I've been saying this before, medical facilities, workers and related professionals over wash their hands. Sanitize this, sanitize that. Get rid of these healthy germs, strip your hands clean. Okay, sanitizing is good to a point, but not necessary. What has gotten lost in the tribal worlds is vast, especially when it comes to our own self - wisdom. Now with the sars-covid-2 dilemma, Native peoples are either believing the hype, going with the flow or just not giving a rats ass to what the government thinks, disseminates or enacts. Point is more lies are coming down the tube - youtube. JK.
I just saw a few relatives that quarantined themselves for the past few months. I mean they really did not come out of their house. I felt really bad for them because they are still wearing masks and they believe what the good ole government is telling them. Honestly, they don't even look healthy, there pale, appear weaker, and are just plain brainwashed.
I have not watched or listened to the hype of the mainstream media. They are dangerous. What I said before is that, they are the virus. Too many people have things to say when it comes to the sars-covid-2. Indian people are no different. We have unleashed to many Indians and not enough Chiefs. Too many Indians speak out of turn or let their so-called "professional" opinion be heard. Problem with that is, long ago, you had to be gifted to be a speaker for the tribe, you had to be able to think for the tribe, children, elders, and community, lastly did you speak for your own self. But that is another problem, white society has taught us to go out and get an education, stand up for YOURSELF and eventually only think about YOU-YOU-YOU-YOU.
Professionalism and selfishness were left at the front of the wigwam. If you displayed too much of those virtues, you would eventually get kicked out of the community.
More lies are coming to a town near you. If you're smart you will be able to start living your life like there is no sars-covid-2 and not be afraid, not be afraid to die.
Yes, I said that. Let me remind you of the phrase "today is a good day to die."
YOu see, our true cultural teachings make you believe, they make you believe the phrase "today is a good day to die." We are taught that we have to live life to the fullest. We have to live life like it is our last day on earth. We do not know when it is our turn to make our journey to the Creator. We have allowed to many western ideas into our souls when it comes to death.
We should be teaching our children that time management, extra whip cream, better expensive toys, good-paying jobs are not important, they never have been. We have become Indians that are proud of many white man's ideas and values. These foreign ideas, concepts, and value systems have contributed to our own Native cultural sickness and sicknesses. These white foreign systems will be extremely hard to shed and admit to when the next chapter unfolds. You will have to start eating all the fish you catch not just the walleye. You will have to start eating our brothers-the animals. You will have to start bathing in the stream or lake and forgetting your pretty ass smelling soaps. You will have to get past the notion of USDA approved, securely protected goods, pretty clothes, to name a few.
The psych of the Indian person has eroded like an animal in the zoo. Yes, it's nice to see a wild animal but they live in the woods, not a zoo. I must say that the animals have not lost their way of thinking, acting or living their lives, don't their lives matter too? Animals have not forgotten the teachings that the Creator gave them. When we run them over with our cars, we think how bad we feel. We almost never remember that the animals give their lives for us, in part we have to honor them in life and death.
Death is not dying. Living the way we have been living for the past 50 years is death. It's time to be Indians again and remember to live life to the fullest. If we die today, we die today. That way when we approach the Creator, we can say we lived a good Anishinabeg life and we lived it to the fullest!
Chief Jay
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