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Buffalohair Flyingman’s Can of Worms
Nov 21, 2009
Flyingman’s Can of Worms Posted in America’s with tags American Indian Sovereignty, Betrayal, Criminality, Elections, globalization, greed, Indian Country, Indigenous People, Oklahoma Indians, Southern Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, Traditional Culture, Treason, Tribal corruption, Voice of the People on November 21, 2009 by buffalohair
Have We Forgotten Tribal politics aside the situation in Concho is a very human crisis. On one side there is a tribal governor who consistently ignored many of his own constituents. On the other side are the elderly who took a major hit by Darrel Flyingman over the course of his tenure. In the case of my village the elderly were left to fend for themselves since funding for their only hot meal a day stopped. Other types of aid were also canceled with little or no notice as well. I personally know this for a fact since I was supporting some of my people in the interim on the assumption assistance would eventually come to my relations. I also funded meals for my elders with the same assumption. The only response to our needy from Flyingman was the sound of Gary Owen echoing across the grasslands.



 Eventually the proverbial well went dry as the economy assisted in draining my finances. Sadly no assistance ever came to my relations. Homes that were scheduled for repair were simply stopped. Tarps remained on roofs to keep the rain and snow out during the harsh Oklahoma winters. I’ve witnessed with my own eyes as my family struggled to find the basics to feed our nieces and nephews while trying to make ends meet. I would do all I could to ease the suffering but the magnitude of neglect my people had to endure was overwhelming and beyond my financial capability. I still felt guilty for not being able to contribute more especially when I look into the faces those chubby cheek babies.



 Why did these human beings have to endure such ambivalence while others lived in the lap of luxury? How could anyone be so callous as to simply ignore people from their own tribe? At the very least the US Cavalry gave the people flour and grease to weather the winter months. It boggles the imagination to think that someone could be so cruel to their own people. The politics behind such tyranny simply does not fit into this equation for we all are descendants of survivors of genocide. But what is most striking about this event is the over riding fact the US government has encroached on the sovereignty of this nation. Flyingman managed to side with outsiders in an attempt to regain control so he could finish robbing the coffers of the tribe. In a correction to the previous news report it was not the US Supreme Court Justice who granted Flyingman access to tribal funds and business. It was other usual government entities who willfully ignored the will and the traditions of the people by their obvious support of Flyingman. Is Flyingman a traitor to his people? That is up to the folks back in Oklahoma to decide but it is obvious he chose to use the power of the US Government to force his will on these humble people at the expense of tribal sovereignty. Invoking the powers of the federal government over tribal law can be viewed as treason in many opinions. My relations call him Veho.



 The issue that needs addressing is this nation’s sovereignty as well as the sovereignty of all tribes. Flyingman opened up a can of worms with his total disregard for the will of his people. Are we to expect the feds to march into any rez when there is an election that booted a corrupt politician? Frankly the USA has shown itself to be poor stewards of the ballot box with the Iraq’s hopelessly corrupt politicians which the US backed. President Zelaya of Honduras was ousted from power with little more than an impotent condemnation. It should be noted he was a favorite of the Indigenous people over industrialists who robbed land from the natives and murdered their chiefs. Burma is another classic failure of the US to recognize the duly elected officials in the case of Daw Aung Suu Kyi. Now this beleaguered nation is about to have another election regardless of the fact the people voted for democracy overwhelmingly. The US simply became an enabler of a corrupt military dictator (Gen. Than Shwe) who continues to murder the ethnic minorities within his nation. Gen. Than Shwe is Asia’s version of Gen. George Armstrong Custer for his soldiers rape and murder ethnics at their leisure while the free world looks on. Dare I mention that these villagers are being murdered for the natural resources that lay on their tribal land? To the joy of international corporations I might add. Sounds familiar eh.



 With a multitude of articles promoting a new policy dealing with the Indigenous population of America I fear that ultimately sovereignty will be on the chopping block in the near future. Just so you know, with the arrival of the new world order we all will loose our sovereignty regardless of treaties and national boundaries. Under the guidelines of these economic unions that are popping up around the world there is a clause that allows any nation or industry to go into sovereign soil and glean natural resources. The European Union and our NAFTA are to the benefit of international corporations not the nations who subscribe to this global initiative. The Indigenous populations are of absolutely no concern. Globalization is colonization and as we all know the Indigenous populations of the America’s were colonized hundreds of years ago. We are told that we must forgive the history of the past and to move forward but it is hard to forgive when we are still under siege.



Flyingman is only a microcosm of the cancer that is raging around the America’s and the world. Traditional people are placed in a position of ridicule in some cases while others are simply overlooked and live in abject poverty. Tribal officials drive around in Town Cars and Navigators while their electorates scrounge for spare change to buy Duct Tape. Those are the lucky ones since throughout Central and South America tribal people are murdered if they stand in the way of corrupt politicians. Africa is another holocaust in motion. It’s a pandemic of greed that has changed the landscape not only in Indian Country but around the world. And if for one second you believe that world politics is of no concern to Indian Country you are sorely mistaken. The culture of greed is a global initiative and we as Indigenous people and our sovereignty are on the chopping block.




Your Devil’s Advocate



 Buffalohair

 

 

MAYBE YOU CAN HELP ME WITH MY SENIORS August 04, 2007 8:53 AM

 

MAYBE YOU CAN HELP ME WITH MY SENIORS

As many of you know, I hale from a little village called Hammon Oklahoma. It’s also called “The Red Moon Agency” a sub-agency of the Darlington Agency, and named after Chief Red Moon. My people are very traditional in every sense of the word. We call this “The Last Stronghold” for we are still under attack in many ways.. It’s the dark side of tribal existence and I know other fellow Native’s know what I’m talking about, it’s our sad secret.

But there are innocent victims of this war of attrition and ambivalence and that’s the 40 or so senior citizens of my village. Well, to cut to the chase, I’ve been personally paying for all my seniors’ meals for the last 6 months. I adopted all the elderly of my village. So they are all my grandmothers and grandfathers. Somehow in the matrix of politics our center has been without funding and my elders have gone without their daily meals. In most cases these elderly people only get one hot meal a day since our village is so impoverished.

I only discovered this situation when my aunt, who is on a walker, was making her way to another relatives home one day. I asked my aunty why she was “strolling” down the street. She would not tell me at first but then she broke down and told me. You have to realize these elderly people are a very proud people. In fact, they are the direct descendants of the survivors of the Sand Creek Massacre, conducted by Chivington and ultimately the Washita Massacre conducted by Custer who was sent to finish us off. Sadly Chief Black Kettle was finally killed and so were most of my ancestors.

My aunt was ashamed to tell me that they have not received hot meals for months. And that all our elderly were going from house to house getting meals. That was for the fortunate ones who were not invalid and bed ridden. I could not understand why she was ashamed to tell me though. So to retain their dignity, I adopted all our seniors and have been paying out of pocket for the last 6 months. Well, I’ve tapped into my production development funds now and I simply can’t afford to pay much more, so I need your help.

Since the Senior Center in Hammon is a multi-racial one. I’ve decided to adopt the non-Natives who depend on these hot meals as well. Why?? That’s a no brainer eh. The non-Natives are the descendants of the good White folks at Fort Supply and other places who hide my people from Custer’s troops who were scouring the countryside executing the stragglers. Remember “knits make lice” and Custer cutting out babies from the mothers womb? It was a most brutal part of history that does not seem to make all the history books. Custer also executed White people who harbored any Natives, another piece of dark history. It might not be a big disaster but to us, “It’s our Holocaust”. If it were not for these beautiful White folks who truly were heroes in our eyes, we would not be here. So I must honor them and their ancestors as well.

I’ve contacted the City Manager of Hammon, Shirley Walker, a very nice and caring non-Native woman. I told her of my plan to generate funding for the Senior Center in our village since this is in her jurisdiction. She told me she has the tax info for others who would adopt our elderly, the “502. Whatever”

So if you can, give me a hand with this situation.

I named the fund after my family:

WHITE EAGLE-BULLCOMING UP SENIORS FUND
BOX 218
HAMMON, OKLAHOMA
73650

ATTENTION:
SHIRLEY WALKER, City Manager

580.473.2281

Just tell Shirley you heard about it from “That Big Injun Dude”
Believe me, she will know who you’re talking about since I champion many other causes for my people.

It’s not a big village but it’s all I have and to us it’s a catastrophe of cataclysmic proportions. We love and honor our seniors and basically, our village is very impoverished. And well, my people look to me for solutions and this is what I came up with. I just don’t have enough money to pull it off anymore or I would not ask you in the first place. Maybe after I win an Oscar I’ll have the dough-ray-me, but for now its commode cheese and green beans for this film maker.

Buffalohair
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Buffalohair NativeVue IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY PAISAN
Nov 11, 2007
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY PAISAN

There are some sickening facts about the oil industry that many people just don’t hear about. Like the fact the USA is a major exporter of oil even in light of this so called energy crunch. The fact we have a leader and politicians on both the Democratic and Republican Parties heavily invested in industries that are bankrupting this nation should be a red flag. The fact this war is lining the pockets of these people has effectively neutralized the voice of the people since we are being swindled with double speak and at the pump. And it’s all about the money.

Industry officials were gambling on the public’s reaction to 100 dollars a barrel of crude while using the excuses they have been using, excuses that even the Clinton administration did not fully except. Granted the Clintons are well invested in oil now. When in history did any speculation or hurricane effect prices so much? Only under Bush. It is only a coincidence that Dick Cheney is the CEO of Halliburton, the one US company that is gleaning a very handsome profit. The price, our young and the American people. Oil officials are going for broke now according to their own words since now their target price per barrel is projected to be 200 to 300 dollars.

Oh my goodness we have to do something about global warming. So what did American Industrialists do? They moved to third world countries to continue polluting since third world nations are exempt from environmental concerns. In other words, industry or corporations found the perfect excuse to lay off people and move to third world nation; exploit the people with less than minimum wage, no health care, or retirement benefits. The frosting on the cake is, they do not have to comply with any environmental laws, hence they can pollute, pollute, pollute to their hearts content and yes, Increase their profit margin and bottom line. The race to save the Earth was more a smoke screen for them to find cheaper labor with no restrictions. So the Earth still gets warmer and Industrialist are gloating about a quicker route to the Orient via the now defrosted Northwest Passage.

It is obscene to me Eskimo and Inuit populations have to suffer the loss of their traditional land do to erosion as the sea claims their land. It is also obscene that they have to be gouged for heating oil while their tribal land is striped of the oil they need to stay warm during the harsh winter months along the Arctic Rim. They were paying in excess of 6 dollars a gallon already. I shudder to think what they must pay now. Is this a form of passive extermination?

The fact American’s were gouged at the pump well before the rest of the world should be an indicator that we as a nation have been betrayed in a very big way. It is clear to see why Hugo Chavez booted American Oil Companies. He wanted his oil to be for his nation. Our government officials have sold us down the river for their own personal financial concerns. They have become traitors to this nation and now are blatantly trying to exploit the world.

This New World Order is nothing more than a rouse to take over the world simply to glean the rest of the resources, at the expense of all cultures that stand in their way. I keep telling you, follow the money and you will see who is undermining this and other nations. It is the absolute minority within this nation who is doing this. Corporations have side stepped monopoly laws with thinly veiled companies that looked different. But when you research who actually owns all the businesses, it will point to only a few corporations. Supermarket chains from all over the country and the world are being bought up by a select few as we speak. Check out Krouger, or Fred Mayer just for example and see for yourself. Purina is another example of monopolization. Monopolies are the going thing these days. And this world market place is nothing more than a sham as far as we the people are concerned. Industry calls them Conglomerates; I call them Monopolies, plain and simple.

We can’t simply blame Bush for it has been going on for quite a long time. Corporations and the billions they have spent in lobbying is the culprit and our country was sold out from underneath us, it’s as simple as that. Like the thieves in the night America simply disappeared and we let it happen.

It should be as plain as the nose on your face that there is no real difference in political parties since they both are on the take. The real battle for them is who is going to be in charge fore they all are on the take. Pay attention to what they are saying and you will not like what you hear.

This nation was self sufficient at one time. But not no more eh, and we the people let it happen. Like chickens gathering around the farmer with a sack of corn. We pecked at the cornels while the farmer was selecting the fattest chicken to butcher.

Remember Animal Farm another Orwellian snapshot of a totalitarian government? Surprise, surprise, take a long hard look at what is going on around you fore we have been taken over with anyone firing a shot.

In the stories about the time of change, nations would disappear and to our chagrin, America is no longer America anymore as Industrialists forge a New World Oder and it stinks big time. Bada Bing, Bada Bang, Bada Boom..

And it’s all about the money Paisan, Capice?



Buffalohair
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