A World Before 1492

I wish I could be on the lands of my indigenous ancestors before the year 1492
Lands that were virgin and undefiled
Immense forests that were ancient and intact
Waters that were clear, clean, and sparkling
Wildlife that was abundant, healthy, and thriving
A time and place where other humans looked like me
And who actually loved and cared for me
A time when tribes and clans knew what true loyalty meant
And who would fight to protect our lands and one another

I am descended from several different clans, tribes, nations, and ethnic groups.
All of them shared (and still share) a common enemy.
It is an enemy who has a bad reputation for invading other people’s ancestral homelands and traditional territories.
It is an enemy that does not seem to know when to end invading other people’s ancestral homelands and traditional territories.
It is an enemy which abducted, displaced, enslaved, and otherwise forcibly removed some of my ancestors of at least two ethnicities.
It is an enemy whose descendants have NO right to exist anywhere on Planet Earth other than in the countries of Spain, Portugal, and England.

My Indigenous Native American relations have had more recent enemies: people of other races and ethnic groups from far away who seem to think the United States of America is open to everyone and is some kind of free-for-all, when my country is NOT and when my nature is NOT for the non-indigenous.

The geographic United States of America, first and foremost, is Indigenous Country.

As are other countries and regions that I have aboriginal rights to.

Do not ever forget this.
Do not ever ignore this.
Do not ever let my enemies lay hands upon me or otherwise transgress against me, ever again.

Our traditional territories extend beyond the reservations.
And in some cases, our traditional territories are not the reservations.

Indigenous ancestral rights supersede.
Indigenous ancestral rights supersede.

Please keep my enemies and other non-indigenous human bodies out of our tribal/ancestral territories and your present-day reservations. Likewise, please keep non-natives (i.e., immigrants/migrants) out of the U.S.A. and elsewhere.

Sincerely,

Y.F.S. aka “The Childlike Empress” – The term, “The Childlike Empress”, is used with irony and with permission from Michael Ende, author of “The Neverending Story”

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