An Essay On Native Tribal Sovereignty & The Legitimacy Of MazaCoin
Tuesday - April 22, 2014
In this essay we are going to explore a dichotomy which is absolutely typical of the vast majority of sovereign Tribal Nations in the USA and Canada. Because we are also going to explore the questions of legitimacy regarding MazaCoin, we will focus on the Traditional Lakota Nation - but understand that in general this is what most Native Americans face with regard to wielding the sovereignty to which they are entitled under treaty.
Let's begin with a question. If President Obama literally received his paycheck from the Kremlin in Moscow, or the Chinese government in Beijing - could you really say he represents in any way either the interests or the legitimacy of the USA? Well guess who pays the so called "elected" government of the Oglala Lakota Nation? The USA Bureau of Indian Affairs. The BIA isn't some nice bureaucracy in Washington with the Native Americans best interests at heart. They are a ruthless occupational army with armored personnel carriers, para-military troops with automatic weapons - and a mandate from the early 1900's to control and suppress the Native Nations of the USA at any cost. Working hand in hand with the secret police of the USA otherwise known as the FBI, they today conduct what was a hot war until the 1970's. Now it is an economic war of blockade and slow attrition. The goal is to finish the genocide they started in the 1800's, here's a picture of the US Army burying in trenches the men, women and children they massacred at Wounded Knee. Note that many of them are smiling as they do so.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w84/deer_012/woundedknee2.jpgSince the USA began to break the Treaty of 1868 almost before the ink was dry, the Lakota continued to fight. This war was a shooting war right up to the mid 1970's culminating in the circumstances that led to the now famous "Incident At Oglala". Let's explore this deeper, as it bears heavily on everything we will discuss hence. At that time, in the 70's - the "elected" and BIA approved "government" of the Oglala Lakota Nation was run by a ruthless and barbaric tyrant named "President" Dick Wilson. President Wilson, using arms and training supplied by the BIA and FBI proceeded to form death squads who roamed the reservations of the Lakota and in a few short years murdered in cold blood at least 70 of his own people for resistance to his regime or defiance of the USA. Not only did the FBI stand back and let it happen, they actively assisted Dick Wilson's death squads with intelligence and provocations. Finally one day in the late 70's, in utter despair and rage - dozens of armed native Americans defended themselves and shot two FBI agents literally to pieces with rifles during a fire fight at a complex called Jumping Bull.
Incident At Oglala - Full Movie: Narrated By Robert Redford ->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoKXo1Vg2qM (watch both parts)
As a side note, the Native Americans who admitted to blasting these two FBI agents to bits were exonerated in court on grounds of self-defense, so in rage the USA government imprisoned for life Leonard Peltier - an AIM activist, who was patently innocent of anything. He is the only political prisoner in the USA recognized as such by Amnesty International.
After the incident at Jumping Bull, the Lakota Nation was invaded by hundreds of heavily armed troops of the FBI and BIA, and ruthlessly suppressed. And that is where it stands today, where the FBI continue to harass and illegally surveil anyone who dares speak of Lakota sovereignty - such as Payu Harris the MazaCoin spokesperson. Today the war is economic and political. That is why MazaCoin is such a vital weapon for the Lakota, it might be all they have left to fight with.
Under both US and international law, a Treaty - ANY Treaty, is by definition an agreement between two (or more in the case of the UN) sovereign nations. The Treaty recognizing the Lakota Nation has full and complete sovereignty, indeed recognizing that their sovereignty predates the very existence of the USA - was signed in 1868. That is why the motto of MazaCoin, which is in the genesis block and on the paper wallets and website is: "1868 Is The Law". This Treaty is recognized by the United Nations. In fact a Treaty passed by the Senate and signed by the President trumps any law of the USA, even the Constitution itself - according to that very Constitution.
When this Treaty was entered into, there was no BIA approved "elected" government of the Lakota Nation. Such an entity came much later as a tool of the oppressive policies of the USA in an attempt to marginalize and limit the sovereignty and success of the Lakota Nation. The Treaty was entered into with the only true and legitimate representatives of the Lakota Nation, namely the Treaty Council, the Council of Elders and various groups of warriors who today have become the Lakota Military Societies. All of these bodies still exist to this day in unbroken lineage, and they are the only legal and legitimate representatives of the Lakota Nation and the sole holders of the symbols of sovereignty as enumerated in the 1868 Treaty.
But the reporters and journalists either don't care about this, or actively ignore it out of sympathy for the USA. When these Elders and Warriors send representatives to Washington to present proclamations seceding from the USA, as they have done a couple of times already - who do the reporters call to check if it is legitimate? Ah dear reader you are learning, you guessed it. They call the "elected" BIA approved government offices. And of course, what response do these "journalists" receive and publish? So when MazaCoin took the world by storm this year, with the bold claim that we are the Sovereign National Currency of the Traditional Lakota Nation - once again who did the reporters contact to verify this? The "elected" and BIA approved government of course. And let's examine their response.
First, President Brewer claimed he knew nothing whatsoever about MazaCoin. This is patently false and not only can Payu Harris attest to it, but so can I because I wrote him from Canada last year. And when Payu went to him to inform him of MazaCoin, note NOT ask for his permission as he can't grant it anyway - but inform him of what we were doing, not only did he know the full details but he said he would at least remain silent and let us be. So he both broke his word to us and lied to the media.
MazaCoin is the Sovereign National Currency of the Traditional Lakota Nation, with the ascent of those who hold the symbols of that sovereignty according to the Treaty of 1868. It is a fact. We do not need to "prove" this to anyone, although we have gone to great lengths to do so. In the end, it's legitimacy depends a great deal on whose side you are on in a horrible war to completely destroy these people and their nation - and wipe their culture from the face of the earth. Do you believe the USA and it's surrogate "elected" BIA approved government? Or do you believe Payu Harris and the Elders who have, in some cases publicly - attested to this legitimacy? Believe the oppressed or the oppressors, in the end the choice is yours.
Written By: AP
Master Coin Maker - MazaCoin
NOTE: The opinions expressed in this piece are strictly my own, and represent my own understanding of the history of the Lakota Nation and it's people. Any factual errors are my own. I am not a Native American, I can not speak for them - and I surely can not imagine how they feel today about anything.
