The California state and the U.S. federal governments have yet to acknowledge their respective roles in the genocide of Native Americans of California.
Thursday Dec. 12, 2024 – Today is the 123rd death anniversary of our great-grandfather Nicolas Aldana who was executed along with Isaac Antonio, Prudencio Santiago, and Estanislao Quilatan, over and above the objections of the U.S. military that captured Emilio Aguinaldo, the self-styled dictator of the Philippines and leader of the so-called Army of Liberation.
INTRODUCTION
In discussing the Spanish colonization of the Philippines as a Native American I find necessary to run a parallel between the treatment of Native Americans under the Spanish missionaries and later the Americans in both California and the Philippines. From 1565 to around the first quarter of the 17th the Spanish military implemented the harsh repartimiento system and the onerous encomienda system of Spanish colonial system. The Friars reported this maltreatment of the natives then called indios to the King Philip II of Spain saying that indios were enslaved, exhausted and killed by Spanish troops. King Philip II later turned over the control of the Philippine colony to the Friars who ironically, maintained the same harsh and unjust system they reported to the King. This time, no one dared to report the friars’ abuse and exploitation of indios in the Philippines. However like their California counterparts, the natives of the Philippines were not just victims. From 1565 to 1898 there were an estimated 31 revolts, mutinies and uprising against Spain until 1898 when the greatly weakened Spanish Empire fell.
It should be noted that after 1535, Fr. Bartolome de las Casas introduced African slaves to the New World to ease the work load of the indigenous peoples. No African slave was ever brought to the Philippines under the Spanish regime. This means the natives were also the slaves.
GENOCIDE OF CALIFORNIA’S NATIVE AMERICANS
“All who benefit from the inherent violence of the state are implicated in its cruelty.” ― Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence (2014)
The Papal Bull of 1455 called for the subjugation and perpetual enslavement of Saracens & pagans i.e. Native Americans. Note: It was after Columbus discovered the New World that the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed on 2 July 1494 dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal, excluding the rest of Europe.
The Missionary Junipero Serra sailed into San Diego harbor and established the first mission in the Spring of 1769. This is the start of the Mission era (1769 – 1823). Those who claim California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Texas, New Mexico & Colorado belong to Mexico are basing their claims as descendants of the Spanish Conquistadores. It was Conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado who led the Spanish expedition from Mexico to what is now Colorado on Feb. 23, 1540. There were various Native American tribes in those lands (CA, NV, UT, NM, CO TX, etc.) even before 1540.
Ironically, Native Americans are STAUNCH DEFENDERS OF THIS COUNTRY. Just like Filipinos who served in WWII.
05:11 – FLOYD “Red Crow” WESTERMAN: It is a great irony that American Indians after being denied for many years their right to practice their own religion speak their own languages after being forced to live in the oppressive concentration camp lifestyles, after all that Indians have gone on to become staunch Defenders of this country in times of need. More Indians have received the Congressional Medal of Honor per capita than any other group of people. We remain a proud people in spite of the efforts to exterminate us. In order to heal we first must accept our past.
12:08 – PROF. DAVID E. STANNARD, University of Hawaii: Make another comparison in the final year or so of uh the BUCHENWALD concentration camp in NAZI Germany um there again have been calculations of the amount of caloric intake that the inmates received was around 6 to 700 calories a day. That’s I can’t remember exactly, something like a cup of milk and a little piece of bread or something. That is what the the people in the missions were getting year after year after year, decade after decade after decade. They were literally BEING STARVED.
17:03 – EDWARD CASTILLO PH.D. Cahuilla/Luiseño Professor of History: – One of the most disturbing things that I ever came across in the documentation was the inaugural address of California’s first governor (Peter H. Burnett) when he declared that Indians, that a war of extermination would be made against the Indians until the Indian race is extinct. We got a classic example of the head of modern State endorsing genocide.
17:26 – DR. DARRYL BABE WILSON: Sometimes we when we hear the word Stanford we think boy that’s the best university there there ever was and it may be.
17:36 – DR. DARRYL BABE WILSON: But when LELAND STANFORDwas the governor of California, the militia out there killing native people, they got paid in rifle powder and ball for killing Indians that was their reward.
17:53 – EDWARD CASTILLO PH.D.:The militias were financed at first by local Merchants who simply saw an advantage of of getting rid of the local Indians. Uh then they would submit the bill to the state legislature since the state legislature was had barely formed and they were clamoring for protection against Indian depredations as they called it, the state legislature paid them back and then sent the bill to the federal government. And the federal government reimbursed eventually over $1.5 million for militia campaigns against Indians.
18:22 Now the the great tragedy in this is that this becomes a form of (U.S. government) subsidized murder.
Native American Holocaust : Exterminate Them! The California Story (FULL) om786swastik 707 Likes 46,785 Views Nov. 5, 2011 (created Mon. Dec. 9, 2024)
According to legendary military Remote Viewer Lyn Buchanan, “Remote viewing is basically psychic work. And for most psychics, they’re sort of at the mercy of their own subconscious mind* that they get what they get.“
Your subconscious mind is smarter than you are. It’s faster than you are. It cares more about you than you do. And if you can be friends with your own subconscious mind and learn to communicate with it, your life is going to change for the better. It really will. I’ve always said that I’ve always felt. And one of the things you find is that when a person learns to actually interview their own subconscious mind and pay attention to what it says and report it accurately without interpretation, they become friends with themselves. And it does have a spiritual and a personality change.“
From: Our Second Open-Ended Conversation with Lyn Buchanan New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove 753 Likes 14,934 Views Sep 20, 2022
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Brittany, we communicate on another level of existence – through our subconscious. If we want to get better results, we need to meet regularly. Otherwise, as Lyn Buchanan said (above), “we get what we get.”
And these are the episodes we got from Nov. 28 up to Dec. 5, 2024, the impact date:
On July 13, 2016, Arnold Schwarzenegger posted on his Face Book page his photo with then U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron with the comment: “Best wishes to my friend David Cameron. You are the definition of a great public servant.“
As a British-American based in California, I was involved in politics in both the U.K. and the USA, becoming a member of the Conservative Party of the U.K. in April 2015 and campaigning for David Cameron’s re-election the same year. Below is David Cameron’s email after the May 7, 2015 general election wherein he won an unexpected landslide victory.
But before I joined the U.K. Conservative Party and was involved in U.K. politics, I was quite active in American politics. Below is one of the yearly holiday greetings of then California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.