Go back to Europe

by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer

On August 11, 2010 the Mille Lacs Messenger, Mille lacs County’s official newspaper, published the following letter to the editor of mine. The letter was given the title, “Go back to Europe“.

The national Episcopal Church recently repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery”. A series of papal bulls dating back to the fifteenth century, and other such Vatican documents and royal European charters – which were the basis for the formulation of an international legal construct (called the “Doctrine of Discovery”) – gave Christian monarchs who “discovered” non-Christian lands and territories the “right” to claim a superior and paramount title to those lands and territories.

The Episcopal Church’s resolution renounces the doctrine “as fundamentally opposed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and our understanding of the inherent rights that individuals and peoples have received from God,” and promises to share the document with its churches, governments within its boundaries, and the U.N..

When it comes to property rights, the inherent rights that peoples have received from God were not based on race, creed, color, nor civilized or un-civilized status, but by reason of their humanity. Therefore, indigenous peoples’ homelands fully belonged to them when Europeans “discovered” them and the European colonists and later European Americans had no right to claim them and subjugate their indigenous habitants. Therefore, the indigenous peoples’ homelands in the New World fully belonged them and they still fully belong to them. A new paradigm is beginning to be established, in part, on this reasoning and conclusion.

Appropriate respect for indigenous peoples would help the people of the dominate culture in the United States to fully appreciate the wisdom found in traditional indigenous knowledge, and by doing so, open up the process of bringing radical transformation to this nation’s dominate culture, a transformation that would cause the people of the dominant culture to become tribal people who would be dominated (ruled over) by this lands indigenous peoples.

Giving appropriate respect for U.S. indigenous peoples would cause a radical transformation of the dominate culture. This, however, will not occur until after the extreme arrogance of the people of the dominate culture has been eliminated. It’s a type of arrogance that has kept them from seeing the truth about themselves, their history, culture and religion. It will be newly revealed evidence of the colonists and later Euro-American’s radical abuse of this land’s indigenous peoples that will cause cultural mainstream Americans to recognize their extreme arrogance and repent.

This process of becoming aware of their arrogance associated with the radical abuse of indigenous peoples will subsequently influence them to want to give, and then give, appropriate respect for other peoples’ cultures and religions which they have not done because of their deluded self-righteous arrogance.

Giving all peoples appropriate respect will consequently create a new paradigm that will inspire the creation and establishment of a new universal religion that will serve as the basis and principle of unity for a single united global culture wherein humanity will become united and liberated.

I believe in the following Mexica Movement website statements: “We are Nican Tlaca, the indigenous people of Canada, U.S., Mexico, Central and South America. We reject all European divisions of our continent. We reject the artificial border divisions of our people….We reject the White Supremacist ideology that claims Europeans are permanently endowed with the right to define who we are as a people… We include ‘First Nation’ and ‘Native American’ and ‘Indigenous People’ all as one Indigenous Nation….We say, ‘no to occupation!’ We say, ‘this is still our continent!’ We say, ‘Europeans are the illegals—since 1492.’”

“Europeans have a homeland: EUROPE. We are only asking unwelcomed guests (racists) to leave our home. These racist Europeans have a home to go to. The non-racists can be part of a transition to our full independence, it’s not as if Europeans are being asked to go into the Atlantic Ocean. They have a beautiful home called Europe.