OUR GREAT WHITE SAVIOR[S]!

Preface:

When I worked as a CNA in Coos Bay, one of our residents, a white guy, explained to me that he was basically the Great White Savior of us lesser Indian types. He told me that Dennis Banks told him he was some sort of fulfillment of an indigenous prophecy. Him, a white guy, with health problems caused by drug dealings that led him to a long stay in a health care facility. I never told him how Shusli did work with Dennis Banks in his planning stages of "The Longest Walk II." Nor that she found out he had some 18 illegitimate children (as it were) that he never paid child support for, has little or nothing to do with them, and is wanted for said back child support in at least one state. Dennis was also called a "poverty pimp" by various members of the ACTUAL indigenous community. When Shusli confronted him with these things (she was still willing to work with him because she liked the project), Dennis cut off contact with her.

In another section of the facility was an ACTUAL Indian woman who was at the seige of Wounded Knee in '73, and did a lot of ACTUAL work to progress Indian education and health care. She NEVER told me that she was the indigenous savior of all Indians. I would have never found out such things were it not for her family.

Great White Saviors:

Shusli turned me on to this fella she found on the internet calling himself Tamarack song. Another white guy who knows more about being Indian than any silly Red Nigger types. She found him in visits to some of the informative websites she visits. She is awesome in the way she can find these things.

Before I get into Tamarack, as it were, let me just tell you that I've seen this type of behavior not only in Red Nig...er...Indian Country with Great White [Male] Saviors, but also in the alleged Peace community and SO MANY OTHERS. Some white males seem to want to be the saviors of the world instead of just seeing themselves as part of the solution. They get an attitude of: "my way is the only way for "I" am the Great White Savior of the World! KNEEL BEFORE ME (especially you hot looking hard body college girl types)."

I hate reading about how people like Tamarack Song talk about themselves (and say quite often that they are not), so I'll leave it up to you to read the supplied links. The hipocracy, the attitude, the self-glorification. Throughout what I could stomach of Tamarack's website, he talked a shitload about himself and very little about what he actually does, other than write books he wants you to buy. And, of course, his knowledge is supplied to him via Indian folks. He exploits it and glorifies himself.

When Winona Laduke stands on the podium, she does not talk about what a great person she is. She talks about the issues of her peoples and the world that we as fellow humans should be made aware of and need to take care of. Same with Vandana Shiva. Same with Arindati Roy. Same with Howard Zinn. Same with Shusli Baseler-Johnson. Same with James Craven. Same with so many others.

Then there are these folks who come around, declare themselves the savior of the world, and don't honestly do a whole lot to change anything. But hey, they look good and talk about themselves a lot.

Hey, I haven't told you yet today just how great I am! Any of you hot college chicks reading this? How about you yuppy types with money looking to purchase some Indianness? Yeah...you know what I want, and I am so great, you are just gonna give it to me because I am the great indian savior of the world.

Don't put your faith in saviors. Put your faith in yourself. You have POWER! You can do your part to save the world. You ARE NOT the only savior, as there are gazillions of saviors, and many of those saviors are not even human!

So FUCK (or don't fuck, as the case may be) the Great White Saviors like Tamarack and the Peace Penis' here in the Willamette Valley (if you don't know the Peace Penis', then you are already on your path to TRUE salvation and Peace).

Open up, amigos, to the power you carry within yourselves and do something to create the type of world we so truly deserve. DO NOT, however, think you are the savior. Do not think you are the only one and that your way is the only way. You are just a human being like me, Shusli, Howard, Winona, James, etc. Do something with YOUR power as a human and tell the Great White Saviors to go fuck themselves. We don't need them, never have, and never will. I mean, look what they have done to the world already!