Combating White Racism By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is combating white racism, and on this topix it teachings: (1.) "In spite of the first two World Conferences to Combat Racism and their calls that Indigenous Peoples have a right to their lands and natural resources that must be protected, Indigenous Peoples continue to lose their lands at an alarming rate, seemingly a continuation of the ‘Conquest’ of the Americas. (2.) Ever since Pope Alexander VI's 1493 Papal Bull "Inter Caetera", calling for the subjugation of the Americas' "barbarous nations" and their lands, first colonial and then successor States have forcibly and violently destroyed Indigenous Peoples. To this day, the racial discrimination and cultural denigration established by Pope Alexander VI are engraved in the mentality of the Americas and continue to underlie the rational for racial discrimination against Indigenous Peoples. The religious imperatives of conversion and annihilation have been replaced by assimilation and "development " as the most desirable end for Indigenous Peoples. The State, economic elites and trans-national corporations have replaced the Spanish and Portuguese kings and Colonists as the beneficiaries of Indigenous lands and resources. Reference: http://www.treatycouncil.org/section_211414.htm In addition to my local, national, and international Catholic social/politic activist campaign to replace twenty two of Minnesota’s white racist geographic site names that are offensive to the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, I am also promoting my own, similar the IITC's teachings, world view against racism - Catholic teaching ministry. Steve Russell (Cherokee) - a Texas state judge, twice past President of the Texas Indian Bar Association, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Indiana University, wrote, when referring to my campaign: "This campaign is a valuable history lesson!" And Tom Wisner, a singer and song writer who is known nationally for his song "Chesapeake Born" - and who has received national, state, and local awards for excellence in teaching, sent me an e-mail in response to the news of Rep. Mike Jaros’ offer to help with the "important legislation" to change MN’s offensive to Indigenous people place names. In the e-mail Mr. Wisner mentioned that it is "conceivable to hire good education song writers" to promote legislative projects to show due respect for Indigenous peoples’ languages and traditional cultures. And he also mentioned that he "could develop a proposal if he (DFL Rep. Mike Jaros, Dist.7B Duluth, Minnesota) is interested". Apparently white racists use the evil name of the Devil to name twelve of Minnesota’s geographic place names. Linda Godfrey, a best-selling author and award winning journalist wrote: "Racial hatred was why many geographic places were given the name Devil. Place names evoking the Devil reflect a dominant attitude on the part of Euro-American settlers towards the New World during the migration into the wild West. The history of place names is based in mistranslation, deliberate insult and slur..., as well as a Christian notion of the wilderness as the domain of the Devil." "The origination of many of the Devils across Wisconsin probably has more to do with racial hatred than anything else. Early white settlers were mostly Christian and viewed Native Americans with their different spiritual practices as heathens (at best) or savages and devil-worshipers (most likely). It's a long-standing tradition across time to demonize your foes prior to taking everything they have – including their lives – to assuage any possible feelings of guilt." "Native Americans saw spirits in many shapes and forms and though there was sometimes a Supreme Being, goodness or badness or tricks flowed from a variety of sources. In the simplistic Either/Or view of the early settlers, this mind-set of multiple spiritual sources was tantamount to practicing deviltry, and so settlers tended to put a malevolent spin on the landscape when interpreting native names for the surrounding landscape." "...in the native cosmogony there is no single evil spirit comparable to the devil. In the mind of the settlers though, all this "heathen" spirituality had to be the work or the sign of the devil. So the name Devil was given often to native areas known formerly by names meaning Sacred or Spirit or Mystery." "For example, Devil's Lake in Wisconsin’s Sauk County is the white settlers' interpretation of the Ho-Chunk name Day-wa-kun-chunk, meaning "Sacred Lake. In the Encyclopedia of North American Indians there is an article titled: Place names. The following excerpt was take from the article. "Manitou and Wakanda are common names on the map as Algonquian and Siouan terms for the Great Spirit. Whites often changed these names to Devil, and so we have Devil's Lake in Michigan, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and elsewhere." In Minnesota we have Devil Track Lake and Devil Track River, and we also have Rum River and West Branch Rum River. In these cases the sacred Mdewakanton Dakota name Wakan, translated as Sacred or Spirit was mistranslated as the "demon spirit" Rum, which brought misery and ruin to many of the natives. Lets replace these white racists names, and lets not let the devil adorn our geographic places and maps, we are not "one nation under the devil" we are, as it says in the Pledge of Allegiance, "one nation under God". The first Pope was a Jew, but all of the Popes since Peter have been white European men. The reason why a Catholic Indigenous man of the Americas who is participating in his people’s culture within his people’s homeland can not become the Pope as well as why no other colored Catholic man who is participating in his people’s culture within his people’s homeland can become the Pope is because the Catholic Church believes in and practices extreme white racism in the context of radical institutional racism. White men of European descent are psychologically addicted to a type of racism where in they need to dominate the world. They need their white European Pope sitting on the throne of Peter exercising great influence over the world. Pope Alexander VI was a white racist genocidal maniac who is primarily responsible for 100,000,000 Indigenous Peoples of the Americas elimination in the course of Europe's ongoing genocidal "civilization" of the Western hemisphere. And both the present Pope as well as our nation’s white Catholic Bishops are still pursuing Pope Alexander VI’s white racist genocidal goal. Reference: http://bullsburning.itgo.com/essays/Appeal.htm The Indigenous Peoples of the Americas sacred homelands were stolen from them, they were enslaved and killed by diseases, wars and alcohol. And those who survived this Catholic Church promoted genocide were forced onto reservations (concentration camps) where they are now being "assimilated" (casinos, the anti-theses of Indigenous peoples' cultures) and they are dying from alcohol abuse, hard drug abuse, tobacco abuse, poor diets etc.. And white Christian leaders do not even care enough to do anything about this terrible situation. It’s like when the Jews in white European Catholic nations were forced into slums where they were dying of malnutrition and diseases until Hitler decided not to prolong the genocide and exterminated them in his gas chambers. By indulging in extreme white racism the Catholic Church continues to be an ambassador of a health and earth destroying culture as it expands throughout the world in its white supremacy world domination mission. And the reason why this is occurring is because the Catholic Church is so radically white racist that it has not been able to refract Christianity through - as Cardinal Danielou wrote - "the many facets of human civilization. Christianity has been refracted through the Greek and Roman worlds, but it will have to be refracted through the Hindu facet and the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas facet in order to attain its fulfillment. There are many aspects of Christianity that shall not be discover until Christianity has been refracted through every facet of the prism of human civilization." The Catholic Church is so extremely white racist that it can not believe that there are enough treasures in colored peoples' cultures and religions to make it worth while refracting Christianity though them in order to incorporate the treasures that are in them, hence the Church continues to lead the whole human race to its destruction. James Engel, a past staff writer for a Minnesota Catholic diocesan newspaper, wrote: "Christianity came to the Americas nearly five centuries ago. Spirituality had been here long before that, and while Christians often disregard the principles of Christianity, nowhere has it done more damage than to the people native to the Americas. Traditionally, Native Americans recognized the presence of the Creator in all of His Creation...living and inert. Dating back centuries Native Americans are credited with respecting this creation: The lakes, which today are poisoned or have died. The earth, now cursed with pesticides and dotted with overcrowded landfills. The sky, today sporting holes in its unseen ozone and sporting too, thick layers of visible smog." "European setters denied Native Americans their rights...to land, to life, to religion. Much was lost. And while there is little effort to retrieve that which was lost, something can be learned from it, even today." "When Pope John Paul II toured the southern and western United States in the fall of 1987 he addressed, and was addressed by, a conference of Native Americans." A Native American (Alfretta Antone) spoke at that conference and Engel wrote about his address: "Upon initial contact with Europeans, we shared the land given us by our Creator and taught others how to survive here. History, however, stands as a witness to the use and abuse we have experienced in our homelands." "Today little remains of the gifts and richness which our Creator has shared with us, the original peoples of these lands." Engle also wrote: "Antone implored the Pope to help secure a dozen rights for Native Americans. Several dealt with fair treatment by the government, others dealt with much needed economic gains, others dealt with successful incorporation of Native American culture into American culture. But one stood out as important in its meaning, and its insight: That our sacred ways and prayers be respected." "Many Native Americans espouse some Christian religion, and while the Native American population in Minnesota might be higher than in some regions of the country, there is precious little Native American culture or spirituality in the ways and lives of central Minnesota Catholics. And, most probably, precious little respect for that spirituality." "A 1977 pastoral letter on Native Americans, written by the bishops spoke of justice, the American experience, and the role of the Church. It spoke of faith and culture: the Catholic faith, the American culture. It virtually ignored the gifts, the talents, the spirituality that Native Americans bring to the Church." And it is because of this exclusive white racist mentality of the Catholic Church that it continues on in the path that leads to the destruction of the whole human race as well as for all life on earth. It is so extremely white racist that it can not do what it should do, and that is, refract Christianity through the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas facet of the prism of human civilization - and in doing so, incorporate the ecological awareness of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas into the Church, and by doing so, get the Church going in the direction of ecological salvation for the whole human race as well as for all other good life forms. Hopefully, my local, national and international movement to replace Minnesota’s geographic place names that are offensive to Indigenous Peoples as well as my related - similar to the International Indian Treaty Council's - worldview against racism - Catholic teaching ministry will get the Catholic Church going in the right direction. A booklet related to this article can be found by clicking http://www.towahkon.org/sae.html</FONT>
huh, well that's a lot of reading. I thought that this was going to be an article on people racist against whites, although it looks more like an article about how ignorant early European settlers were towards Native Indians. Yea, there's been a few problems with the Catholic Church... the whole Native Indian thing, the child molesting thing, the killings in the name of God etc... I've heard tho the Church apologize for a lot of that... also, I wanted to post a quote from that article from the link you posted: An open letter to my pastor about this issue: During last Sunday's Mass a song with the words "I will drink wine on my knees" was sung. Those words filled me with holy indignation. Why sing those words when everywhere in the world where alcohol is legal and available there are catastrophic consequences? Now-days, we know a lot more about the dangers of alcohol than they did back when Jesus walked the earth. And when Jesus turned the water into wine at the wedding party those people who drank the wine did not have cars to get in and drive off and kill people. The circumstances associated with the moral issue concerning the legality and use of alcohol has, over a 2000 year period of time, radically changed. But most people are stuck in the past and can not accepted this truth. Even our Church's supreme hierarchical authorities are still stuck in their erroneous traditional way of thinking when it comes to the question as to whether or not our Church should change its attitude about alcohol. I believe that our supreme hierarchical authorities should stop supporting the legality and use of alcohol throughout the world, and especially in the homelands of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. Maybe it's just me, but there's a bit of ignorance in this site, the author seems a bit holier than thou. I read through the site, and I'm not sure if the author is more bitter towards indiginous people or the catholic church or if he's really into being self righteous?
Thank you for reading my thread. But where do you get the idea that I might be in opposition to Indigenous people? My Combating White Racism thread as well as my other threads, along with my website, are anti-white racist injustices against Indigenous people. And I am a Catholic, as mentioned in my “Combating White Racism” thread, so where do you get the idea that I might be anti-Catholic? Your comments about me thinking that I am “holier than thou” seem to be based on an “ I am of the majority’s position on most issues and therefore I am holy, and you have many minority position on issues therefore you think your “holier than thou”. I search for the truth and if I find it’s not where most people believe it’s at I do not continue on in the way that most people are going. And if this means that I have to deal with the “holier than thou” and your “self righteous” insults so be it. The truth is to valuable to abandon in order to remain popular. I noticed that your logo is a satanic witch flying on a broom. If you would have read a forth of the “Rainbow Family Ministry” link located at http://www.towahkon.org/Rainbowf.html you would have found my protest peace against the logo of a satanic witch flying on a broom.
Thank you for reading my thread. But where do you get the idea that I might be in opposition to Indigenous people? My other threads as well as my site are anti-white racist injustices against Indigenous people. And I am a Catholic, as mentioned in my “Combating White Racism” thread, so where do you get the idea that I might be anti-Catholic? Your comments about me thinking that I am “holier than thou” seem to be based on an “ I am of the majority’s position on most issues and therefore I am holy, and you have many minority position on issues therefore you think your “holier than thou”. I search for the truth and if I find it’s not where most people believe it’s at I do not continue on in the way that most people are going. And if this means that I have to deal with the “holier than thou” and your “self righteous” insults so be it. The truth is to valuable to abandon in order to remain popular. I noticed that your logo is a satanic witch flying on a broom. If you would have read a forth of the “Rainbow Family Ministry” link located at http://www.towahkon.org/Rainbowf.html you would have found my protest peace against the logo of a satanic witch flying on a broom.
Thank you for reading my thread. But where do you get the idea that I might be in opposition to Indigenous people? My other threads as well as my site are anti-white racist injustices against Indigenous people. And I am a Catholic, as mentioned in my “Combating White Racism” thread, so where do you get the idea that I might be anti-Catholic? Your comments about me thinking that I am “holier than thou” seem to be based on an “ I am of the majority’s position on most issues and therefore I am holy, and you have many minority position on issues therefore you think your “holier than thou”. I search for the truth and if I find it’s not where most people believe it’s at I do not continue on in the way that most people are going. And if this means that I have to deal with the “holier than thou” and your “self righteous” insults so be it. The truth is to valuable to abandon in order to remain popular. I noticed that your logo is a satanic witch flying on a broom. If you would have read a forth of the “Rainbow Family Ministry” link located at http://www.towahkon.org/Rainbowf.html you would have found my protest peace against the logo of a satanic witch flying on a broom.
