Herman Melville, 1819-1891.

One thing is for certain, Moby Dick, the great white whale, represents something profound about the American psyche. The whaling industry itself was a deep-seated phenomenon afloat in the collective conscious of American society. It was the largest industry in the 19th century. In 1828, Daniel Webster’s speech before the U.S. senate reflects directly the import of the sea-faring business:

Nantucket itself is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons, living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldness and most persevering industry.

Webster was appealing to Congress for a Nantucket breakwater.

Melville himself quotes the passage in his introductory “Extracts Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian.” A dozen pages of such and miscellaneous references clearly touch on the magnitude of the whaling industry in the popular culture. While there may be no appropriate cognate today, the whaling industry supplied a larger volume and variety of products than any other. The only conceivable modern corollary would be oil. In fact, whale oil supplied the light of the nation, yea, of the world, before gas, or electricity.

But it was hunting, not drilling. It was a bloody battle, not a cold, calculated, mechanical effort. It was a thrilling dare. It was killer trade. It was a man’s trade, thoroughly. (Yet, whale vomit was made into the preservative base of the ladies’ perfumes!) Melville’s depiction of it is virtually incomparable. He notes the bewildering contrasts of grandeur and grace, of the mighty and the delicate–even in the personage and behavior of the animal itself.

If one is sufficiently interested in the American narrative, I would recommend two books to accompany Melville’s. The first is a bit rare, but in a 1989 Castle reprint of the 1877 text: History of the American Whale Fishery, by Alexander Starbuck. The first 179 pages are called, “Report of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries.” It is historical, a narrative of the business. The next 550 pages are logs of the actual whaling vessels, their owners, their captains, and the towns from which they launched. It is an incredible resource.

A second source, another must, is Gay Wilson Allen’s Melville and His World (Viking, 1971). This one is obviously more about the author, Herman Melville, than about the whaling industry. However, if gives unusual detail and insight into how the story of the white whale evolved from the personal life and experience of Melville.

There are many editions of the novel, Moby Dick. I personally used the Leon Howard edition (Random House, 1950), though the Alfred Kazin edition (Houghton Mifflin, 1956) is perhaps useful. Howard’s Introduction is definitive. At this point, editions of a work like Melville’s are distinguished solely by such introductions. Moby Dick was part of my master’s thesis at Emory University (1981). The thesis also included a work by Nathaniel Hawthorne and, originally, a large, unique essay on Edgar Allan Poe. The thesis was entitled, “The Use of Death in 19th Century American Literature.”

As a scholar (somewhat), I want to point out just how authentic Melville was in his novel, at least in his research. In the “Extracts,” he references an incident in which a sperm whale actually attacks and destroys a whaling ship, the Essex, as reported by survivor Owen Chace of Nantucket, First Mate of the crushed, sunk vessel, 1821. A complete account of the ferocious incident is reprinted by Alexander Starbuck, pp.116-119. Inasmuch as the ship was lost at sea (the south Pacific), no details of it are mentioned in the 1820 table of returning vessels of Nantucket. Instead, all designations are blank, save one, its type: “Sloop.” It was reported, however, on the same nameless tabulation, that the ship had garnered the oil of 100 sperm whales by last record. A great loss, indeed.

Another ship, the Ann Alexander (of New Bedford) was also attacked and destroyed (sunk) by an angry sperm whale, in 1851, the year Melville’s novel was published.

Melville’s “Extracts” mention a mutiny on a whaling vessel, the Globe (of Nantucket). According to Alexander Starbuck, the mutiny took place in 1824. A Mr. Lay and a Mr. Hussey survived by a neutral compliance and silence, and were rescued by a U.S. government vessel.

It is important to note that the whaling industry was not a military function, nor were whaling vessels armed. The high seas were the wild West on water. Mutiny, subterfuge, intrigue, were all lock, stock, and barrel. The industry was, as such, difficult to control.

Ah, but the grandeur of it all! The game–the sperm whale, was the largest, most vicious, and most profitable of all God’s creatures in the world. The hunt was the most violent, most dramatic, and most bloody of all man’s encounters with the wild (–other than with himself in said environment).

Whaling embodied the pith of the American spirit, the commerce, the competition, the blood, and the glory. High risk, high profit, and the great offering to humanity: whale oil. It was more valuable than gold. It was more precious than any other single product.

One unique element of Melville’s story is the dramatized internationalism. The crew of an average whaling ship comprised a staggering complex of “immigrants” from across the globe. Captains of such crews were a most somber and deadly force among men. Melville’s story is essentially true in every element. Moby Dick is a conglomerate of gigantic and pedantic realities. BadEagle.com began a chapter by chapter commentary, which is yet to be finished. The story is simply overwhelming.

Melville would be considered a liberal today, and yet he is groping with nearly incomprehensible social evolution in his day. At a time when fundamental Protestantism–the American version, was fast fading into an inefficient functionary containment, Melville found himself immersed, as it were, in internationalism of every grade. One of the main characters of the story is Quequeg, the dark, heathen islander, full of self-imposed scars and other barbaric macho-isms. This is the companion of the main character, a white, wandering, lost American protestant–Ishamel. Yes, the blood of the story is put in the hands of the harpooners–three non-white savages (including an American Indian), but the captain of the ship is the ultimate white man–with the gargantuan conscience–Ahab, the mighty, who would challenge Fate. Is he not great? The only survivor of the story is a non-committed, doubting soul, and his survival was essentially an accident. Nothing to live for, he survives. Ishmael is no warrior. Meaning is in death. To die for something, this is the impetus of life. The harpoon guides, if unto death. Observers live, meaninglessly.

Melville reports. You decide.

Elizabeth Herring Warren Mann, and Harvard University’s School of Law should be sued for ethnic identity theft, conspiracy to commit identity theft, ethnic fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and whatever other torts pertain to professional dishonesty and institutional dishonesty, to say nothing of the public denigration of American Indians. Tables turned, liberals would call it “hate speech.”

But, it will never happen. This is all only a white racial ploy between whites. It is a rhetorical game played between conservative (Republican) whites and liberal (Democrat) whites. Indian people are not part of the conversation.

Elizabeth Herring Warren Mann, feigned
American Indian, for profit.

BadEagle.com has always acknowledged the historical, phenomenological, pragmatic, and even aesthetic superiority of the White Race. BadEagle.com has recognized The Great White Throne of western civilization. Whatever sports the white race continues to play with itself, it is still the dominant force on the world. However Freudian white “Oedipal” liberal Democrats are, or however elitist, racist, and heartless they really are, their only opponents are the white conservatives, the white traditionalists, the Constitutionalists, or the true Republicans. The games begun in Greece are still white games, and the darkies of the world are only spectators, pawns, or tools. That’s just the way it is.

The white race has every right and power to make what it will of any issue that arises, or that it causes to rise. The white race has the authority to play Indian, to play with Indians, to toy with Indian issues, or to feign respect, or to make a cartoon out of Indian stereotypes.

In the case of Elizabeth Herring Warren Mann, the Harvard law professor who has defecated on every notion of presumed professional decency in American law (and encouraged others, like the Occupy Wall Street defecators) to do the same, has long claimed and continues to claim Indian ancestry without possessing a single piece of “legal” evidence that she has any. BadEagle.com has even acknowledged that she may in fact have some indiscernible fraction, but we have also maintained that she cannot take advantage of any such claim legally. She is “outlaw,” as is her employer, Harvard Law, in the whole matter.

Ann Coulter

The professional conservatives in the country have spent several weeks making every Indian joke in the book, all competing with one another for the best way to mock Elizabeth’s pretense. All these spoofs are at the expense of Indian pride, of course. It has all been nothing more than an opportunity for white people to express themselves–to each other. The Indian jokes are simply collateral damage, if viewed in the benign.

There are three psychological levels of consciousness involved here, which bare exposure:

1) the immediate, overt ridicule of another white person’s obvious pretense to be something she isn’t. This rides as “exposure,” with all the excitement of discovery of a fraud. Part of the outrage, however, I believe, comes out of a visceral fear, at least in the white collective memory, of real American Indian. It is a piquant protest, therefore, against any white person who would falsely claim the power of Indian blood, if now but for pity and its professional, liberal advantage. Elizabeth insults everything about race and American history.

2) the delicious satisfaction of ridiculing such a once fearful enemy, and rejoicing in the historical victory and subjugation of the awesome foe. Nothing makes for a better joke. It relieves the collective consciousness, to this day. (Sports mascots actually reflect both the fearful, such as the Fighting Sioux, and the comical cartoon, such as Chief Wahoo, of the Cleveland Indians.

The Fighting Sioux.

3) the subliminal adoration of, even identification with, the primordial American. The Indian is the principle element in the American Collective Unconscious. The American Indian makes America American. By life, love, and war with the American Indian, the white European immigrants were more than runaways from the failed old countries. The American Indian made the white man a new kind of man. The white American race can never forget this. In the reaction to Elizabeth Herring Warren Mann, the most American of the American whites show that the Indian still profoundly affects the white consciousness. Though it comes out in subliminal, confused, or half-conscious ways; though it is not expressed accurately, or even too eloquently, the American white regard for the Indian is the most primary of all American conscious states. The American white may pretend to have ultimate concern and pity for the imported Negro, however falsely based such a pretense actually is, but it is the American Indian that drives the white consciousness on this land.

The Indian is some deep, hidden talisman in the white American soul. The whites conquered the Indian, true. But, everyone knows it was by numbers, by superior weapons, by social architecture and planning. Of course it was not “fair.” War is not a sport. It is never to be fair. But the white man lost a lot of blood in the Indian wars, from the 17th through the 19th century. American can’t forget that, even in the socio-economic refulgence of victory and two and a half centuries of success. The white race feels compelled to remind itself, now and then, of its great, primary homeland victory. The white American still feels pride over his vanquished foe. (Always remember, there were innumerable Indian wars long before the Revolutionary War of 1776.)

Elizabeth Herring Warren Mann gave American patriots the opportunity to do just that–to celebrate their victory over the Indian. Ann Coulter recently offered her version of that same obfuscated, sublimated, but overwhelming collective consciousness. Whites have the right to use Indians as a joke, against other whites. It is the most degrading yet most exalting reaction to an opponent.

Of course, no real Indian was consulted in the whole matter of Elizabeth and Harvard. Certainly, no American Indian conservative patriot. (Suzan Harjo and Ben Campbell are deep liberals, and have never expressed the realities of Indian people in America.) Why? The Indian is in the unconscious. In the cupboard, as it were. He cannot be allowed to participate in the American patriot conversation. The Indian befuddles the conservative narrative of the American story. It is a derailing element, and white conservatives are wary of it. They don’t really know how to handle it, and don’t want to have to.

Chief Wahoo, of the Cleveland Indians.

For over a decade now, BadEagle.com has attempted to contribute meaningfully to the conservative, American patriot conversation. My unworthy, liberal opponents have foolishly tried to say, “Yeagley is not Indian.” This has been their only reaction. But the major, professional conservatives have not given any space to my voice. Not really. Not significantly. None of my five articles on Elizabeth have been referenced.

I can only recognize this as the evidence that the White American patriot considers the American Indian as some profound, eerie equal, a competitor he does not wish to deal with again. Particularly the Comanche, the white man considers an awesome, conquering spirit–even as he himself.

I have found intense ignorance about Indians in every major, professional conservative talker and politician in the country. They have no understanding, no talking points, and no interest. Indians simply don’t count in the conversation. Only in moments like the feigned Indianness of Elizabeth Herring Warren Mann do the mysteries in the white personality come to the surface. White Americans are in awe of the Indian, and remind themselves, in one way or another, that they beat that bloody Indian. And they’re not going to forget that. That’s one defeated enemy whose memory is enshrined forever in the pride of the white race.

In a way, I trust the white race on this one. The Indian means more to the white American than any other people do. The white American, in all his careful, conscientious, legally confounded speech and expression, will sort this out. The Warren case only shows how much the white American really cares about the Indian, if subconsciously, and regardless of how apparently meaningless his concern is to real, living Indians today.

The Indian is inside the white man. I have said to Indians, from the beginning, this is where our power is–in the heart of the white man. We need to tap into that. If his heart is divided, then we need to unite it.

Daughter of Dawn, counseled by her Father. From
the 1920 silent film, “Daughter of Dawn,” by
Norbert A. Myles.

The film, with the music, will be present to the public, for the first time, June 10, 2012 (Sunday) by the Dead Center Film Festival in Oklahoma City. There are two showings: 12:30 and 2:30, both at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (415 Couch Drive) (See OKCMA schedule and tickets.)

Dr. David A. Yeagley, Comanche.

The music was recorded by the Oklahoma City University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Nilles (with recording engineer John Cross), during the 2011-2012 academic year.

As the premiere approaches, there will be more and more publicity. The Oklahoma State Historical Society has major plans for the film and the music. After several different showings in Oklahoma, plans include showings at the major films festivals in the United States, like San Francisco, Sundance, Tribeka; and then festivals of the world, like Toronto, Cannes, and Milan. Fund raising has already begun.

The score features the American Indian flute as the musical persona of the main character, Daughter of Dawn. The flute part is performed by Timohty Archambault, Kichesipirini (The Kichesipirini are a Canadian Algonquian tribe, of the Ottawa River region around Morrison Island.) Archambault has performed and recorded my music before. He performed the Indian flute part for my Salve Regina (women’s chorus) at the National Museum of the American Indian, November 12, 2007. He has also make historical recordings for the Smithsonian. Archambault is an modern authority on all North American Indian flutes, their history, their use, and even the making of them. Archambault is able to perform all the chromatic scales on the flute, not just the traditional pentatonic (five note) scale. In the future he will have an album of my Suite Tragique (2007), a 45 minute collection of baroque dance forms for unaccompanied Indian flute.

The score to Daughter of Dawn includes full orchestra and percussion, with piano solos and harp as well. The piano part is the musical persona of Red Wing, the other important Indian girl in the story. I liken Red Wing to Puccini’s “Liù,” from the Persian opera Turandohkt (“Turan dokhtar”–daughter of the Turan), better known as Turandot (1926). It is the exquisite tragedy of a woman’s unrequited love. I chose the piano for Red Wing because of its natural sentimentality.

Like most of my music, Daughter of Dawn employs my new system of harmonic organization. It is, hopefully, a unique re-arrangement of the principles of tonality. The audience will hear familiar sounds, but not in familiar ways. The level of expectation should be in a perpetual titillation, as it were. There are rare moments in which my system will allow outright tonality. One such moment is reserved for the film’s ultimate romantic scene.

I have been developing this system since the early ’90′s, when I was studying composition with Daniel Asia, master composer (and probably even more master teacher), at the University of Arizona. I have explored all compositional forms and procedures with my harmonic system, beginning with hard core baroque contrapuntal music. I am confident that the system works. I trust the audience will be pleased with the sounds of Daughter of Dawn. The score is actually quite romantic in style.

Dan Asia, Composer,
University of Arizona.

Daughter of Dawn is the first drama film to feature all American Indians. The story is a Myles combination of various Indian stories from the southwest. The film was made in the Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma. Notably, there are Indians in the film who are old enough to have been alive during the free days. Some of these actors and actresses have relatives alive to this day. Sammy Tonekei (Ton’-kee-eye) White, a famous pow-wow MC (in his eighties) is the son of Em-koy-e-tie, one of the women in the movie.

More information about the film, its history, and everyone involved in it, and in the musical recording for it, will be released in due time. For now, I just wanted to announce the fact that it’s happening!

(One more note: the weekend just before this, June 3, the three of my works will be performed at the Chickasaw Chamber Music Festival in Ada, Oklahoma. More about that, later.)

Elizabeth Herring, Democrat, was born in Oklahoma City, June 22, 1949. She graduated from Northwest Classen High School in 1966. She was the baby sister of three brothers, all born to Donald and Pauline Herring. Not from a family of means, she does know what adversity means. She was a smart kid, however, and distinguished herself as a debater, while still in high school.

For some reason, she cut short her academic career at George Washington University and to marry her high school boyfriend, Jim Warren–who worked for NSA in Houston. For a year, she taught disabled children in a Houston grade school, without a teaching certificate. She taught under some “emergency” arrangement.

Bruce H. Mann, legal husband of
Elizabeth Warren, and Harvard Law
professor as of 2006.

Other than her family stories and anecdotes, there appears to be no actual connection between Liz Herring and the Cherokee (or Delaware) people of Oklahoma. The imaginary connection is not mentioned anywhere as a social reality. Apparently she and her family did not attend tribal meetings, pow-wows, nor did they know anyone connected with the tribe(s) in any capacity. And Warren certainly has no evidence of being Cherokee that meets any of the same legal standards that all American Indians must meet. By any realistic, legal definition, Elizabeth is not Indian.

She and her husband Jim moved to New Jersey, where she entered Rutgers School of Law-Newark. She graduated in 1976. In 1978, she divorced Jim, and in 1980, she married Bruce Mann, another law professor.

One immediately has to wonder why she has never taken the second husband’s name. Why is it “Elizabeth Warren,” and not Elizabeth Mann? Her first connection to Harvard Law was as a Robert Braucher Visiting Professor of Law, 1992 (twelve years after her marriage to Bruce Mann. Then her major appointment was as the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, in 1995.

Bruce Mann (a Yalie) was not appointed to the Harvard Law faculty until 2006, however. Before that, he was the the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. So then we have some serious dot-connecting issues. His Harvard bio doesn’t give us the details, but apparently he had a visiting professorship of some kind in Houston. Elizabeth Warren was teaching (full time) at the University of Houston Law Center 1978-1983.

Consider this record of law professor teaching experience: the Rutgers School of Law–Newark (1977–78), the University of Houston Law Center (1978–83), the University of Michigan (visiting, 1985), and the University of Texas School of Law (1981–87); research associate at the University of Texas at Austin (1983–87). She joined the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1987, where she became the William A Schnader Professor of Commercial Law in 1990. She joined Harvard Law School in 1992 as the Robert Braucher Visiting Professor of Commercial Law, and began a permanent position as the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law in 1995.

So, we can surely connect Bruce Mann and Elizabeth Warren at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, from 1987 to 1992 or 1995 (if not before, in Texas). Her second husband was not on the Harvard faculty until 2006. Did the spouses not live together for eleven years? (This sounds like a Bill & Hil relationship.)

It is abundantly clear that Elizabeth Herring Warren Mann has been all over the place, in more ways than one.

Elizabeth Warren, disappointed not to be named Director of the agency which she essentially created, the CFPB. Instead, the gentleman on the right, Richard Cordray was appointed director.

By 2007, she considered herself an expert authority on economic pressures facing the American middle class. (She chaired the Congressional Oversight Panel which handles the TARP expenditures in 2008). As a Democrat Communist, she claims to have laid the intellectual foundation for the Occupy Wall Street social bowel movement, the great fecal threat to basic decency. And despite the fact that the White House did not appoint her to her dream position of ‘people’s money czar,’ or Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, she still feels she has a place in Washington, now running for a senate seat (Massachusetts) against Scott Brown. Naturally, she feigns to champion the poor and the middle class, but, even Huffington Post noted that she’s actually part of the “1 percent” class, worth about $8 million.

So, a typical Democrat Communist elitist, professing one thing, doing another, the whole “Native American” claim fits right in with the façade. The whole front is fake. Elizabeth Herring Warren Mann is particularly aggressive, her Communist colleagues say, and no doubt the woman will not lie idol.

The easiest way to curb her Communism is to sue her for fraud–American Indian fraud. Ethnic identity theft. Slander of American Indian people–representing them as anti-American Communists by claiming to be one of them.

Again, I’m willing to sign on as a plaintiff, when we find an attorney with integrity and the financial support to retain him. The big professional conservative talkers are not serious, of course, so this will have to be a grass roots effort. Who will join me?

PREVIOUSLY on BadEagle.com:
Harvard Law’s First American Indian Professor? Elizabeth Warren (white)
Sue Elizabeth Warren, Sue Harvard Law
Warrant for Warren: Indian Identity Theft is a Crime.

NOTE: The title for this blog came from Michael D. Shaw, a friend of mine with a unique blog, Shaw’s Eco Logic. We share profundities often. When he said, Warren was “a female Obama,” I knew that was my next blog.

Elizabeth Warren, criminal imposter, guilty
of identity theft and fraud.

It doesn’t matter whether she has family stories, or some 19th century marriage paper in which one of her ancestor’s identified herself as “Cherokee.” What matter is whether Elizabeth Herring Warren has an ancestor on the Dawes Rolls. She does not. Therefore, she is not legally Cherokee Indian, and has no right to avail herself of any such privileges or advantages arise therefrom or pertaining thereunto. It is as simple as that. “My Grandfather Had High Cheekbones ‘Like All the Indians Do’” ain’t gonna cut it.

In as much as she has in fact so availed herself, and conspired or colluded with others (i.e., Harvard University and whatever other institutions who have claimed her as a minority hire), she is clearly guilty of a crime: identity theft, conspiracy to commit identity theft, fraud, and conspiracy to commit fraud.

The Boston Herald reports Warren’s fumbling explanations:

“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am. Nothing like that ever happened, that was clearly not the use for it and so I stopped checking it off,” said Warren.

People who are like her? Other frauds? Other pretenders?

The Harvard Law professor argued she didn’t use her minority status to get her teaching jobs

What minority status? She has no minority status! Warren repeatedly makes this very claim of having minority status, as here evinced, in complete falsehood. Being from Oklahoma, land of the historically recognized Cherokee (and Delaware), being a professional lawyer, and professor, Warren’s claim is the more egregious. She is in flagrante delicto. It is nearly unbelievable that she could do this.

This is Warren’s “legal” evidence of being “legally Indian?

However, she is a flaming liberal, and we know lies work for liberals. As Robert Greenberg says, Liberals distinguish themselves by lying. They earn their stripes in the Democrat party by how large the lie they dare to tell. They thrive on lies. They live by lies. It is their modus operandi.

And then this bit, for which we thank Boston Herald’s Hillary Chabot:

Warren’s statements come as genealogists at the New England Historic Genealogical Society were unable to back up earlier accounts that her great great great grandmother is Cherokee. While Warren’s great great great grandmother, named O.C. Sarah Smith, is listed on a electronic transcript of a 1894 marriage application as Cherokee, the genealogists are unable to find the actual record or a photograhic copy of it, Society spokesman Tom Champoux said. A copy of the marriage license itself has been located, but unlike the application, it does not list Smith’s ethnicity.

But still, even if the said ancestor’s marriage application did say “Cherokee,” it is not evidence that qualifies Warren as a legal member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Again, Warren must have an ancestor on the Dawes Rolls.

Prof. Warren, running for U.S. Senate, as an
American Indian? No, as a lying Democrat.

I say file suit. Professional conservatives are having a hay-day poking fun of Warren’s fraud (at Indians’ expense of course), but not a one of them is showing any knowledge of or concern about Indian law or identity. They’re not willing to pursue the matter legally. This is what needs to be done. Any lawyer in Boston with any integrity would have already file suit by now, if they cared about law, to say nothing of Indians.

So, why haven’t any Indians, or Indian lawyers filed suit? Are they too Democrat? Too liberal? I will file, if I can find support, and an attorney with moral integrity.

The Communist-minded Democrat Elizabeth Warren must be sued, fined, barred, and shunned.

Previous:
Sue Warren, Sue Harvard, 5-1-12
Harvard’s First American Indian Prof, 4-27-12

Nah. It’s never been so. The higher level the case, the more generally insincere the attorney. Why expect anything different now?

Elizabeth Warren, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard School of Law, has a genealogist (Christopher Child) who claims now to have on hand a marriage certificate of Warren’s great-great-great grandmother (O. C. Sarah Smith) on which said ancestor designated herself “Cherokee.” But that doesn’t meet the standard of legal identity as an American Indian. First of all, the issue is whether or not she has an ancestor on the Dawes Commission rolls (of 1898-1914). If she does not, she is not legally Indian. The marriage certificate is irrelevant. Secondly, the marriage certificate (of obviously nearly pre-Civil War date) does not indicate blood quantum. It might be very small, in which case, Elizabeth may as well claim Eve as her ancestor.

Prof. Elizabeth Warren, of Harvard, famed claimant
of great things, like the being Cherokee, and creating
Occupy Wall Street. The taller the tale, the higher the
statusin the Democrat party–even if you get snubbed
once in a while.

Has Elizabeth Herring Warren every identified with American Indians before? Has she ever been involved with the Cherokee or Delaware tribe? She is from Oklahoma City. Oklahoma is the territory of these tribes today. What kind of relationship has she had with the Indian people here? Has she had any interest at all?

Elizabeth Warren, sharing her “native” roots with the Third World, rubbing “indigenous” shoulders with the Mongoloids, father race of the American Indian?

It is amazing how non-legal, or illegal, “legal” minds can think. Warren is a flaming Democrat and “Communist” liberal–just what Harvard loves, and lately claims credit for the Occupy Wall Street movement (or at least the “intellectual foundations” thereof)! This is the public defecators’ movement that plans to make global chaos this month. The claim to be Indian, in connection with employment at Harvard Law, just shows the liberal Democrat mind at work: the right lie is good enough. If it supports the cause, the lie suffices. If it works, it’s truth. Warren is a big claimer. This is the Democrat way. Chaos leads to Communism. Warren doesn’t want to miss out on that. But I’ll not let her drag the American Indian into her anti-American delusions. She can claim anything else she wants, but not being Indian.

But it is no embarrassment to liberals to be caught in a lie. Warren’s campaign for the senate (against Republican Scott Brown) is the occasion for the outing of her meaningless but lucrative Indian claim, but this is a minor glitch. (HotAir discussed the issue in her campaign context.)

The truth is, no one really cares. Certainly not conservatives. Warren’s meaningless claim to be American Indian has become a story to be used against her in the senate campaign, but, her opponents care nothing about American Indians–or she and her employer would have been sued by now. No, professional conservatives care nothing for Indians. This isn’t about Indian people, at all. This is about white v. white politics. Indians have nothing to do with it.

Obviously, liberals couldn’t care less about Indian either. All the tax-funded, manipulative anti-American law firms (like the ACLU, SPLC, or even American Indian Law) care nothing about fraudulent claims to be Indian–as long as the claim is made by a raving liberal like Warren, (or like Ward Churchill).

This is a moment of piquant hypocrisy–not of Warren, but of law, of professional liberals and conservatives alike. Neither care about the integrity of the race of American Indians. (Even a liberal like Suzan Harjo, expressing outrage at such a false claim as Warren’s, has never really defended Indian people against such claims. We can only hope her company served some purpose other than a fund-raising effort to support her useless, silly suit against the Washington Redskins.)

Long live the Redskins (even if they had to make the
logo more “black” due to personnel stats)!

I would be the first to file suit against Warren, and Harvard Law. I don’t know a “conservative” attorney (or even a liberal one) who is up to the task, morally or professionally. I would be willing to retain one. And I do have a 501c3 that has a designated capacity for legal matters. Consider this then a notice of intent to sue. With the support of my readers, their knowledge of law, lawyers, and financial resources, we can do this.

I would not expect the Cherokee tribe to take any action. They need their government grants, so they have to have Negroes among them now anyway. They can’t sue a white woman for claiming to be Indian.

But, on a federal level, or even a local level (Boston, Massachusetts), Warren and Harvard can and should be sued. That’s the long and short of it: fraud, identity theft, abuse, and discrimination. This is a gold mine! This is another classic opportunity. This is about honesty, and American patriotism. This is about integrity, professionalism, and everything that made America what it once was. To neglect this only shows that American is not what it once was. We stand at the brink.

I predict none will rise to the occasion.

Also:
Harvard Law’s First American Indian, April 27, 2012
Warrant for Warren: Identity Theft Is A Crime, May 3, 2012

Comanche Chairman Johnny Wauqua.

Last Thursday, April 26, 2012, the the Comanche people completed the process of voting out of office all the Comanche Business Committee members save one, the chairman, Johnny Wauqua. The basic reason was simple: the CBC had taken serious actions without consulting the people–an error for which a leader will always pay the price. The leaders decided that there would be no more polling stations to receive votes from the people during elections, and that all voting would be done by mail-in ballots, or absentee ballots. This offended the people, as have many other actions of the CBC; but this attempt to change the voting process was the last straw, so to speak. The people rose up, through legal petition as provided by the Constitution (and signatures gathered by tribal member Eleanor McDaniel), had two recall meetings (April 19 and April 26), and voted out the offending CBC members.

Attorney William Norman, of
Hobbs Strauss Dean & Walker.

The most heated dispute took place during the April 26 meeting (at the Comanche Complex, just north of Ft. Sill, OK). Three CBC members tried to declare the meeting invalid, or illegal, because the chairman had recently (April 28) been elected the new Tribal Administrator, to be sworn in this coming June. The constitution provides, however, that Mr. Wauqua remains in office, as chairman, until the new chairman is elected (May 26). This is all without dispute.

In the Lawton Constitution (April 29, 2012) Hobbs attorney William Norman openly declared Wauqua’s actions “unconstitutional,” and in “uncharted territory,” saying that Wauqua was to have resigned from the chairmanship after he was elected (April 28) as the new Tribal Administrator (to begin in June). William Norman is quoted in the paper as declaring the historical meeting invalid.

This is a non-Comanche person, declaring to the Comanche people his interpretation of our own Constitution. This is what is unprecedented, not Johnny Wauqua’s actions.

Norman is clearly wrong in his “interpretation.” He claims that the Tribal Administrator, since it is a position directly chosen by the people in a stand-up vote, disqualifies Chairman Wauqua from being chairman between April 28 (when he was newly elected Tribal Administrator) and June, when the office cycle begins.

First of all, the chairman is a member of the CBC, and Chairman Wauqua was not voted out. He is the chairman. The Constitution says that he remains chairman until his term is up. Norman’s interpretation, as reported in the Lawton Constitution by Scott Rains, is based on his conjecture of what Comanche people would have or might have said about this matter in 1974, when they adopted an amendment regarding this procedure. But, secondly, Article VII, Sec. 3 (presumably the one Mr. Norman references) states clearly that an incumbent, who has been elected to another office, remains in his present office until the completion of that year’s election processes. He is required to resign, but the resignation is not effective until the term of office is fulfilled.

Norman is completely mistaken when he said, “Upon being hired by the nation, he surrenders elected office by operation of law.” This is false. This is wrong. This is a private, misinterpretation of the Comanche Constitution by a non-tribal member. This is an outside attorney attempting to interfere with the will of the Tribal Council, the people, who made their voice heard April 19 and April 26. The attorneys are obviously representing the CBC members who were voted out. The attorneys have set themselves against the people.

There was simply not time enough in the day to hold the recall process for each CBC member; instead, three were recalled on each day, April 19 and April 26. Though the Constitution, Article VIII, Sec. 2 does say that there is to be one meeting for each recalled member, but it does not say that there must be a different day for each meeting. Three separate voting registration processes were held, each day, one for each recalled Committee member. Therefore, Norman is wrong again. And his reference an unidentified amendment that limited the process to one meeting a day is completely wrong. Presumably he is referencing Article VIII, Sec.2, whence it is stated that there is to be one meeting per recalled officer. The word “day” is not in the Amendment, as printed in the present Constitution.

A very respected elder, Roland Mason, questioned the attorneys on April 28, at the General Council meeting. Regarding the dissolution of polling stations, a decision made by the CBC which greatly offended the people, Mr. Mason asked specifically if the Hobbs attorneys had advised the CBC on the matter. It was clear that the attorneys were not prepared for such an inquiry, and it was evident that they had entered a new dimension of influence. They had indeed advised the CBC as to their non-Comanche interpretation of the Comanche Constitution. There was a vote taken that very day whether to retain these same attorneys. The people voted to retain them. That is a fact.

But now with these public statements by Attorney Norman, it should be completely, abundantly clear that our attorneys are now basically risen to the position of Business Committee members. They are influencing the decision process of the CBC–in this case, against the people! The attorneys are representing the CBC members who were voted out. This is obvious.

The Constitution is a simple, perhaps weak document, and I for one have never recommended it as at all adequate; however, it says clearly that the Comanche people, the Tribal Council, is the supreme governing body of the Comanche Nation (Article VI, Se. 1) not the CBC, and certainly not non-Comanche attorneys.

The “uncharted territory” is when attorneys try to run the tribe. If that sounds accusatory, I have a suggestion for our Hobbs, Strauss, Dean & Walker attorneys: stay out of internal affairs. You are hired to protect us against outside forces. You are hired to advise us, protect us, and guide us in legal matters between the tribe and the outside world, not in matters between the people and our leaders.

A year or two ago, at a CBC meeting, when queried, you stated that you do not represent individual tribal members, but the legal entity of the Comanche Nation. Keep it that way. Do not advise our leaders how to lead our people. Our people lead themselves. We tell our leaders what we want, not the other way around, ergo you are entirely out of line.

The Hobbs attorneys have set themselves against the people twice now: once advising in the matter of the voting process, and once in defending the CBC members voted out. If the attorneys do not quickly alter their course, they will be voted out. That is my prediction. I am amazed that they did not perceived the vulnerability of their position–having witnessed the people vote out all six of our Business Committee members! For the attorneys to declare the people’s recall meetings illegal, invalid, and unconstitutional is the declaration of their own death knell.

Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren. Did
her claim to be Indian allow her to be hired?

She claims that she had no idea that it was obviously the reason she was hired, insisting instead that she was hired for her qualifications. She even pretends not to know about the Crimson articles that bragged about her “Native American” status.

Would one of those ‘qualifications be a willingness to be regarded as something you’re not, legally? To allow yourself to be a significant statistic, falsely? This is law school, now. Not an acting class.

It is an issue now because she is campaigning against GOP Senator Scott Brown. The Boston Herald reports:

“For years, Harvard has claimed special minority status for Professor Elizabeth Warren as a member of a Native American tribe and their first minority hire,” said Jim Barnett, campaign manager for Brown. “That Warren allowed Harvard to hold her up as an example of their commitment to diversity in the hiring of historically disadvantaged communities is an insult to all Americans who have suffered real discrimination and mistreatment, and Warren should apologize for participating in this hypocritical sham.”

Warren has not provided any documentation on her Native American heritage, but says, “These are my family stories. “This is our lives and I am very proud of that.” She added she does not “recall” ever using her Native American heritage when applying for a job.

This is all a matter of record, and can easily be clarified, and I’m sure it will be.

As the Herald first reported today, Harvard law school prominently touted Warren’s American Indian “background” in an effort to beef up their diversity hiring stats in the ’90s. The school had come under heavy fire back then for a faculty that was then predominantly white and male. They needed a female minority.

Elizabeth Warren, with Barry Soetoro. Kindred
identity styles? Both very much at home in
‘Hollywood’ Harvard. Bloomberg Photo.

And so it goes, again, and again. Whites being proud of some family story about Indian blood in the family. It was enough to get Ward Churchill a six-figure salary as University of Colorado. It apparently got Elizabeth Warren a professorship on the Harvard Law faculty.

Obviously, liberals prefer whites to Indians. That’s the observation to make.

The benefits of being Indian are interesting, when you’re white. The advantage of being American Indian can be very serious, if your not Indian. If you are Indian, it may not even matter, especially if you are a “conservative” Indian. I was the first American Indian at Yale Divinity. It was definitely something I claimed on my application. I was later told it had no effect on admission. Diversity conscious as Yale is, an Indian at YDS was never made into a point by anyone, for any reason. I’m sure my political positions of the last decade are an embarrassment to the school, and some YDS administrators (faculty and graduates) might think, “Yes, Yeagley was the first Indian–and we pray the last!”

The Herald has posted a sympathetic note for Warren, stating how difficult it is for some people to prove their Indian heritage. Right. Especially when it comes from tribes long ago extinct or absorbed into other tribes. Especially when it is comes from tribes who have no blood quantum requirement, but only genetic ties. Especially when the tribe never even made any agreements with the US government. Why, there are plenty of tribes to pick from. Just open an 18th century history book, and pick one. That’s basically today’s Mashantucket Pequot club did. (Somehow, they all turned out to be Negro, yet, they have the largest resort casino in the world.)

Those professionals who have researched Warren say there is no one in her family tree that every claimed to be Indian. This is a case of family lore that the family obviously cherished. There are innumerable American families that have such stories, particularly in the Eastern states, and in the New England states. Indians don’t begrudge such stories. It is honorable that white people should want to claim to have Indian blood. White Americans generally love the idea of having such lineage. It apparently makes them feel more “American.” Something about it is quite cherished.

The case of Warren is personal, certainly, but it does involve an appearance of falsehood, not something that is flattering to a law professor. Her family stories are just that, family stories. All families have a right to such lore in their lines. That such should affect her professionally–when there are numerous American Indians, male and female, who have law degrees, and should have been hired, is in fact shameful.

Senator Brown’s campaign has demanded Warren apologize for allowing Harvard to claim she was part Native American. Yes, Warren should “apologize” for this fraudulent claim, and for its serious offense to American Indians, lawyers or no. Whether or not it affected her hiring at Harvard Law, she certainly made no effort to squelch the schools public use of her claim after she was hired.

As it stands, I’m afraid Professor Warren is another “white” Indian mascot. It isn’t so flattering when it cost a real Indian a good job.

NOTE: Elizabeth Herring Warren is a native of Oklahoma City, and a life-long Democrat. She graduated from the same high school I did! Well, at least she didn’t claim to be Comanche. Half the state claims to be part Cherokee. I think a lot of that’s true, too.

Also:
Warrant for Warren: Identity Theft is a Crime, May 3, 2012
Sue Warren, Sue Harvard, May 1, 2012

We sincerely thank Canadian Immigration Report for the opportunity to share these ideas. I believe American Indians, particularly Comanches, have important things to say to all people concerned about the preservation of nations.

American Renaissance has also posted portions of speeches given at the conference, all to be available in their entirety soon. Here is the beginning of my speech (introduced by Jarod Taylor, president of American Renaissance):

These are very important matters, race, nationhood, and the future. I have tried to established some American Indian talking points–conservative points–during the last ten years. I am willing to speak to non-Indian people about nationhood because I believe Comanches (and most other American Indian tribes) have essentially things to say about the subject. We have historically important points to make.

I did sue the enemies of American Renaissance for their interference with the conference the last two years. This action no doubt puzzles many who are unfamiliar with my positions, and those of American Renaissance. It’s all about racial integrity as pertains to nationhood. Race is the most essential component of nationhood. Even in America, the most unusual nation in the world, still, the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant is the foundation of the country, and all deviance from this foundation puts the nation of America in peril.

As I have begun my campaign for chairman of the Comanche Nation, I have emphasized the importance of our full-bloods. I have pointed out that our remaining full-blood Comanche people are the source of our tribe, the foundation of what we have left. They should be honored above all other tribal members. This platform has offended many, especially among the younger, 1/8 blood population, who are more or less unfamiliar with their own identity and the history of the tribe, or even with the modern history of the tribe. I have no intend to offend, but to educate. The very first lesson in nationhood, even according to the Bible, is to honor the elders. In our case, we associate our full-bloods with “elders.”

Deuteronomy 32: 7-10 says it all:

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask they father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

The source of identity derives directly from the past.

Being Comanche is not some club membership; it is not belonging to some special “bad-ass” gang. Being arrogant, disrespectful, contradictory, vulgar, and loud, does not constitute bravery, strength, or wisdom. I cannot say that our modern tribal members have set the best example for our new youth (–those who are recently added since the grandmothers forced the tribe to lower the blood quantum so that their grandchildren could be on the rolls). There is often great and dramatic conflict between the people and our leadership.

However, the older crowd has a right to speak and be heard. The younger crowd–important as they are to the future, need to listen and learn. Because they will definitely affect the future, they need to be prepared. They need to be humble, and reasonable. There are many examples set before them, by Comanche people, that are not worthy. But, as is the case for most youth, they do not know the difference. They have not been taught.

Lowering our blood quantum was essentially a form of immigration of foreigners. It functions the same way. The sudden influx of members who are completely unfamiliar with the Comanche way suddenly have a right to speak and to vote, because of the much-abused idea that everyone is equal in every way. These is the plague of modern American society, and it has affected most Indian tribes. It is particularly problematic among the Comanches, since personalities are especially strong, naturally.

The basis of nationhood is blood, and old blood. Elders. Those who know the history. These members should be cherished above all others. American conservatism professes to honor the American Constitution, supremely. The least Comanche people can do is to honor our elders. It may be true that the elders have not taken the role of leadership as they should have, or might have; even as American congressmen have demonstrate complete betrayal of the American people. Elders are not fool-proof in judgement, wisdom, or even knowledge. But, they should be.

Johnny Depp as “Tonto” and Armie Hammer as “The Lone Ranger.” The new movie release date is May, 2013.

That’s fine. The white man has every right to play Indian in any way he sees fit. The white race is the conquering race. If he wants Indian mascots, let him have them. If he likes to play Indian, in his own way, or whatever way, let him. If he misrepresents Indians, it is his privilege to do so. What Indian would take him seriously, anyway?

At least Johnny Depp doesn’t claim to be Indian, any too much, or to be Comanche, like Rudy “Youngblood” Gonzales did when he took the lead part in Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, or like Heart Hays (Katheryan Shay Greer) does as she tries to make herself the Pocahontas of Sunset Strip. Both Rudy and Heart actually claim to be Comanche, and neither are. Neither have produced one shred of evidence, of any kind that they have any Indian blood in them at all, let alone Comanche.

But Johnny Depp is into professional pretense. It’s Hollywood. It isn’t about authenticity. It is about make-believe, like, “a Kentucky great-grandmother’s ancestry” by which Depp says he’s Cherokee and Creek!

Depp says his “inspiration” for his costume comes directly from the painting of Kirby Sattler, a very white white man, who is famous for fantasy Indian art, not historically authentic renditions. American Indians are the subject of many non-Indian artists, and there is no outrage in their imagination. Just let it be understood by all that this is the privilege of the world–to dream about Indians, to imagine being Indian. The fantasy painting of Sattler has nothing to do with authenticity, but white fantasy about Indian things.

Sattler’s “Warrior” and Depp’s adaption. Nothing authentic about
either one, and certainly un-Comanche.

Depp’s selection of this impressive painting also shows he stereotypical, superficial impression of American Indian ambiance. He said to EW.com, “I thought: Tonto’s got a bird on his head. It’s his spirit guide in a way. It’s dead to others, but it’s not dead to him. It’s very much alive.” Not words that represent profound education and knowledge of Indian lore, but a universal stereotype that is easily communicated to all non-Indian people, as well as to all Third World indigenous people.

I know for a fact that no Comanche tribal leader or authoritative elder was consulted in the matter. That is stunningly obvious to anyone who knows anything about the historical Comanches. Comanche never painted their faces, and certainly did not wear an eagle’s carcass on their heads; nor were there animal spirits procured as “spirit” guides. Not the Comanche way. (The abstract, pragmatic Comanches were generally above such obvious superstition.) Nothing about the nature of Tonto’s role in “The Lone Ranger” appears to be Comanche. After all, Tonto is supposed to be Comanche, no? He is hanging out with a ‘lone’ leftover of the Texas Rangers–the group of ruthless killers who were organized and designed to deal with the Comanche “problem” in Texas. Of course, the original Indian who played the part wasn’t Comanche either. Jay Silverheels was Canadian Mohawk. Why Hollywood has such an aversion to using an Indian to play an Indian part is beyond me. But, as I said, it is about fantasy, not reality. And the white man, in fact, anyone who is not American Indian, seems to die for the chance to play an American Indian. This is astounding, really.

Jay Silverheels, as the original “Tonto,”
in the 1950′s TV series, “The Lone Ranger.”

In any case, the film is a bit delayed in production, according to StarSeeker (January7, 2011). It seems the budget has been exhausted on special effects (“spirit” effects?), so that the release is not until May, 2013, a year from now.

If there is an offense in this Depped up version of Tonto, it isn’t because Depp is not Indian so much as the fact that it misrepresents Comanche Indians. But, even that is not so great an affront, as long as everyone understands that the movie is fantasy, not reality. It is not authentic, but imaginative. This is Johnny Depp. The Yahoo MovieTalk piece (by Mariah Doty), “Johnny Depp reveals why Tonto puts a bird on it,” has the best take. It’s all about Johnny Depp’s fascination with heavy make-up.

With that in mind, it’s for all (but Comanches?) to enjoy. I do believe the white man has the right to play Indian, however it suits his fancy. As long as it is understood by the public that these play roles are generally not authentic, what harm is there? Let the white man be his own Indian mascot. It is his right.