Newsweek Magazine
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New York, New York 10019-1894
Attention: Editor
May 23, 1999
Dear Editor:
Sharon Begley and Andrew Murr’s article, "Who Were the First Americans" (Newsweek, April 26, 1999) is so contrived it is rather transparent as a purely ‘political’ piece. It is too flawed to merit consideration as anything more than a ‘staged presentation’ designed to serve ‘clandestine purposes.’
Even a ‘casual reader’ of the article might muse at the Bering Strait Theory of "Asians crossing over" to what are now Canada and the United States. It is well established that the continents were once joined as one landmass. So, no one had to ‘cross over’ going in either direction, except of course, as was the pattern of ‘traders and merchants, hunters and explorers, travelers and adventurers.’
The ‘evidence’ that clearly substantiates "who were the first occupants" of this land- mass (referred to as Canada and the United States of America) is abundant in the National Archives, and one would think this information is available to such a prestigious journal as Newsweek!
The Trail Guide (Poverty Point State Commemorative Area, P.O. Box 276, Epps, Louisiana 71237) tells about "Macon Ridge, which was formed more than 40,000 years ago when floodwaters of melting Midwestern glaciers deposited sand and silt here…. Prehistoric and historic Indians in Louisiana built mounds for religious and ceremonial reasons…. About 12,000-14,000 years ago, soils blown by the wind covered Macon Ridge," and finally, "The Coles Creek Indians, who lived over 1000 years after the Poverty Point people, had built six mounds just to the south of Poverty Point."
History ("His-Story") regularly lied to the people, whether about Jesse James the outlaw, or Columbus the "discoverer of the New World," or agreements with those who inhabited this land before Europeans or any others ‘came over.’ A clear and perfect example is the big lie known historically as "The Louisiana Purchase."
In all his-story books I ever read, the US purchased from France all the territory that came to be known as "The Thirteen Original Colonies." Is this not what you were taught? Documents within the National Archives, to the contrary, show what was ‘purchased’ was nothing more or less than "The streets of New Orleans and one military barracks."
Newsweek Editor, page two, May 23, 1999
The landmass of the so-called ‘thirteen original colonies’ belongs to The Ancient Ones, Empire Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah, those indigenous people who called themselves "mound builders," who demonstrated construction technology more advanced than "pyramid technology" and centuries older! "In 1992 the Washitaw Nation received international recognition as a sovereign body and officially became Indigenous Nation #215 in the United Nations Indigenous Peoples Register, and officially recognized as the Oldest Indigenous People on Earth" (Washitaw Post, Jan.’99, pg. 2).
Could this information and evidence have ‘accidentally’ escaped your "researchers?" Or, is there some "hanky-panky" inherent in the report? Was this a sponsored article, one whose ‘outcome’ or conclusion was foreknown? Is the ‘politics’ of the article in question aimed at "moving on" the growing wealth—and power—of the so-called ‘Native Americans,’ to deprive them of those "legal entitlements" which shelter the creation of this wealth from land and through their gambling casino operations?
If Native Americans can be shown not to have been the ‘first inhabitants’ and, instead, Asians (whom "we" have ‘safely boxed out’) are plugged in as the "irst Americans," will this not create the "scientific evidence" needed by certain factions within State Legislatures to booster legislation designed to stripe ‘Native Americans’ of such God-given, ancient rights?
Of course, Newsweek could hardly admit to the above conclusion, even if it agreed. So, the question is rhetorical, really. Take the current fervor over President Thomas Jefferson’s lineage of "children of color." How self-serving, naïve and pompous is the editorializing and fanfare over "identifying and acknowledging" these ‘colored biological relatives’ of the former President of the United States of America!
Distortions in his-story (history) continue unabated. For example, who talks about the "colored children of President Thomas Jefferson’s sisters?" New Orleans was no cradle of Thomas Jefferson’s children (the children sired by white men and colored women); it was also well fed by "the President’s sisters’ children, fathered by colored males!" Of course, in this structure, both references are symbolic of the truths that his-story has declined to tell. So much has been untold even ‘sincere’ writers often cannot ‘recognize’ the truth. Begley and Murr, the writers of "Who Were the First Americans" cannot claim such ignorance; their effort seems a planned and deliberate distortion.
For example, the Ancient Ones are described throughout documents found within the National Archives as looking like "people of West Africa, black, broad noses and thick lips." In their article, Begley and Murr used one paragraph to allude to any possible connection to the indigenous people: "Spirit Caveman bears less resemblance to American Indians than he does to any other ethnic group except African Bushmen" (p.53). How insulting? Not at all: How consistent! This is the reality.
Newsweek Editor, page three, May 23, 1999
Are there any extremes to which European descendants will not go to have "history" conform to their wishes? Well, you be the judge. The "institution of slavery" was ‘invented,’ not because pioneers needed ‘affordable laborers who could withstand the heat and hard work.’ No one withstood more ‘heat, hard work, disease, suffering, terror and death’ than those who crossed the plains, ‘stealing (claiming) native lands.’
‘Slavery’ is, perhaps the oldest known strategy for depriving people of their ‘birthrights’ without wholesale slaughter, whether such birthrights be water and its contents, space and air, or land (what’s above and what’s below). Since The Ancient Ones ‘looked like people from West Africa,’ why not import people, really, from West Africa, make slaves of them, institute a reign of terror, violence and intimidation, then pass laws forbidding "slaves or their descendants" from owning land? After all, "they all look alike, don’t they?" How clever! What a stroke of genius!?! And so, in his naivete, Steven Spielberg—with the sincere intentions and support of Debbie Allen—has his character (Anthony Hopkins) define for the ‘rebellious darkies’ their ‘reality’ in "Amistad" (the movie about mutiny on a slaver’s ship): "Slavery…that is your story!" How elementary, how distorted, how consistent!
The American story says that General George Washington was "the first President of the United States of America." Who ‘appoints’ a military General, if not a President? Then, obviously, there was an ‘American President’ that made George Washington (Washitaw) a General! Some Washitaw Presidents before George Washington were: President H. Knox (1779), President John Hanson (1782), President M. Weare (1782), President Richard Henry Lee (1785), President Cyrus Criffin (1788), to name five--Washitaws, descendants of The Ancient Ones, the indigenous people of this land. President George Washington was the ninth, not the first President and he was ‘chosen’ under the pretext he could better negotiate and interface with Europeans. And, he represented "…a Federally Incorporated State, a foreign Corporation to the original 13 Colonies (the only leg of legality the United States of America had to stand on), is a statutory system that has done little but rob its own citizens of their liberties, keep them under control, and fearful of their own government" (Washitaw Post, Jan’99, pg 2). Empress of the Washitaw Nation never sanctioned the creation of the federal corporation known as the United States of America!
Begley and Murr join a litany of "scientific researchers," filmmakers, historians, archeologists, anthropologists, and of course politicians who, periodically reinforce the ‘party line,’ a self-serving view of human events that bears no reliable relationship to the truth. They provide the ‘kindling’ for ‘fires of atrocities’ which plague our human race.
What now, consistent with the manner in which European descendants handle ancient realities? How will "The American Indian Question" be dealt with? What atrocities lie lurking on the horizon for thousands who cherish relatively newfound excess and privilege? Who will “claim responsibility” for the possible violence that is fueled by the faulty, contrived ‘research’ represented by the Begley-Murr article, "Who Were the First Americans?"
Newsweek Editor, page four, May 23, 1999
The question really is: Who are the people who will go to any extreme to maintain control over the lives and resources of this earth? Are they mad? Are they so inherently evil that Malcolm X could find no English word better to refer to them but as "devils?" Newsweek is ‘involved,’ as are other media, banks, corporations and elements within governments. In a sense we are all ‘involved,’ actively or passively.
But, not all European descendants are among the ‘devils who beguile’ civilization. Many are sons and daughters, brothers and sisters of "those who look like West Africans," The Ancient Ones, the "oldest indigenous people on the face of the earth," offspring and therefore ‘children of the Washitaw Nation,’ PO Box 1509, Columbia, Washitaw Province, via US Postal Zone 71418, USA (504/314-1919).
"The Washitaw Nation supports the Empress Verdiacee (‘Tiari’ Washitaw-Turner Goston El-Bey, Her Emperial Highness) in her quest to collect reparation in the amount of $388,000,000,000.00 for use of the 68,833 acres of land which was returned to her in 1992 (by the State of Louisiana); for recovery and use of the natural resources located in or on the above listed 68,833 acres of land; and any other funds owed to her, her family and the Nation by the said State of Louisiana and the (sic) ‘the united states or better known as the 13 colonies,’ the United States of America and the federal government.
"Additionally, reparation is being sought in the amount of $80,000,000,000,000,000.00 from the ‘united states or better known as the 13 colonies,’ the United States of America and the federal government for use of other land and natural resources located in or around the said United States of America" (Washitaw Post, Dec.’98, pg. 12).
How is it possible that a credible international magazine like Newsweek could ‘allow’ so grossly inaccurate an article to carry front page around the world? Was this from ignorance or by design? Or, are you just using the ‘perfect’ example of how the ‘truth of AIDS from drug use’ has been distorted into a “system of false glorification and income generation” unequaled even by some forty years of ‘diet-deficiency-cancer’ hysteria funding?
Americans have been referred to as "the most uninformed people" of so-called ‘developed nations.’ If there is any truth in that conclusion it has to be related, at least in part, to the ‘slave status’ people inherit when their ‘right’ to know the truth is withheld. But, as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. so eloquently put it: "Truth, trampled to the ground shall rise again!" We’ve heard, and many find hope in believing, "Ye shall know the truth, and the Truth shall set ye free!"
Washitaws "were the first inhabitants" and documentation goes back more than 15,000 years, right here on what today is called, California or Wyoming, or Texas, or Louisiana,or Georgia, or Alabama, or "The United States of America," all a part of Washitaw Proper!
Newsweek Editor, page five, May 23, 1999
Begley and Murr state in their article that even President Thomas Jefferson "was curious enough about the prehistory of America that when he dispatched Lewis and Clark to survey the West, he asked them to look for signs of ancient settlements…."
Despite this and all other evidence pointing toward The Ancient Ones, "the oldest indigenous people on earth", Begley and Murr report that "Archeologists led by Michael Johnson" join the Smithsonian’s Stanford in a forthcoming project to rewrite "the textbooks on the First Americans." Yet, nowhere in their "research" or "reporting" have they come upon evidence of the Ancient Ones, the Washitaw Nation, truly the first inhabitants on the land they refer to as "America." What a conspiracy!
Respectfully,
Henry L. N. Anderson, Ed. D.
President, City University Los Angeles and
Minister of Education, Emperial Washitaw Nation
HLNA:mnj
Cc: Her Emperial Highness, Washitaw Nation
Community-at-Large
© May, 1999 by Henry L. N. Anderson
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