SOMETHING IS HAPPENING
TO THE CHEROKEE, THEY REJECT BEING REGISTERED LIKE DOGS AND HONOR
THEIR NAME ANIUNWIA, "THE REAL PEOPLE"
"WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS NOT
BLOOD SACKS"
The fastest growing
religion in the United States is that of the Native American people. An
awakening is in progress. The United States census reports double the number
of Native Americans in it's last accounting period. Many times more than
could ever be born in that time period. Native Americans are claiming their
families, their ancestors, their heritage and the right to follow the
religion of their choice with the people of their choice. "We are tirerd of
being told we are not Native Americans when we know who we are." said
Shawndose a member of the organizing core for the gathering.
HOW DOES ENROLLMENT DESTROY FAMILIES?
ASSERTING THEIR RIGHTS
The Red Nation of the Cherokee
celebrating their birth day at Andover, Kansas are laying claim to their
heritage and asserting their rights to intermarry with any race with out
fear of exterminating their tribal heritage, political recognition or their
religious beliefs and customs. By contrast all so called mainstream
religions are rapidly loosing their numbers and resorting to more and more
gimmicks and threats to retain the remainder, leaving one Cherokee to
comment, "I don't think there is enough room in Hell to house all the people
who have thrown away their fear of God and left the Christian churches." The
reason for this surge in embracing true religious values? Native Americans
are no longer afraid to claim their own families. The extermination of their
People and their Nation as a spiritual, political and social force is being
confronted head on.
This gathering of Native
American families with children of all ages happily playing together along
with the elderly and busy parents points to a definite splitting of a tribe.
There are many who were forced out by the law of genocide, called
enrollment, but now they want their families reunited. They want their
ancestral rights, land and family reunited. This shows that the Cherokee
people are no longer remain ignorant, for the Red Nation of the Cherokee
stands for the rights of all unborn children. That right is to lay claim to
the history, traditions, heritage culture, religion and its symbols and the
lands of their people not by the division of blood quantum but by belonging
to that family. The right to love those of their own choosing without the
punishment of genocide.
CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT- Can we love
whom we want?
The Red Nation of the Cherokee
marks what is sure to be the beginning of a class action law suit against
the Government of the United States of America. What this young tribe has
said to the original Cherokee Nation and to the United States Government is
this: "A human has a right to love whom ever they wish." Why should an
unborn child be penalized for the actions of it's parents who, coming from
different races, chose to bring this child into the world? A question must
be answered, "Why does the Cherokee Nation support a law of genocide
designed for the sole purpose of their own destruction as a Nation?"
The enrollment law has failed.
The Cherokee people are once again standing and confronting the sellout who
has taken away their right to love freely in a country of freedom. Any
person of dignity and common sense will conclude the newly formed Red Nation
of the Cherokee has given notice to the Cherokee Nation and the US
Government to be ready to test your law in court. No human being would say
that a law which is overtly racist, because it denies the familial
acceptance of any individual of another race, should remain in effect with
out paying a penalty.
Had not the newly formed Red
Nation of the Cherokee and their ancestors who were of the so called "pure
blood" not violated this law of enrollment/genocide, than the Cherokee
Nation would have been exterminated long ago. It has taken the courage of
freely loving the human race to keep it alive. This fact is simply proven,
look at any Cherokee to day, trace their ancestral heritage and you will
find they did love out side their race. It is that ability to love another
that has kept them alive.
Will the Red Nation of the
Cherokee continue to speak out until all the children of the Nation are once
more given their ancestral rights? These are the same basic rights that all
human beings enjoy, the right to claim their ancestors, their heritage their
religions and their material possessions. Restitution must be made for the
suffering.
DO NOT PENALIZE BUT GIVE A
CHOICE
TO THE CHILD TO GROW AS THEY CHOOSE
Traditional Native Americans do
not penalize an unborn child because of greed but accept them in a sharing
fashion. The choice is always left up to the unborn child to choose the path
they will follow back to the Creator/God. They must be given the recognition
and the means to earn that right to honor their ancestors and walk that Red
Path should they choose it. The Red Nation of the Cherokee has sent a
message to the greedy sellout Indian who is so commonly recognized through
out American history books as the traitor. The message they are sending is
clear, "We will no longer allow you to sell the rights of an unborn child
away. We will no longer stand by while you penalize an unborn child, we will
no longer watch you penalize the free will of the child to love whom ever
they wish."
ONE EXAMPLE: THE EAGLE FEATHER
Enrollment is a law which
forbids the unborn child in all cases the ability to posses the most
recognized religious symbol of their people, the eagle feather. The US
Government regularly arrests and convicts those who are not registered
Native Americans for worshipping with the eagle feather. Freedom of religion
has not yet been given to Native Americans and the law of registration by
enrollment is the tool of religious persecution that is used to control,
dehumanize and terrorize Native Americans. Enrollment takes away the freedom
of religion of an unborn child.
In the 1990's the children are
still havening their human rights violated.
This child can no longer hold the religious symbol of the eagle feather. By
all means protect the species called eagle, but do not take away the right
to pray.
BLACK AFRICAN AMERICANS
& THE CHEROKEE NATION
A law of extermination created to divide the races through hatred .
REPARATIONS
ARE DUE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS
When African Americans speak of
reparations this issue of enrollment is a perfect example of what they are
talking about. During the period of time when enrollment still existed in
the Cherokee nation. Slaves were escaping from the South. They became part
of the Cherokee Nation. Their children were born into the Cherokee Nation.
There are many descendants of African American heritage who are by rights
members of the Cherokee Nation. Due to the fact of the enrollment law which
was blood degree at that time, the so called Superintendents and the so
called tribal officials who were the sells outs and flunkies of the US
Government looked at the multi-racial/mixed blood of the African American
and the Cherokee Nation and said, "You don't look like an Indian you look
black to me!" They denied the very existence of these families and refused
them enrollment. Along with this genocide they denied the benefits of
material, religious, social and cultural heritage that are rightful those of
all the many African American Indian children who exist today. It is their
right to belong.
Government
works to exterminate all Native identity.
For 500 years in the Black Holocaust, African
Americans lost their rights and identity as human beings and still struggle
to regain them.
Government uses enrollment to exterminate
every one's Native American identity by keeping people from claiming their
heritage, learning and honoring their historical family culture and it's
spirituality.
Divide this Indian one more generation and
the government says he is gone, they will not recognize him.
HISPANICS & THE RIGHT TO
NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE
With the coming of the Red Nation of the
Cherokee, many races previously denied their heritage by a racist and
hateful law of extinction will have the blessing of belonging. From the
point of time when the enrollment law came into being the unborn child has
had it's human rights violated.
The law of enrollment is violating the
constitutional rights of many unborn children to become citizens of the
United States. How many children outside the Southern US border can lay
claim to their ancestral heritage? We believe it is in the hundreds of
thousands.
Originally
published here
copyright by Clem Iron
Wing & Matthew Richter, 1997