Turtle Island Project: Silencing Native Americans & author hails American Indian genocide over the rainbow

Silencing Indigenous People and Cultures: Wizard of Oz author celebrates death of Native American culture in Sitting Bull obit

This is the second in a series of videos from two talks that Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard – the Turtle Island Project Director and Co-Founder – gave on Sept. 23 during the 2008 UNITED Conference at Northern Michigan University in Marquette.

Zoologist and philosopher Neil Evernden wrote that vivisectionists cut animal vocal cords so they did not have to hear the tortured animal cry as they conducted experiments.

The vivisectionists silenced the animal and therefore did not acknowledge it was a tortured being.

The right of passage into the scientific (way of being) centers on the ability to apply the knife to the vocal cords – not just of the dog on the table – but to life itself.

It was about silencing voice then – and reflects the silencing of voices today.

Wizard of Oz versus today’s sneaky politicians and the way we treat the environment and one another.

Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, Turtle Island Project Director and Co-Founder:

We are on the tip of an iceberg and the iceberg runs deep and the ship is running right into it.

Industrial civilization is not sustainable. We all know that. It cannot be sustainable.

Any technology that relies on the use of non-renewables is by definition not sustainable.

We could have solved these problems 50 years ago, but we are not going to solve these problems in the next 20 years. We can start, maybe. But I think we are in for a very, very difficult time.

Dorothy is not in Kansas anymore. And Dorothy is not coming back to Kansas.

This is not going to be easy.

And like that Great Oz asked Dorothy and her friends – so are the politicians of our day – they ask us.

Pay no attention the Great Oz says to the man behind the curtain. Because the great deception is alive and well.

Hubbard compared the yellow brick road to gold and the Emerald City to the green of money where Dorothy though shed find her salvation.

The Great Wizard of Oz is this old white guy doing his thing, pulling his levers, lying to the people to maintain is power.

This is what we have been doing as a culture for how many years ignoring the man behind the curtain.

And now the chickens are going to come home to roost.

Hubbard reminded the audience of how we all look forward to the Wizard of Oz because it was shown only once a year.

Wizard of Oz was written by L. Frank Bauman (Born May 15, 1856)

Originally author Bauman was a failed businessman as a store owner – then edited the local newspaper the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer.

After the (first) Wounded Knee massacre in 1890, Native Americans were the targets of his editorials in his paper.

He explained that the safety of Euro-Americans depends upon the extermination of Indians.

Upon hearing of the death of the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, Baum wrote an editorial for the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer:

Sitting Bull, the most renown Sioux of modern history, is dead. He was a chief but without kingly lineage – he arose from a lowly position to the great medicine man of his time by virtue of his shrewdness and daring.

The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce bloody wars for their possession lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull.

With his fall the nobility of the redskin is extinguished.

And what few that are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.

The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians.

Why not annihilation?

Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are.

After reading the editorial, Hubbard then told the audience:

That was act one the great Wizard silencing nature.
—
Native American Genocide Advocate L. Frank Baum – ironically married kin of a civil rights activist.

Baum married Maud Gage, a daughter of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a famous women’s suffrage and radical feminist activist who learned much from American Indian women.

Native Americans were the target of Baum’s editorials after the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Miniconjou Chief Big Foot lies dead in the snow following Wounded Knee Massacre on Dec. 29, 1890.

Big Foot was the half-brother of famous Lakota Chief Sitting Bull. Two weeks earlier on December 15, Chief Sitting Bull was killed at his cabin on the Standing Rock.

Baum wrote that the safety of Euro-Americans requires the “extermination of Indians.”

Baum written attacks on American Indians are evident in his obituary of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull in the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer.

L Frank Baum – the author of Wizard of Oz – promoted the genocide of Native Americans:

Sitting Bull, most renowned Sioux of modern history, is dead. He was not a Chief, but without Kingly lineage he arose from a lowly position to the greatest Medicine Man of his time, by virtue of his shrewdness and daring.

He was an Indian with a white man’s spirit of hatred and revenge for those who had wronged him and his.

In his day he saw his son and his tribe gradually driven from their possessions: forced to give up their old hunting grounds and espouse the hard working and uncongenial avocations of the whites.

And these, his conquerors, were marked in their dealings with his people by selfishness, falsehood and treachery.

What wonder that his wild nature, untamed by years of subjection, should still revolt?

What wonder that a fiery rage still burned within his breast and that he should seek every opportunity of obtaining vengeance upon his natural enemies.

The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull.

With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.

Why not annihilation?

Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are.

After the massacre, Baums second editorial on Jan. 3, 1891 said Americans should exterminate Native American Indians because having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization … and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth.

Baum wrote:

The peculiar policy of the government in employing so weak and vacillating a person as General Miles to look after the uneasy Indians, has resulted in a terrible loss of blood to our soldiers, and a battle which, at best, is a disgrace to the war department.

There has been plenty of time for prompt and decisive measures, the employment of which would have prevented this disaster.

The PIONEER has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians.

Having wronged them for centuries we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one or more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth.

In this lies safety for our settlers and the soldiers who are under incompetent commands.

Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past.

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that ‘when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.”
—
Related Links:
—

Zoologist and philosopher Neil Evernden:

http://www.derrickjensen.org/essay.html

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/07/168159.php

http://haydon4.tripod.com/id20.htm

Neil Evernden books: The Fragile Division; Nature and the Ultrahuman; The Natural Alien: Humankind and Environment:

http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Alien-Humankind-Environment/dp/0802077854/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1223868003&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Neil%20Evernden

http://www.derrickjensen.org/comm.html

http://www.derrickjensen.org/books01.html

—

Anti-Vivisectionists – cutting of animal vocal chords:

http://www.adaptt.org/animalrights.html

http://www.samizdat.com/micah/animal_rights.html

http://pharyngula.org/index/science/comments/good_for_doug_bjerregaard

http://www.infonature.org/english/world_news/eng-nature_news_animal_torture.htm

http://www.tonglen.oceandrop.org/Letter_Ban_Vivisection.htm

Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum celebrated the death of Sitting Bull:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum

http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Baum,+L.+Frank

http://www.put.com/oz/ozdi/199712.TXT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz

Apology by fans of Baum and others – plus public comments:
APOLOGY AND PLEDGE: From Planners and Anticipated Participants in the L. Frank Baum Conference for Aberdeen, South Dakota Planned in 1997

http://www.dickshovel.com/roeschbaum.html

http://www.dickshovel.com/TwistedFootnote.html

http://www.dickshovel.com/baumcom.html

Provide comments on apology website:

http://www.dickshovel.com/com.html

Photo credits:

Oz photos/video:

http://battellemedia.com/images/wizard-behind-curtain.jpg

http://www.milfordtheatreguilde.org/WOCastHome.html

http://oblivio.com/archives/02011701.html

http://www.mulholland-drive.net/pics/reference/wizard_shot.jpg

http://www.reelclassics.com/Musicals/Wizoz/wizoz.htm

http://ayearofoz.blogspot.com/

http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/?p=3361

http://ozproject.egtech.net/book.php?book_ID=676

http://www.moviejustice.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3038

L. Frank Baum circa 1901 – Wikipedia:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/L_frank_baum.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:L_frank_baum.jpg

L Frank Baum Poster from Wikipedia (unknown artist):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Baum_poster_1b.jpg

Baum photo from Looking Glass Review website:

http://www.lookingglassreview.com/html/l_frank_baum.html

Baum photo from Pixie Palace website:

http://www.pixiepalace.com/2007/06

Baum photo from Literary Traveler website:

http://www.literarytraveler.com/literary_articles/l_frank_baum.aspx

Baum with Green outline from oz.org website:

http://wizardoz.home.att.net/index.html

Wizard of Oz Poster of Tin Man from Wikipedia (The Tin Man).

Poster for Fred R. Hamlin’s musical extravaganza was created by “The U.S. Lithograph Co., Russell-Morgan Print, Cincinnati & New York.” – 1903 U.S. Lithograph Co.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Tin-Man-poster-Hamlin.jpeg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tin-Man-poster-Hamlin.jpeg
—

Vivisection photos from Ocean Drop website:

http://www.tonglen.oceandrop.org/Letter_Ban_Vivisection.htm

http://www.tonglen.oceandrop.org