RED NATION OF THE
CHEROKEE-KANSAS
& the Question of Enrollment
ARE
NATIVE AMERICANS BUILDING CONSENSUS FOR A CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT AGAINST
NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?
We are not the Red Nation of the Cherokee. We
are Sioux. We do not condemn or endorse them. We are questioning
the law of enrollment.
Look at
your own child. You can pass on all your knowledge, your religion and its
symbols, all your possessions everything that is legally and morally yours.
This you can do legally, morally and justifiably.
THAT IS UNLESS YOU ARE
NATIVE AMERICAN!
If you bring a child into the world with a
partner outside the enrolled Native American community, your child or your
grandchild will be forbidden acceptance by your tribe. WHY? The government
says, "Not enough 'Indian blood', now your family is done being Indian."
Federal law takes away the human
rights of one person to love another. Federal law imposes the cruelest
punishment known to man against an unborn child, the denial of their
ancestors and the acceptance of their historical family. If some one marries
outside their race they exterminate their own people.
Ask
any enrolled Native American,
"DOES THE LAW OF ENROLLMENT
TAKE AWAY THE RIGHTS OF AN UNBORN CHILD?"
During the period of time when the indian looked like this the reservation
was
formed. This also included the Cherokee Nation. People who looked like
this were enrolled. This is what the white man thought the Indian was. In
reality there were many whites, blacks and hispanics that were married into
the Native American families, but they didn't look like this and were
excluded from the rolls.
ENROLLMENT
For the federal government to
recognize the rights of any person as being Native American with a tibal
heritage, they must be examined, registered and enrolled. Registration of
Native Americans by Degree of Pure Blood, commonly called enrollment, is the
certification of human flesh in a racial based system of ethnic segregation.
It is described as pedigreed blood quantum, percentages of "pure Indian
blood". The same system is used by breeders to certify dogs, horses, show
and feedlot animals.
It is a law of genocide because it is
a law which makes a culture of people into a breed of animals so it can
guarantee their extinction.
It has long been hated by the
traditional families because it extracts a hideous penalty. Racial purity
has a line of severance. This is race purity, not cultural or spiritual
purity. The son or daughter who marries outside his race will produce
offspring who are less "racially pure Indian stock" and that child will not
be registered as Indian, forever ending their claim to belong. The penalty
is against the child for no other reason than their parents chose to love
another person out side of the Native American community outside their race.
This is racism in its purest form and a formula for extinction.
Registration sets a limit where
the individual is not recognized or allowed to participate in the tribe and
should they make the attempt are attacked as outsiders. The child is
forbidden the tribe's heritage, its cultural and religious symbols as well
as its political, social, economic, cultural and religious structures . The
Government has ordered the tribes to conform and the sell out Indian has
embraced the order. "If you wish to remain an Indian you must maintain
racial purity. You cannot ever love another outside your Native community
and its race or you will extinguish your tribe."
This law is a law designed to
spread racial hatred in every conceivable aspect. It is designed keep one
race separate from another by taking away the ability to freely love all of
the children of the Medicine Wheel, no matter what race they may be. It
makes racists of enrolled Native Americans and racists of those who would
love them as family. It segregates non-registered people from marrying into
enrolled families because every outsider is a threat to the racial purity of
the nation and therefore a threat of extinction.
Every tribe enrolls by blood
quantum. The Cherokee Nation was ordered to determine theirs in the first
decade of the 20th Century to allot and extinguish tribal identity and has
never turned back, severing hundreds of thousands of people past and present
from their families and from the protection, heritage, culture, religion and
material life of the people as a Nation.
When that law of enrollment is
broken through racial intermarriage, it is not just the parents that will
pay the price for even as they do, the punishment is extracted on the unborn
children. That child will receive the penalty that he or she will never have
the ability to lay clam to their ancestral rights, homeland or material
wealth. This law was installed by the United States Government purely for
the purpose of genocide. This law is genocide purposefully enacted to make
people into animals and exterminate the identity of those living people from
existence on the face of the earth.
You will hear a moan and
cry of anger come from defenders of this crime against humanity. The greedy
Indian will be outraged and the other racists will say the "Indians" have
done this to themselves. Anybody who has a lick of common sense and knows
their history would tell you the Indian who did this at the time
registration was started was a sell out to the US Government, and was not
the protector of their people. What tribal official would have chosen a law
to exterminate his own people and to punish his own children?
Answer this question:
"HOW DOES THE LAW OF ENROLLMENT TAKE AWAY THE RIGHTS OF AN UNBORN CHILD?"
"I am not going to be a racist and close my
heart to loving and marrying any other color of person, I am going to love
the one who has earned that love in my heart. My children and grandchildren
will always have the right to our family culture, heritage and religious
beliefs."
He has violated the law of racial segregation
which is called enrollment and now this child pays the penalty. She is not
recognized by government to be a full member of his family.
A CHALLENGE TO THE LAW BY
A BIRTHDAY IN ANDOVER KANSAS- A NEW NATION IS BORN
They came from Wyoming,
Oklahoma, Missouri, North Carolina, the Cherokee Qualla Reservation and all
over Kansas. A family even made the trip across the puddle from England to
this historic event. Traveling as the old bands and clans did to the
philosophy that held the people together as a nation, the Red Nation of the
Cherokee placed their feet together on Mother Earth and their hearts beat as
one to Father Sun shining upon their families.
Under the watchful and
protective eye of a dozen uniformed security men of the Red Nation of the
Cherokee the crowd of fathers, mothers, sons and daughters talked, joked,
ate and settled in to listen to speakers who welcomed them. "We will always
claim our own grandchildren" said a Wichita, Kansas resident to the crowd of
Native Americans assembled in Andover Park, Saturday, September 26th, 1998.
Putting her arm around her wiggling 8 year old she was greeted by applause
when she continued, "My children can marry any person of any race they want
and I will always love and honor my child and his children as part of me and
as members of my nation. He is the future of our people."
Enrolled Rosebud Sioux elder
Clem Iron Wing, blessed the drum and addressed the assembled families, "You
cannot have a law that penalizes the unborn child and penalizes the freedom
to love and marry those of another race. There is only one sensible, logical
way to view that law which forbids the marrying outside the Indian
community. It is wrong. It is wrong when a law is designed to punish an
unborn child. That is unheard of. There is no human being that would
acknowledge such a law. It is a law for animals written by animals. Only
governments bent on genocide would acknowledge it."
Joe Morris, long time Cherokee
language instructor at the Mid America All Indian Center, Wichita, Kansas
now a resident of Trenton Texas, said, "There is a lot to teach these little
ones growing up and it is up to us to do it. Education is very important."
Originally published here
copyright by Clem Iron
Wing & Matthew Richter, 1997