An interesting sideline in all of this is the notion of the American Indian fascist coupled with rogue elements in the American Indian movements and certain individuals falsely claiming American Indian heritage, themselves involved in extreme right wing militia groups and serving to compound the indigenous situation further.
Our friend, fascist, virulent anti Semite white supremacist and alien contactee, William Dudley Pelley is involved once more. Along with the American German Bund, Pelley's, fascist Silver Shirt organisation funded what was known as the American Indian Foundation in 1934. It was also supported by characters such as E.A Tower who encouraged swastika wearing and anti Semite philosophy.
Ostensibly, this was a movement to confront Roosevelt’s New Deal on reform for American Indians but to a certain extent the movement was hijacked by Nazi sympathisers. Pelley for one pandered to the Indians by saying he wanted to move then out and move the Jews into their reservations along with the possible repatriation of blacks back to Africa The American Indians were supported by Hitlers Nazi party and given 'Aryan' status by their race theorists. This though had more to do with propaganda and Hitlers obsession with Karl Mays books, a writer of stories about noble Indian warriors rather than any genuine symapthy for the plight of the Indian.. The AIF became a short lived and uncomfortable alliance with some blaming them for causing the American Termination policy that disenfranchised 109 Indian tribes plunging them into greater poverty. Historians are divided on whether or not it was a fascist movement but it certainly seems to have been hijacked by supporters of fascism. It seems the Indians themselves were less than impressed with all this interference from conspiratorial fascists.
Then we have the controversial Little Shell Pambina group. Allegedly it is little more than an extreme right wing militia group. This group have tenuous links to the authentic Little Shell Band from the early part of the century. There is plenty of info available on them.
They apparently consist of members feigning authentic American Indian ancestry, claiming large swathes of land in Dakota. Its members include people like Allan Aslan Heart, (Alan Becker) who claims he is (Ojibwa Indian) an anti government right winger and alleged anti Semite. He puts himself across as some earthy Indian poet but is really a nasty piece of work leaving behind him a trail of used women and self importance. He has sold a variety (or tried to) of products on the back of his 'Indian Heritage'. However if you are an extreme right winger and race hater you will like him very much. Its all about opinions.
Many get tribal enrollment status fraudulently. The names they give themselves are so self glorifying its slightly pathetic. One good name I could think of would be Running with Bullshit
There is a "Princess Pale Moon" AKA Rita Mae Suntz a puppet right winger, head of the so called American Indian Heritage Foundation. This is one of her famous episodes.
Her group sent out flyers pleading for donations to help what it described as the starving Paiute Indians in the Alaskan village of Port Graham. "The icy hand of winter is already reaching for Port Graham, threatening to strangle the little ones in a death grip," ran the direct-mail appeal. But an investigation by the Anchorage DAILY NEWS charged that no one had told the village of the appeal and that it suffered from no food shortage.
Outraged Port Graham officials pointed out that the Paiute tribe is located in Nevada, not in Alaska, and refused to accept the 1,000 lbs. of frozen beef liver that the Indian Heritage Foundation attempted to foist off on the community
http://www.thepeoplespaths.net/articles/PaleMoon930816Greed.htmThere are more of them and it is very easy to get information about these jokers.
There is a nice website dedicated to exposing the fraudulent claims of wannabe American Indians who often have a dubious agenda. Fittingly it calls them nuage frauds. I will finish with the wise words of the websites owner and what she has to say about the Fake Indians.
We believe in ourselves; not in their power.
They insult our elders
Steal our children's birthrights
Reduce us to saleable stereotypes.
They Pirate what is sacred
and subject it to an evil system
of Maximised profits.
Always taking more than they need
with no concern for all those they harm.
Look at them!
Who are they?http://nuagetricksters.bravehost.com/offenders2005.html