Wasi’chu: The Continuing Indian Wars

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From Wasi’chu: The Continuing Indian Wars by Bruce Johansen and Roberto Maestas, Monthly Review Press, N.Y. 1979; Introduction, John Redhouse, 1979

“Gold is a wonderful thing! Whoever owns it is lord of all he wants. With gold it is even possible to open for souls the way to paradise!” [Columbus, letter to Isabella and Ferdinand, 1503]

Later, I learned that Pahuska [Lakota name “Long Hair for George Armstrong Custer] had found there much of the yellow metal that makes the Wasi’chu crazy.” [Black Elk, on the U.S. Army expediton to the Black Hills, 1874]

Introduction by John Redhouse

Wasi’chu is the Lakota (Sioux[sic]) word for ‘greedy one who takes the fat.’ It was used to describe a strange race that took not only what it thought it needed [and that “God’s preordination of them as “the Elect” made their needs and wants imperatives]. but also took the rest.

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STTPML COMMENT: 

Please view the following video by James Starkey that explains that Indigenous peoples and their languages have no words for or concepts of “race”, or even of different colors of skin having anything to do with anything. Wasi’chu refers not only to a certain mentality of greed, selfishness, ultra-individualism, predation, cut-throat competition, malignant narcissism, egoism, hedonism and megalomania,  but also the the type of whole system that that nurtures, requires, reinforces and will collapse without that mentality: capitalism.

Race, or “blood-quantum”as a biological, even social, construct, is totally bogus and bankrupt pseudo-science. The Inuit, for example, have over 100 words for different kinds of snow and snow conditions, but only one word for people or human beings–“Inuit” (a true person) and have no words for people based on skin color or other phenotypical features commonly associated with the bogus concept of “race.” Wasi’chu come in all colors, religions, genders, sexual orientation, socioeconomioc status and class; but most of the Wasi’chu that the Lakota and other Indigenous Peoples confronted were white, and not only proud of it as if they had something to do with their being white, but they were full of certitude that they had been ordained by God to rule the “non-white” races as well as the “inferior stock” (“White Trash”) of the “white race” itself. But the word was always used to refer to mentalities, behaviors and systems that nurture and require the Wasi’chu mentality and consciousness.

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Worse, the notion of race and “blood-quantum” it is a central instrument of genocide; Adolf Eichmann could have written this:

“Set the blood-quantum at one-quarter, hold to it as a rigid definition of Indians and intermarriage will occur; when that happens, the federal government will be finally freed from its persistent Indian problem.” (BIA Document quoted in “Legacy of Conquest” by Patricia Lamark p. 338)

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Introduction by John Redhouse (continued)

Wasi’chu is also a human condition based on inhumanity, racism and exploitation. It is a sickness, a seemingly incurable and contagious disease which begot the ever advancing society of the West. If we do not control it, this disease will surely be the basis of what may be the  last of the continuing wars against the Native American people.

Indians have been the victims of war and aggression for most of the past five hundred years, The so-called Indian Wars were always fought over the issues of land and resources. We have always had something that the Wasi’chu wanted. Even after five hundred years of war and genocide, we still have something that they want.

The Spanish conquered the Inca, Aztec, and Mayan civilizations in search of gold and silver. Today, wars are still being conducted for  mineral wealth on Indian lands.

After the Indian wars of the 1880s were over, we were left with 150 million acres of land. the Dawes Act of 1887 reduced that to 50 million acres through a forced system of individual allotments. we were then assigned to seemingly worthless and barren lands called reservations. We own less than 3 percent of what we once had. And now the Wasi’chu wants all we have left.

In 1978 Indian people possessed 55 percent of the nation’s uranium supply and one-third of the low-sulfur strippable coal reserves. Both coal and uranium are vital to President Caret’s national energy policy. In April 1977 President Carter called the achievement of his energy policy ‘the moral equivalent of war’. To many Indian people that phrase meant that the Indian wars are not yet over and that we must again fight against the U.S. government and multinational corporate interests in order to protect our remaining land and resources.

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Many Indian people feed that the Carter administration is one of the worst in modern history. They say that President Carter puts on a democratic face to the rest of the world by advocating human rights for all and treaty rights for Russians and Panamanians. And yet as far as the treatment of the Indian people is concerned, the U.S. government has one of the worst human rights records–and certainly one of the worst treaty rights’ records–in the world.

The authorizing legislation creating the Department of Energy allows the director of the agency to enter into a pact with the Department of Defense to seize unilaterally and hold areas of strategic significance if such action is justified as being in the ‘national interest.’ For Indian nations that have enough energy resources to make a difference in the future direction of this country, such a stipulation is equivalent to a threat to call out the calvary again.

In recent years the Navajo  Nation has rejected a proposed lease by Western Gasification company (WESCO) to construct the nation’s first and the world’s largest commercial coal gasification plants on their reservation. The Navajo have also threatened to cancel the leases of Four Corners Power Plant and Navajo mine. The power plant is one of the world’s worst industrial polluting sources, while the mine is one of the largest coal strip mines in the western hemisphere.

The Northern Cheyenne and Crow Nations have each taken legal action to cancel the coal leases on their reservations. The Northern Cheyenne have to this date halted construction of the nearby Colstrip Power Plant. the two Indian nations sit atop one of the world’s largest coal deposits.

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The Laguna Pueblo Nation is considering whether to renew its uranium-mining lease, which includes the largest uranium strip mine in the world.

Yet for Indian nations to defy the national policies of the U.S. government and multinational corporate interests is to defy the two most powerful forces on the face of the earth. To do so is to invite possible military intervention. For most Indians it would not be the first time. During the 1973 Arab oil embargo the U.S. government made contingency plans to intervene militarily in order to secure ‘our’ oil in the Middle East because it was in the ‘national interest’. So if the Wasi’chu government talks about using military intervention to secure ‘our’ oil in an area halfway around the world, what is it going to say about securing ‘our’ coal and ‘our’ uranium right here in Indian Country?

The Carter administration [and every one since] maintains a complete silence on any semblance of an Indian policy. Even President Nixon had an Indian policy. That is why Indian people are now saying that Carter’s Indian policy is really his energy policy.

Now enter the anti-Indian backlash. Although anti-Indian sentiment has always existed, it has now developed into a full-scale national anti-Indian movement aimed at stripping us of our legal rights and ultimately of our remaining land and resources. The strength of this movement has been manifested by the introduction of eleven pieces of legislation, several recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions adverse to Indian self-determination, and numerous state anti-Indian bills. The Congressional bills range from those that would abrogate all Indian treaties to those that would limit our water rights and tribal self-government. the state bills propose to disenfranchise Indian people of their right to vote and hold public office. The Supreme Court decisions have further undermined our tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction.

It is now said that we are facing the gravest crisis in our history as Indian people. We are still being faced with the military calvary. Now we are also being faced with the legislative, judicial, bureaucratic, and corporate cavalries, whose missions are one in the same: to destroy the physical and spiritual basis of our existence and survival as a people. What is left of our lives, land, water, resources, way of life, sovereignty, and future is being threatened. The Wasi’chu have already taken everything else. Now they want all we have left. Except for the Final Indian War, the circle is complete.

Niahuau Ahakanbith! (“The Whites are crazy!”)

Niathuau Ahakanith! (“The Whites are crazy!”)

Lakota Song, Ghost Dance, Wounded Knee, 1890

The Past is Prologue in The Continuing Indian Wars by Bruce Johansen and Roberto Maestas

The major thesis of this book is that the economic, cultural and political forces which propelled mercantile colonialism across the Atlantic are now in retreat; the Wasi’chu of today have found it increasingly necessary to exploit domestic people and resources to sustain their system. As this exploitation intensifies, all outside the Wasi’chu classes are learning what it is like to be “Indian”. (p. 18)

The story of the past Indian wars is a well-told one; it has been easy and comfortable to  categorize the last century, and prior history, as a time inhabited by strangely unenlightened and greedy souls who plundered two continents. To categorize ‘the past’ as a separate time, unconnected to and not influencing the present, ignores the continuance of cultural, political, and economic beliefs and systems which transcend single human life spans.  Our thesis is that the mechanisms which motivated the plundering of the past are still present–sometimes more subtle, sometimes more refined–with similar goals; the theft of life, land, and resources from America’s first inhabitants. (pp 18-19)

What have been called “The Indian wars” never were (and are not today) exclusively a matter between conflicting “races”. they have been (and are) matters of conflicting ideologies. Just as the Lakota did not call the invaders ‘palefaces’, but ‘the greedy ones’, the Cheyenne called them Veho–‘spiders’ [who surround and choke their prey]. The categorization of peoples by their [supposed] biological characteristics (including skin color) has been emphasized throughout history by the Wasi’chu as part of the colonial system of subjugation, but some non-Indians and many Indians have never fallen prey to this fundamental building block of racist thought.

The differences attributed to peoples’ intellects on the basis of biological characteristics have had a central place in the ideology, or rationalization, of subjugation. The domination of people is an act of war that demands first that those people be portrayed in the subjugator’s minds as an enemy, a less-than-human adversary. Throughout the history of conquest racial stereotypes have tended to stiffen when the need for Indian land and resources was greatest. Between times, the savages may have been noble, but they were still portrayed as savages. The image of the savage (which became embodied in U.S. Indian policy) has had two sides: the noble savage (Indian or child figure) and the ignoble savage (Indian as a warrior or as a resister). the stereotypes of Indians created in the European mind have been used to justify conquest around the world, from colonialism in Africa, to the British regime in India, to recent attempts on the part of the United States to ‘pacify’ Vietnam by destroying ‘gooks’. Any imperialistic culture finds it necessary, in defense of its own humanistic self-image, to demean its victims.” (p. 20)

Supporting Evidence (Source Documents)

http://sttpml.org/parts-i-and-ii-combined-breathtaking-hubris-and-hypocrisy-the-real-nature-and-foundations-of-anglo-american-imperiums/

http://sttpml.org/the-cia-and-wanted-nazi-war-criminals/

http://sttpml.org/the-horrifying-anglo-american-roots-of-nazi-eugenics/

http://sttpml.org/bush-family-skull-and-bones-nazis-and-eugenics-parts-1-4/

http://sttpml.org/canada/genocide-right-here-right-now-some-of-the-evidence/

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