OUR RESPONSE:
This is backwards, the State of Georgia forbid, by
legal text only, those who were not Cherokee to live in the Nation.
This test of allegiance was government initiated for certain legal
cases. The Cherokee were not out to imprison missionaries, though
the record shows they should have, the US and state governments
were out to exterminate the Cherokee and any who stood up for them.
CAREER MAKING & PSEUDO SCIENCE-
Your reference is to page 119, James Mooney's, History,
Myths and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. Among traditionals Mooney
is not regarded as a reliable source. For one thing he was building
a career which paid off eventually when he established ethnology
as a "scientific" department of the Smithsonian Institute
which he got to be the head of. This was while that institution
was debating whether the "Indian" has a brain big enough
to be considered human. The Smithsonian still holds over 7,000 bodies
of Native Americans in boxes for the curious. It had already been
determined the African American, entertaining and educable though
he was, was actually closer to the monkey than the white man.
FOR THE MISSIONARY, TOUGH CHOICES- JESUS, THE DEVIL
AND A DOLLAR- HE SUCCESSFULLY WORSHIPPED ALL THREE:
Referring to the oath of allegiance to the Cherokee
Nation which is included in your message above, you can well imagine
how a Christian missionary whose life revolves around the teachings
of Jesus Christ might respond to the United States government's
requirement to swear allegiance to what he viewed as a heathen and
barbarian religious culture. He had gone there to convert what he
thought were savages. What he achieved was the revelation of his
savage heart for it was the missionary who loved his evil and hateful
vision of god.
This oath of allegiance was a simple way to prove
the intentions and dedication of any individual by the government.
If the Cherokee Nation had required this allegiance to the Cherokee
religious spiritual traditions in order to receive tribal recognition
and kept doing it as the old ones did back at the time of contact,
few of the traditions and knowledge of the religious heritage that
is truly Cherokee would ever have been lost. No Christian would
have denied their Christ and given up their place in heaven by declaring
their belief in the Cherokee philosophy of the ancestors, not Jesus
as the path to the Great Spirit.
Greed drove over a hundred thousand intruders into
the area by 1825, few of whom were ever expelled. Though protection
from intruders was a guarantee to the Cherokee by treaty, which
the State of Georgia and the federal government were supposed to
uphold it was never given the slightest honor by white interests.
Forts were established to police against intruders but what they
did was to harass the Cherokee and provide safety and protection
for whites from those who tried to protect their families. The State
of Georgia insured no Cherokee would ever receive justice by forbidding
the testimony or presence of any Native American in a court of law,
period, just like the Nuremberg Laws of 1936 against Jews in Germany.
This gave all whites free rein to terrorize, steal and kill any
Native person they wanted to. No Cherokee "removed" because
they wanted to, it was because the protection they were assured
by treaty obligation was never provided.
The missionaries who entered Indian country were sent
there to "civilize" the native people. They acquired this
position by negotiation through treaty and were given vast amounts
of land and guaranteed subsidies administered by the federal government
out of tribal money. This money never touched the hands of the Cherokee
and most often none was left after missionary, Indian agents, superintendents
and corrupt tribal government leaders got done with it.
ANDREW
JACKSON- GENOCIDE BY WITHHOLDING SMALL POX VACCINES-
In 1832 Congress appropriated
$12,000 dollars to begin the fight against smallpox in Indian country.
20 years after they did the same for whites. Significantly, actual
vaccination expenditures that first year "for smallpox and
certain other things" amounted to only $1,786, as opposed to
$5,721 for "missionary improvement" and $9,424 for the
"civilization of the Indians." One year later, in 1833,
actual expenditures were down to $721. (ed. Stuewe, Paul K., KANSAS
REVISITED: HISTORICAL IMAGES AND PERSPECTIVES, article by Unrau,
William, The Depopulation of the Kansas Indians")
This is why most Native Americans
today who are knowledgeable of their history are pointing out the
United States Government waged genocide against their people. When
medicine to heal children and families from a deadly and mortal
disease is withheld, that agency which does this crime against humanity
is committing genocide.
MISSIONARIES LOVED TO DESTROY FAMILIES
BY MOLESTING CHILDREN-
"Civilizing" meant taking children away
from their parents at the ages of 5-12 years and forcing them to
live without father, mother, sister, brother in missionary schools,
if you can imagine that done to a little child. This practice was
not exclusive to the early years of American history but continued
up until the mid 1970's in this country. Children were beaten and
given forced labor during their stay in school. Participation was
"optional" but missionaries controlled the annuities of
food and trust money through their relationship with superintendents
and the military. Families that did not surrender their children
did not receive food or payments that were supposed to be guaranteed
to them.
Very young children caught in this situation were
brainwashed to treat their parents as savages and barbarians and
they suffered terribly under this psychological torture. By this
method through several generations Cherokee, like most Native Americans
were stripped of the knowledge of their heritage, religious beliefs
and trust of their family supports. You must remember too, that
lynching by European Americans as the finely tuned entertainment
and terrorizing event that it came to be in the 1920's had its proving
grounds in the shadowy morality of seizure of Native American lands
in order to force African Americans to be enslaved to work it. This
is the furnace of economic development that fueled America's so
called growth until post civil war days and was not restricted just
to the South.
RED HOLOCAUST-
This is why it is called a Red Holocaust and fits
the United Nations accords for genocide. Any people whose children
are taken from them in order to destroy the religious, spiritual,
racial and cultural heritage of that people are victims of genocide.
Legally little of the South has ever passed into ownership of non
Native people because the obligations of the treaties were never
honored. This will eventually come to justice in the South as it
already has in the state of Maine.
OUR READER CONTINUES
FALSELY CLASSIFYING THE CHEROKEE AS AGGRESSORS:
"The part that seemed interesting
was that Worcester's defense was that he was a citizen of
Vermont, and had entered Cherokee by approval of the President.
His defense succeeded and he was freed and returned to VT(?)
Even though the names don't match Vermont is a long way
from Cherokee Country and I don't imagine that tons of people
made that particular trek. But I'm no expert on history
either."
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THOMAS JEFFERSON CALLS FOR EXTINCTION-
To the contrary "tons of people" from Thomas
Jefferson's, Vermont did make the trek to the Cherokee Nation. That
is why the pressure to build a genocide slave based empire on Native
Cherokee soil was so successful. Jefferson who wrote the removal
policy and openly supported genocide of Native Americans declared,
"If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any
tribe we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated,
or is driven beyond the Mississippi....they will kill some of us;
we shall destroy all of them." Source
Missionary work was very big business. It afforded
the building of careers, growth of denominational influence in regions
that formed economic bases of support. Churches were established
through lucrative payments from Indian funds and lands which were
deeded for use as farms, timber production and for sale in financing
further ventures not the least of which was buying selling and working
their slaves. Churches and missionaries were aggressively competing
for government contracts among the Native American people all the
way up until the 1970's when Native American Education legislation
made it too difficult for the government to sever lands for missionary
work without compensation.
To give some insight on the abuse of law that the
State of Georgia in the early 19th century used to terrorize the
Cherokee, the banishment of "intruders" was only enforced
when whites who stood up for the Cherokee by representing their
interests. It was also used by whites through the
spoils system to get rid of squatters whose land was
coveted by another white. Those whites who took public stands for
Native people in the area were thrown out. Worcester was one such
missionary. He returned and was thrown into prison for a year for
his stand on Cherokee rights.
