johnross@igc.org

Skidegate appreciates your article on social issues in Mexico, and encourages continued prayer joining Infinity into one Heart. The short loop of water to tankers to cans depicts the global dilemma of the Rich getting richer while the poor get thirsty. Here in Canada the cycle is the same but less obvious, more devious, and the Colonial masters have had to enlist more Indians within the Fort to offset our legal rights. You remind Skidegate how short time is, and to increase efforts on all fronts. We cannot just depend on ad hoc occupations and street marches to save the planet, but need a master stroke of Constitutional genius that could only have come from Heaven, and so Skidegate is honourbound introducing Potlatch as the most Ecological and equitable solution available to resolve these identity crises, which is what they will continue to be until Humankind learns a new Religion. We invite others to join a planned response to the Church & Culture of Western Paternalism, targetting the 8.8.08. Beijing and 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Olympics, not to interfere with the Games but to take Leadership of the Planet by elevating the ceremonies and festivities back to the original spirit involved in such gatherings. Potlatch integrates emotions and energies that the Church and State have to separate in order to conceal the inherent inconsistencies and injustices of institutional corporations. Games like the Olympics are elitist like leaders behind razorwire, when they should really serve as examples of how to identify with people and with culture in positive terms.

Potlatch declares that life itself is the intermediary of Spirit and there is no need of Priests or Kings, but every need for Mothers and Children, the sacred Vestures of Eternity. The fundamental Proposition of the Church/Temple/Mosque Patriarchy translates into the belief system supported by the Judiciary and the Militia and Police. The Corporate Identity expresses as the State but the moral belief structure of Officers of the State differs from that held by the poor; the Church and the Flocks need water but want Cola. The Poor, as a constituency, hold higher claim to rights but being unorganized and unlettered, are forever thwarted by the Institutional processes that safeguard the State; one always needs to use the State to overturn itself, and now that Potlatch has overcome the Church, Skidegate Village globalizes all human identities into a new Soul Title oriented to Potlatch. The State and Church are already under assault from within the Religious and Indigenous and from the Ecological constructs beginning to drive world feelings just at the particular moment when some of the Indians of Canada are negotiating settlement of Abuses done when they were Indian children and other Parties of Indians are reaching terms of Treaty with the Colony. The irony eludes those who believe they are engaging Indigenous and Modern nations in some super-business achievement by holding hands with the Abusers, as the Reschool Survivors collect and pay for the costs of conquest. Skidegate differs and Potlatch proves sovereign in Global ecology, Constitutional in Canada.

Jesus' speeches are Buddhist teachings applied by Monks that made Communities give aid to the poor. Potlatch operates on similar principles, bringing the rich into proximity with the poor where resources are claimed and recognized as owned by specific Titled Heirs, who openly distribute their surplus wealth. Skidegate's Potlatch lost sovereignty because the Church and Colony undermined the Indigenous mythology at the same time as they monopolized external trading. The Natural Ecology was shattered when the extended family members had no choice but to work for the Church, the Fort, or some other boss. Skidegate missed the free opportunity to compete with the Church and with the Colony on the basis of beliefs belonging to Potlatch, that survive today, but since Skidegate was also denied the Fruits of Potlatch by legislation: the Church itself is owed to the Victor, Skidegate being recognized as Sovereign. Potlatch stands for the ecological Protocols employed by tribes to convey authority to the heirs of the rights in the system.

Christianity imposed their version of the global story and successfully enforced more specific claims to the native lands, at times when Priests were more helpful to some Natives [Herod] but the military persecuted others [Jesus & Geronimo], demonstrating that physical domination by a minority with superior technology is practical as long as the Government is able to 'grow'. The more Global ecology of the Imperial state forces its Officers to extract wealth from the local commons, leaving it to the Church and Law courts to absorb local injustices by interpreting Heaven and Earth eventualy according to Coca-Cola. This is the situation worldwide, the ecology of the Huitepec is Skidegate's ecology as Skidegate's Canoe nears Vancouver; occupying their land applies friction and must continue but global strategy is called for to counter the Dominant Minority. Trotsky split from Lenin on the need to pursue a Global agenda through an 'International,' independent of Nation State Power, for the same reason Indians must unite and must compete at the State level. The Internet opens the Global International. The cold war neutralized the Church but the States have managed to substitute Nationalism driven by global capitalism, as the global religion, purporting to govern the Planet from behind razorwire. Potlatch corrects the Church with two Stories, the story of the Ark and the truth about Jesus' Name. Potlatch is the specific Imperial claim of the Empress of Skidegate in the Titles of XziXzia, Suong Linga, Kos Andl'Ins, and her heirs, to the World, to the Village, and to the Canoe. The Ark is the Independent Individual.

The Indigenous Poor and alienated middleclass are the majority, with elitist dominant Minorities in control of the Military, dictating the use of land. Potlatch challenges the western Church Idea of their Titles to the world, demanding recognition and affirmation of Skidegate as Global Sovereign on grounds of Potlatch being of superior utility. International systems must be brought under a unified and centralized control under one institutional organ proceeding globally. The Internet allows global communication but there is no Idea or Identity able to attract enough interest in, or to organize, the necessary radical actions, short of the Potlatch succeeding where the divided Church and state have failed. Potlatch provides both the new idea and Identity paradigm needed to moderate Humankind to the Planet. Google Skidegate and Potlatch and see how both terms are Aboriginal; Potlatch was legislated against but recovered in commercial forms that provide existing profile for the Ideology of Skidegate, and of Skidegate Village, but lack authority for Potlatch. These Icons have fair moral standing to denounce the Church and accuse its Colonial extensions of breaching Skidegate's Constitutional Rights, refusing to recognize and affirm Skidegate's Title, and of breaching Law by attacking the Institution of Potlatch and attacking Skidegate personally in order to further the Colony, for the purpose of delaying the Rightful Empire.

Government is already centralized around the Internet but the key to Planetary Government is the story, Skidegate's story. The authority of World Government is based on Skidegate's Aboriginal Title in Canada, 'recognized and affirmed' in Section 35 of the Constitution [1982], building unity through the Potlatch that was outlawed from 1885 to 1951; the Churches and the Governments are trying to settle admitted abuses to children in Reschools, but Skidegate says the damage done is systemic so the Colony benefits regardless of any settlements paid, the Potlatch Soul remains missing. The tactics of legislating against Potlatch and taking the children destroyed the indigenous culture and so justice requires that Churches be legislated while Potlatch is recognized as sovereign.

Affirming Skidegate defeats Coca Cola.

Skidegate continues this meditation on

http://wilpskidegate.blogspot.com/

http://skidegatespotlatch.blogspot.com/

http://skidegatecanoe.blogspot.com/2007/09/liberal-identity-...

inviting proposals for celebrating Potlatch.

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