CEO Obama could fix this.

You can always tell when election season is upon us in United States Incorporated. First Nations people are actually spoken about. We are mentioned on television and in print! This year is a tad different because of what is breaking loose at the Standing Rock reservation.

If you are unaware of what is happening on the Standing Rock reservation I will now give you a quick rundown. This is a story that is as old as USA Incorporated itself. First Nations people are in the way of White folks ‘progress’ which as we all know really means White folks money. Anything that has to do with Indians or even Brown folks in general, is not about safety, (think the Wall Trump wants to build) is not about progress, (this pipeline), equality. Everything this government has ever given us, everything that White folks have shared has basically boiled down to money and how they can make and get more. Since the first invaders came here and had the damned nerve to set up a colony, even before they renamed Turtle Island “America” she has had a Indian Problem. The problem is we exist and we are the rightful caretakers of this entire continent. Not owners, that is a European idea which like Christianity did not exist here before 1492. As caretakers we are responsible for the land and everything ON and IN it. There is the real problem. There are minerals and resources that can add to the wealth and therefore the domination that US INC enjoys in this world.

The Standing Rock reservation is in the way of the Dakota Access Pipeline which is a 1,172 mile, 30 inch in diameter pipeline that connects the Bakken and Three Fork oil fields or “production areas” as the owners refer to it as, in North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois. It is expected to transport approximately 470,000 barrels of oil per day but have a capacity as high as 570,000 barrels or more. This line will open up access to markets in the Midwest and East Coast and even the Gulf Coast. Energy Transfer Crude Oil Company, LLC presents this pipeline as a domestic wet dream in terms of belong to save us from dependency on foreign oil and they promise “that it is responsible, cost effective and safe.” Of course you can trust big oil so what is really the problem here? I’m being sarcastic of course but it doesn’t always translate in the written word.

At first the pipeline was set to run a different route all together from where it is now which is upstream of the Standing Rock Lakota people’s land. It was supposed to run south of Bismark which is the North Dakota capital. The problem with that route is that it is primarily populate by precious White people and not dirty Earth worshiping Indians. (More sarcasm). That my friends is what is called ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM.

 Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, said in a statement, “This pipeline was rerouted towards our tribal nations when other citizens of North Dakota rightfully rejected it in the interests of protecting their communities and water. We seek the same consideration as those citizens. It’s disappointing to see our state and federal officials advance their corporate, pro-Big Oil energy platform here in North Dakota at the expense of human health, safety and tribal sovereignty.”

We are citizens here in USA INC after all and it is a tad ironic that we are looking to be treated and recognized and granted the same accommodations as citizens of this nation when the president who enacted the law that granted First Nations people citizenship was adopted into the Standing Rock Lakota people.

Get ready for a history/law lesson!

Outright mass murder of Indians became politically unpalatable for White people much like slavery became politically injurious for North America’s status in the world and so it was stopped . USA INC has had an Indian problem since expansion and of the many methods that have been enacted to rid itself of this problem the most effective one that cut what little authority we had over ourselves was making us citizens on the very land that we have been caretakers of since before there was ever a homo-sapien populated Europe.

The American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 was enacted in order to further assimiliate us and make us recognize Washington’s “Great White Father” as more improtatn and more powerful than any chief or leader we may have had within the boundries of our tribe. Traditional Indian governements were a huge problem for USA INC but making us citizens made USA INC look gracuous and kind there was another motive behind it.

Calvin Coolidge was the president who signed our citizenship into law and he was also the president who was very instrumental in forming the League of Nations, this is important to remember. In the League of Nations if your nationality is different or seperate from the organizing nations of the League you had the potential to be a major problem. The Basque and Corsica people of France had the ability to bring all of it’s grievences with France before the members of the League because they were not French citizens. How do you solve that problem? Make them citizens. The same exact thing happened here. If Indians could take all of the issues they faced at the hands of this government USA INC’s cache around the world would sink. Coolidge could not let that happen so BAMO we were citizens. When we became citizens the territorial integrity of USA Incorporated was consolidated and all land claims against USA Incorporated therefore became an internal manner and therefore not up for discussion or debate. Also as citizens Indians were now bound by rules set forth by the Congress, the courts and of course the President in a manner the obviously biased them in favor of USA Incorporated. So while the word sovereignty is bandied about when it comes to Indians it is not the truth. The truth of reservations is the USA Incorporated holds the land in trust or for the benefit of Indian people. This is why the corporation that owns the pipeline can move the pipeline as they see fit on Lakota territory and not worry about the consequences from the government. The fact that we began to protest and that the protest began to get so much support was not on the radar of the company.

For making us citizens and to show how grateful Indian people were the Standing Rock Lakota adopted Calvin Coolidge and gave him a headdress and everything! Flash forward to the White House Tribal Nations Conference in Washington DC and here we have Barack Obama, CEO of USA Incorporated, and he is wearing a headdress just like Coolidge. Isn’t it ironic that the same reservation that is attempting to protect itself from the Big Oil wing of USA Incorporated is the very same reservation that just a few months ago adopted CEO Obama?

CEO Obama did not take his adoption and his gift of a symbolic leadership seriously because if he did this protest would not be taking place. He is in the midst of his lame duck part of his presidency and so honestly he could give a big middle finger to the big oil but he just doesn’t give a damn.