News about the increasing popularity of my article Independent Indigenous Sovereiegn Nations
The Program Manager for the National Multicultural Institute [Amy Kasi] recently contacted me and asked if I would
allow her to display, both, a link to this article of mine as well as a quote from the article, in the SPOTLIGHT
section of her institute’s monthly newsletter. I said "YES", and they were then displayed in the institutes
October
newsletter. This institute sends out monthly newsletters to a network of almost 3500 members.
This article is associated with my Rum River name-change movement, as well as other activist initiatives
of mine within the Dakota's Mille Lacs Lake traditional/ancestral homeland. It is especially associated
with my initiative to regain the Dakota's sacred Mille Lacs Lake ancestral homeland, an initiative of mine
that is presented in my article Regaining The Dakota's Mille Lacs Ancestral Homeland , an article that is
posted on the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community's website.
And after sending my article Independent Indigenous Sovereign Nations to Paul Gorski, a nationally and
internationally renowned multicultural educator and social activist, he, with my permission, posted it on
his MultiCultural Pavilion website's digest forum. It was on his MCP digest forum that Amy Kasi first read
the article.
When requesting permission to display my article in the NMCI newsletter, Amy Kasi wrote: "I think it would
be a valuable resource for anyone interested in not only indigenous peoples but also the history of the
US and human rights violations in the US.
The quote of mine that is displayed in the SPOTLIGHT section of the NMCI's October newsletter reads:
..."However, the indigenous peoples living in this land our still being denied three of their--endowed by
the Creator--unalienable equality rights, or fundamental human rights. The right to absolute root ownership
of their scared traditional/ancestral homelands, the right to be recognized and treated as full independent
sovereign nations and the--freedom of religion--right to fully re-establish their traditional religions
within their sacred ancestral homelands,..."
Also, the Project Leader for the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Advisory Committee for Native American Partnering
[Griff Wigley], recently posted a comment of mine, which includes a link to my article Independent Indigenous
Sovereign Nations, on the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission's Native American Minnesota - A journey of learning
and understanding - blog site.
An internationally renowned Indigenous activist recently contacted me and said that my article Independent Indigenous
Sovereign Nations "is a very good article". And this article of mine was also posted on the My Two Beads Worth website
as well as on the popular website Indigenous Peoples Literature.
Reverend Dave Gallus, a Roman Catholic pastor of mine as well as a member of the Mille Lacs Human Rights Commission,
and I recently met at Wahkon, Minnesota's Sacred Heart Church, a Catholic Church located on the south end of Mille
Lacs Lake, to talk about my article Independent Indigenous Sovereign Nations.
For many years, two of the three pastors of Sacred Heart Church in Wahkon were missionaries to the Asmat,
a primitive tribal people living deep in the jungle of Indonesia.
During a recent homely, one of these two missionary priests [Rev. Greg Poser] spoke about an Act of the U. S.
Congress that legalized and implemented the taking of communally owned tribal land and dividing it up and allotting
it to individual Natives. He then said that he and Rev. Dave Gallus had been talking about how most people living
in this land [mistakenly] believe that living in an individualistic society and having individual ownership of land
is the civilized way to live and that the tribal way of life is uncivilized.
He then said that owning land communally is the right way to go and that the tribal way is the civilized way.
Evidently, Rev. Dave Gallus and Rev. Greg Poster have decided to promote my mission to influence the people of the
dominate culture to assimilate into the tribal way, to look at Indigenous cultures and harmonize with them in order
to survive and prosper as a civilized people.
