Contemporary Indigenous Peoples

I’m confident that the alleged historical victims of racism, intolerance and conquest carry the banner of ‘indigenous peoples’ for entertainment purposes. I’m referring to those individuals who flooded the streets of America in a show of solidarity for those illegal trespassers ‘living in the shadows’. To take their claims of indigenous peoples seriously all one has to do is prove assimilation never occurred. Watching the news video of the thousands who took to the streets, I was more than convinced that these born-again indigenous peoples had successfully assimilated into American culture.
They bore all the signs of American culture and political dissent protected by the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution protects American Flag burners, Columbus Day protesters in Denver who spill fake blood on the streets of the parade route, and of course any group who feels their First Amendment rights includes taking their cause to the streets of America. It is time we retire the worn out rhetoric of indigenous claims and suffering and replace this trend to re-invent entire populations. I offer the term ‘contemporary indigenous’ peoples.

Contemporary indigenous peoples are those populations who have survived the judgments of history and who remain in the regions their ancestors fought for, homesteaded, developed, paid for, paid taxes on, and created law and civilization for.
Throughout history populations have replaced populations, and yet remnants of the previous people remain. We call part of this process history. In the American West we have a number of peoples living together; sometimes in harmony and sometimes in conflict. Yet the fact remains, people stay, persevere, and hope to provide a future for their children and grandchildren. People have acquired property as their stake in the present and for the future. Land ownership by individuals and families generates prosperity and hope for that future. Contemporary indigenous peoples in the American West could be defined as ranchers, loggers, miners, laborers, and the ‘town’s people’.
I’m not offering a chronological marker for when these populations must have established their presence on the land. That marker went out the window the day the streets of America were flooded with newly aware indigenous peoples protesting for blanket amnesty for foreign illegal trespassers living in the United States.

Yet as much as scholars, judges, and social activists list the enumerated rights of foreign illegal trespassers, allegedly due them from some exchange of grievance earned historically for contemporary justice; the contemporary indigenous populations are either blamed for history or sought out for exclusion or just plain old extermination. As we’ve seen, the same federal, state and local governments that provide sanctuary cities and vague interpretations of national security and sovereignty have no problem taking solid American citizens property or violating their Constitutional Rights.

I combine the world litigious and genocide to create a new word: litigicide. My word; blame me for it. I accuse the federal government of litigicide against distinct groups of peoples throughout the United States. These groups of people live mostly in rural areas of the United States where they control, own, or exploit the resources of large areas of land. It’s been made clear the federal government wants these land owners and communities that control the land to disappear. To be gone! I’m curious if the desired goal of ‘rural cleansing’, a term I credit Ron Arnold for creating, is to allow the absorption of other peoples from other parts of the world. Are biospheres, wilderness areas, and no habitation zones being set aside for global urban and rural renewal projects, crafted by some student of Sir Julian Huxley? Are we seeing private property rights under attack for the purpose of realizing some pioneer investor’s goal of global dominance? Who benefits and who looses in this battle to deny contemporary indigenous peoples whose legacy is tied to the land?

I call on all Americans to champion the cause of American Freedom protected by the U.S. Constitution. I urge you to think of American populations as contemporary indigenous peoples who have earned their right to own and use their land freely and legally. Assimilation has occurred for past populations who have immigrated to the United States legally. American culture is a carnivorous thing. American culture is also stubborn and rooted in the land. This trend of federal manipulation of law and jurisdiction and the bureaucrats who practice deception will fall before contemporary indigenous peoples give up their land and Constitutional Rights. It’s in our blood and it’s been our history. Now take the term contemporary indigenous peoples and replace with the word Americans. Now the faces of many races and traditions become clear under the banner of Americans. Those are your people. Embrace them and stand along side them in their battle to save this country from those who would parse it out to the rest of the world.