On August 11, 2010, the Mille Lacs Messenger, a MN county newspaper, published te following
letter of mine.
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Go back to Europe
By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer
The national Episcopal Church recently repudiated the
"Doctrine of Discovery", the international legal construct,
which was made up of papal bulls dating back to the
fifteenth century, and other such Vatican documents
and royal European charters, that gave Christian
monarchs who "discovered" non-Christian lands and
territories the "right" to claim a superior and
paramount title to those lands and territories.
The Episcopal Church's resolution renounces
the doctrine "as fundamentally opposed to the
Gospel of Jesus Christ and our understanding of
the inherent rights that individuals and peoples
have received from God," and promises to share
the document with its churches, governments
within its boundaries, and the U.N..
When it comes to property rights, the inherent
rights that peoples have received from God were not
based on race, creed, color, nor civilized or
un-civilized status, but by reason of their
humanity. Therefore, indigenous peoples'
homelands fully belonged to them when Europeans
"discovered" them and the Christian European
colonists and later European Americans had
no right to claim them and subjugate their
indigenous habitants. Therefore, the indigenous
peoples' homelands in the New World fully
belonged them and they still fully belong to
them. A new paradigm is beginning to be
established, in part, on this reasoning
and conclusion.
Appropriate respect for indigenous peoples would help
the people of the dominate culture in the United States
to fully appreciate the wisdom found in traditional
indigenous knowledge, and by doing so, open up the
process of bringing radical transformation to this
nation's dominate culture, a transformation that
would cause the people of the current dominant
culture to become tribal people who would be
dominated (ruled over) by this lands
indigenous peoples.
Giving appropriate respect for U.S. indigenous peoples
would cause a radical transformation of the dominate
culture. This, however, will not occur until after the
extreme arrogance of the people of the dominate
culture has been eliminated. It's a type of
arrogance that has kept them from seeing the
truth about themselves, their history, culture
and religion. It will be newly revealed evidence
of the colonists and later Euro-American's
radical abuse of this land's indigenous
peoples that will cause cultural mainstream
Americans to recognize their extreme
arrogance and repent.
This process of becoming aware of their arrogance
associated with the radical abuse of indigenous peoples
will subsequently influence them to want to give,
and then give, appropriate respect for other
peoples' cultures and religions which they have
not done because of their deluded self-righteous arrogance.
Giving all peoples appropriate respect will consequently
create a new paradigm that will inspire the creation
and establishment of a new universal religion
that will serve as the basis and principle of
unity for a single united global culture wherein
humanity will become united.
I believe in the following Mexica Movement website
statements: "We are Nican Tlaca, the indigenous people
of Canada, U.S., Mexico, Central and South America.
We reject all European divisions of our continent.
We reject the artificial border divisions of our
people....We reject the White Supremacist ideology
that claims Europeans are permanently endowed
with the right to define who we are as a people...
We include 'First Nation' and 'Native American' and
'Indigenous People' all as one Indigenous Nation....
We say, 'no to occupation!' We say, 'this is still our continent!'
We say, 'Europeans are the illegals---since 1492.'"
"Europeans have a homeland: EUROPE. We are only asking
unwelcomed guests (racists) to leave our home. These
racist Europeans have a home to go to. The non-racists
can be part of a transition to our full independence,
it's not as if Europeans are being asked to go into
the Atlantic Ocean. They have a beautiful home called Europe.
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