The vestige oath: an oath is a solemn appeal to a deity or to some revered person or thing, to witness ones determination to speak truth, to keep a promise. One such example is to protect and defend the constitution. An oath proves one’s self-responsibility and self-accountability; it proves one’s nature in an honorable way.
A constitution is the principles of law of a nation, state or social group which determines the powers and duties of the government and guarantees certain rights to the people it covers. This brings us to Art. 6, sec. 2 of the US Constitution, the supremacy clause. Not forgetting that Art. 6, sec. 3 is bound by oath or affirmation by all governmental officials to support this Constitution. Treaties were written with other countries of all races, but the only internal US geographical treaties were written with one race, Native Americans and every one was broken.
The recent ban on critical race theory stops true history and civil facts. Here is one fact. A Civic Biology: Represented in Problem by George William Hunter, required to be taught in all Tennessee high schools, page 196, “Race of man… the highest type of all Caucasians represented by the civilized white of Europe and America.” Also in Tennessee, another school book, Tennessee State of the Nation, Larry H. Whiteacker and W. Calvin Dickinson, pg. 3, “And when all the Indians were dead or ethnically cleansed as refugees to the West…” How about the Scopes Monkey trial, history gone. How about Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee? Again, erased.
In Congress, July 4, 1776, the Declaration stating “savage, merciless Indians” cannot be taught. Gone! So we have succeeded in marginalizing documented US history. And can we also avoid the 1782 North Carolina Assemble instructing the militia to kill all Indian males and the females are to be captured and exchanged (sold). You cannot teach about Davie Crockett, 1813 memoirs where “we shot them like dogs… After nearly 50 warriors took shelter in a wooden house, the Volunteers set it ablaze and burned the Creek alive. The next day, soldiers sifted through the ashes in that same charred house. They discovered a potato cellar. The oil of the Indians (had) ran down on them and stewed them.” They ate them.
In a metaphorical sense, cannibalizing Indians to build a new nation. On Dec. 20, 1838, President Mirabeau B. Lamar accused the Cherokee (Chickamauga) in Texas as wild cannibals and he wanted total extinction or total expulsion. Also, the Apache history cannot be taught due to the fact Gen. James Henry Carleton’s order Oct. 12, 1862, “All men of the tribe are to be killed whenever and wherever you find them.”
Why is it we cannot teach that Jan., 1863, Mangus Coloradas was killed under a flag of truce? Soldiers took him into custody, tortured him with heated bayonets, shot and killed him, cut off his head, boiled it and sent the skull to the Smithsonian Institution.
We cannot teach 25 US Code § 181, rights of white men marrying Indian women. No white man, nor otherwise a member of any tribe of Indians who may after Aug. 9, 1888, marry an Indian woman, member of any Indian tribe in the United States, or any of its territories except the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory.
No, cannot teach but we can hide ethnic cleansing, marginalizing facts and laws creating ignorance as a continued American perspective.
The Ghost of Racist Past haunts Attakullakulla through a vestige of US history and authenticated documents.
(C) This document was produced at the request of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on July 18, 2019, to document the History, Anthropology, Culture, Religion, and Archaeology of The Chickamauga Nation.