There needs to be more Indians in Indian country! More Indianness among Indians.
I don’t mean the pow-wows, the arts and crafts, or even the political efforts about sovereignty. I don’t even mean the efforts to achieve economic solvency for the tribes. I certainly don’t mean health care concerns.
I’m talking about race. I’m talking about tribal blood quantum. I’m talking about preserving the blood lines of America’s original people. Today, I see great carelessness, indifference, and what’s worse, I see intentional diluting of the remaining blood lines. Part of this is the fault of Indians, part of it is the result of sexual aggression on the part of non-Indians.
The Comanche Nation itself, once the most isolated, self-reliant, independent people on the continent, has in recent decades accepted the trend of interracial sexual relations and the slew of mixed children–who generally care nothing about being Indian. Of course, this is based on a Democrat misinterpretation of historical practices.
These are the Comanches our people need to follow, today. Not
Democrat misinterpretations of our natural social ingenuity.
In the hunting, roaming, raiding days, Comanches existed as small bands, or, extended families. Twenty-five to thirty people in a band. There was no tribal organization or chief. This was all unnecessary. Comanches lived as independent bands, each capable of sustaining itself. The bands were spread out over the southwestern plains.
There were times when a numunukahn (band) hit on hard times, for various reasons. Raids on Mexican villages or white settlements often saw children, and some women, kidnapped, and forced to become part of the Comanche band. (Comanches were on occasion taken captive themselves, by non-Comanche people, as in the case of my great, great grandfather, Bad Eagle.) But, this was not pluralism. This was not intentional cultural mixing. This was not intended as racial dilution. This was not a design to eradicate the Comanche blood lines!
BadEagle.com has posited from the beginning that the preservation of race is honorable and responsible. The attempt to wash out or eradicate a people–this is racism! And it appears that there are racist among Indians–thanks to that poisonous, liberal, Democrat deception that there must be free interracial sexuality, and anything short of it is racial prejudice!
I speak of the obvious here. The only ill-will I hold is towards those who would destroy race. Indians are a race, with many ethnicities. Most Indian tribes never considered their race in the same way the whites have considered theirs. Indians did not unite as a race against the whites, like the English, Irish, Scots, French united against the Indian tribes.
Nevertheless, at this point in American Indian history, there are tribes who are careless, if not intentional, in the matter of diluting blood. When careless, it involves unwed mothers, illegitimate children, and dissolute, dysfunctional “families.” When intentional, it can involve much the same, but also an intent to increase numbers in tribal membership. This means more government treaty allotments, more money, more support. This is then the use of reproduction as a means of financial gain. This is deplorable, in my opinion.
Comanches did not become great by aimless reproduction, or by uniting with other tribes or peoples, for any reason. Independence was the theme. That intuition of greatness is certainly absent in the modern approach to population and financial privileges. As many if not most tribes, Comanche people have espoused modern “liberal” Democrat delusion of racial mixing–in the name of equality and kindness. Comanches today have shown a reluctance to manifest the original pride and power. Comanche have been numbed by the Democrat deception of fear. No one wants to be accused of racism. So, they stand and watch the dilution of the blood lines, the denigration of the people into social club of Indian traditions to which anyone can belong.
This is the delusion of Democrat racism. It is actually a doctrine of Communism: the destruction of race, the elimination of all distinction and separations. The removal of all boundaries.
I raise my voice against it. I believe the race, ethnicity, and nationhood are ordained of the Creator. We are not to toy with these. I do not believe interracial reproduction, careless or intentional, for the sake of increasing numbers is appropriate, or will result in any good, in the long run. I know these statements may seem hurtful to some, in the present, but, we must consider the future. I believe Comanche life in the 18th and 19th centuries is the guide. Our own intuitions and our own way should be our guide into the future, and not some “white” Democrat ideological interpretation of our past survival methods.
The old Comanches are the best guides. Let’s hear them, not modern American politicians.
It is time to end careless or intentional interracial reproduction. No one can help who or what he is, personally, but each individual has a choice about what he brings into the world. For that, we are responsible. Yes, we have racists among us, among the Comanche, but these are not the ones who want to preserve the nation, but those who want to destroy the race. Racism is about destroying blood lines, not preserving them. He who would preserve is a patriot.
