Big White Chief offers Prayers (to a different God).

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Saturday March 26, 2005 12:29 by o as if = Iosaf

to "his god of the shopping mall and oil exploration"

George Bush as well as being the Angel of the Lord, the occupier of Babalon, the wookie supreme of the christian fundamentalist republic of Gilead and the 43º president of the United States of America

is also the Big White Chief, and as such has offered prayers to the members of the Red Lake Indian reservation as they come to terms this Holy Week with the worst school massacre since the Columbine event in 1999.

nobody owns the land or the stars. But the dead yes.

U.S. President George W. Bush has offered federal help and personal prayers to the Red Lake Indian reservation in northern Minnesota after being criticized for remaining silent for days about
the deadliest U.S. school shooting in six years.

Bush, on vacation at his Crawford, Texas, ranch, spoke for five minutes on Friday to Floyd Jourdain, chairman of the Red Lake Chippewa tribe, about Monday's rampage in which a 16-year-old killed nine people and himself.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Bush sent his condolences to the "entire Red Lake community," and "pledged continued help from the federal government."

"The president ended the call by saying he is praying for the victims and the families," Perino said, adding that Bush would discuss the shooting publicly in his weekly radio address on Saturday.

While White House spokesman Scott McClellan spoke briefly about the shooting on Tuesday, Bush steered clear of the incident in public remarks, focusing instead on the fate of brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo.

Bush's silence drew fire from some American Indians, including Clyde Bellecourt (*), a Chippewa Indian who is the founder and national director of the American Indian Movement in Red Lake.

"It's kind of late," Bellecourt said of Bush's call to Jourdain. "He should have been the first one to reach out to the Red Lake Indian community."

Bellecourt cited Bush's decision to rush back to the White House from his Texas ranch last weekend to sign unprecedented emergency legislation allowing Schiavo's case to be reviewed in federal courts.

"He does not have any problems flying in to restore the feeding tube to Terri Schiavo. I'm sure if this happened in some school in Texas and a bunch of white kids were shot down, he would have been there too," Bellecourt said.

Perino said the president had tried calling Jourdain on Thursday, but got voice mail instead.

The White House said the FBI has jurisdiction in the case and has responded by sending 10 victim specialists to Red Lake.

Perino said FBI specialists were now in Minnesota doing a "needs assessment." The FBI could provide funds to help victims with grief counseling and funeral arrangements.

Monday's rampage by Jeff Weise was the worst U.S. school shooting since the Columbine massacre in 1999 killed 15.

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5630426

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The legal status of the remaining 500 Native American tribes and their relations to the Federal Government and thus the Big White Chief, are to be found here :-
http://thorpe.ou.edu/

The administration of Native American Indian lands, reserves and the education of their students is a joint effort between the tribal groups under their constitutions and the Federal Government for whose part the Bureau of Indian affairs carries the responsibility-

(The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) responsibility is the administration and management of 55.7 million acres of land held in trust by the United States for American Indians, Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives. There are 562 federal recognized tribal governments in the United States. Developing forestlands, leasing assets on these lands, directing agricultural programs, protecting water and land rights, developing and maintaining infrastructure and economic development are all part of the agency's responsibility. In addition, the Bureau of Indian Affairs provides education services to approximately 48,000 Indian students.)

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This falls under the DOI of the Federal Government & it is legally dubious that the FBI can be assigned to in indian investigation without challenging the constitutional relationship between the indian communities (which are autonomous) and the Federal Government.

(*)
Clyde Bellecourt is a very respected voice and indeed many native americans have enjoyed education under a scholarship set up in his honour. He is a Native American/ self-government/ tribal sovereignty activist.
He is especially considering his birth and life in Minnesota, "The Spokesperson for Native America".


And as such Bush is "peer responsive". But he prays to a different God. His is the God of Babalon, and hypocritical vote seeking campaigns based on life support machines, His is the God of Oil production and exploration that puts a value on wilderness. His is the God that sees in Kyoto a conspiracy of ecologists. His is the God of the shopping mall, where dream catchers are bought and sold within sight of bullets. His is the God of Hollywood.

Let me write it out in a verse.
The God of Bush is a hearse
driven by greed and lies
that no one buys.


http://www.turtle-island.com/rolemodels.html
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/clyde-bellecourt/
http://www.coloradoaim.org/history/19940327SanRafaelpreliminarystatment.htm

more native links-
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Peterson/
http://www.airc.org/
http://www.worldviewsintl.com/iair/

last link to the Native American peoples' statement on the latest tragedy that the God of Bush and "providence" has brought them :-