Post by blackcrowheart on Dec 21, 2006 10:35:55 GMT -5
Regaining The Mdewakanton's Mille Lacs ancestral homeland
Posted by: "Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer" wahkontonka@yahoo.com wahkontonka
Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:44 am (PST)
On a Mille Lacs Kathio State Park interpretive sign, Leonard E.
Wabasha is quoted as saying: "My people are the Mdewakanton Oyate.
Mdewakanton means the People of Spirit Lake. Today that lake is
known as Mille Lacs. This landscape is sacred to the Mdewakanton
Oyate because one Otokaheys Woyakapi (creation story) says we were
created here. It is especially pleasing for me to come here and walk
these trails, because about 1718 the first Chief Wapahasa was born
here, at the headwaters of the Spirit River. I am the eighth in this
line of hereditary chiefs." (reference 1.)
When referring to the Mdewakanton "Sioux's" (Dakota's) Mille Lacs
history, Angel Oehrlein wrote, in a Nov. 8th Mille Lacs Messenger
letter: "When we attended schools in the 1930's, we studied actual
events, such as French-sponsored Sieur DuLuth's 1760s Vineland
battle, which drove the Sioux from the Mille Lacs area."
Our state's DNR website presents information about this
topic. "Early White/Indian intervention played an important role in
the settlement of the area by white men. The French, instigated
fights between the Ojibwe and Dakota so as to ally themselves with
the Ojibwe." (reference 2.)
On a Minnesota Historical Society plaque located near the mouth
of "Spirit River" (currently name Rum River) there are the words,
when referring to the Dakota's ancient Mille Lacs village: "About
1750 the Chippewa moving westward from lake Superior captured the
village, and by this decisive battle drove the Sioux permanently
into southern Minnesota." (ref. 3.)
On the Lower Sioux Mdewakanton website the Lower Sioux state
that: "Long ago, the Mdewakanton Dakota lived around Mille Lacs
Lake in central Minnesota. Around 1750, our ancestors were displaced
by another nation, the Anishinnabe, and they relocated throughout
the southern portion of the state. This was not the last time the
Mdewakantons would be forced into a new home." (4.)
The S.D. Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe states on a website about
their history that" The "Santee Sioux bands" had begun a stage of
transition into a new culture with their expulsion from their
traditional homeland around Mille Lacs.
And on Nebraska's Santee Tribe website there are the words: "The
Santee's defeat by the Chippewas at the Battle of Kathio in the late
1700s forced them to move to the southern half of the state which
would bring them into close contact and eventually conflict with the
white settlers. From that point on, survival for the Santee Tribe
would become a daily struggle. (5.)
As Europeans settled the East coast, they displaced eastern tribes
who then migrated to get away from the White civilization, and they,
in their turn, with the help of the western-moving Europeans,
displaced weaker local tribes they encountered, and pushed many of
those tribes farther from their homelands, as they took over their
homelands. (6.)
Europeans sought to extinguish the ancestral ties that these local
tribes have with the land, their ancestors and the spirit world.
Evidence of this practice has shown itself time and time again
throughout the Americas and is now facing international pressure in
an effort to correct the sins of the present by recognizing and
addressing the history of the Americas.
On July 2, 1679 Duluth planted the flag of France on the Dakota
people's sacred Mille Lacs area homeland, where the Dakota had lived
for at least a thousand years. What was the significance of this
flag planting?
According to a U. N. World Conference On Racism document: "In the
fifteenth century, two Papal Bulls set the stage for European
domination of the New World and Africa. Romanus Pontifex, issued by
Pope Nicholas V to King Alfonso V of Portugal in 1452, declared war
against all non-Christians throughout the world, and specifically
sanctioned and promoted the conquest, colonization, and exploitation
of non-Christian nations and their territories." In Pope Alexander
VI's papal bull of 1493 (Inter Caetera), he stated his desire that
the "discovered" people be "subjugated and brought to the faith
itself." By this means, said the pope, the "Christian Empire" would
be propagated. These Papal Bulls, or "doctrines of discovery",
sanctioned Christian nations to claim "unoccupied lands", or lands
belonging to "heathens" or "pagans". (7.)
Therefore, when Duluth planted the flag of France on the Dakota's
sacred Mille Lacs area homeland he was proclaiming that the Dakota's
Mille Lacs homeland now belonged to France. The indigenous people of
the Americas were red pagans, and not white European Christians,
therefore, according to fifteenth century papal bulls, they did not
own the land that they were living on, nor did they have a moral or
legal right to own any land. Therefore, the unoccupied land that
the indigenous people discovered and were living on could be claimed
by the first European Christian explorer to plant his nation's flag
on it.
The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe oral tradition tells that, by the end
of the 1760s Kathio battle, their ancestors had violently forced the
Dakota from their Mille Lacs area homeland; and that that is how
they took possession of the Mille Lacs area land that they now live
on. However, because they were indigenous red pagans they didn't own
the land that they, with the help of the Europeans, took from the
Dakota people. And these indigenous red Ojibwe pagans, to this
present-day, do not own the land that they are now living on, its
U.S.A federal land. The indigenous people of the Americas, still, do
not have a papal granted moral right to own land. The papal bull
Inter Caetera has not yet been revoked. (8.) I am working to rectify
this injustice. At least a part of the Dakota people's original
Mille Lacs area homeland should be give back to them.
Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer
Director of Rum River Name Change Organization, Inc.
Wahkon, Minnesota
References:
(1.) www.towahkon.org/PicLeosign.html
(2.) www.dnr.state.mn.us/canoeing/rumriver/index.html
(3.) www.towahkon.org/sign2.html
(4.) www.jackpotjunction.com/culture/past.html
(5.) www.santeedakota.org/points_of_interest.htm
(6.) www.aaanativearts.com/article654.html
(7.) www.un.org/WCAR/e-kit/indigenous.htm
(8.) bullsburning.itgo.com/Index.htm
Posted by: "Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer" wahkontonka@yahoo.com wahkontonka
Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:44 am (PST)
On a Mille Lacs Kathio State Park interpretive sign, Leonard E.
Wabasha is quoted as saying: "My people are the Mdewakanton Oyate.
Mdewakanton means the People of Spirit Lake. Today that lake is
known as Mille Lacs. This landscape is sacred to the Mdewakanton
Oyate because one Otokaheys Woyakapi (creation story) says we were
created here. It is especially pleasing for me to come here and walk
these trails, because about 1718 the first Chief Wapahasa was born
here, at the headwaters of the Spirit River. I am the eighth in this
line of hereditary chiefs." (reference 1.)
When referring to the Mdewakanton "Sioux's" (Dakota's) Mille Lacs
history, Angel Oehrlein wrote, in a Nov. 8th Mille Lacs Messenger
letter: "When we attended schools in the 1930's, we studied actual
events, such as French-sponsored Sieur DuLuth's 1760s Vineland
battle, which drove the Sioux from the Mille Lacs area."
Our state's DNR website presents information about this
topic. "Early White/Indian intervention played an important role in
the settlement of the area by white men. The French, instigated
fights between the Ojibwe and Dakota so as to ally themselves with
the Ojibwe." (reference 2.)
On a Minnesota Historical Society plaque located near the mouth
of "Spirit River" (currently name Rum River) there are the words,
when referring to the Dakota's ancient Mille Lacs village: "About
1750 the Chippewa moving westward from lake Superior captured the
village, and by this decisive battle drove the Sioux permanently
into southern Minnesota." (ref. 3.)
On the Lower Sioux Mdewakanton website the Lower Sioux state
that: "Long ago, the Mdewakanton Dakota lived around Mille Lacs
Lake in central Minnesota. Around 1750, our ancestors were displaced
by another nation, the Anishinnabe, and they relocated throughout
the southern portion of the state. This was not the last time the
Mdewakantons would be forced into a new home." (4.)
The S.D. Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe states on a website about
their history that" The "Santee Sioux bands" had begun a stage of
transition into a new culture with their expulsion from their
traditional homeland around Mille Lacs.
And on Nebraska's Santee Tribe website there are the words: "The
Santee's defeat by the Chippewas at the Battle of Kathio in the late
1700s forced them to move to the southern half of the state which
would bring them into close contact and eventually conflict with the
white settlers. From that point on, survival for the Santee Tribe
would become a daily struggle. (5.)
As Europeans settled the East coast, they displaced eastern tribes
who then migrated to get away from the White civilization, and they,
in their turn, with the help of the western-moving Europeans,
displaced weaker local tribes they encountered, and pushed many of
those tribes farther from their homelands, as they took over their
homelands. (6.)
Europeans sought to extinguish the ancestral ties that these local
tribes have with the land, their ancestors and the spirit world.
Evidence of this practice has shown itself time and time again
throughout the Americas and is now facing international pressure in
an effort to correct the sins of the present by recognizing and
addressing the history of the Americas.
On July 2, 1679 Duluth planted the flag of France on the Dakota
people's sacred Mille Lacs area homeland, where the Dakota had lived
for at least a thousand years. What was the significance of this
flag planting?
According to a U. N. World Conference On Racism document: "In the
fifteenth century, two Papal Bulls set the stage for European
domination of the New World and Africa. Romanus Pontifex, issued by
Pope Nicholas V to King Alfonso V of Portugal in 1452, declared war
against all non-Christians throughout the world, and specifically
sanctioned and promoted the conquest, colonization, and exploitation
of non-Christian nations and their territories." In Pope Alexander
VI's papal bull of 1493 (Inter Caetera), he stated his desire that
the "discovered" people be "subjugated and brought to the faith
itself." By this means, said the pope, the "Christian Empire" would
be propagated. These Papal Bulls, or "doctrines of discovery",
sanctioned Christian nations to claim "unoccupied lands", or lands
belonging to "heathens" or "pagans". (7.)
Therefore, when Duluth planted the flag of France on the Dakota's
sacred Mille Lacs area homeland he was proclaiming that the Dakota's
Mille Lacs homeland now belonged to France. The indigenous people of
the Americas were red pagans, and not white European Christians,
therefore, according to fifteenth century papal bulls, they did not
own the land that they were living on, nor did they have a moral or
legal right to own any land. Therefore, the unoccupied land that
the indigenous people discovered and were living on could be claimed
by the first European Christian explorer to plant his nation's flag
on it.
The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe oral tradition tells that, by the end
of the 1760s Kathio battle, their ancestors had violently forced the
Dakota from their Mille Lacs area homeland; and that that is how
they took possession of the Mille Lacs area land that they now live
on. However, because they were indigenous red pagans they didn't own
the land that they, with the help of the Europeans, took from the
Dakota people. And these indigenous red Ojibwe pagans, to this
present-day, do not own the land that they are now living on, its
U.S.A federal land. The indigenous people of the Americas, still, do
not have a papal granted moral right to own land. The papal bull
Inter Caetera has not yet been revoked. (8.) I am working to rectify
this injustice. At least a part of the Dakota people's original
Mille Lacs area homeland should be give back to them.
Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer
Director of Rum River Name Change Organization, Inc.
Wahkon, Minnesota
References:
(1.) www.towahkon.org/PicLeosign.html
(2.) www.dnr.state.mn.us/canoeing/rumriver/index.html
(3.) www.towahkon.org/sign2.html
(4.) www.jackpotjunction.com/culture/past.html
(5.) www.santeedakota.org/points_of_interest.htm
(6.) www.aaanativearts.com/article654.html
(7.) www.un.org/WCAR/e-kit/indigenous.htm
(8.) bullsburning.itgo.com/Index.htm