Illahee Spirit Runners

Wildlife Defending Itself Against Colonialism Part 1

When asked about tourists and by tourists, i really mean colonists getting too close to wildlife or possible attacks on people from wildlife I.S.R Officer Debbie Boone had this to say:

As someone who has lived and volunteered at Yellowstone Park I can say firsthand how this impacts our land and animals. There are so many visitors in one year’s time 4 million in fact that visit so called national parks. It’s truly an encroachment on both our land and wildlife. The emissions alone from the vehicles is terrible. You can literally see it in the air especially on hot days. Can you imagine how those effects the animals and a natural environment. That’s like smokers coming into your house and contaminating your home and your space. Impacts on the environment and delicate plants really takes its toll. The ecosystem there is just beautiful but can’t handle this level of intrusion. It can’t take the ramifications, the damage that it causes is extreme. I get the people are amazed and they’ve never seen anything like that before, but they also have to understand they need to respect the animals and the environment. During rutting season, The bison are everywhere because that’s mating season. But tourist’s lack of common Sense leaves them. They’re out of their cars trying to get selfies which is terribly dangerous, and many have faced the music by injury and even death. These are wild animals not pets or fuzzy dogs. Around Mammoth Park area the elk are allowed to roam free but still people fail to understand the concept of wild. I’ve seen many elk run after folks for being in their area and they’re also in mating season in the summer. I actually call a lack of respect wildlife a downright stupidity. I know for a fact that when people check into the hotels the rules are clearly stated in 10 languages. It clearly states not to approach wildlife. It literally just blows my mind. I’ve watched people get so close to bears I have to shake my head in disbelief of their incredible ego. If a mama bear would decide to turn on them it could mean death because they couldn’t get away fast enough. For real. So what can be done to protect everyone and everything. well Yellowstone has actually talked about using the coaches that they have and making everybody keep their vehicles parked and take their tours on these new coach buses but yet that hasn’t been put into play. Protection of natural resources is at the utmost importance. Tourism (colonial galivanting) generates land degradation, air and noise pollution, littering, trampling and the alteration of very delicate ecosystems. It needs to stop. there’s got to be a better way and that would be to leave wildlife alone. Colonialism has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish since 1970. So much to the point that experts warn that annihilation of wildlife is now an emergency that threatens civilization. In the so called “u.s” the illegitimate agency fish and wildlife service’s themselves kills more than 2 million animals every year on lands that belong to the indigenous of the western hemisphere. such a figure of indiscriminate killing cost us a broad ecological destruction and biodiversity and not to mention the cost to the taxpayers for whatever that’s worth. Yes, your tax dollars contribute to this atrocity. So again, I ask you how fair is that because we need them so much? I find that colonists have such a blatant disrespect for all that’s sacred on our home it’s beyond me. Support I.S.R pan indigenous government. Remove power from illegitimate colonial agencies. Assist it the restoration of Turtle Island by putting wildlife and natural resources under the control of the rightful stewards. #LandBack

Written by Debbie Boone descendant of the great Iroquois nation. Edited by The Invisible Warrior War Chief Mko of the Potowatomi, Dakota and Blackfeet.

Fecal Galivanting/Colonial Hedonism

Face it, cruise ships are gross.

Profligate waste. 1377 gallons of diesel fuel per hour, or 66,000 gallons a day. http://cruises.lovetoknow.com

Sewage and plastics spewed into the ocean. Sewage and food waste into the Bahamian waters .

Sewage and plastic into the great lakes region. Yes , I said it. Sewage. The stuff that the toilets produce. Shit, from the same place that your fish is farmed. Cruise ships stop shitting on the great lakes! One price quote for a cruise ship tour of the great lakes, starts at $13, 000 but the restitution owed to indigenous people and the land is is unpayable by the colonist and we will eventually have to take our own restitution by force. Land back and so much more.

The rich pay for these cruises. I am working class, and this is bullshit. I used to watch the lake, 1966. Sailboats, Iron ore ships. Fishing boats.

These were boats that accomplished some service. However, cruise ships function purely for hedonism. Cruise ship owners like Disney, Carnival etc. are psychopathic entities. Disney has made massive contributions to the military industrial complex creating violence across the globe. Carnival cruise lines: Expels 500000 gal of sewage and 11000 gallons of food waste globally.

Disney cruise lines is more adept at green washing. Disney offers a package where a tourist can travel to area or place ” untouched by man” On their own island. Colonial tourism. Galivanting on stolen lands. occupying them for pleasure. These ships would be better repurposed for bringing settlers back to their places of origin. Better if these vessels are repurposed to put indigenous in control of immigration as currently some 95 percent of peoples being denied immigration to the so called “u.s” are actually indigenous.

A floating den of thieves. Sexual assault. Murder. A ship full of covid.

The diesel fuel pollutes everything. More C02 into The water. The air. Sensitive habitat. The affected communities. Cruise ships murder coral reefs. Asthma numbers go up. Community members don’t like cruise ships invading their homes and waters.

The Bahamas, has Lemon sharks, turtles, coral, sea birds and some of the clearest Waters on earth.

Yet, the Red Cliff band of Chippewa ” indians” warmly received the captain and crew. They welcome hedonism. Along with chamber of commerce , the mayor and a shop owner or 2. The beautiful Red Cliff drum and dance group was there to dance for the crew and passengers.

The dance troup consisted of some children , ages 7 – 17.

Rabbett Strickland was there. He gifted the captain with the art ” Voyage of a New world”

Its so good for the economy ! is the rallying cry.

The precious economy. What these exploiters fail to understand is there is no economy without a healthy environment. We the indigenous seek full dictatorship over our lands and natura resources. We intend to set our own environmental standards once the colonists are diminished. Colonists as we have stated so many times have no place being in control of anything on Turtle Island especially natural resources. The colonist has no reverence and everything they touch is threatened.

I believe the Vicking Ocantus went to Bayfied WI 4 times. This floating city had a little over 500 of crew and passengers. Some floating cities can hold thousands.

Close to Bayfield, are the Apostle islands and Madeline Island. Now, a cruise ship invasion. This area is part of the Ojibwe migratory route. In history, we sought the place where the food grows on the water. ( wild rice) on this route. The Ojibwe settled in various places on this route. Migration of the Midewin

Carnal over consumption by the rich and exploitive seen successful. Lifestyles of the rich and exploitive. Kind of like an alcoholic on a train bound for nowhere.

(Vomiting Sound). On a binge to end all binges.

The artist, Rabbett Strickland, reminds me of Waynaboozhoo. Waynaboozhoo had/ has the ability to learn from his mistakes.)

A small apartment in SF, he’s got to pay an exorbitant amount of rent, too. It was said by one writer that his apartment was as walking into a different world. The world of the Lake Superior Ojibwe, as depicted in his brilliant art. Waynaboozhoo, depicted with fawn ears, medievalesque. The river flowing with blood, as he contemplates the passing of our wolf brothers.

The voyage of the New World: The voyage to the new world depicts 6 Ojibwe in a boat. On a very tumultuous Lake Superior. Not a canoe…

.. I was not able to find the proper translation. Chi Jiiman.

Big canoe.

In the helm of the boat there is a ‘ shinaab holding a large turtle.

Mi zhee kay or turtle, helps form a new earth. After the catastrophic flood in chapter 5, of the Mishomis book, mi zheekay , the turtle, takes the piece of earth from Muskrat , ( muskrat gave his life for us).

Story of flood and turtle island:

Waynaboozhoo took the piece of earth from muskrats paw.

Mizheekay ( turtle) swam forward. He said” use my back to bear the weight of this piece of earth.” Waynaboozhoo then put the piece of earth on the turtles back.

Noo di noon began to blow. The wind blew from each of the 4 directions.. The piece of earth on turtles back begin to grow.

It formed mi ni si ( island ) in the water.

Still the earth grew. Still the turtle bore its weight on its back.

A huge island sat in the great expanse of water. Waynaboozhoo began to sing.

The animals began to dance in an ever widening circle..the winds stopped blowing and the waters became still.

Traditional people today still sing songs and dance in a circle in memory of this event.

To this day, creator has made it so that the descendants of muskrat have a good life. Marshes have been drained and destroyed. Muskrats continue to multiply and grow.

Chapter 5, mishomis book.

There are many tellings from many of the earths people that show that depict

The ancient Mesopotamians had The Epic Tale Of Gilgamesh which later became coopted into Noah”s ark . We have the telling of Turtle island. The Crow have a similar telling but, in their version, ducks are the hero instead of muskrat.

I posit that the earths ecosystems can no longer withstand the constant assault and dirtiness of colonists. Earth is fighting back, in doing so, she will eliminate millions of humans. Indigenous are keystone species that benefit the ecosystem this has been lost by the colonist somewhere in their process 1,300 years ago.

The Red Cliff band of Chippewa Indians venerate war and imperialism. Check out the casino and see the display of photos of veterans past until present day. This is one of the reasons we must continue to build I.S.R the fledgling pan indigenous government. I.S.R is firmly against the glorification of the war machine.

The the time is now to rise, as the colonial system will fail and something indigenous and benevolent must be built in its place to keep them from coming back. Build I.S.R Unity thru decolonization. Confront colonialism. Restore Turtle Island including its pre-colonial ways of spirituality. We need a pan indigenous government of epic proportions.

NOT a neo colonial tribal government. Not an entity eager to be exploited. Not a tribal government held in federal trust unable to make decisions as if we are disabled or mentally retarded but a full dictatorship. Power over not power under as in the common understandings of the word sovereignty.

Reject and resist neo colonialism.

Written By Lisa Herthel of the Ojibway and Cherokee nations. Edited by Invisible Warrior, War Chief Mko of the Potowatomi, Dakota, Blackfeet nations.

Vatican Distraction (Hokus pokus your land is gone)

Watching and listening to all the comments jokes and memes about the Pope well let me ask you this are you a member of any organization?

Anyone? Well then don’t complain join today join ISR you really can’t speak on this unless you’re building an organization that intends on rivaling the empire. And genocide isn’t funny. We understand the whole humor as a coping mechanism thing, but you should be frustrated enough to turn that frustration into organization. You mock yourselves with these joke memes. The children tortured by the residential schools hoped we would liberate them or one day get justice for them not laugh at the situation. If you don’t know what to do about the situation, then join an organization and we will show you…. What happened was a travesty from the natives and the Pope. The Pope and the Vatican continue to dance around any admission of guilt. The elephant in the room is legal claims to the land by indigenous peoples. Indigenous land claims are still being undermined to this day with things like the supreme court vs. Oneida nation. The decision from this case continues to make land theft law thanks to Ruth Baader Ginsburg who made one of the most heinous genocidal legal decisions of all time by doubling down on manifest destiny, and the doctrine of discovery. Restitution is owed to the indigenous of the western hemisphere. In all actuality it is us as revolutionary indigenous government and indigenous peoples themselves to seize restitution because it will never be willingly given to us. We will free ourselves. This is where our elders need more political education. What we are seeing is more examples of how our elders are politically illiterate to our detriment as a people. I say this because i have witnessed the sting of elders who insisted on leading who left the land poisoned for 300 years by making rookie mistakes. We just don’t have that kind of time left. Our elders incessant need to be tokenized is the “Germs Of Rot” that Fanon was taking about in his quote. #NotYourTanto

Material change has long been abandoned for symbolism and empty symbolic gestures are often celebrated by indigenous peoples because of our lack of political education. What’s worse is the Pope was taken to a burial ground and had proximity to our dead. This indicates that in some cases even symbolism is lost to us and we have become oblivious to spiritual warfare and allow him to do spells on us. To give a headdress and an Indian name to the Pope is ludicrous. Many of our own native youth don’t have a native name and so many are struggling. This is Stockholms Syndrome. The whole thing shows a lack of true leadership of those tribes… It reiterates the fact that if indigenous nations were doing their job, had a correct anticolonial power stricter and sought power over the colonist instead of sovereignty under there would be no need for I.S.R to exist. They gave an native name to boot seriously? We are one of the last peoples to not be fully humiliated on this earth. Once they humiliate you, they try to take you out. Once you become pathetic the next step is to kill you. People in the international community and potential allies could get the wrong interpretation when they see the pictures going around with the Pope in a headdress. (Headdress symbolizes great deeds done by the wearer) This symbolism is like a backwards medicine. A spell? a Psy Opp? Mind Control and propaganda. There is a second less used meaning of the term “rape culture” it extends to the undermining of the physical and political boundaries of indigenous peoples. A picture is worth a thousand words. A thousand bad words in this case. The Pope and the Vatican are involved in a land theft racket. The actions of some of our elders do not speak for the rest of us and it is as if they have learned nothing from generations of torture. Land, culture, language etc. all this is included in restitution and the sum is so large that colonists will never be able to pay it. It would sooner happen if colonists would just leave our continent and let us begin repairing it on our own. The pope should have been banned from Turtle Island and he should have been met by a security force with armed warriors to repel his visit yet indigenous people were left with a bill for 35 million dollars for his visit. The Vatican has become the largest landowner on the planet due to this religious genocide. The church is responsible for the deaths of millions and left survivors with mental health issues. It’s time to get our way of life back to save this whole planet and future generations… and here at ISR we aim to do just that everybody seems to be so mad but what have you done to change that have you joined an organization yet to secure yours and your family’s future? Individuals don’t create revolution only organizations do that. Requests to rescind the doctrine of discovery will continue to fall on deaf ears. As Kwame Ture teaches us nonviolence only works if your enemy has a conscious. Some people celebrated the Cree woman who sang Oh Canada in Cree but it should not be celebrated. Celebrating this will only teach the youth that its ok to negotiate with terrorists and to sing songs for baby killers. Pow wow culture, you know its not traditional right? Do we really just want to do a grand entry with the Pope that bad? I.S.R call for an end to symbolic gestures. They have us wasting material resources going on walks to raise awareness for MMIP when combat and self-defense programs are more effective. At this rate we will perish, and we refuse to follow leaders who are politically illiterate. Always listening to our elders is an outdated cultural practice that is not serving us at this juncture. We are not relics. We are not frozen in time. Self-determination has become a lost art. Dialectical materialism barely considered and not in an organized way. This whole display drives home the need for an indigenous dictatorship. It brings into sharp focus the pettiness of human beings which we cite as the need for this dictatorship in the first place. Many non-natives don’t know why natives go to church and perhaps some natives don’t know by now, but we were divided up amongst the churches as if we were their property. Our religious symbols corrupted by theirs. We could only have our dances if we did it under a cross and an amerikkkan flag. We have come to identify with our captors it’s called Stockholm syndrome. The Vatican may offer some crumbs, but those crumbs will come with shackles.

The decolonization of Turtle Island is inevitable. Colonialism needs to be destroyed and replaced. We must continue to build the fledgling pan indigenous government to keep them out. Ripping them down is not enough. Only then will we gain control over our own destinies on our own land. We can become what we are supposed to be we can trade our own wares, natural resources, honey, corn, tobacco, maple syrup. Seize the means of production. And arguably most importantly set our own environmental standards. So once again I ask what are you doing about it ? If your not in an anti colonial organization that aspires to rival the empire then let this be your wake up call. Tap into an organization that strives for righteousness and the ability for of all of us to live on this planet.

“Some of you need to seriously need to reevaluate your life and your teachings and where you’re great grandchildren may be living and how’. -I.S.R Officer Debbie Boone. Descendant of the great Iroquois Nation

Written by Debbie Boone and The Invisible Warrior Mko Vieux

Revolutionary Outlook On Wildlife

I.S.R is continuing to develop our own Department Of Natural Resources within the fledgling pan indigenous government. Our fledgling department of natural resources is attempting to rival the illegitimate agencies of the empire. So called “federal” protection for wolves is a sham. In actuality protection for wolves won’t exist until colonialism is confronted and Turtle Island restored. Colonialism is the cause of the pattern of extinction on Turtle Island the so-called U.S government is not going to just voluntarily end the patterns of wildlife exploitation exhibited since its inception. Sometimes a state will kill up to 3000 black bears etc. So called U.S Fish And Wildlife kills over 30,000 animals a year on taxpayer money weather you like it or not. Grassroots wolf groups like pretenders of wildlife only exacerbate the problem by enabling colonialism. White wildlife conservation groups abandoned us early on as soon as they seen we weren’t interested in being tokenized and intended on creating anticolonial struggle around the protection of our culturally significant animal. We implore all those who resonate with the wild spirit of the wolf to Join I.S.R. Turtle Island should have the largest wild herds on the planet. There are tellings of around a thousand wolves in an area and having not come into contact with people. Colonists will never except intact ecosystems.

“Wolf is the ultimate anticolonial symbol”
Invisible Warrior

Some people new to our struggle may not understand we have a background in wildlife conservation. The fact that you didn’t know that could be evidence enough that wildlife conservation has evaded radicals and evaded colonized peoples. Some people might wonder how we got so radicalized. For me i know having thousands of wolves killed and tortured that i was trying to protect was a big factor. Not only did the states kill and torture wolves but we were teased, bullied, and downright terrorized for trying to protect them. Terrorized by the right and terrorized widely by the left who clearly are so entrenched in settler colonialism they have no intentions on capitulating power to indigenous resistance and are still reluctant to embrace indigenous revolutionary government. Centering whiteness still has a great many peoples of all races that whites can and will take better care of the planet. A political environment where indigenous peoples haven’t figured out, we need to get power and forfeiting power to the colonizer on a daily basis by not engaging in revolutionary organizing. No matter, we intend to get power step by step regardless of all obstacles. We are the rightful stewards and have full a deep and full authority on our own continent. Weve practically been forced to create a dictatorship because of the pettiness of human beings. We as the rightful stewards literally are out of time as the natural world is in crisis at the hands of colonialism. Someone has to have the sense to look beyond the petty cronyism, nepotism and cliques. Groups not talking about environmental issues have become irrelevant. Someone has to have the sense to build a revolutionary indigenous government that can actually rival the empire. Someone has to have the sense to come up with a plan to win instead of merely engaging the colonizer.

to join Contact Mko Vieux the Invisible Warrior to schedule a 40 min. orientation.

Nuclear Bombing Invisible Nations

The worldwide bully. The u.s as we all know bombed Japan and history records them celebrating like rabid vampires. They were even praying with and over their nuclear weapons with Christian prayers but who else has the most violent empire on the planet attacked with nuclear weapons? The so-called U.S has bombed several nations with nuclear weapons. These nations widely go unknown. History as recorded by colonists has a way of forgetting about the indigenous peoples its stepped over along the way. Safe to say we had nuclear war made against us and we were not willing combatants. It could be argued that this is not a war but an assault. A terrorist attacks. The ecology if given a voice would have to agree. I.S.R group rule number 7 call out the u.s military as the largest polluter on the planet and part of that is nuclear pollution like the nuclear waste being stored at Yucca Mountain. These nuclear attacks on indigenous peoples have led to Germany exporting its nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. Uranium mining on the Pine Ridge reservation led to what is known as the 180 some unexplained uninvestigated rez murders. F.B.I was whacking people and i have read the list of names and know that most of them were women and children. This was done to ensure the success of the uranium mining which left the water poisoned. These events lead to the second Wounded Knee in 1973. Leonard Peltier is a survivor of nuclear war. Anna Mae Aquash was a victim of nuclear war.

The Marshal Islands are a chain of islands in the Pacific. I.S.R claims the Pacific Islands as part of our territories. The Marshal Islands had nuclear weapons tested on them. All the while the so-called u.s claimed this nuclear attack was “for the good of mankind”. This terrorist attack has left the island commonly referred to as Bikini Atol permanently uninhabitable. Over 5000 animals were brought in to be tested on. There were another handful of nuclear tests on the Archipelagos larger castle bravo weapons were tested. Islanders were exposed to radiation, and many died. Islanders reported that the fallout looked like snow and made them itchy at first then blisters. Their hair fell out. 1954. Radiation is still causing cancers. The islanders have names attached to the places of the land they are from. Their identity is the land we are the land. Many islanders fled. Attempts to restore the islands are still failing due to radiation and economic meddling of capitalist “USA” who victim blames them for being poor and the u.s uses the church to stupefy the indigenous islanders and keep them from decolonizing or taking up self-determination. The u.s clearly does not see us as human beings.

Nevada test site is a remote place in the western deserts that the so-called u.s detonated nuclear weapons. The thing is that there were people there. There’s always been people there. The northern most extent of the Azteca. This testing could only be construed as an attack on indigenous nations. The invisible nations of the Goshute, Shoshone and Paiute. When the testing happened, people got sick. Wildlife and plants were affected and are still affected. I have heard from the people themselves that puppies from the dogs were born still birth or with deformations. Many were put into the river and washed away. These were tests done during the cold war out of the u.s and their fear of the Soviet Union. The u.s is constantly poking the Russian bear and they fear retaliation. In all honesty and you cannot deny the true facts that attacks on Russia began with attacks on indigenous peoples. There are still high amounts of radiation here. The u.s even tested radiation on their own soldiers. Outwardly it appears this testing site has been retired with mock restoration efforts. However, in reality there is talk about using the testing site again. Some indigenous people know about this and are powerless against it without engaging in organization that can rival the empire. Other indigenous know about it and are involved or getting paid off. Colonists call these test sites “proving grounds” but all they are proving is they are indescribably malicious, idiotic and corrupt beyond all measure. 1958. By 1962 there was an underground nuclear testing program. Resource exploitation companies were using nuclear blasts to drill for oil. They are sending bombs with 20 tons uranium are exploded down 2000 to 5000 foot shafts. An underground nuclear blast was first achieved, and these are being used now without the knowledge of the greater public to carve out vast underground cities for elites. These nuclear blasts are happening near and poisoning ancient indigenous gardens on Cayuse, Paiute and Nimiipoo (Nez Perce). You might know this area as “Hells Canyon”. Colonists are preparing for some futuristic Mad Max sh!t out there and even have a robotics lab.

Den’e and effects of uranium mining. Uranium mining by the so-called u.s during the cold war to fight the Soviet Union again came at the expense of indigenous peoples. Giant uranium pilings have been left. Water has been poisoned. Peoples that are tied to the lands have had to be relocated. Nuclear wind. What wasn’t used for weapons was used for nuclear power put in under a president who was so careless with the public that he only saw the need for single containment units, for example nuclear power plants in China all have to be double containment. This has led to issues like the Hanford nuclear reactor that is leaking and has made the roots, plants, salmon and wildlife radioactive for 100 miles in all directions of the Cayuse nation near and around the Umatilla reservation. Spokane, and Yakima nations also affected. Tribal governments let the uranium mining happen because it brought jobs or the promise of jobs. The jobs in uranium mining offered to indigenous people were the most dangerous. They knew already in 1929 that uranium mining causes cancer. The ones the colonists didn’t want for themselves. We see the same patterns playing out again and again. These patterns of colonial resource extraction for militarism will continue to happen until we form a pan indigenous government who can rival them and keep the colonist from coming back. It’s one thing for anarchistic rebellions to tear them down and its another to build I.S.R to keep them gone. Lung cancer on the Den’e nation skyrocketed as where it was nonexistent before. Ponds with millions of tons of uranium tailings burst and leaked poison everywhere. It went into creeks that people and animals drink out of. Indigenous peoples are tied to the land so in many cases they continued drinking the water. Some even said ” if she’s sick then i will be sick with her”. referring to mother earth. Clearly, we are not seen as human beings. Whites were warned and compensated, natives were not warned or compensated. Some indigenous drank out of poisoned water sources all their lives after the spills. The exploitation companies didn’t clean up. They left over 500 abandoned mines. Relocation. Genocide. Pueblos, Apache’s and groups of the descendants of the 182 tribes of Mexico were affected near the trinity test site in what is commonly known as New Mexico. The defense department is not done wreaking havoc on indigenous peoples and lithium mining in Mexico, Bolivia, Nevada and Oregon are next on the list for the worldwide bully. I.S.R seeks to undermine the worldwide bully and in this unprecedented time of conflict and the world seemingly moving towards world war we at I.S.R are still talking about world peace.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2021-12-29/new-mexico-tribes-concerned-about-plan-to-power-nuclear-lab

https://truthout.org/articles/the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud/

Mko leads anti nuclear walk with living legend Senji Kanaeda a Buddhist Monk

Oil Addiction

Loc Lacroix Native Pony, photo by Wikipedia

Hi, my name is Mko, and im an oilaholic.

My vehicle went in for repair and with the collapse happening it was 3 weeks out and this is a reputable mechanic. I embraced the challenge. The 3 weeks turned into just under a month.

Introduction As you probably know humanity is facing climate catastrophe that will be accompanied by the deaths of extinction of thousands of animal species, insect species and perhaps a billion people and the displacement and suffering of countless others. This is including the death of entire rivers and lakes and yes, a river can die. If you don’t know this and your experiencing brain damage from living under capitalism so long you at least know that gas prices are high.

During this time period i experienced many of what i would call withdrawal symptoms or urges to drive. At first out of habit but then once i put that in check there was still instances where i had come to rely on using a vehicle. These kinds of times included grocery day or times when people would call me to pick up supplies too big to carry such as when i was making planter boxes and carrying loads of plants and soil to the gardens. I recall a few times an inclination to drive across town and pick up something i didn’t really need as much as want so i skipped it. I recall times when i wanted to drive to the mountains, the urge subsided. Gas is so expensive anyway. I got a bicycle back in working order and embraced the bicycle. I used to bike across town every day. I was one of those people who didn’t drive until i was like 22 years old. How ive gotten so dependent on a vehicle is a colonized thing that i am struggling against. I should know better, i feel like sometimes because im a runner. I know better than anyone that in ancient times we would move across the land by running. In tribal times the runner was the diplomat. This is part of why we have retained the running aspect of our indigenous government. We are those ancient diplomats still here. We ask for a resurgence of running culture as an antidote to car culture but not in a symbolic way but a materialistic way. Beyond the symbolism and spirituality of the prayer run and come full circle as running people and use running as way to meet the material needs of the people.

Traveling The concept of “traveling” as we have been conditioned to it in the west is a colonial notion. A notion of galivanting on other people’s land. I took eastern religion class back at the community college and i learned that Hindus have a cultural thought of being able to life a full and happy life right in the area you were born and never really have to leave there. As far as for most indigenous of the western hemisphere many of us were nomadic but this concept of “traveling” as those colonists perpetuate is just that colonialism. If i do have to “travel” for the pan indigenous government this year i might consider taking a train. Covid is still an issue so i would protect myself with a kn-95mask but so is climate catastrophe.

Roads Roads, who really loves capitalism enough to commute for a job anyway? Just let it die already. Colonized people and colonialism strangling each other is a more appropriate situation then colonized people merely being on the receiving end of this strangulation. The roads themselves associated with car culture are a place of murder, torture and exploitation to the natural world. I recall seeing a giant porcupine get its hindquarters run over by a car and drag itself off the highway to die. Humans should be ashamed of themselves, and indigenous people have become culpable for following in the footsteps of the colonist and for emulating the colonist by joining in car culture. Some of the Shoshone and Numu are trying to get jobs with Tesla even though lithium mining will poison their water for 300 years and beyond. I am culpable. Indigenous people are now culpable, the myth of the noble savage won’t save us here. We could all rush city hall and demand that horse travel be legalized, or we could just disobey in mass by returning to horse culture until it is normalized but we haven’t yet or at least not in an organized and powerful way. There are enough forest service roads in the so-called u.s alone to stretch to the moon.

“Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the people”.
Cinque DeFreeze

Solutions Indigenous rule, decolonization, horse, running and bicycle culture.

Conclusion Because of this little test i am going to continue to avoid use of the motor vehicle. Especially while the weather is good. I will load the vehicle for survival and use it more for my bug out vehicle and grocery getter. I will keep enough gas in the tank to make a proper attempt at a bug out or evacuation in an emergency otherwise you won’t see me driving as much. Its very much an addiction. If the rest of the planet consumed as much gas as people within the so called u.s. we would be in terrible trouble. Im treating it like any other addiction. I pledge to get this vice under control. Embrace the bicycle. recycle and reuse parts from broken bicycles and give them value again. Become the Turtle Island Viet Cong and prepare to hold our ground against these colonizers that occupy our homelands. As we are getting stronger in our roots it will be impossible to remove us from our continent. We must use indigenous rule to stop the colonist. They have left a future where the air is unbreathable and 120 degrees Fahrenheit will become normal. The u.s has become the largest producers of oil directly at the expense of indigenous people. The oil companies have benefited from the deaths and exploitation of indigenous and African people. Companies like Dutch Shell are still raping Africa. Remove the tapeworm. Starve the parasite. Red Power!

Food Shortages

Climate catastrophe due to colonialism: Epic water shortage from climate catastrophe is severe. Declining freshwater levels can be seen at reservoirs, rivers are completely drying up and disappearing forever as i keep telling people a river can die. I first started talking about rivers dying around 2015-2016. Lakes have also dried up and in some cases, colonists have turned the dry lakes into offroad racetracks which is a perfect example of why settlers cannot be allowed to lead anything on our continent. Water shortage is and will continue to lead to crop failure. The farmers in so called northern “California” have had to dig their wells another 1000 feet and in many cases cannot drill further than they already have. Colonial agriculture is water hungry. Any indigenous person who is in relation to the land can tell you that wild harvest can produce more calories per acre than colonial style agriculture and without irrigation or irrigation as we know it with colonialism. This was partly explained to me by an Anishinaabe elder who told me about how colonial style agriculture has been pushed on indigenous peoples when we had no need for it. In addition to wildharvest we had horticultures. An example would be the Mineconjou (The planters along the stream) who planted corn along streams. Also worthy of note are the canals of the Hohokum, and the ancient gardens of the tribes of the region Illahee. Some of those tribe include but not limited to Kalapuya, Santiam, Wasco, Modoc, Klamath, Cayuse, Numu, Nimiipuu, Blackfeet and others. Even Lakotas are known to have ancient food gardens and growing food was of paramount importance to indigenous peoples who made planting back a part of a way of life. Much of the permaculture movement is stolen indigenous knowledge and as we face increased droughts the world has much to learn from indigenous peoples.

Capitalism and imperialism: Capitalism is putting profits over the needs of people and the living world. It is contributing to massive food waste. Food is ending up in landfills by the ton rather than give to those in need. Food boxes that the empire gives out at food banks reserve the cheapest foods for the poor and most of the time unless compensated by local farms do not offer enough fresh fruits and vegetables. They do not adequately provide for people who have diabetes. Food stamp programs only supply what a person needs for 3 weeks out of the month. The u.s empire routinely starves people. Food scarcity is manufactured.

Slavery: Colonial style agriculture causes slavery because someone is always required to work that land as where wild harvest doesn’t have this slavery element if you are gathering your own food off of the land. The illegitimate settler colony the so-called u.s has had indigenous and other oppressed peoples growing their foods for so long that many people do not even know how to grow food and if so, then often not with proficiency.

Virus: The virus has had a major impact of food production. This has caused many factories to be disrupted and the collective efforts at food production and harvest to be impeded. In addition, there has been another major outbreak of avian flu (bird flu) and this has caused a shortage of chicken.

Military: The u.s and other militaries are attacking people’s food supplies. In some cases, hundreds of tons of food have been destroyed. Nato and their colonial bullying scheme has disrupted the wheat production overseas. This will cut countries like India short and in turn they will cut off food export to the so called u.s in an effort to feed their own populations. Several freeze dried food companies are ins shortage as well as M.R.E are getting harder to come by this is proof of the militaries depleting food supply and even if this is the beginning it is sure to get worse. Any competent military understands the importance of the supply line and food supply. If you can’t eat you have to capitulate.

History: People living in the so called u.s during the time period known as the great depression had to resort heavily on wild harvest. Those of us who listened to our grandparents and paid attention to history know this to be true. When there was no honey one could raid bees nests for honey, only know the bees are in severe decline also due to colonialism. There was more open lands for picking berries and gathering roots and medicines. Now land is limited due to development and much is poisoned due to the colonists obsession with herbicide/pesticide. The dollar is collapsing and the effects will be way beyond the great depression. Anything that can be learned from history is beneficial. Crop failure lead to the end of Cahokia and contribute to the dawn of the Maya. It is important to remember the lessons of the past and continue to cultivate food security.

I.S.R is growing food to strengthen our indigenous government. This is a revolutionary act. If your not in an organization its just gardening. This is a basic foundation. To anyone who may have critiqued us saying all we are doing is growing food, my rebuttal would be at least we are getting our foundation in order and have an emphasis on mastering basics. Colonists came to this land starving and expecting us to feed them. It would be ironic if that happened again? Growing food will take some practice. A few failed major crops could spell a gigadeath. All of this depends on a healthy environment. #LandBack

“We cannot protect that 7th generation if we do not protect the earth”.
John Trudell

“They’re not food deserts they’re power deserts”
Chairman Omali Yeshitela

On Resolve

written by: Wyck Lo

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” -Antonio Gramsci

Comrades, we face uncertain times. The Amerikkkan system that has been propped up at the expense of its true people is facing collapse. The bourgeois who profit off the system, abuse our indigenous, African, and other colonized brothers, sisters, and fellow proletariat, and allow the land to die are shifting further and further into outright fascism. How do we respond? How do we ensure the safety of the people and the land while holding back bourgeois oppression? Well, firstly, we give the land back to its rightful stewards. Furthermore, with advanced theory and meticulous praxis, we can achieve the physical. However, when the sun sets over a loss or rises to a battle, or half a crop succumbs to disease- all these things natural in their due course- we will need our resolve. When our fortune fails us, all we will have is our resolve and the principals we adhere to. We must be ready, one and all, for what is to come.

I often ponder on our revolutionary heroes. Fidel Castro began his revolution with 70 men and opened up to an initial failure, losing 60 of his comrades and fleeing into the mountains only to be captured and jailed for two years- and yet, who succeeded in Cuba? It was not the Bautista regime who achieved final victory, but Fidel Castro who proclaimed a socialist government and led the nation through the dark to where it is now, a global contender. That is just Cuba, of course! Take China as another example, as soon as the Japanese had withdrawn from the mainland, Chiang Kai-Shek and his nationalists outlawed all forms of leftism and went about the systemic murder of tens of thousands of our comrades- in their homes, at their places of business, in front of their families and peers, betrayed by a so-called ally in the early days rearing from Japanese retreat. After heavy losses, Comrade Mao led their remaining 100,000 troops on a controlled retreat through China’s harshest terrain. This final bid through inhospitable land took the lives of nearly 90,000 men. Left with only 10,000 to fight against the Nationalists hundreds of thousands, they perpetrated a guerilla war and persevered until their eventual success- and now China stands as the foremost socialist nation on the planet- a beacon of hope for many.

Comrades, I say all this to remind you, we WILL face hardship. We WILL struggle. No movement is without its mistakes, nor its failures. All things must ebb and flow. It is up to us to strive ever forward in the face of imperfection and suffering. It is up to us to learn from any mistakes and be better. The cause is not only righteous, but eminently necessary. If we cannot topple the US empire soon, we face the very real danger of human extinction in the face of environmental collapse. Remember what we are fighting for, comrades, and remember who have always been the protectors of our Mother Earth. Red Power!

Restore Turtle Island

I.S.R proudly reveals our latest continental effort. While you were arguing over what Will Smith and Johnny Depp were up to we were secretly putting in work. The Natural Resource Department of I.S.R along with our direct action teams are involved directly in the restoration of Turtle Island. For weeks we have had boots on the ground. We are innovative and there are visionaries amongst us. We are trend setters and are one of the most copied groups on Turtle Island. Now that we have completed our first round we are revealing it because this time we actually want the copycats to join in. There has been a 400 year pattern of co-optation of indigenous resistance to the point that you have normalized it. If you want to steal anything including ideas look to the indigenous. Well copy this one you copycats. We are and always will be the #RightfulStewards lots of people are into native plants this becomes revolutionary when it is an effort lead by indigenous peoples. From my time in the rewilding movement i noticed colonists could plant back but when indigenous people are working with our plants we are arrested and fined. “public” lands is really code for white supremacy. If your trying to copy at home make sure the efforts are lead by indigenous peoples or better yet just join I.S.R pan indigenous government today.

To start this off sedge grasses, tufted hair grasses, red willow, greater camas and lesser camas. cat tail seeds were scattered and showy flea bane is being started by seed.

Invasive species such as English ivy and Himalayan blackberry are being removed.

Fast growing softwood trees such as red willow are being planted. Our department Of Natural Resources can rival those illegitimate colonial agencies with large budgets if we had more people join I.S.R. What we have done so far with little or no funding has been spectacular. Our authority supersedes that of the colonist. We seek full dictatorship of our lands to ensure the protection of culturally significant natural resources that have been exploited by colonists and continued to be exploited by neocolonialists.

Turtle Island should be restored to the best of our capability including indigenous religions and languages in addition to plants and wildlife.

We must sequester carbon. Climate catastrophe is the biggest threat to life on the planet and its even more immanent than nuclear war. Groups that are not addressing climate catastrophe have now become irrelevant because of their failure to adapt and evolve as an organization.

If your not in an anticolonial, communist revolutionary organization then its just gardening so make sure your in a serious organization. This is imperative because as fast as we restore Turtle Island the colonist is busy raping it so the colonist must either join under indigenous rule, and embrace a new life with the resistance government or be undermined, and removed from our lands forever. Join and support I.S.R the fledgling pan indigenous government. Go Go copycats! Do what you do!

“Our freedom is just a matter of power”
Invisible Warrior

written by War Chief Mko the Invisible Warrior

Revolutionary Mental Health including 31 herbs

Most of Turtle Island is experiencing some kind of mental health issue and most of them are caused by colonialism and capitalism. There is a clinical term called “eco anxiety” that is becoming more prevalent either that or health officials of western medicine can no longer ignore it. Isolation due to covid has also played a role by creating barriers to social interaction. As revolutionaries we have a responsibility to the collecting to keep our mental health in the best condition possible. Everyone should be in an organization but even if you’re not your still on the peripheral of the movement and share this same responsibility to maintain mental health. You might seek traditional healing thru ceremony or see a councilor. You might also join I.S.R who have a once-a-week group counseling session where we help each other maintain and heal, we include tips on how we are getting thru difficult times. We find it beneficial for people in the movement to have access to mental health independent of the colonial government. We are struggling to build an apparatus that can rival the system and that includes having our own mental health program. Several of us have experience with drug and alcohol recovery and are open to assisting with that for our members as well. We have included a list of herbs you might find helpful for mental health. We are all struggling so make sure you do your part and be responsible with your mental health. We can’t all get depressed at the same time and use that as an excuse to stop organizing. and organizing is what we should be doing now more than ever. Aromatherapy is work looking into. Get plenty of exercise. Try smudge. Tune in don’t tune out.

“Organization is the weapon of the oppressed”.
Kwame Ture

“Improve your relationships with the plant nations”.
Invisible Warrior

Ashwagandha, lemon balm, hops, kava, milky oats, lavender, chamomile, ginseng, stinging nettle, devils club, gingko biloba, st. John’s wort, sage, holy basil, passion flower, rhodiola, licorice root, catnip, gotu kola, kratom, damiana, cowslip primrose, yarrow, danshen, skullcap, California poppy, black cohosh, valerian root, vetiver, linden, verbena.