I Spy With My Little Eye in Current Events

I don’t want to learn the culture of my people. I want to learn God through the culture of my people.

I Spy With My Little Eye: Uncivil Rights
I felt like I was in the twilight zone at the Harm Reduction Conference last week. As an outsider trying to get in, I can see what conservatives are saying about leftism but in a much smaller sample size. First Nations Communities are trying to repair what was broken. They are trying to unite and build their communities but leftist ideologues are keeping us destabilized. The west implanted patriarchy.

We didn’t have radical feminism. We didn’t have civil rights. We don’t even have a word for homelessness. We didn’t have critical race theory or gender theory. We didn’t have identity politics. We had a different foundation of understanding for everything. Everything is energy released. Energy at rest is creator. It was taught to us from the stars, just like every other civilization. Energy has masculine and feminine properties. Force and motion. Physical and non-physical. Electricity and magnetism. Masculine and feminine can be equal but the feminine will never overpower the masculine. It was a man’s job to protect the feminine. We had to live in balance like nature and with nature.

Our God does not have rules, just ceremonies to help us understand him better.

There is a lot of lateral violence within our communities. We never had alcoholism or substance abuse which is responsible for the worst of it. But we also never had civil rights or policy. Property? We never heard of her. You can’t own land. These were foreign concepts. Men and women were equal but they had different energies. Women are magnetism. They are connected to creator. They wore skirts in ceremonies. Men and women sat on different sides. We were manipulating energy for the whole community. It was not about identity. (Identity is a false idol. We mustn’t serve two masters.) Now there is lateral violence at ceremonies because of these modern colonial beliefs. Women want to sit with men. They want to come into a sweat lodge while menstruating. They want to wear pants and men want to wear skirts. Women made the drums for men to sing. Now they are taking that back.

We were a matriarchy. When we had to go underground to practice our ceremonies, the women stayed home with the children. The next generation thought that was our way.

I can see that the outside, mainstream society, is taking from our communities and misrepresenting things to fit their politics. The worst is when they teach it back. The idea of two-spirited, for example. We never had gender-affirming care. Two-spirited has a different foundation of understanding but in general the gist is that these individuals were recognized as having both masculine and feminine energy (electricity and magnetism). They were used in ceremonies to amplify energy. If men were wearing skirts, it wasn’t about gender affirmation. It was about honoring his female ancestors. They would use female pronouns to speak to his female ancestors.

I understand that gender-affirming care, today, is just about meeting someone where they are at but most of what the left is pushing on us is just more colonization. We did not have the same foundation of understanding and we are not supposed to be trying to catch up with the rest of the West, we were supposed to be trying to step away from the West. That is why we adopted the term two-spirited in 1990. We wanted to name ourselves. The previous term translated to boy-whore so we chose two-spirited. Now it has been added to the woke Taliban 2SLGBTetc to destabilize society even further so we will be dumb enough to elect a majority right-wing government. (The enemy plays both sides, if we can’t see that I can’t help you.)

On that note, I see this going both ways. First Nations communities are cherry-picking from the west. Reservations were about being land-based, not supermarket-based. We didn’t have groceries. We did not have hospitals or k-12 education systems. We traded, we didn’t sell. If the government is polluting the land we are supposed to be living off of, that’s one thing. Demanding groceries to remote areas without having to pay for the cost of transporting them. That is not a Western way. It is not their fault, I do recognize that. We were too self-reliant because of our relationship with our buffalo and would never depend on the government for assistance so they needed to eradicate the buffalo. As per Percy E. Jackson, for example. Making us dependent on the government was an act of public health. We are all living that in real time now.

Not to take away from any of the atrocities that happened. I’m just zooming out to look at this. I am also trying to look forward with these communities which is difficult with wounds this fresh. It’s hard to see past the pain. Healing only ends one way, I don’t think we realize what our destination is. It only ends with forgiveness.

In general, we are in the upside down. We are spiritualizing our own pains and our own prisons. We are in the dumb ages and we are possessed by Wetiko.