CHEROKEE WENT TO MEXICO

Many Cherokee went to Mexico to escape enrollment and persecution. Just as Andrew Jackson wanted them to do. Sequoya, a well known Cherokee teacher, made trips there to visit and share his knowledge. To the idiot who can't understand why citizenship must be granted the Hispanic / Mexican / Cherokee here is the explanation. Any military man today who has a child in another country now has a child with the right to lay claim to citizen ship in the country of his father because his father is a citizen. Hispanics who can trace their heritage verbally to the Cherokee Nation have automatic US citizenship. The only reason they do not is because of the inhuman law of enrollment that forbids them their ancestral rights of belonging to the people of their ancestors. This not only applies to Hispanics who can trace their heritage back to the Cherokee, but ancestry among the Apache, Yaqi, Navaho, Hopi, Zuni, Seminole and all the Southwestern and Southern tribes.

THE NATION GROWS AND GROWS

Is the new Cherokee Nation the fore runner of US citizenship rights obviously overdue to Hispanics? Very likely. Will African Americans who have the ancestral blood of the Cherokee finally start demanding the ancestral rights due them to help with their education now that Affirmative Action has been crushed? It is within their grasp. Will white Americans who historically are known to have intermarried with many Native Americans stand and demand their ancestral rights? The warning is now out there for Tribal and United States governments.

Native American People all over this hemisphere as well as those returning from England, and the world are rising to say, "Give us back what is ours because you were wrong to impose a law that stated my ancestors did not have free choice to love outside their race. This law established an intolerable situation and is a crime against humanity. The unborn child which was me was penalized by giving up what was rightfully mine, my ancestral heritage. The law of enrollment violated my constitutional rights generations before I was born, because I was being denied and rejected by the United States Government and it's flunky tribal system. These are the governments that labored to exterminate my family. Before my birth I was denied the basic human right to belong to my own people, the people that my lineage says I have a right to belong to and I have a right to receive all the benefits of belonging to my own people.

SO EVERYBODY WHO HAS AN INDIAN IN THEIR FAMILY TREE GETS ENROLLED? - SORRY IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY

HERITAGE MAKES THE INDIAN, THE RIGHT IS EARNED, not given

We are neither for the new Red Nation of the Cherokee or against them, what we say is that, like every Native American the right to be called such is earned.
Traditional Native Americans have always said it is heritage that makes the Native American become a human being, and everything comes down to the education of the people to walk the Red Path, for there is no other way to set your foot upon it than to live it. Since the enactment of the enrollment law the greedy sell out has tried to get around this simple truth.

The right to be Native American is earned. Defend your ancestral heritage by learning it and seeing that the rights of the people are protected. This is what must happen. The traditional way of becoming an Indian is by understanding your culture and learning it. There is no law that can refute this basic human truth.

Ask yourself this question, how many of you are defending the religion and the religious symbols of our people? Who are the ones that are crying out about the injustice done to their people? You know those people well for they are so few. If you wish to be part of those people honor your people. Honor their rights, their suffering, their traditional beliefs and then I will accept you as brother or sister. But if you do not hold our honor in that highest esteem than I must feel that you are not of my people.

Let your voices be raised to protect your religious symbols. Raise your voice and demand the dignity of your people don't sit there and say "We pray to God to get to work" then ignore the people in front of us, our brothers and sisters, our families. Do not say we are only mascots for there is no other people living in this day and age who are entertainment mascots and treated without dignity as is the Native American.

Demand the rights of your unborn child and of your ancestral heritage. Demand that the land be returned that was taken away through atrocities and crimes of genocide in acts of inhumane proportions. Demand that the Red Holocaust be addressed which is committed against you as you struggle in this day to regain your ancestral rights. Remember it was the Red Holocaust that took them away.

FOLLOWING THE PATH BACK TO THE CREATOR THROUGH THE TRADITION OF CHOICE

THE TRADITIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN AND THE CHRISTIAN

There are many paths back to the Creator/God/Great Spirit. The one you take is your choice and the Red Nation of the Cherokee has made that clear by saying we are Native American and no one will take the right to earn that honor and walk the path of our ancestors away from us and our children.

Take for instance, the Sioux culture, because the traditional Native American Sioux Indian is well defined and is well known to all in this category. The elder and teacher of any one who is learning as a child does, asks his student, "Do you still follow the traditional spiritual and religious beliefs of your people?"

Within the Sioux Nation it is common knowledge that if you are called Native American, which is your family, you must follow that religious path back to the Great Spirit. That is the tradition of the Eagle Feather, the Medicine Wheel, the Pipe and others which are religious symbols, as we proudly state, symbols for all time. The Sioux speaks to say, no one can separate us from our traditional religious beliefs for that is our ancestral path to the Great Spirit. That is the way we have come through so many generations to know and is our tradition and our way of life. To use other symbols and to walk with another philosophy, is to be some thing else. Very simple and common sense.

How can any individual who follows the spiritual and religious path of the Catholic, Methodist or Christian churches truly understand the traditional path of the Sioux Nation back to the Great Spirit? This is very simple and easy to understand, these people who are Catholic or Christian by choice and have closed the door on the traditional beliefs of the Native American people they claim to belong to. Therefore how can they understand, become part of, or belong to the Sioux Nation if the ancient traditional spiritual and religious path is cut off from their understanding?

Introduced by the Red Nation of the Cherokee there now exists a flag for the people. On that flag is the eagle. They made the statement, "The eagle is the sacred bird that carries our prayers to the Creator". By choosing the eagle feather they have made the statement they no longer hold the cross but instead have chosen the older traditional religious symbol, the one that has existed from the birth of the Cherokee Nation. The ancient religion of the Cherokee Nation has been honored. It is this religion which has benefited their people longer than any other religious symbol and that is the ancient path back to the Creator/Great Spirit. They are saying they will no longer disgrace their family's religious beliefs.

Look around you, the ones who hold the cross have never come forward to talk about enrollment, they have left you to perish. They have never protected you or your children's right to belong. They have not honored your right to your heritage, they have never honored your rights as a human being, but still consider you a redskin who has survived the holocaust.

The Red Nation of the Cherokee has obviously make this simple statement, "When you called us redskins you took away our land, you slaughtered our children and mutilated our women, created the Trail of Murder (Tears) and now the man who is responsible for that, you honor on the twenty dollar bill. You classified us as animals, segregated us like animals by blood, called us redskin savages in that era and installed a breeders law on us. Now we tell you we are human beings, we are not animals but Human Beings, the Real People, Aniunwia, and now we want that right to claim our heritage. In the 90's your soldiers will no longer be honored for using one of our three year old children for target practice as he ran away from the guns of genocide toward the loving arms of his family. We are human beings. Aniunwia, the Real People."

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Originally published here
copyright by Clem Iron Wing & Matthew Richter, 1997