(Chapters 7 and 8 of unedited draft: Academia’s Deep Sleep)
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? Read more
Authors Note:
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.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
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? Read more
The Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited (THBU) intends to become a haven for the residents of those BIA communities, hoping some day to experience all of the privileges of citizenship. Which, would include the right to control their own affairs and, hold fee simple title to their lands.
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. Read more
The Birth of the Tribe of Human Beings Unlimited
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. Read more