poker, over that of the Player’s association?

Terry, why are you helping them force us back into their industry operated POKER ROOMS. When you know damn well they steal money from our prize pools and, infest our strategic competitions, with their stupid chance gambling schemes.

Terry, no person or industy can be given a statutory right to steal with impunity. Even the voters can’t authorize or sanction such conduct. We are confident that they don’t realize that is what they voted for with the this amoral compact. It really wouldn’t matter if they did, it violates the contestants property rights.

Oddly, the “private dick gumshoes” hired by this criminal enterprise, apparently see no ethics problems, arising from their behavior. DOG police officers, please stay away from our bona fide police, you contaminate them by your mere presence.

If you were true servants and protectors of the people of Arizona, you would resign from that gambling syndicate; leave the dark-side and,  return to the light. Join the Arizona Poker Army, we need you to do the right thing. Stand with the players association against the outlawed gambling industry and, their cronies from the BIA racist empire.

Is Our Justice System Corrupt or Simply Myopic?

My weak faith in our judicial system has been with me from my earlist days on the bench. It has deepened since we became aware of the duplicity of our judicial system, in helping the BIA hold the tribes in economic slavery, on their own land.

How the judiciary has systematically sanctioned the enslavement of the tribal communities, within their own lands is disgraceful. The BIA has always been a cruel and immoral government agency. At no point in its history has it been void of scoundrels and scalawags.

This is not the way real Americans treat each other! Also, it violates a popcorn bucket full of laws and statutes.

The BIA has retained the services of the gambling industry to help it continue to perpetrate their gigantic land fraud upon the tribes and the American people.

The BIA has succeed since 1941 in covering their criminality, by employing two separate sets of law books. Intended to be applicable to a separate and distinct race and culture. This blatantly unlawful act has had tragic consequences for both, our Nation and our State.

BIA policy is impinging upon the freedom and opportunity of the residents of their poverty stricken communities. Being outlaws in a netherworld of criminality the BIA and, their partners in crime at the Department of Gaming, are simply not cognizant of anyones rights.

Therefore, trampling all over poker players substantive rights to protect themselves, is somehow acceptable conduct for their gun and badge toting enforcers. They’re just following orders.

Unfortunately for the citizens of Arizona, this criminal enterprise is now directing the Office of our lame duck AG.

Terry, why have you suddenly joined with the reservation’s rogue police from the gambling industry. Are you looking for a job lobbying for these crooks when you loose the election for Governor Mr. Goddard?

Recent developments have only confirmed our worst fears. The entire justice system in Arizona from top to bottem has been completely corrupted by its supposed guardian.

A question we hope to get answered by a public trial: Why Is The law rofession, Congress and, most regrettably, academia seemly unmoved and turning a blind eye, to all of the suffering and injustice, with respect to tribal communities? Are we all really that obtuse?

Unprincipled lawyers, that can see no hypocrisy or, moral turpitude with utilizing government policy to enforce economic enslavement, has entrapped an entire race of humanity on their own land. Our negligence to the evils of the BIA is unworthy of any system proffering the word Justice anywhere in their title.

Suggesting that racism in this single case is appropriate human behavior and, that it requires a separate set of law books for our fellow citizens, simply means; the profession supports racism and, the shunning of humanity. (And not for the first time. Right, Dred Scott?)

I am sorry to break up anyones reverie but, the Indian Affairs bureaucracy is nothing more than a wicked, cruel, racial purification program. A tragically failed social experiment involving indigenous people. It must cease. Neither, our pocket books nor, our conscience can continue to abide this evil agency.

I don’t want to go to jail but, to misquote Henry David Thoreau “In a land of unjust laws, you will often find a just person in jail”.

Thanks to unprincipled leaders, such as yourself Mr Goddard, this criminal enterprise is enjoying safe harbor from within a fraudulent sovereignty, owned and operated by the BIA. In the jargon of the Poker players “somebody is bluffing”. We promise that it isn’t the players association.

However, what is disheartening to us, is the lack of interest in helping the tribes to gain their freedom and equality. We wonder how the NAACP would feel if in 1964, instead of passing the Civil Rights Act, we moved a large group of the black community out of L.A., into the Mojave Desert?

Once there, we would wrap the community in barbed wire, and send them a stipend every month. We would of course rename their community the Sovereign Nation of Watts and let the BIA administer to all of their affairs. Would the NAACP have been OK with that kind of behavior.

Well, that is exactly what we did in 1964 to the Yaqui Indian community from South Tucson. We are certainly happy, that the government finally got around to recognizing these good folks, as an authentic American Indian community. Since they began arriving here in the 1850′s, long before most non-Indians.

However, we will be much happier, when all BIA tribal communities receive title to their land. In other words; freedom and equality under the law.

In the meantime, we won’t be waiting silently, to be railroaded into a corrupted State judicial system; where thugs from the gambling industry have access to a secret Grand Juries. We intent to head for the Federal Court as soon as we can afford to pay our way into the place.

We will also attempt to bring as much evidence as possible into the Court of Public opinion. Since we have committed no crime, we do not have to remain silent to protect ourselves. So we will continue to compose our online manuscript.

YOUR BELOVED SPORT NEEDS YOU—

STAND-UP AND BE HEARD!

JOIN THE ARIZONA POKER PLAYERS  ARMY!

This will be our last post on this blog for the present. We are joining forces with the Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited (THBU), who will be soliciting an Army under their banner, to help us win the Arizona Poker War and free the Tribal communities of the BIA.

We intend to free both the sport of poker and the tribal communities, from the clutches of the government and, their cronies in the private gambling industry. We intend that the players be given control of their sport, even when played within the netherworld of BIA racist compounds.

Meetings are being planned by our advisory group this week. Our first event as of now will be an effort to stage a demonstration at the courthouse on September 7.

If you would like to make a donation or join the Arizona Poker Players Army please contact us:

info@tribeofhumanbeings.org

Proud member of the Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited

and Freedom Fighter with the Arizona Poker Players Army

If you are a United States citizen, please be informed that you own a piece of the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs’ human zoos. Therefore, you share responsibility with all of us, for the maltreatment of BIA residents.

The following email was sent to Arizona State University President Michael A. Crow. Because, we can find no studies or research on the cause and  effect of BIA policy on mainstream society or, to the members of the BIA tribal communities.

Here is the Email (it has been amended since it was first sent):

Dear President Crow,

I am honored to have graduated from A.S.U. with the class of 1972. However, I am disheartened to have to admit that as a resident of Arizona for more than sixty years I have ignored the BIA reservation system.

As a young white man growing up in Arizona in the middle of the last century, I found the reservations to be melancholic, even foreboding. Frankly, I heeded the black and white warning signs at the entrance to the BIA controlled compounds.

Events of the last five years, forced me to ignore my feelings and, go visit members of the tribal community. My many visitations over the last few years has not lessened my angst. In fact, it seems to have increased, along with my ire at the government and, many of our most cherished institutions, who appear to be asleep at the wheel.

The academic disciplines, along with the judiciary, have been a very big disappointment for many of us, who feel we have been misled by the whole of academia, regarding the appropriateness of the Indian Affairs policy.

Since Arizona has more of these so called “sovereign nations” than any other state, we should lead the fight to regain control of our land and our communities; including the tribal communities.

Can you help us to find professionals to evaluate and study the allegations raised by our studies and research over the last several years?

We are looking for a home where we can locate a minority owned not-for-profit venture, so that we might develop our plans to assimilate tribal communities into the mainstream of 21st Century American life.

We hope you will consider empaneling an inter-disciplinary group to evaluate and study the allegations and conclusions of the THBU’s exhaustive research of the BIA.

It is an undisputable fact, that the taxpayers are holding the Tribes in bondage on their own real property, under the most deplorable conditions. Tens of thousands of them are living in third world poverty. 

Unbelievably, while tribal members are citizens of Arizona, they have a separate and unequal judicial system. However, it is of no advantage for the members. Since, tribal members are subjected to the pains of the mainsteam judicial system as well. All of those sovereign nations have been ordered by Congress to obey State statutes.

If we are correct in our conclusions, we ask that you help us to affiliate with A.S.U. so we might delve further into the plight of tribal communities.

Judge Harold Lee (Retired)

Please note:

We have been unable to locate any professional studies, concerning the appropriateness of the BIA’s racial enclaves, having ever been undertaken by any member of the State’s university system. We would like to know why?

However, our informal research conducted over several years, has caused us to conclude; the government’s Indian Affairs policy has been very costly to all of civilized society. The BIA policy tramples upon our most cherished rights and liberties, including private property rights.

This is occurring while, those institutions charged with protecting our freedoms and liberties, are mindlessly working in concert with the government, to sustain the illiicit antisocial behavior.

Sadly, Arizona is cursed with nearly two dozen so called “sovereign nations”  all without any credentials necessary to sustain the title.

We know for certain that the public has been misled as to the true nature of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and, the goals and objectives of its long term amoral social experiment. A human zoolgical experiment that was flawed from its inception.

We will not be silenced from, the five years of intimidation by hired hands of the gambling industry. Nor, will having the issues shunned by the mainstream news media, cause us to abandon our effort to gain freedom for tribal communities and the people of Arizona. 

We understand the media has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo in Arizona. We can count the gambling industry ads they sell. This is one of the main reasons we have chronicled so many of the events on our blog. 

We have no doubt, that one day an ethical member of the media will come forth and, help us bring to an end, the evil doings of the BIA. They will likely win awards for helping to expose this ancient fraud.

Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited

Please read more on why we must give tribes title to their lands:

http://www.icgpa.org/?p=2934 

Chapter 7

Enslaving Tribal Communities For Our Own Amusement

Taxpayers currently owe over  Four Billion Dollars to the Tribes in unpaid court judgments! In the name of humanity and for our own salvation as a nation. We can no longer afford to pay tribal communities a stipend to live apart from the rest of humanity. BIA ethnic policy is not merely immoral and illicit, it apparently is a money pit as well.

We must eventually hand over to the Tribes title to their lands. Those lands we promised their ancestors “would belong to them and their children’s children until the end of time”. So now, just who is an Indian giver? Clearly, not the Indians. “No ethnic group has ever paid a higher price for their spot on Mother Earth, than the Native American Indians.”*    

It seems, when anyone actually takes the time to seriously reflect on the processes of the BIA reservation system, they find it very disconcerting to discover that taxpayers effectively own the tribal communities.

Even with the buffer of a government agency such as, the Indian Affairs bureaucracy, the weight of individual responsibility for helping to fund a racist government policy, must eventually begin to wear on the conscince of  any decent people.

BIA policy unquestionably disrespects; the Constitution, our Bill of Rights, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as well as the International Crime of Apartheid!  A very long list of violations for the Land of the Free, isn’t it?

Criminal Enterprises Always Have Two Sets Of Books.

In the case of the BIA those  two sets of  books are law books. One set for the Indians and, another one for everyone, including sovereign nations and tribal communities. This is of no interest to the BIA as it ignores them all. They own their own netherworld and make it all up as they go along.

The BIA is a taxpayer funded entity, which is fostering racism via antiquated public policy. Since, the taxpayers are funding this nonsense, they are responsible for the conduct of their agency. The mere existence of the BIA makes taxpayers de-facto slave-holders of BIA residents. Who, just happen to be free born U. S. Citizens, that are being held in bondage on their own land.

The BIA has it own federal prison system exclusively for Indians. It is clearly substandard and, apparently outside the jurisdiction of even, the Federal prison system. Frankly, if they are allowed to isolate Indian communities, and trample all over individual liberties of the tribal members; then why couldn’t they do it to your community?

Actually they have already done so. They trampled upon the rights and liberties of non-Indian citizens, when the gambling industry’s private police force (Arizona Department of Gaming) assaulted and bankrupted the ICGPA poker players union. 

They accomplished this by launching numerous bogus police investigations, into facts and conduct previously stipulated to by the players union. All of it provided to State and local prosecutors in advance of any conduct. The gambling industry’s police have issued false and misleading statements to the press. In which they have called the players union a criminal enteprise.

They have slandered the player’s union from their website for many years. They do all of these things with impunity, from the sanctuary of the BIA ’s amoral gambling compact. A compact that we believe to be legally (and morally) flawed. It is what drew our attention to both of these criminal enterprises, in the first place.

So, while the D.O.G. police were conducting their intrusive and unnecessary investigations, desingned to intimidate the player’s association. We opened our own investigation of them. Including, their paymaster (casino operators) and, especially, the Big Chief of the criminal enterprise, the Department  of Interior’s Indian Affairs bureacracy.

While the gambling industry’s privately funded police force may have crippled the ICGPA, it has given birth to a new nemisis: The Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited, called THBU. THBU (pronounced the-boo) is being born to battle the BIA and its illicit, antisocial-racist policies.

A Promise Is A Promise (Unless Made To A Tribe)

Tribal communities have been ensnared forever in the greatest land swindle of all time. Simply because Congress,  and its tribal overseer (the Bureau of Indian Affairs) has failed to grant tribal members their full complement of rights and liberties. Especially their property rights. 

This has occured because, the judiciary has chosen to ignore basic human rights violations against the tribes. Including, many of the fundamental rights and liberties granted to all natural born citizens. Which certainly includes tribal members of BIA ethnic enclaves, as they were all granted their citizenship, under the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.

The tribal lands should have been entrusted to the tribes at that time. Regrettably, the BIA would never consider voluntarily returning to the tribal communities their land. Or, even allow them to have control of their own affairs.

The Country’s Oldest Criminal Enterprise

The BIA record of criminality stretches from its inception, right on up and into present day, costing the taxpayers BILLIONS of dollars in court ordered damages.

Sadly, the entire legal community appears contented, hiding behind absurd legal theory and precedent such as, their 75 year old racist tome: Felix’s Handbook On Indian Law. How does requiring your victims to adhere to two separate books of law, in any way, justify racism and bigotry?

Actually, the existence of two separate judicial systems, based solely upon ethnicity of the community, constitutes irrefutable evidence of a racist policy. Separate and unequal is always the goal of racism.

Publication, by the Government Printing Office, of a separate and unique set of laws. based upon the race, contstitutes a glaring violation of the civil rights of every citizen. Such conduct flaunts the equal protection provisions of the Constitution, as well as, the Bill of Rights. Felix’s Handbook of Indian Law not only doesn’t solve the problem; it is the problem!

Clearly, Tribes have been indoctranated into accepting abuses of their rights and liberties in silence.  They have never been encouraged to voice objection to anything, especially violations of their civil rights. Atually, nearly all of their iconic heroes were either killed or imprisoned, while attempting to avoid internment in the BIA’s ethnic enclaves. 

Those were true leaders, with the wisdom and foresight to comprehend how isolation and segregation, would ultimately eliminate their communities from the present. They understood instinctively, how this wicked social experiment, was simply one more land grab by the Great Chief in Washington, and his cronies in the BIA.

Obviously, those Indian leaders understood something which, present day leadership cannot seem to comprehend. Natural growth of tribal communities is being drastically altered by BIA policy.

Amoral Policy Does Not Improve With Age

For example; the way the BIA retooled their racial enclaves, into a safe haven for the gambling industry. Causing their proverty ridden tribal communities to become shills for that outlawed industry. This is only example of  the BIA’s administratve skills. It also provides keen insight into the moral fiber of these guardians of the “Indian way of life”.

Our indigenous people, throughout all of history, have demonstrated an ability (and desire) to evolve into the here and now. Here are  some quotes from some of those Indians, willing to be heard on the issue of reservation life, in the “Land of the Free”:

“The Indians are invisiable to white people”. “We have been forced to live in two different Worlds”. “The Indians are niether wolf nor dog “. ”The Indians have been eliminated from the present.”

The Indians are not free to live their life. Nor, are they permitted to hold fee simple  title to their lands or, to manage their own affairs. as is the right of any citizen.  They are neither wolf nor dog.

Sitting Bull once asked the very poignant question: “Why don’t we put our heads together and, see what kind of World we can make for our children?” It is still a great idea. The Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited has a few ideas to help that World be  a prosperous and industrious one.

BIA policy is racism founded upon amoral legalese.

Our judicial system is doggedly unmoved by the predicament of the Tribal communities. It insist on adhereing closely, to the same weak principles and standards, that were employed in the infamous Dred Scott decision. Ironically, regarding the very same issue: 

Enslavement of Humanity.  

Tribal communities were forced onto reservations at gunpoint, then coerced into accepting government control of their property, and affairs unto eternity. In essence, this is how the U.S. Army presented the BIA concept to tribal communities:

Accept the position as Congress’s bogus “sovereign nations” (without credentials) under its total control or, the Army will continue killing you and your relatives (men, women, and children). Of course, we will be taking control of your ancestral lands, in any event. Here (you illiterate savages) touch the side of this pen. Now we have contract for eternity!

How is that for criminal extortion? A Catch-22 con job of the highest order. Obviously, for those survivors of government sponsored genocide, the misnomer of sovereign nation sounded like a splendid option, at that time!

Likely, it still does unless, the taxpayers should make a better offer. For instance; granting tribal communities fee simple title to their ancestral lands.  

Those lands which, Uncle Sam gave to their ancestors, where not the result of peace treaties. The best that can be said of these documents, is that they are all land contracts intended to establish ownership of real property. Even though they were coerced at gunpoint, they still represent a  commitment of ownership of the land to the tribal communities.

However, as is the custom when dealing with the tribes; Uncle Sam refuses to uphold his own forced agreement and, relinquish title to the rightful owners. All of those tribal communitives collectively. Clearly, it is time for tribal communities to manage their own affairs, sans the BIA.

Have We All Drank The Kool Aid?

The entire Country, has long since, become indoctrinated into accepting the BIA’s improper policy, as somehow being the fault of the Tribes? We have managed to convince ourselves that the BIA is providing a positive benefit for the Tribes and the Country. It clearly does neither.

In fact, when we look more closely at BIA goals, objectives, and especially its history, we find we have all been misled and deceived. From its inception, BIA policy has always been an oblique effort to sanctify segregation and isolation by ethnicity, as being positive social behavior.

Many, but not nearly enough citizens, find it troubling that taxpayers are responsible for the twenty-five thousand BIA residents (U.S. citizens) living at, or below Third-World poverty levels, within our BIA reservation system.

Isn’t it about time that we began to wonder why? How did this happen? Who (if anyone) is actually benefiting from BIA policy, other than the private gambling industry?

Where Is Authority To Create Ethnic Enclaves or Sovereign Nations?

Actually, it does not exist within the Constitution. Although, it is expressly forbidden by a number of laws and statutes, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Obviously, Congress has the authority to recognize existing sovereign nations from without our borders. However, it has no authority to ignore the Constitution and create sovereign nations within the jurisdiction of the American people. Particularly, when utilizing U.S. citizens in the process.

Dozens of genuine bona fide sovereign nations, conducting their business within our borders, would be much more than a silly oxymoron and misnomer, which Congress insist on funding.

The reality is, the existance of 561 true sovereign nations (the number of recognized tribes) within our sovereign borders, would present an enormous breach of our national security. It would also constitute gross government malfeasance!

Especially for Arizona, whose citizens have been forced to host nearly twenty so called “sovereign nations”. All of which are under the protection and control of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Regardless, no closed society,especially one founded upon ethniticity, will ever be recognized as belonging among the community of sovereign nations. Nor, should any society or culture, be encouraged to practice racial and ethnic purification.   

Unfortunately, misuse of the term sovereignty, is only one element of a long running government fraud and subterfuge. It is being perpetuated by minions of the BIA. It is part and parcel of their long-term (successful) scam, to control Tribal communities.

A truly wicked plan, one designed to gain (and retain) control of all tribal lands of North America. Sadly, the scheme has also snagged the humanity, living upon those lands, along with the land.

BIA policy has simply, witheld from the Tribes, their right to hold title to their own lands. This improper act has allowed a grotesque social experiment (the BIA) to develop far beyond its time.

BIA Becomes A Full Blown Criminal Enterprise

The BIA converted their reservation system into a nortorious criminal enterprise. Successfully helping the gambling industry to pry open mainstream markets for the outlawed enterprise. They encouraged their wards to provide safe haven for chance gambling schemes. Conduct that the citizens of Arizona have repeatedly held to be felonious.

“It takes one to know one” has never been a more profound statement, than when applied to the coupling of the BIA and, the universally scorned profiteers of the private gambling industry.

Silence From The Tribes, Is Not Necessarily Consent

It is an irrefutable fact, BIA policy has resulted in the pacification, and enslavement, of a solitary race of humanity. The agency, which is owned by the taxpayers, has successfully forced tribal communities to live in ethnic compounds, under the most wretched conditions. The pangs of poverty has forced many tribal communities to host the gambling industry, out of economic necessity.

We might recall, the Tribes were all, literally forced at gunpoint onto the BIA reservations. Where they were required to remain, until they had all became pacified (institutionalized) into accepting their role as passive wards of the BIA.

The Tribes have been “eliminated from the present“

The tribes, along with mainstream society, have come to accept government sponsored compounds, constructed by the BIA on Indian ancestral lands as being in some way ethical? This, even though the lands properly and lawfully belong to the Tribal communities, under written agreements (literally coerced at gunpoint).

We have all been misled into believing; that reservations are all the result of peace treaties, arising out of the so called “Indian Wars”.The peace treaty claim, is bogus. As is the case with pretty much every claim made by this amoral agency, they are simply not truthful.

The reality is that very few Indain tribes have ever been involved in hostilities against the United States. Factually, even those tribes allied with the Army, were not exempted from the clutches of BIA policy.

BIA True Goals: Racial Purification and Cultural Isolation

The treaty nonsense is only another instance of misinformation proffered by the BIA. In fact; there is only one tribe in Arizona that has an actual treaty, the Navajo Nation. All of the other reservations were established by acts of Congress, seemingly abusing its authority.

Still others, such as the Chiricahua Apaches, were ordained by simple Presidential proclamations (of dubious propriety). It is hard to maintain that they are relative to peace treaties, when you are still erecting racial enclaves as late as 1964. The same year we enacted the Civil Rights Act, we opened another racist ethnic compound for the Pascua Yaqui Indians.

The Pascua Yaqui Indians have not only never been hostile to the United States, they are actually indigenous to Mexico. While they migrated here before most white settlers, they weren’t even recognized as American Indians until 1964,

Of course, then Congress had no trouble turning a poverty ridden community from South Tucson, into a “sovereign nation” . By the simple expedient of locating them and their families, away from the City of South Tucson, in the desert southwest of town. In other words, paying them a taxpayer stipend to leave town and live apart from the rest of us.

THBU To Battle the BIA

After more than two years of studying the BIA, its history, goals and objectives, the Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited (THBU) has concluded: the BIA is a failed social/zoologincal experiment. Further, that the experiment involves cultural and racial purification as an objective.

The conduct is clearly wicked, antisocial behavior which, also happens to be illicit and immoral. BIA policy is residue remaining, from early 19th Century amoral social values. Which, should not be tolerated by any civilized society of the 21st Century.

Definition: enslavement |en’slāv| verb [ trans. ] make (someone) a slave.• cause (someone) to lose their freedom of choice or action

The Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs has been holding tribal communities in bondage, on their own land, for a couple of centuries. The time has come to close the BIA’s ethnic internment camps and, put an end to the government’s enslavement of tribal communities.

It is time to wage the last battle of the so called “Indian War”. The United States people should (and very soon) return the ancestral tribal lands to their rightful owners: Those Tribal communities that reside within them.

No group of humanity has ever had a greater right to claim: “This land is my land. GOD gave this land to me”, than the Native American Indian communities.

Actually, while God may have put the Indians upon Mother Earth, the Great White Father in Washington D.C. placed them within racial/ethnic enclaves, which he strictly controls. He promised them it was there land forever. So, where is the damned title?

One  wonders, when Uncle Sam might be headed back home to Washington D.C.? After all, 186 years seems to be overstaying a welcome, on anyones land. This must certainly be the case, where one has been such a boorish guest. Purportedly a guardian yet, one who has been commiting; fraud, theft, and human genocide against their towns and villages for its entire history.

The government recently confessed to the theft of hundreds of billions of dollars from their own impoverished wards. Therefore, a blessed suicide, executed by the BIA itself, would not only be in order, it would be greatly appreciated by all of humanity. The BIA should already be making plans to self-destruct. Please read Kudos to Elouise Cobell—A Great Indian Warrior.

*(Quote from the Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited Manifesto)

Chapter 8

Giving Birth To Government Fraud And Subterfuge

In 1824, a year before Presidents Adams and Jefferson died, the country gave birth to a racist empire: The Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs. The mandate, for this new bureaucracy, was to remove the indigenous tribes from the path of our Manifest Destiny.

Sadly, the mandate carried along with it, inherent authorization to employ any method or means available to the mind of man. Unfortunately, as it has turned out for the tribes, those minds belonged to early 19th Century white Christian men. Therefore, human slavery or, paying a bounty for the scalps of indigenous human beings, was copacetic behavior.

Which is the reason, humanity required itself to outlaw the practice of isolation and segregation by ethnicity as a crime against all of humanity. Hence, the International Crime of Apartheid and the Bill of Rights both exist, in order to make clear; racism under any guise, cannot be tolerated. The BIA was not granted a “grandfather clause” excluding their antisocial racial/ethnic policies.

Can We Amend Two Centuries of Antisocial Behavior?

At some point; either Congress, the Courts, or the people themselves, must provide those U. S. citizens residing within BIA enclaves, their full rights of citizenship. Those would include; equality of opportunity, as well as, equal treatment under the law.

However, their right to hold fee simple title, to their own tribal lands, is far and away, the most crucial right being withheld from the tribes. For this is clearly the only hold the BIA has over them and their communities.

The Tribes, just like all of humanity, inherently posses a strong connection to their ancestors. The BIA has found it useful to exploit this reality, in order to hold them ensnared within the BIA reservation system..

No race of humanity has paid a higher price, to acquire their spot on Earth, than the Native American Indian Tribes. In the name of humanity let these people be free, and on their own land.

Reservations: A Social Experiment Gone Very Wrong

Tribal governments are a by-product of BIA policy. Their prestige, along with their very limited powers, are all derived from that man-made institution, and its long debunked antisocial theories.

If the reservation system had been a successful social endeavor, taxpayers would not own reservations. Our Nation would not be holding 26,000 of our fellow citizens in abject poverty. Just what the hell are we reserving? Is it so valuable to society, that we must waste the potential of these people on the concept?

The BIA is responsible for forcing tribal communities into the wilderness at gunpoint. Thereby, removing residents from any genuine opportunity to evolve and adapt their culture into the industry of the present. For the most part, tribes have been encouraged to lead unproductive lives of despair and desolation.

Shame, Shame On US (As in U.S.)

To our eternal shame, we have not only allowed the BIA’s wicked social policies to survive but, we have helped them to morph into a massive amoral criminal enterprise. This has not been without enormous social and fiscal costs.

Lacking the character and, too ashamed to admit to their mistakes, the United States Congress has forsaken tens of thousands of Native American Indians on BIA reservations.

It appears they are also willing to impede future opportunity for the untold thousands of Indian children, being born, into the BIA’s human zoos. May God have pity on our souls for our gross indifference to the plight of our fellow citizens.

From its inception the BIA has been rogue. A buraucracy, charged with carrying out a deplorable mandate. To eliminate Native American culture and replace it with anything that would leave the government in control of their lives and their property. The BIA has not gotten better with age. It has just gotten better at hiding.

Legitimizing Fraud: Annoiting BIA Tribal Government

Tribal government’s may publicly support the BIA however, within tribal communities, many members do not. Nor, should they.

That is, if they give any thought to the quality of life they are leaving for their children and grandchildren, whom are still being born into poverty and despair every day. Do they really want them squandering their lives as wards of the BIA? Left to exist in remote areas and weave dream catchers and blankets for tourist from mainstream society? News flash friends, many do not.

Actually, we have discovered that many tribal members are not enamored at all, with the BIA. Many believe (quite sensibly) that the tribal government system established by the BIA, is only a self serving dressing applied to reservation life, merely to provide cover for the abuses of the BIA.

However, they have too much pride to forfeit the land where their ancestors are buried. Especially, to forfeit it to the principle protagonist, responsible for impeding the growth and development of their race and culture.

This is really too much for civilized people to ask, of the victims of government sponsored segregation and racism. Again, we must ask: who has done more to earn their civil rights than Native American communities? Certainly, not the BIA!

In the end, the worst thing that might result from providing fee simple title to the Tribes, is that they may squander the opportunity. So what? In the end they will still have become assimilated. Which, should have been the BIA’s goal from the beginning.

Assimilation Is A Natural Law Which Trumps BIA Policy

All of humanity, including tribal communities, must be permitted to assimilate into the present. With the stroke of a pen, Congress and the President can dramatically alter the social status of the tribes, and begin the process in ernest.

Change them from being poverty ridden government wards, owned by the taxpayers, into landed gentry in control of their own affairs. How can that happen? Simple, provide them fee simple title to their own property.

Those BIA residents or, any other individuals (on or off of the BIA reservations) whom still lust after freedom, are being invited to join the Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited. THBU is creating a refuge for freedom lovers within our tribe.

We are intent on helping the tribal communities gain all of their rights and liberties of citizenship. Especially, the right to manage their own affairs and hold title to their property.

Borrowing from the jargon of our sport of poker: It is time to call a spade a spade. Meaning, let’s quit bluffing and tell the truth. The truth, surrounding the Bureau of Indian Affairs:

The BIA has been holding Tribal towns and villages in bondage, on the land of there parents and grandparents for nearly two centuries. They have  accomplished this by the simple expedient of denying them title to their property.

The property and lands that we promised to their ancestors. That is those ancestors that managed to survive the Army’s campaign to eradicate them and their way of life.

How can decent people continue supporting the Bureau of Indian Affairs? They are overseer of the Tribes and, the manager of this horrific failed social experiment. The BIA is an immoral concept from another time and space. The price our world is paying, both economically and socially, is horrific.

The economic cost from lawsuits alone, exceeds Four Billion-Dollars and, it is growing annually! Just so we understand the true character of the BIA, bear in mind; most of that Four Billion ($3.5 Billion) was for having looted the trust of their impoverished wards.

Unbelievably, those costs are only the tip of the iceberg. The administrative costs, necessary to operate this massive bureaucracy are equally as impressive.

How has the BIA survived so long?

Simple, a liberal application of lies, fraud, and misnomers to the general public. However, for the more sophisticated among us, they had to create a separate unique set of law books that would permit them to ignore basic human rights.

After the enactment of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924, this became a much dicier problem for the BIA. Never one to be concerned with the rights and liberties of their charges, the BIA simply allowed the various States to ignore the law. Many, such as the State of Maine, took decades to begin complying.

Eventually, the states began to half-heartily accept the Indian citizenship law but, they did nothing to encourage the assimilation of tribal communities or their residents.

Where Have All The Lawyers Gone? Long Time Passing…

Unquestionably, the real culprit for sustaining this wretched social experiment has been the profession of law, with its’ loopy idea of maintaining social stability, by sustaining precedent. Regardless of the social and economic costs to humanity.

The judicial system continues to permit segregation and racial inequality to continue festering among us, by condoning the existence of the BIA’s ethnic compounds. A history teacher once told his class; that the Dred Scott decision, would have been even more notable, if it had been the correct one, instead of being the one backed by legal precedents.

Sometimes we tend to forget, that our justice system still functions on theory, much of it simply baloney. Felix’s handbook on Indian Law is foremost among the baloney.

Lets face it, the field of law is a long long way from a science. THBU intends to have the courts revisit the issues, surrounding the legal standing of the BIA and, its’ questionable ethnic policies.

Unfortunately, for the country and, especially for the citizens residing within BIA reservations, a law profession (which, now and again, tends to get swallowed-up in its own claptrap legalese) provided the country with the Handbook of Federal Indian Law by Felix S. Cohen (1945 Government Printing Office).

Clearly, the Constitution does not permit anyone, within any branch of the government, authority to establish two different laws for different citizens. Nor does it allow for the creation of a seperate judicial systems system, based solely upon race and ethnicity.

This reality appears to be escaping everyone’s attention today, as it did when the policy was formulated. Apparently, the Constitution and, other legal precedents, are of no real consequence were the Department of Interior is concerned.

The Usual Suspects: Apathy, Ignorance, and bigotry

Unfortunately, one of the BIA’s staunchest allies, has been the usual suspects, the public’s apathy, ignorance, and plain old bigotry. It has been helped along by propaganda, fraud, and subterfuge from the BIA and its’ cohorts. Many people have become so institutionalized to the amoral conduct that they unwittingly contribute to the scam.

For example, while doing research on the Bureau of Indian Affairs, we came upon an apologetic article, concerning the Army’s behavior at the Sand Creek massacre, in territorial Colorado. The article represents the kind of misinformation often employed by BIA supporters (See Regarding Sand Creek this site).

Supporters are forever attempting to provide legitimacy for the so called “American Indian Wars”. Suggesting that it was an epic struggle between nations. Instead of the murder and mayhem that rained down upon small bands of hunter gathers, by the U.S. Calvary.

The so called “Indian Wars” were, first and foremost, a race and culture war. Secondary to those crimes was the outright theft of their lands. However, a war cannot really end, while prisoner internment camps remain in existence.

The “Indian Wars” will end only, when and if, we remove the government from tribal lands. It will have ended when the Tribes are permitted to manage their own affairs and hold title to their lands. That dark period will belong to history only when the tribes are freed from the bondage of the BIA.

Indian Affairs; America’s Real Life Evil Empire

This entire zoological experiment was (and remains) the brainchild of a genuine evil empire: The Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited cannot allow this amoral, taxpayer funded, bureaucracy to continue flying under the radar of basic human rights violations.

Additionally, the BIA has a historical record of unrepentant felonious conduct, while executing its public trust. The BIA’s skullduggery has run the gamut from, fraudulent schemes and subterfuge to, outright genocide.

In fact, thanks to the BIA’s inept administration throughout all those years, taxpayers find they are indebted to the tribes for over $4 Billion Dollars in court ordered judgments!

Does anyone really need the BIA? Clearly, neither the Tribes, nor the taxpayers, have any need of it. Certainly, none of us can afford it!

The Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited

Phoenix, AZ

Contact: info@tribeofhumanbeings.org

You might notice, after reading this unedited manuscript, we are in need of editors, researchers, and a publisher to delve into a human calamity. We are also searching for grant writers to help us obtain funding for our non-profit organization the Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited (THBU).

Please consider assisting us in locating learned professionals, willing to test our hypothesis and evaluate our conclusions concerning the legality and morality of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Thank you.

Email: info@tribeofhumanbeings.org

Forward

Not being a skilled journalist and, having been unable to arouse the interest of mainstream media in the plight of Native American communities, I became determined to construct my own manuscript. And, to do so on the blog I maintain for our players union: The International Card & Game Players Association (ICGPA). The unedited work product follows:

We  must caution readers, this is a work in progress. It is amended frequently. As we gain new insights, they are inserted into the document. Only Logos knows how the story will end. Our tale is told from the perspective of our players union, of which I am a cofounder.

I consult with a very loose coalition of advisors, who have witnessed the abuse wrought upon our players union, by paid forces of the private gambling industry. We will just say; at the present time, we prefer that those advisors remain nameless.

The work is dedicated with love; to my grandchildren, as well as, to all of those Indian children who will continue being born, into the poverty and despair, that is reservation life. Unless, we can remove the yoke of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) from their life.

What began more than five years ago; as a civic effort by poker players from Cochise County, Arizona to form a players union, has taken us on an odyssey, in search of the heart and soul of the BIA reservation system. Very early on, we realized that the quest would be fruitless, this agency has neither, a heart nor a soul.

We have been researching the BIA’s history, its’ goals and objectives, nearly everyday since that discovery. We find the mere existence of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 21st Century America, to be amoral, antisocial behavior, which is as deplorable as its’ first cousin, human slavery.

It is not a worthy endeavor, of freedom loving people, to force, assist, or even encourage a solitary race of humanity, to practice racism. Segregation and isolation by ethnicity can never be proper, lawful, or morally acceptable behavior. Especially, under the laws of the United States of America. There simply cannot be exceptions. Nor, should there be among civilized nations.

From where, comes the cruel arrogance necessary, to even suggest to the Tribes, that their communities are (and have been) benefitting from, being isolated in the wilderness? Does anyone really think the reservation residents haven’t noticed the rest of humanity hanging together? All other ethnic groups but theirs, evolving, surviving, and enjoying the abundant harvest of opportunity available to cultures swimming freely in the mainstream.

With the help of his army, Uncle Sam forced the tribal communities to become the property of Congress. For its part, Congress agreed to sweeten the deal. First, by suspending the practice of indiscriminately killing Indians. It also agreed to provide the Tribes, and their descendants a life of poverty and despair, encapsulated within the land of their Forefathers into eternity.

How could the Tribes refuse such a sweet deal. Especially, after they became aware of what an Army Gating Gun could do to a tribe of human beings!The

Standing of BIA and Gambling Compacts Unsettled Law.

Our focus was initially drawn to this massive government bureaucracy, by the questionable antics, of the Arizona Department of Gaming. Early on it became very clear that a serious conflict of principles existed, between our laws and ethics as a nation, versus the policies and practices of the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs.

We have been compelled to contemplate what harm might befall a nation that systematically shuns a race of humanity. What damages might result from forcing, or even  encouraging, a solitary ethnic group to live apart from the rest of humanity? Leaving their towns and villages, literally “out of the loop” of the present day cultural evolution. As a government policy it is cruel and wicked in the extreme.

From any perspective of measuring value or worth, the BIA reservation system is simply too costly. This agency has a very long, and deplorable history. We cannot, nor will we allow it to pretend, that it has ever been anything other, than a very bad government social experiment gone awry.

This manuscript not only challenges the right of the BIA to exist; we are proferring suggestions on ways to mitigate the damages, we have all suffered from two centuries of its amoral behavior.

Plans are being developed to help empower tribal communities, so they can handle their own affairs. Ideas discussed that will permit tribal communities to become an integral part of the times in which they are living.  Efforts to help BIA residents to live their lives, as the freeborn citizens that they are; under the equal protection of the law, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

We intend to create an integrated tribe of human beings, that will work together to acquire, freedom and liberty for all tribal communities. We will begin by requiring that control of the Indian Trust Lands be given over to the tribal communities. That the tribes be allowed to hold fee simple title to those lands. Our tribe will be known as the Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited or THBU.

When people offer that there are probably many reservation residents who will be upset by our efforts to close the Bureau of Indian Affairs. It brings to mind the rape victims that would prefer to not prosecute their attackers. Naturally, we are sympathetic to any victim of a criminal act or injustice. Still, responsibility for prosecuting criminal conduct, remains with the citizens.

Fundamental, to our system of justice is the principle, that all criminal acts are committed against the citizenry collectively. The victim is merely a witness, and has no duty to do more in pursuit of justice, than give honest testimony to the events.

As the Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited, begins its effort to seek justice, for the BIA’s abuse of the tribal communities, few Indians will be distraught. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been victimizing tribal towns and villages from its inception. But, then again, that is what it was designed to accomplish. (THBU unedited draft June 2010)

Reader be forewarned: Once you read the following, your conscience can no longer claim refuge, in ignorance.

ACADEMIA’S DEEP SLEEP: Ignoring BIA Racist Policy

A story concerning government ethnic purification programs.

Chapter 1

Manifesto For The Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited:

No nation can lawfully or morally reserve humanity, within a fixed enclosure, by racial or cultural preference. It is especially cruel, to attempt such folly, with inherently nomadic tribal cultures.

No nation, should claim to be the preeminent bastion of freedom and liberty, while conducting publicly funded ethnic purification programs. Programs that intentionally leave a race of humanity isolated, segregated, and stranded in poverty.

The country must reject the BIA’s inhumane social theory. A patently nonsensical idea, which suggests a positive benefit to mankind, from the systematic segregation and isolation of a solitary race of humanity.

Why are we permitting tribal towns and villages, to be administered to, as if they were merely specimens, the government has encapsulated in petri dishes for a couple of centuries?

Because, that is exactly what is occurring. The 26,000 human specimens existing at or below 3rd World poverty levels, within BIA reservations are simply the residue and flotsam of the BIA’s outmoded social agenda. These deplorable zoos of humanity are a disgrace to the country.

What possible reason could taxpayers have for continuing to support BIA plans, to control Native American towns and villages, into perpetuity? Perhaps it is time to give freedom and liberty a chance?

Welcome to Arizona, Nether-Land, USA.

The following story is not the brainchild of conspiracy theorist. It is simply a story founded in historical fact. If you are among those that support the BIA reservation system, we urge you to post a comment. If you find you support our conclusions we hope to hear from you as well.

Here are those conclusions; drawn from a lengthy inquiry, into the policies, practices and, strange processes of BIA reservations. With, of course, a different perspective offered, concerning those many sovereign nations, administered to as property, by the Department of Interior. While, we can compute some of the horrendous economic burden of sustaining the BIA, we believe the cost to our humanity is incalculable and unbearable.

Far too many members of mainstream culture are laboring under the illusion; that residents of the Bureau of Indian Affairs reservation system are fundamentally, happy, healthy, and contented with life as wards of the government. This, even though the circumstances of their birth, has left many of them to reside in abject poverty into perpetuity, in essence as the property of the United  States Congress

Initially, tribal members needed written permission of the BIA in order to wander off of the reservations. Of course, in recent times, the BIA allows individual tribal members to quit reservation life. However, they must quietly cede the land of their ancestors, into to the hands of the very agency, which has been tormenting them, and those ancestors, for centuries: The Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Unfortunately, we still do virtiually nothing to encourage individual tribal members to swim in the mainstream, along with the rest of humanity. Instead, we continue sustaining a failed, draconian social experiment.

The BIA is a wretched social order. One conceived by the government as a scheme, and silly subterfuge, intended to help it overrun tribal cultures. sadly it has been very efficiently executed. It has successfully scammed ancestral tribal lands, from the tribes.

Delusional Thinking By Mainstream Society

More distressing however, is the fact, that many of us have falsely assumed, BIA residents harbor no animosity, for the unremitting abuses their culture has been forced to endure, at the hands of mainstream society and its institutions.

Modern day culture has deluded itself into accepting the bizarre notion; that tribal members (and their communities) are all benefitting from being left in the wilderness, while the rest of humanity has raced forward, into the here and now.

We have allowed ourselves to be swayed, by a centuries old social experiment; which proffers the illogical theory, that racism is somehow appropriate social conduct. Why, out of the entire pool of humanity protected by the Constitution, is this solitary ethnic group, being subjected to this wicked antisocial behavior?

Apparently, we are condoning this deplorable behavior, in order to avoid recognizing it for the depraved conduct that it is in reality: Racism. The BIA is covering their improper policy, of systematic segregation and isolation of tribal communities, by bestowing a meaningless title of sovereign nations, upon their victims.

Clearly, a fraud and subterfuge, which was designed to mask unprincipled conduct. The BIA’s fraudulent sovereign nations terminology, was originally used by Congress (and its Army) in order to cover a war of genocide and theft of the ancestral lands from all tribal communities. Unfortunately, the scheme also ensnared the human inhabitants living on those lands.

The so called Great American Indian Wars are from a very dark and shameful period of our history. They were not really wars at all. They were actually military campaigns, intended to eradicate tribal culture. Clearly Great American Indian Wars is simply another inappropriate euphemism, employed to cover government maltreatment of the tribal communities.

Congress seems to view tribal communities as chattel property, attached to the ancestral tribal lands, seized by its Army. In its attempt to justify government excesses with the rights and liberties of the tribes, Congress has perpetuated the fraudulent misnomer of sovereign nations, to describe small tribal communities that it feeds,and therefore controls.

Today’s mainstream culture, has been defrauded into accepting the use of amoral legalese, tendered by 18th and 19th Century legal minds. Our culture and its institutions have been victimized by the gross misuse of terminology and concepts.

Terms and misnomers such as; sovereign nations, to describe small tribal villages of indigenous Native Americans. Tribal government has been an integral part, of what is clearly, a fraudulent scheme. One designed to provide cover to an immoral, and illicit government bureaucracy.

It seems impossible but, the BIA is actually more un-American than the former House Committee on Un-American Activities. It is certainly much more insidious and, effective in achieving its unworthy goals.

How can any decent American support government policy; which, requires fellow citizens to submit to the authority of more than one judicial system? Why should the people continue to fund and sustain a separate (substandard) prison system, founded entirely upon race and ethnicity?

A Gambling Compact Designed By The Devil

True to the nature of its character, a few decades ago the BIA acquired a genuine partner in crime, the universally illicit, and fundamentally immoral, private-for-profit gambling industry.

Sadly, it appears that many scholars and, community leaders, have become duped into accepting the silly notion; that all tribal members are grateful for the BIA’s dismal record, of administering to their lives and property.

The BIA has always administered to the tribal communities, as if they were a personal fiefdom. Well the reign of this agency has not been a positive experience for their culture, or for the civilized world.

The BIA must be removed from the backs of these citizens. Along with the massive burden it places upon the taxpayers. The tribes, long ago earned the right to hold fee simple title to their ancestral lands. Tribal communities have clearly displayed sufficient competency to manage their own affairs, sans the BIA.

Undoubtedly, the tribes will fair better as landed gentry, than as wards of the BIA’s poverty ridden reservation system.

In our reverie, we should note, the tribes currently hold more than $4 billion dollars in court ordered judgments against us! That is US, as in U.S. taxpayers. Who, hopefully will soon become aware, that at least potentially, the debt could continue to mount for every day we continue sustaining the BIA’s failed social experiment.

While publicly, some tribal leaders play along with Uncle Sam’s social program, among the residents of the tribal communities, all is not necessarily tranquil and peaceful. We have found some Indians with long memories. Indians that clearly comprehend the cruel and wicked nature of a culture, willing to hold a naturally nomadic people, stranded in an artificial enclave for eternity.

How could the victims of a government administered ethnic segregation and isolation program, not be adversely affected by the experience? Which, might be a reason to suspect public declarations of support for BIA policy from tribal governments.

We can afford to be comfortable criticizing BIA policy, but then we don’t have to get approval from the Department of Interior to hire a lawyer or, enter a contract with non Indians. Which, of course the tribal community must do before exercising any of that limited sovereignty, which Congress and the States permit them to utilize.

The Inmates Always Run The Prison

Clearly the internees run the compound but, this does not make them free. However, holding fee simple title to their own lands, will provide them their first real opportunity to live free.

THBU has come to the realization; the so called Indian Wars, will not end, unless and until, the tribes being held in bondage on the lands of their fathers, and forefathers, are granted title to their land. It can not end until, tribal communities are allowed to meet the responsibility, of managing their own affairs. After all, is not this the full measure of citizenship in both Arizona and the Nation?

The Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited proclaims:

The U.S. Government, the courts, or the people should provide tribal communities title to their lands and, grant these citizens their fundamental rights, essential to managing their own affairs.

Chapter 2

Regarding Tax Funded Social/Zoological Experiments

(A faulty foundation always produces chaos)

Enclosing our indigenous people within racial/cultural enclaves for eternity, differs little in principal or practice, from tax funded public zoos. Incredibly, the BIA’s tribal reservation system was designed specifically to ensnare living creatures (tribal communities) in an artificial environment controlled by the BIA.

BIA compounds were not designed to accommodate human beings. They were constructed to capture and hold, what the government at the time (early 1800′s) peceived as  inhuman savages. The government has not only been untruthful with the tribes, concerning its goals and objectives, it has been deceitful with the public as well.

Holding human beings hostage, within their own ancestral lands, clearly makes this antiquated institution an affront to both, civilized society, as well as, to  Mother Nature. BIA policy; encapsulates a solitary ethnic group, in unproductive, isolated compounds, in wilderness areas. Where they for the most part waste away their lives in poverty and despair. This was (and is still) being done by design.

The practice unquestionably forces an unnatural life cycle, upon tribal towns and villages. All, while the BIA attempts to ignore its history and lay claim to some amorphous, moral high ground.

Of course, the reality is that the Bureau of Indian Affairs was born from a plan, designed to replace the government’s long-standing practice of eradication and cultural genocide, of tribal villages and towns. BIA policy was not proper when established in 1824 and, it is certainly not proper policy today.

Tribal communities remain isolated and segregated for no worthier purpose than the personal amusement of modern day culture. Their ancestral lands have been turned into dumping grounds and refuge, for scorned and spurned tasks, which mainstream communities shun doing for themselves.

Tasks such as; providing for the citizens of Arizona, their very own taxpayer funded policing agency, to regulate chance gambling. An agency to help minimize and control personal profit taking (and other public harm) arising out of what is clearly, irrational behavior.

If we must have the private gambling industry forced upon us, where is an agency to police and oversee this behavior, which has been universally banned by voters throughout the civilized World.

By all that is right and proper; citizens of Arizona should have their own reputable, taxpayer supported policing agency, instead of the privately funded agency currently in place. The one that is controlled and directed at the behest, of gambing industry interest.

Chapter 3

Bogus Legalese: The Real Language of Lawyers In Love

The citizens of the State, have consistanetly denied the private gambling industry, access to their mainstream marketplace. Of course, that was so only until, Congress mandated that Arizona officials, ignore their voters and do the impossible. Enter into good faith contracts with the universally outlawed private-for-profit, gambling industry. How do you enter a good faith contract, with a criminal enterprise?

The Arizona Department of Gaming is a quasi-state policing agency. It was concocted from an agreement, designed to skirt the expressed will of voters in Arizona. Unbelievably, the Arizona Department of Gaming (which is often referred to as the DOG) is a private bureaucracy, born of a highly questionable contract scammed upon the citizens of Arizona.

Congress overstepped its authority, usurping the power of voters, merely to help garner revenue for a small portion of their poverty ridden BIA wards. Clearly, the agreement has major flaws. Both, from a legal, as well as, a moral perspective.

For starters; its’ strange quasi-police force is totally funded (and directed) by the interest of the gambling industry. Which, is a felony enterprise under the laws of the State of Arizona.

Congress has long required their so called sovereign nations, to obey the laws of state legislatures. Therefore, the compact is not only illicit, it is also unnecessary. Obviously, it was crafted at the behest of the BIA, their gambling industry cronies, and naturally everybody’s lobbyist.

Unfortunately, thanks to Congress, this industry now operates within the jurisdiction of the state authorities but, it is apparently not subservient to that authority. One wonders why community leaders have declined to defend (in the courthouse if necessary) the long standing principle of local control of adult amusements.

Whose Town Is This Anyway?

It has long been the prerogative of local governments to control access to adult amusements, such as gambling, based upon local community standards. A solid case could be presented that both, legal and historical precedent, assign this power to local authority, and not to the State or Federal body politics.

When will political leaders at least defended the sanctity of our marketplace, from the false and misleading advertising of the gambling industry. After all, there are very good reasons why civilized societies bar the gambling industry from their marketplace. The conduct is simply too immoral for profit taking, regardless of a public demand.

For, it is not the irrational act of chance gambling that the voters consistently reject. It is privatizing and profiteering from human weaknesses, when the profiteers are fully aware of the human misery born of the sorry conduct. Voters can never justify supporting the irrational behavior, associated with chance gambling, through private profit taking.

It seems society has few choices, other than to socialize the sorry conduct. The entire Universe has overwhelmingly chosen to close their markets to private profit taking by the gambling industry. Or, anyone else that seeks to gain personal profit by promoting pure chance gambling, and uncalculated risk taking scams, as a posititve life style choice.

So what! Says the cash strapped BIA.

Chapter 4

Are BIA Policies Apartheid?

In the 1820′s when it was crafted, the BIA was designed to take control of all indigenous people and their property, for all of eternity. Viewed, at the time as a more humane method of gaining control of tribal lands, than the long standing government policy of eradication of tribal villages by genocide.

However, lest we forget, both policies were clearly intended to gain control of tribal towns and villages. Manifest Destiny mandated that the country do so, by force, fraud, or subterfuge. The BIA has utilized all three methods over the years, in achieving its goals and objectives.

The BIA’s control of their euphemistically titled “sovereign nations” is based upon racist claptrap. It has been crafted over many generations, by ethically challenged government bureaucrats. All of it having been founded upon the ethics and mores from the early 19th Century.

Frankly, the BIA is the work product of chauvinistic, slave owning lawgivers, at their bigoted best. The U.S. Government has control of every single one of the BIA tribal communities. From its conduct, it appears the BIA is still in agreement with its founding principle: The Tribes are essentially real property and, not an actual race of humanity.

BIA ethnic compounds were designed specifically to gain control of the ancestral lands, of small communities of hunter gathers. The vast majority of whom, had never been hostile towards the United States Government. Until Uncle Sam made them an offer they couldn’t refuse.

Uncle  Sam’s offer was to stop committing genocide on the Tribes, whenever they would agree to peacefully, and passively, become eternal wards of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. If they would only agree to see the wisdom, in turning control of their lives and property over, to rogues and scalawags from the BIA; then the BIA would stop the Army from killing them.

The fact that most tribes where not at War with anyone, was apparently of no consequence to the Army. They would gladly bring a war to the tribe, if they didn’t move their butts into those BIA controlled compounds and stay there!

Certainly, every element of fraud and extortion was present in the methods employed in extracting an agreement from the Tribes. We have a term for a government that forces you to sign a peace treaty when you are not at war with them. The term is Fascist.

Very few of the tribes have ever been hostile with the U.S. Army. Still fewer have ever been in need of a peace treaty. However, if they had been provided fee simple title to the land of their ancestors, in-lieu of all of those bogus treaties, both the Indians and their property, would have been assimilated into the mainstream a very long time ago.

The sorry result today, from all of those coerced (peaceful) treaties, arrogant presidential proclamations, and books full of nonsensical legalese, is that we now owe hundreds-of-billions of dollars in court ordered judgments, to the tribes! An amount that is compounding daily. We simply can no longer afford to support the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Congress must soon re-negotiate these fraudulent agreements that were forced upon the tribes. It must replace them with fee simple title to the land of their ancestors. It should begin designing an exit strategy to remove the government from the lives of these citizens. Then back-up that strategy, with some form  of reparations needed to assist individual tribal members, with assimilation into the present.

BIA Tools of the Trade: Propaganda, Stereotype, Misinformation

BIA inhabitants are actually, descended from an ethnic group, whose ancestors were perceived by mainstream society of “1824″ to be dangerous savages and, incapable of being assimilated into civilized society of the period (A feeble excuse then, simply ludicrous and insulting today. Obviously, this would have been early 19th Century, white Christian society’s, notion of civilized.

A notion, which at the time, included the lawful practice of human slavery and, the even more depraved act, of paying a bounty for the scalps of indigenous people. This behavior was clearly a major impediment, to adaptation and assimilation of tribal communities.

At the time of its creation, the BIA proffered an easily debunked theory that maintained, reservation inhabitants lacked the ability to adapt, or be assimilated into mainstream culture. While wrong thinking might explain the creation of the BIA; what can possibly explain or justify its continued existence, in 21st Century America?

The bogus theory also suggested, that tribal members were incapable of handling their own affairs or, holding fee simple title to their ancestral lands. It also holds that isolation and segregation of their communities, was in some way a positive benefit for them and their descendants.

The single positive benefit noted from the historical record; is the inhabitants of BIA ethnic compounds (and their progeny) would no longer be subjected to a government policy of genocide.

Of course, this was so only if they remained within the BIA’s ethnic compounds. Little wonder the tribes grasp so tightly to the idea of sovereignty, despite the glaring lack of credentials essential to sustain the title.

Today tens of thousands of their descendants remain, segregated, isolated and living in abject poverty. How can the BIA, in any manner or means, be seen as benefitting the tribal communities?

Too Much Protection Is Too Much!

It is historical fact; from the beginning, and throughout its sordid history, BIA administrations, and other purported guardians of the Indians, have plundered the tribes for hundreds of billions of dollars. (See Corbell vs. Salazar).

In 1924, Congress bestowed citizenship upon the tribes. While it took decades to happen, eventually all tribal members became eligible to vote in State and Federal elections. Though, unfortunately, they have yet to receive all of their rights and liberties, especially their property rights. Nor, have they been free to experience the equality of opportunity guaranteed to all humanity, by the U.S. Constitution.

When founded, the BIA was deemed to be necessary, for the safety and goals of mainstream society of the period (1824). It has subsequently morphed into an administrator for a chain of its own adult amusement parks.

The BIA now provides refuge for the universally scorned, private gambling industry, on reservations which it controls. All at the expense of tribal communities, their progeny and, over the expressed will  of the citizens of Arizona.

As well as being a gigantic burden to the taxpayers, the BIA comes with enormous negative repercussions for all civilized society. The gambling compact has altered the cultural perception of uncalculated chance gambling, into an acceptable mainstream value. Along with the tribes, mainstream society has been defrauded into accepting this nonsense, as lawful conduct.

The country has become institutionalized into condoning the existence of an amoral, and clearly illicit, government bureaucracy. One, which, is itself supported and protected, by an amoral compact, with a universally recognized criminal enterprise; the private-for-profit gambling industry.

Do  Bad or Immoral Acts Improve With Age?

When the Bureau of Indian Affairs was established, tribal communities were considered incapable of adapting or assimilating into the mainstream culture of the times.

Of course nothing could be further from reality. The history of the indigenous people of North America, from the last Ice Age forward, is replete with examples of their ability to adapt to dramatic changes in their world. The horse and the pickup truck come immediately to mind.

In fact, to survive the BIA’s abuses, the indigenous people of North America have had to learn to peacefully accept government sponsored racism, and a massive government bureaucracy in control of their lives and property.

Tribal communities have kowtowed to the BIA for two centuries, initially to avoid eradication, later to avoid losing the lands of their forefathers, to the BIA. All, while being forced by poverty and poor circumstances to provide a refuge for the most scorned industry on Earth: The private for profit chance gambling enterprise.

The industry that mainstream communities ban, now holds sway over many of BIA tribal towns and villages. Is there no end to the abuse these people must endure at the hands of their own government? Clearly the tribes know how to adapt.

Two Different Worlds

This has all occurred because of a cruel, antisocial government policy. One, which systematically excludes tribal communities, from adapting to the times in which they are living. Seemingly, a verbatim violation of the spirit of the International Crime of Apartheid, as well as a violation of the natural laws by which communities evolve or perish.

A BIA resident once told me they resent being ”…forced to live in two different worlds”. And, that many BIA inhabitants are angry and resentful of government abuses. Very many Indians distrust non Indians and do not want to associate with them. They are tired of the government meddling in their lives; while mainstream society ignores their plight.

For example; people like to assume that the gambling industry has been a boon for the tribal communities. Which is completely absurd, since less than half of BIA tribal communities receive gambling industry revenues. Clearly, very little of that ill gotten revenue actually ends up in the hands of the individual tribal members. For certain, not much of the largess is being provided to the 26,000 tribal residents living in Third World poverty.

The tale of  how the private-for-profit gambling industry managed to obtain a total penetration of the mainstream marketplace (over the expressed will of the voters) is both, frightening and intriguing. It is the story of the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Chapter 5

The BIA and Illicit Gambling Are Two Peas In A Pod

In what way is racial segregation and cultural isolation a positive human endeavor? What rationale, or theory of law exist, which would permit government funding of racism under any guise?

BIA ethnic purification theories aside; segregation and isolation of tribal communities is not merely antisocial behavior, it is also illicit and immoral conduct. The practice of ethnic segregation and isolation is always, and in every case, hurtful to the individuals being shunned and spurned.

The indigenous people of North America have a long and rich history of adapting their civilization to their changing world. Unfortunately, that tradition ended abruptly in 1824 with the creation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Sovereignty: Supreme power and authority, a self-governing state.

It is one thing to sway small villages of illiterate hunter gathers, from the 19th Century, into believing they are sovereign nations (by having them touch the side of a pen). Which, happened to be one of the less harmful stunts the government employed, in order to help scam tribal communities out of their ancestral lands.

However, it is quite another thing to suggest such nonsense to educated people of the 21st Century, who can appreciate the true nature and meaning of national sovereignty.

Civilized societies, involved in violent cultural wars, have an inherent duty to assimilate survivors and other non-combatants, into the new and evolving culture. It has no right to enclose any of humanity, for any reason. Certainly not as part of a wrong thinking, too old social experiment.

The BIA reservation system violates (either in spirit or actual conduct) all of the following: The Constitution and its Bill of Rights, equal treatment doctorine of Brown vs Board of Education, the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It violates the spirit of the law, if not the letter of the law governing the International Crime of Aparthied.

While, the cooked up legalese of “limited sovereignty” is an oxymoron of the highest order, it does not qualify to bestow sovereignty upon communities of our fellow voters. Specifically, where did Congress acquire authority to create sovereign nations in the first place?

The many BIA maintained and controlled ethnic compounds are simply not sovereign. They are in fact, composed entirely of natural born citizens. Which means they are subject to the laws of both Arizona, as well as, the laws of the United States.

This does not beget sovereignty for tribal communities. We concede the BIA’s ethnic enclaves are something but, sovereign would not be the proper term to describe their condition. Institutionalized bondage would seem more appropriate to their circumstances. However, the BIA’s policies clearly represent extremely immoral and inhumane social conduct.

The BIA Was Born To Be Bad

There are very sound reasons for prohibiting governments from, developing or sustaining, policies proffering ethnic segregation and isolation of communities by race or ethnicity. There was a very human need that required civilized society to codify the crime of apartheid.

Regardless, the BIA was completely rogue within a decade of its formation. It became so by conspiring with the State of Georgia, to confiscate Cherokee property. Stealing even the plantations of those Cherokees, that had already been assimilated into the culture of the times.

This was done even though the Supreme Court had previously ruled in favor of the Cherokee and against the State of Georgia. While it was disgraceful that “King Andy” Jackson ignored the ruling of the Supreme Court, it is even more distressing that the BIA offered no defense for their wards.

It is our contention; that Jackson’s failure to uphold the ruling of the Marshall Court, leaves the entire issue of tribal property rights as unsettled law. A position we intend to assert, when we ultimately return to the Bar of Justice.

Actually, at no point in history has the BIA ever sought to protect the rights or individual liberties of the inhabitants of the reservation system. The historical evidence is clear; from its inception, the BIA has been illigetimate and amoral. Its policies have always been in direct opposition to the goals and objectives of freedom loving people.

Why are we ignoring the harm wrought by the BIA?

After nearly two years of researching the BIA’s reservation system, we cannot articulate a single positive benefit to tribal residents, or for that matter to taxpayers, from isolating and segregating tribal communities.

There are simply no benefits that can offset the harmful effects resulting from this antisocial practice. Then again, segregation and isolation are universally understood, to be harmful to the victims of such conduct. In fact, it has long been acknowledged to be harmful to the whole of society.

On the other hand, there are a plethora of negative consequences, that have arisen from the wicked practice of segregating and isolating our tribal communities. Among them are the usual social costs resulting from bigotry and racism; ignorance, mistrust, and cruel stereotyping of the victims by mainstream society.

One glaring example of ignorant stereotyping: Tribal towns and villages have been forced by BIA policies to survive as tourist attractions in the wilderness, where there is no industry to support their communities.

Not surprisingly, many inhabitants found it expedient to while away an empty life with alcohol. A reality that many within mainstream society have used to defame the entire culture with the cruel misnomer of “lazy drunken Indians”. As if under similar conditions, they personally, would have all become teetotalers.

There can be no doubt; the BIA’s reservation system is solely responsible for having “eliminated Indians from the present”. It has been doing so since 1824. It is simply what the BIA was designed to accomplish.

Our culture is blindly ignoring the reality, that the BIA began by forcing tribal communities to live, wrapped in barbed-wire, under the very real threat of genocide. That threat began to subside in 1924, with passage of the Indian Citizenship Act. Even though, nearly a century later, they still have not been granted all of their rights as citizens; such as equal treatment under the law.

Too many negative social costs are born from the BIA reservation system. Adverse effects caused from simply sustaining the racist policies of the BIA reservation system. One glaring aftereffect, arises out of the cooperative effort between the U.S. Government and, their associates within the universally banned private gambling industry.

Citizens of Arizona have been forced, by congressional edict, to endure a criminal conspiracy. A compact between the universally scorned gambling industry and the BIA’s poverty ridden wards. Neither the BIA nor the private-for-profit gambling industry can be described as legitimate.

Congress has impinged on state and local prerogatives, which prohibit the private-for-profit gambling industry access to their marketplace. The solitary reason, for Congress usurping power from Arizona voters, was to help the BIA pay for its 186 year old racial/cultural purification programs; the BIA reservation system.

Chapter 6

Twisted Loyalty: The Bizarro World of Too Many Sovereigns

The BIA reservation system is a genuine netherworld, which has been grafted onto mainstream society, by the skillful application of misinformation and deceit. It does much harm to both Native American culture, and to the society that funds it. BIA reservations are an affront to our dignity as a civilized nation.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs was organized under the Department of Interior because, the Tribes have never been considered anything other than government property by Congress. In fact, it appears that Congress has always regarded tribal communities, as if they were the spoils of a just war.

When in reality; BIA tribal residents are descendant from the survivors, of government administered genocide and ethnic isolation. The Bureau of Indian Affairs was born from a bigoted (and easily debunked) theory. One based upon the nonsensical idea, that tribal communities could not adapt, or be assimilated into mainstream society.

Very early on, the BIA began their policy of interning survivors of government sponsored genocide, upon lands confiscated from the internees. To this day, the Tribes are still being held hostage, as BIA  wards on their own land. Why, and to what purpose?

The simple answer is obvious; power and greed. However, false assumptions by mainstream society, along with misinformation and revisionist history, proffered by the BIA, continues to hold tribal communities in bondage, to antiquated 18th Century legal theory and its social mores.

BIA Goals Irrefutably Violate the Constitution

The BIA has been the vehicle utilized to separate tribal communities from their land while, preventing tribal members from becoming assimilated into the mainstream culture. Assimilation into the present is not only an inherent right of all humanity, it is essential for the survival of mankind.

Irrefutably, there is nothing within our system of juris prudence, which empowers Congress, the President, or even the courts to establish and maintain racial enclaves. In fact, it prohibits such conduct in rather explicit terms.

Yet, the BIA has placed government bureaucrats in control of tribal communities into perpetuity, especially over their ancestral lands. Neither the agency, nor its ethnic policies have improved with age. The BIA’s misguided policies are solely responsible, for all of the poverty and despair, which overwhelms BIA administered tribal villages and towns.

Ultimately, the International Crime of Apartheid was established, specifically to prohibit governments from reserving human beings in enclaves, for any reason. It did not “grand-daddy-in” BIA antisocial ethnic policies.

Tribal communities not only have an inherent right to manage their own affairs; they have the responsibility, under law to do so. However, they must be granted their full complement of rights and liberties as United States citizens. This would include the right to hold title to their ancestral lands.

Long and Lasting Effects From Condoning BIA Policies

Unquestionably, BIA policy violates the moral precepts, codified under the Constitution. Values, which we reaffirmed with passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Principles, which the Supreme Court upheld in its 1954 ruling of Brown vs. Board of Education. When it outlawed separate and unequal treatment of all citizens.

Negative  consequences have already arisen from our compact with the Devil. It is altering our cultural values regarding chance gambling. Congress has required the citizens of Arizona to open their markets to profit taking and promotion for, what is in reality, felonious criminal conduct.

Since chance gambling, for personal profit, is statutorily felonious conduct within Arizona, why are we permitting that industry to entice everyone to engage in the practice?

In what ways might addled minds be effected, from the gambling industry’s unrestricted ads promoting chance gambling? Even more important, what will be the impact on impressionable young minds exposed to the gambling industry’s incessant false and misleading advertising?

Congressional muscle forced the gambling compact upon the State of Arizona.

This was done, even though Congress had previously ordered the BIA’s so called sovereign nations, to abide by the laws of state legislatures. So much for tribal sovereignty and state’s rights. Of course none of this is proper or legal.

Hopefully, one day soon, this story will become a source of embarrassment for proud members of the legal profession, and academics as well. The field of law, more than any other discipline, has been responsible for allowing this nonsense to survive for two centuries.

We can find no rationale, which might explain or justify continued isolation and segregation of tribal communities from 21st Century mainstream society. There is simply no reason for denying these citizens their right to hold fee simple title to the lands of their ancestors. Nor, can there be a rational or lawful justification, for interfering with their inherent right as citizens, to manage their own affairs.

BIA: Too Many Costs, Zero Benefits

Because of the great harm being done to our body politic and, the affront to the dignity of humanity, the story of the BIA must be told. The Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited (THBU) is being created to respond to this last bastion of government sponsored racism in America.

THBU does not support the proposition; that tribal communities prefer BIA administration, over their lives and property, as opposed to holding fee simple title to their own lands and, management of their own affairs.

We intend to challenge the need or appropriateness of the BIA. We will insist that public leadership explain candidly; their reasons for sustaining an agency, with the deplorable record of ineptness and double dealings, owned by the BIA?

How can taxpayers justify, continued support for an agency, which has bilked more than Four-hundred billion dollars from their own poverty stricken wards?

The International Card & Game Players Association has chronicled their ordeal and put forth their postulates on their blog at www.icgpa.org. We are hopeful it will pique the public’s interest in the plight of tribal communities and help us to end government ethnic purification of tribal communities.

The Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited

Phoenix, AZ

Dear Professor Gates,

Congratulations on Faces of America. A tremendous effort! Kudos to everyone involved in the production.

Viewing it has caused us to hope you might begin a similar effort at your stellar institution, regarding the propriety and/or legality of, what appears from our perspective, a completely illegitimate government agency. That would be the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs. This agency is promoting blatant racism as an acceptable human endeavor? It simply is not.

Academia, has clearly been avoiding any serious inquiry into the harmful effects (real or imagined) from the BIA’s racist ethnic policies. They are not alone in their reticence.

Other organizations, such as; the NAACP, ACLU, Southern Poverty Law Center, along with most others, all appear unaware of any possible conflict, or hypocrisy, in quietly accepting the BIA’s ethnic policy of segregation and isolation, of entire communities of humanity. How could we have allowed this fraud to have such a long life span?

Professor, why do you suppose the various disciplines and, institutions such as Harvard, who normally would feel compelled to investigate the cause and effect of questionable social behavior, appear to be ignoring the opportunity in the present case?

In fact, along with the mainstream media, they have been avoiding the entire subject of the, so called “modern” Indian Affairs, their policies, and certainly their way too cozy relationship with a notorious global criminal enterprise: The private (for-profit) gambling industry.

Our players union became victims of the BIA’s cronies from that industry. We were put upon from their refuge on the reservation. We became determined then and there to fight back. We contend, that the entire country has been victimized by the misinformation and deceit, proffered by the BIA and its cronies.

However, the brunt of the harm has always been reserved for the tribes. Adversely effecting both, their culture and their poverty ridden towns and villages.

The union has since become more knowledgeable on the subject. We subsequently decided to open discussions on BIA policy with ordinary tribal members, and to chronicle our journey online at www.icgpa.org: Academia’s Deep Sleep: Ignoring BIA Racist Policy (You will notice this email is posted there as well).

It is our fondest hope that others, such as yourself, with professional skills and resources at hand, will soon pick up the topic and join the cause. We also hope that one day, our effort will help to launch a class action lawsuit against the government, for permitting this fraud and subterfuge to perpetuate itself for far too long.

Frankly, we owe these victims and survivors much more than the 3rd World poverty level existence being provided by the BIA. How about the right to determine their own destiny?

After five long years of being pummeled by criminal cronies of the BIA, our players union,  would like help in exposing the damage being done to both; tribal communities and, the citizens of Arizona, from continuing to permit a netherworld within our territorial boundaries. These isolated islands of amoral conduct, are in reality only propping up a morally reprehensible (government funded) racial purification program.

A program that Hitler, Himmler, or any other racist, would be proud to claim as their own. However, early 19th Century racist slave owners thought of the idea first. Apparently, the BIA was the U.S. Government’s final solution for their so called Indian problem. Which has always been the same problem; they are living on land that the government wants to control.

Thanks to an amoral compact with the devil, all of this nonsense is now outside the reach of State and local authority! Very dangerous indeed. The BIA’s reservations have morphed into a refuge for a universal criminal enterprise. One that is privately promoting and maximizing profit from pure chance gambling schemes.

Naturally, that industry (with its questionable pedigree) always in search of a corral for their aptly named “suckers”, has been more than willing to pay a tiny portion of its tainted revenues over, in order to help maintain the BIA’s cruel failed social experiment.

Reality is that the BIA is a man-made social system, that holds the tribes in bondage, on the land of the forefathers. Sadly, few people seem bothered that the living specimens of this zoological experiment are voters and, that they all happen to be natural born citizens of the United States.

Dr. Gates, we ask that you please share this work with someone (anyone) that can help us to comprehend why this agency still exist in America? Or, please share the information with those that might help us begin assimilating all of humanity, including tribal communities, into the fabric of 21st Century mainstream American life.

Professor Gates, I celebrated my 67th birthday last month. Far too late in my life to matriculate at Harvard, or anywhere else, even if my health would permit it. However, with that in mind, I am hopeful that you might allow me to impose upon your valuable time. I would like you to issue me an informal grade, for my unedited manuscript. A tale crafted by a crazy old freedom fighter. My humble effort to help my country heed your advice “…know your past, know yourself”.

With warmest regards,

Judge Harold Lee (Retired)

Northeast Phoenix Justice Court

Phoenix, Az

judgeharoldlee@gmail.com

We find assumptions concluding, that all BIA communities are supportive of the BIA to be erroneous, and cruel in the extreme. It appears to us, from any perspective; government forced isolation and segregation of tribal villages has thwarted, and grotesquely distorted, the growth, development, and full potential of their communities to adapt into the present, along with the rest of society.

Unquestionably, the BIA has denied Native American communities the right of self-determination. The recent 3.5 billion dollar settlement in Corbell vs. Salazar also proves that the BIA is beyond incompetent as a trustee for tribal trust lands. We hope folks will seriously contemplate the following outline of questions, which are presently being ignored by law and mainstream society. Then ask themselves why there is so little public discussion, or scholastic enquiry into the BIA’s conduct?

info@tribeofhumanbeings.org

Outline of Salient Questions Regarding The Department of  Interior’s BIA

I. Is Congressional funding of segregation and isolation by race and/or culture ever a lawful use of taxpayer resources?

A. Do not both, moral and codified laws, universally ban this antisocial behavior?

1. Specifically; does not the Constitution, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, as well as, the International Crime of Apartheid prohibit this conduct by civilized societies?

2. Why has this questionable public policy survived into the Twenty First Century?

a. Have we all become victims; institutionalized from 186 years of following the subterfuge and schemes of an antebellum government bureaucracy?

B. Are Presidential edicts, establishing racial enclaves, a proper use of executive powers?

1. Where, within the Constitution, is any authority allowing Congress to fund racial/cultural enclaves of citizens?

a. Do Presidential powers actually include the right to banish an entire community (Chirichua Apache Tribe) from their homelands for eternity?

II. Is there an upside to anyone, within a free society, from the practice of racial/cultural segregation and isolation?

A. How does society benefit from having the BIA?

1. Can anyone articulate a single benefit?

B. What are the economic costs of maintaining the BIA?

1. Should not costing taxpayers four-billion dollars in court ordered judgments, for scamming their wards, disqualify the BIA from managing anyones affairs?

2. What costs are born by the tribal communities versus value to mainstream society?

3. Do the inhabitants of BIA compounds genuinely support BIA goals and objectives or its policies?

C. What are the Social costs for sustaining the BIA?

1. Costs for both, the tribal communities and mainstream society?

a. How has the strong grip of the BIA interfered with or distorted the growth and development of tribal communities?

1. Does turning some of their communities into peddlers for the  private gambling industry really solve the social problems arising out of BIA policies?

b. What costs will be born by future generations of children born within isolated racial enclaves?

c. What will be the effect on all of our progeny; Indian and non Indian?

lll. Why was the Bureau of Indian Affairs created and what has it accomplished?

A. Was the BIA established to protect and preserve culture or, to control indigenous people and their property?

1. Is eternal isolation, and segregation necessary to protect and preserve tribal communities and their culture?

a. Is maintaining segregation and isolation of tribal communities preserving or reserving anything of value, for the individual inhabitants?

b. Why shouldn’t Native American culture be allowed to evolve into the present, holding fee simple title to their own lands and in control of their own affairs?

c. Is the creation of a netherworld society, inhabited by government wards, beneficial to those wards?

d. Are BIA reservations merely a convenient way for society to unload unpleasant tasks?

e. How is providing safe haven to a universally scorned industry aiding in the preservation or dignity of the tribes?

IV. Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited

A. Thesis and conclusions

1. After many months of study and observation we have concluded:

Universally recognized immoral conduct, which is also patently illegal, has become institutionalized among mainstream society. It has come to accept racal/cultural segregation and isolation as proper government policy, when it clearly violates the Constitution.

Government perfidy, born of antiquated BIA policies, has lulled society into harboring two criminal enterprises. First is the Department of Interior’s antiquated racial enclaves, controlled by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The BIA has entered into a conspiracy with the second criminal enterprise; the amoral and, universally banned, private gambling industry.

The marriage of these two criminal enterprises was consummated by Congress requiring States to, ignore the will of voters, and enter into gambling compacts. Contracts between BIA wards and, the private gambling industry to do business deemed immoral and illicit in forty-nine out of fifty states.

Every single one of these compacts must be approved by the Department of Interior. Congress has clearly misused its power, for the sole purpose of funding the BIA’s poverty ridden, racial/cultural based compounds.

It seems obvious to the Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited, the Bureau of Indian Affairs is a detriment to the whole of society; especially the tribal villages. Oddly, mainstream society openly bemoans the bad acts and maltreatment of tribal communities from our past.

While in the same moment, the present day mainstream thinking, appears totally oblivious to reality. The perpetrator of all the maltreatment and misdeeds against the Tribes (the BIA) has managed to evolve into the present. They are prospering under the shelter and cover of, ignorance, misinformation and, the Department of Interior’s massive budget.

Mainstream society, including the professional disciplines, speak of the mistreatment of tribal communities and their residents, as if their maltreatment has become a thing of the past. Corbell vs. Salazar demonstrates clearly, that it has never ceased. How cruel and offensive to nature, is denying a single race and culture, equal access to the present?

Some tribes might appear to be contented with BIA policy by their silence. The reality is that speaking their mind has never gotten the Indians anything but grief. Their lives are still being administered to by the same government agency founded in 1824 to segregate indigenous people from their land, and their culture from mainstream society.

The only thing these people have ever received from the government for their land, has been the title of sovereign nation bestowed upon their communities but, without any trappings required of bona fide sovereign nations. Particularly, sovereignty and political independence from other sovereign governments.

Whether it shall be done by congressional act, judicial edict, or the ballot box, the Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited will continue to denounce the BIA reservation system, until the Bureau of Indian Affairs no longer exist.

Contact: info@tribeofhumanbeings.org

How did we come to call these small tribal communities “sovereign nations”?

Simple, it was more palatable to the country and the World community, for the U.S. Army to conduct a war against a bunch of tiny little nations; as opposed to simply slaughtering indigenous tribes of hunter-gatherers. Which, history has confirmed, is what the so called Indian Wars of the 1800′s was actually all about for the U.S Army and Congress.

Secondly, the misnomer of “sovereign nation” helped the U.S. Army to keep the small tribal communities separated and divided from each other. A point driven home by the events at the Little Big Horn. Keep the tribes separated and dependent upon the government. Divide and conquer, a strategy often employed by colonial governments, as well as the U.S. Army.

In fact, the BIA has always utilized the historical animosities existing between the tribes to help maintain control of their charges. That policy has carried over into modern times. Which is one of the reasons that Arizona has more than a dozen sovereign nations within its borders. If and when the tribal communities ever coalesce into a single voice, it will be good rid-dins to the BIA, and a swarm of other bureaucracies as well. The principle goal of the Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited will be to help that happen.

The process of controlling these small tribal communities (warlike or not) was made much easier, by bestowing the improper and fraudulent title of sovereign nation upon them. These so called sovereign nations were then forced, under the threat of annihilation, to become wards of the U.S. Government. Thereby, placing all of them individually, along with their ancestral lands, under the direct control and authority of the BIA—forever.

Obviously, none of this conduct even remotely meets the bona fides for establishing a true sovereign nation. The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 should have removed whatever flimsy cover had previously hidden this antebellum racist institution. Sadly, it did not. The government has continued along unabated; holding the tribes, their communities, and their ancestral lands in government bondage, under the control of the BIA.

BIA administered Tribal communities are not experiencing sovereignty, nor are they experiencing the freedom and protection of their U.S. citizenship. **“They are neither wolf nor dog”. BIA residents are residing under systematic government sponsored segregation and isolation by race. This practice is known universally, as the Crime of Apartheid; a crime against all humanity. There are no ifs, ands, or buts, the BIA reservation system is blatant racism, and the entire World knows it.

While assimilation has been vaguely described as an ultimate goal of the BIA, it has never been the primary goal that it should have been from the beginning. There are purported to be 26,000 BIA residents living in Third World Poverty within our reservation system. The rampant poverty and despair, existing on BIA reservations, speaks volumes as to the lack of concern the BIA (and mainstream society) have, regarding their responsibility toward these citizen/wards.

Closing the BIA will not destroy the Tribes or their governments.

Nor will it automatically close their casinos. It will however, free their communities to build and develop their culture naturally, free and unencumbered from the Federal government. In other words; they can finally begin to enjoy all of their civil rights. Rights which have been denied them since the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act. Citizens of the Tribal communities must soon join the Twenty First Century, as equal members of the mainstream of society, and not as victimized wards of a monumental government fraud.

We can certainly appreciate, why some reservation residents might be leery of promises and commitments from the mainstream community. Still, the Native Americans that I have spoken with, would like to see their grandchildren free of the BIA and the federal bureaucracy that smothers their lives. Free, and living as equal members of an integrated society. Most seek nothing more than equality of opportunity and, their substantive rights to enjoy the benefits of living within; “one Nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all”.

**Neither Wolf Nor Dog is the title of Kent Nerburn’s excellent chronicle of his conversations with a Sioux elder.

Next Post—Part 4

Facts Not Evident: The Tribes Are Content With The BIA