With The Utmost Respect, I Must Say This
I have read a lot of statements by various indigenous peoples. I wanted to share what lessons or wisdom they shared that resonated with me was:
1. The repeated calls for oneness of humanity, which is the call for collectivism.
2. The repeated assertion that land cannot be owned or claimed, which is the abolition of property.
3. The repeated assertion that all people should have access to all of the earth with equal say, responsibility, and shared rights, which is the abolition of the state and borders.
4. The repeated assertion that people have an obligation, a duty to take care of and protect both the earth and all life on it, including each other, which is: humanism, humanitarianism, environmentalist, and Deontology's call for duty.
Most of these voices that resonated with me have passed away and most of the modern voices from their descendants do not seem to share those sentiments as the modern voices seem to call for supreme power and segregational and sometimes supremacist authority in the guise of sovereignty away from the rest of the human species, where they can do their own thing regardless if endangers the rest of humanity due to modern interpretations of their culture and distrust for people outside their ethnicity. Which is anti-oneness, pro earth ownership, and anti-equality/anti-egalitarian, and duty to protection of the earth and it's entire base of life. The Indigenous people went from their traditional cultural beliefs to support for a separstist, privatized, hierarchical system with a disregard for the environment if it interferes with the control, comforts, or beliefs, tell me that is not the same ideology and mentality of every western capitalist ideology created by the colonizing colonial government that has existed for the past two thousand years.
I am aware of the historical drama and cultural disruption indigenous peoples across the globe has faced but how they have handled that drama and disruption was to evolve into their oppressors; and if you cannot see that, you're blinded by the desire for retribution and reparations that you're wilfully ignoring the world before you.
"Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it." - Chief Seattle
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children." - Chief Seattle
"Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's job is not to exploit, but to oversee, to be a steward,. Man has responsibility, not power." - Oren Lyons
"All red races are born Socialists, and most tribes carry out the communistic ideas to the letter. Amongst the Iroquois, it is considered disgraceful to have food if your neighbor has none. To be a creditable member of the nation, you must divide your possessions with your less fortunate fellows. I find it much the same amongst the Coast Indians, though they are less bitter in their hatred of the extremes of wealth and poverty than are the Eastern tribes.
Still, the very fact that they have preserved this legend, in which they liken avarice to a slimy sea-serpent, shows the trend of their ideas; shows, too, that an Indian is an Indian, no matter what his tribe, shows that he cannot, or will not, hoard money; shows that his native morals demand that the spirit of greed must be strangled at all costs." - Tekahionwake
"Warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity." - Sitting Bull
"If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect all rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases." - Chief Joseph of Nez Perce
"For tribal people, who see the world as a whole, the essence of our work is in its entirety. In a society where all are related, simple decisions require the approval of nearly everyone in that society. It is society as a whole, not merely a part of it, that must survive. This is the indigenous understanding. It is the understanding in a global sense. We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along." - Rebecca Adamson
If you are Indigenous and no longer share values like those mentioned in the quotes below, which there seems to be a never ending echo of these quotes from various indigenous across the globe for centuries, then you are right; I am not your ally, I am an ally of those who share your blood that see your corruption and oppose your infected mentality. I am not disrespecting the voices and rhetoric of the Indigenous peoples, you and your sect have diverged from the voices and rhetoric your people have taught colonial and colonizers for centuries. You sound more like the people we are seeking to seize power from so we can have complete human sovereignty, while they defend their right to supreme power, authority, and control over that they see fit. I am one with the Indigenous that are social and communal not the ones that are capital and feudal, sorry not sorry.
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