Friday, August 26, 2005

Sioux Indians and Ellsworth Air Force Base

Today was an emotional day for Senator John Thune and South Dakota. The representative wiped tears behind Thune in his speech at the podium. The BRAC’s decision was to keep open South Dakota’s Ellsworth Air Force Base. The reason given: National security. The day before the deliberation day, Senator Thune said, “If you are a Norwegian, you can’t be optimistic.” South Dakota This is the land for Norwegians and Sioux. An Indian caller on C-SPAN told the station owner Brian Lamb, “You should shut the base, because Indians are treated like second class citizens.” I can understand the Sioux’s feelings, when you have your sacred ground being used as the grounds for airplanes taking off and landing to supersede their ancestral meaning. From the vein of the Black Hills, one mountain, Mount Rushmore, with 4 American presidents’ heads looking down on the sacred spot of the land, they must feel quite alienated. In 1862, Lincoln ordered the execution of many Sioux, apparently to satisfy the demands of the people. One needs to study further on Lincoln’s ideals: “Of the people, by the people, and for the people.” The people today mean all people, not any group. The Sioux and their land should be respected Some history: On November 2, 1889, North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted to the Union as the 39th and 40th states. The first European explorers, Louis Joseph and François de La Vérendrye, entered the region in 1742 and 1743. At that time, at least eight Native American tribes populated the vicinity including the Mandan, Arikara, Kidatsa, Assiniboin, Crow, Cheyenne, Cree, and the Dakota (Santee Sioux). Other than through fur trapping, exploration of the Dakotas by European-Americans was practically nonexistent prior to the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition wintered in present day North Dakota. While the 1832 arrival of the steamboat and the 1862 creation of the Homestead Act increased migration slightly, tension between the settlers and the Sioux discouraged potential newcomers. In 1868, the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for their exclusive use, by treaty. Nevertheless, with the 1874 discovery of gold, prospectors and the U.S. Army poured into the sacred Black Hills and onto the Sioux Reservation. In 1877, after armed resistance, the Sioux were forced to yield the Black Hills to the U.S. Government. The Sioux were annihilated at Wounded Knee. The Sioux were colonized by the Whites. Their culture was desecrated. But if we respect the land, and the customs, and the cultures, we should not learn a colonial language to understand it, but rather understand the parallel customs and lingual roots between Indian culture and that of the Chinese culture, and other elements. If you really love America, study Indian languages, not the language of the Spanish Conquistadores. This shall be my lifelong investigation and project. Lincoln’s lies America’s Disgraceful History of Military "Trials" Are we of the People, by the people, for the White People? On December 26, 1862, Abraham Lincoln ordered the largest mass execution in American history in which the guilt of the executed could not be positively determined beyond reasonable doubt His compromise was to pare the list of condemned down from 303 to 39, with a promise to the Minnesota political establishment that the federal army would eventually kill or remove every last Indian from the state. As a sweetener to the deal Lincoln also offered Minnesota $2 million in federal funds. While Lincoln emancipated the blacks, why did he do this to the red Indians? On the Black Hills Sioux Indians came from the Mongolia Black Hill. There is no record, or written language, to prove it. One can prove from the customs, and lingual roots. There is an Indian rock in the United States, which I can decode to mean Red Cliff in Chinese. There is a coincidence between Mongolian sacred ground and the Sioux Indians sacred hills. On “Huang Chang Ti Chou”. 黃腸題湊 Huang Chang Ti Chou means "Cypress Hearts Imperial Coffin of the Han Heavenly Son" With 15,000 Cypress woods, the interior core is yellow tender intestine-like color, to compose a stately solemn wall, with a forest of logs as the price to make a underground palace. In Mongolia, a Liao Queen's tomb was discovered in a sacred Black Hill, which is the official forbidden hill that no one could enter. The burial ceremony is exactly with the Han dynasty’s highest “Huang Chang Ti Chou”. 黃腸題湊With the hearts of the trees to array them in the inside and outside of the coffin. This was a ceremony only people at the very highest level could have, and was not extended to the smaller lower ranking princes or princesses. A Han Dynasty tomb with this highest form of burial was discovered in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. This imperial ritual became obsolete in China Proper after the Han dynasty, but was still practiced centuries later in other border areas like Mongolia.

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