The Hook

Potlatch Is the Table

THE FOLLOWING WAS TABLED AT THE PRINCE GEORGE CONFERENCE AND WILL BE GIVEN SECOND READING AT CRANBROOK, TERRACE, SQUAMISH CAMPBELL RIVER AND FORT ST. JOHN:

LAND TITLE RESOLUTION – This alternative to the proposed Legislation of First Nations Summit was tabled in Prince George by the Crown of Jesus Christ. Civilized culture is measured by the worst conditions endured by any of us, not by the best. Our work ends when we have certified that every member of the global First Nation of Jesus Christ owns a place of their own where they can lie down and sleep without fear.

The proposal before you says rightful Titleholders will be identified by a correct interpretation of history, and we agree that is our highest priority.

In Potlatch each soul acts directly, assumes responsibility for their own destiny, and forms relationships on their own terms. The model I propose recognizes the priority of Indian Title, directs tax revenue to our Potlatch, and draws all the various ethnic groups on our lands into union with us, the Aboriginal rights holders. We stand on the following principles:

A. Fee Simple land is subject to Potlatch Title and rights; and

that B. The Legislature and the Parliament of Canada are not absolutes and can be made subject to Potlatch; and

that C. The outer limits of our Aboriginal title lie beyond BC and
even beyond Canada; and

that D. We cannot remain forever “subject” to an alien authority
whose right on our lands can never exceed our own.

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Potlatch Alternative, continued

It is possible to implement our plan immediately, without undergoing the anticipated legislative process, although the plan to mingle with non-Indians will go forward and transpire within the auspices of Potlatch. Our plan is not elitist, encouraging and welcoming all people to become engaged and empowered by unification under our Sovereignty and jurisdictions.

THE TRUE HISTORY

Our new political model identifies the true and rightful title holders within a history extending all the way back to the creation of the world, in contrast to the minimalist assumptions adopted by the proponents of the draft legislation that’s been set before us by the Summit and the governments. History did not begin, nor did it end, when the tall ships entered our waters. Britain was following a global vision that regarded BC as just a stopover in their drive to extend the British Empire to Asia. A far more astute and proficient historic process was already underway on our coasts, against which the English found it necessary to pass laws. Our own empire, the empire of the Totem Pole, and of the Potlatch, was expanding outward from centers up the Skeena River and over on Haida Gwaii. The Spanish planted the Cross on our soil and the English read us the Bible, while our Chiefs responded from their hearts and with wisdom, affirming our own vision of Heaven, and as I reveal, our fore fathers and mothers were deliberately engaged in completing the vicarious mission of Jesus Christ, by bringing peace on Earth, goodwill among men, and they believed in eternal life. My history explains why your aboriginal rights are the highest ever held by Humans, and my solution describes how we will lead the world to the new Heaven and new Earth promised by the Chiefs of Heaven to all those bringing forth the sweet fruit of the eternal promise. So let us sing the new song.

1 to 3 and 3 to 1

ONE BECAME THREE AND THREE BECAME ONE

I begin this true history in the Garden of Eden, jump quickly to the story of the Tower of Babel, and rest my case proving that the original language scattered by Heaven into the many nations all over the world, is still spoken by some of us in this Province, that certain key terms that have come down to the present in Dene, Salish, Kitksan, and in Haida, Kwakwakwala, and English as well, were part of the first language of Creation. Realizing this you’ll know who you really are, and never again settle for subordinate and demeaning roles under inferior powers who rule according to impractical and inept concepts of authority.

Eden was located in Africa, and so we are all children of the Black People and we all descend from an original Negro mother. Over the ages people traveled out of the Mother Continent until they reached ancient Britain, where the Druids of Stonehenge first made spiritual contact with Heaven. Those of you whose native language is Athabaskan speak the same Celtic language spoken thousands of years ago on the British Isles; Dene is one of the parents of the English language. The root of the Common Law of property is situated within the huge megaliths used to identify boundaries between inner clan members and outer alien barbarians. Potlatch meant that by entering the enclosed space within the great stones, and there uniting together in Feasts against strangers who did not join Potlatch, provided you with the protection of the laws of the unseen heavenly Spirits. Those beliefs and laws, and the process of Potlatch, were exported from Britain and on reaching Egypt and Babylon, Priests and Kings invested themselves in proving the existence of Heaven, by inventing the language of Numbers. The clock, the concept of the 4 directions, and our belief in the higher powers of Heavenly Beings, all came out of the union of these land ownership concepts with faith in the monotheistic religion of the Holy Land.
Only one other cultural innovation still remained to be discovered to civilize the world. That discovery was made on the great steppes of Mongolia.

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You are all familiar with the Bible and have some knowledge of the history of the Hebrews, now called Jews, and you learned all about Jesus Christ as children. But you have the same bias as the Euro, in favor of the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. You harbor a bias against Arabs and against Islam driven into you by the Christians. You are relatively unaware that descendants of Abraham’s first born son, Ishmael, carried his Mother’s Egyptian monotheism to the East, all the way to the Pacific Ocean, where it was picked up by at least one of the members of the Khitan Mongols, a point to which I will return.

Western Christian history only tells half of the story of our world.

I’ve explained that the ancient British and ancient Egyptians founded the Common law, and later established proof of belief in the one God. Following these achievements the 3rd major branch of the world’s people, the Mongols, invented Democracy, extending Potlatch to their own people, and to those they conquered. China was conquered by the Mongol Khitan in 907 BC, under Yelu Apoachi, whose descendants have never left the centre of power to this day (Aubrey Jackson of Kitanmaax is the present heir of Yelu). These Khitan were driven off the Imperial throne of China by other Mongol Tribes, but survived to serve in administrations of later Mongols who had displaced them from the Imperial Palaces of Beijing; Khitan also served with Genghis Khan, even while planning to escape his rule in America, taking refuge in the upper canyons of the Skeena River, where Yelu’s descendants founded the culture of the Totem Pole and then expanded that true civil culture of Potlatch, as found on Euro contact, which process was outlawed by the military rule of the English.

When this Imperial Family of proverbial Temlaham (which is Eden) arrived in British Columbia they were welcomed among earlier migrants, the Dene and Haida who had previously settled among the earliest of all inhabitants of the new World, the Salish. As I explained, the Dene originated in Stonehenge, while the Royal Haida descend from the original people from Africa. Salish occupied their Villages at the present location of Vancouver, and held all the territory in the Province long before the Totem Pole culture began to expand, and according to Levi Strauss (The Way Of The Mask), Salish cultural influences had spread to the whole of North and South America. On Euro contact this central Salish culture was resisting Dene incursions into their territories in the interior of the Province, and they had not yet adopted the Totem Pole culture which was then expanding up and down the Coast. According to this history the Salish own a general title and right to the entire Province as well as to all of the New World.

Haida to Dene to Salish to Christ and 2U

Dene either married into, or drove the interior Salish southward out of the interior plateau of the Province, in a process remembered by the Tsilhqot’in, as found by Judge Vickers in his cogent decision, in which he also observes that Fee Simple title is subject to valid Aboriginal title. But some Salish held their ground by defending their Fishing Sites on the Upper Skeena, and so the root clan of the ,Kitksan, the LaxSal, is Salish. The title Kitsalano supports this point, and so it is constructive of the resolution of who the high title holders are, to acknowledge that Chief Kitsalano was both Kitksan and Salish, otherwise how did he gain entry to and hold power on the Fraser with the prefix Kits on his title, and why did Chief Capilano compete with him, claiming to be the true Chief of Wool blanket trading (Cap means true and lano is Spanish for wool)?

Some of the Kitksan Laxgibou and the Kitsgaast tribes either descend from Temlaham, or are of Dene (Wet’suwet’n) origin. Kitksan merged with the coastal Tsalmsian (sic Tsimsian) through the processes of Potlatch, who then adopted the concept of Kits (means what the word Christ means, anointed or blessed of Heaven), which can be found prefixed or suffixed to all the people and places under Potlatch. Nisga’a are comprised of a melded population made up of Tsetsaut (Dene), Kitksan (Mongol), and Tsalmsian (who are descended from the melded North Coast tribes). I say, and I spell the familiar prefix Tsim, as it is written in Hebrew, as Tsalm (Genesis 1.27 = image of the shadow of Creator). This term is just one of many words in both English and Tsalmalkit that remain in modern usage and are from the original language of the Garden of Eden.
So recapping the major themes of world history, the book of life begins with our origin in Africa as a single people, evolves from that first People into three major divisions, Haida, Dene, and Mongolian, and is then followed by the scattering of the multitude of all the world’s peoples, each speaking their own dialects and tongues, and that is the problem we address in these meetings, which problem will only be resolved by our reunion into a single Great Nation. When Abraham blessed his two sons he set in motion two great waves of migration, one going west to become the multitude of nations in pursuit of Isaac’s blessing of many Nations, the other came east building the Great Nation of Ishmael, and these two streams are now merging right here in Prince George. That’s why the world faces this impending and dangerous collision of Christianity and Islam, the former always promoting division into smaller and smaller political bodies, the latter striving to unite in a single global social model.

Heaven placed this destiny upon our shoulders, to complete the Great Nation. Our basic problem consists of how to remain independent individuals within a single society and community that covers the whole Planet.

The way and the truth and the life lead to you in Potlatch

The proposed legislation flies in the face of this history because it restrains our unification into a single global order, by maintaining the divide between those who occupied America prior to colonization, and the recently arrived Euro. When the Supreme Court directs us and the governments to undergo a process of “give and take” we are expected to give way to the domination of European divisiveness, and to comply with imaginary conventions about military conquest and superior culture, yet the fact is Euro culture has no ecological basis and is collapsing. We must challenge these modern governments and their surrogates on their inferior presumptions and raise the matter of merging Fee Simple titles with Aboriginal titles without “abrogating or derogating existing” rights and titles.

Centralizing authority in the hands of agencies or commissions advances no ecological purpose and Capital Cities cost the economy more than they produce. Remote Legislatures and Parliaments only serve the interests of the bureaucracy and of the dominant minority, whose interests are to garner as much of the wealth of a territory as they can get away with, by monopolizing trade and enslaving the indigenous and inhabitant populations. This legislation serves the same purpose, taking power and authority away from you who live on the territories and transferring it to the cities, where self-appointed and so-called leaderships have and hold their expensive offices.

Again I say, if no better remedy to our problems existed we might have to ratify this plan, but there is a better way which follows Potlatch toward the “Way and the Truth and the Life of Jesus Christ.”

Don't treaty Me Like A Fool

TREATY OUR NEIGHBORS

Parliamentary systems of assembling and deliberating behind closed doors were instituted to serve London when the English were trying to establish their world Empire. That project failed because White People were too intolerant of Natives. Notice that in their so-called apology they removed their Black Rod before hearing our representatives; why didn’t they instead, invite us to bring the symbols of our power into that chamber and combine them as one? Only as recently as two Provincial elections ago, one now great friend of the Summit was on record wanting to put an end to Land claims, even holding a referendum. Now that Mr. Campbell sees he cannot overcome our Titles by force or by his own legislation, he wants us to extinguish our rights for him, through this proposal. I acknowledge sentiments held by members of the Summit who believe this is the best we can do, and I can see many features of the draft that we will retain, but we have no right to accept and adopt domination by Euro, or by this modern anglicized liberal sovereignty, over lands and territories that belong to the rightful owners and title holders on Earth and in Heaven! Our duty is to hold out against colonization until it collapses completely and all new inhabitants fully acknowledge our culture and enter our Potlatch with us. The impending failure of the Euro banking and industrial system compels us to remain steadfast.

Not only do we owe this to ourselves and to our descendants, we owe it to the taxpayers, our neighbors, and so I demonstrate how we can keep our cake and share it with the world too, by returning to Potlatch. Being representative, these governments are just agents of those who live on their respective surveyed lots of land, by always paying their taxes into a common treasury; and just as the Summit has no natural right or title in itself, so governments can only really act as proxies to their citizens, but now that its come about that these governments erroneously believe they are essential, that no alternative way to administer the land and resources over widespread areas can be established, we must make our stand. It may have been true in earlier times that effective administration needed to be centralized, but modern communications technology has done away with the necessity of electing and following central governments. Huge remote bureaucracies and elitist elected quorums are dispensable, now that we can see and talk to each other worldwide. We don’t need elected representatives but just need to self-govern as Individuals first, and secondly as family and tribal members, and finally as owners of our Planet.

Eternal Life

Provided that what I say is true, how may we merge Aboriginal Title with the rights and duties of the taxpaying population? The fact is every taxpayer, each private resident or corporation in this Province, holds a certificate of title that is registered in the Land Title Registry, and every certificate of registration has a box set aside which is entitled “Indian Band.” All that needs to occur is for the proper title holders, Chiefs, or Families or Tribes, who “own” the territory on which a person who holds a title in Fee Simple after paying the tax or other licensing obligation that gives them their property right, can enter into and engage in Potlatch with us and there negotiate directly with that territorial Title holder and then together file the terms of their particular mini-treaty in the Land Title Office, recording the name of their Chief, and their relationship to that Chief, in the box on their certificate. The Chief or her proxy would add such rights and duties to the land holder’s deed as are agreed in front of Potlatch, and the resident or corporation would pay their taxes and other land related fees to the Aboriginal Title holder‘s institutional body. All details would be either particular to a given lot of property or general to a given territory, while the specific Hereditary title in every case, would continue to pass on to the lineal heirs of that Chief or Clan, and all intended uses of lands and territories would be processed in the forum and institutions of Potlatch. By these means and processes, Indigenous rights and title can last forever.

We all hold these rights and owe these duties

This process resolves the civil relationship of Aboriginal title holders with residential property holders, but another aspect of this new model of land holding would engage the territorial title holders in the uses of their larger territories such as the whole Province, and of the whole Continent, and of the World. We all know that Legislatures and even Parliament, have no power over the whole world, and that is becoming an even more critical problem that has to be resolved by real power through a practical process. This problem is solved directly in ways that are consistent with the Heavenly plan for Humankind by means of declaring the Potlatch of Christ, naming Him the proper title holder of the Planet, and deigning to hold His Crown pending any better claim, and pending His expected return to Earth from Heaven. The logic of incorporating Christ’s Title to the Planet into our respective Aboriginal Titles, and thereby into the various land holdings of taxpayers, flows from the ecological reality that all occupation of any land actually rests on three categories of simultaneous possession:
- local private holding for purposes of sleeping and recuperating,

- regional and corporate holding for purposes of making a living in the economy,

- and global holding for all the priority of purposes necessary to protecting the environment and maintaining the ecology of the world in its most ideal climate suitable for human existence.

We all have these rights and they come with corresponding duties which the status quo cannot provide for or meet, but they must be taken up by each and every soul through the only institution capable of dealing with such imperatives, the institution of Potlatch. What our ancestors achieved at Stonehenge, symbolically enclosing space on the fens, we now duplicate by “enclosing” the Planet, taking it inside our Potlatch assemblies so the spirit of Heaven can guide and help us toward our best association together as evolved Human Beings.

Conclusion, call to Polatch and Contact

CONCLUSION

My plan anticipates three initial processes:

1. Identification in each territory of the highest entitled Hereditary Title holder, be she or he an individual, or be it deemed to be some corporate clan, or tribe. This allows the process to recognize the natural seniority of qualified parties, at the same time as it becomes possible to ratify the competence of Chiefs. In contrast to Euro ways of nominating and electing a popular individual (money buys popularity), choosing the rightful Chief follows natural methods and develops widespread political and social interest.
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2. Education of the general population in the ways and means of Potlatch, including adoption and naming, which is a very exciting prospect to newcomers, offering friends, neighbors, and strangers alike, the opportunity to become a new kind of person with a real ecological connection to Heaven and Earth. And
3. Conferences engaging individuals in Senatorial discussions, including and emphasizing the turnover in land ownership launched by Potlatch, and engaging them in determining by consensus what the future opportunities entail in corresponding to the two policies set out in number 1 and 2.

The overall project resurrecting Potlatch and distributing land rights to all people, serves to discipline those who believe existing governments are the only game in town, and provides avenues for everyone to pursue opportunities while allowing them to meet their duties to the community directly.

Websites and addresses to consult:

Daily Kos; see my article on Potlatch under jesusjamey’s diary

Recommended Reading:

Hugh Shewell; Enough To Keep Them Alive
Peter Plichta; God’s Mystery – The Prime Number Cross
…………… The Jesus Dynasty
Ken Wilbur: Sex, Ecology and Spirituality
Gerald Schroeder; The Science of God
Koran Surah 74; The Cloaked One
Ethel G. Stewart The Dene and Nadene Indian Migration to America;
Escape from Genghis Khan, 1233 AD
The Holy Bible including modern events

Personal Note:

The Great Nation is authorized by my interpretation of the Book of Revelation, Ch. 5, and by my reading of the Book of St. Matthew, Chapter 24, especially verse 28, to advance our claims to the Crown of Christ:

“For wheresoever the body is, there will the Eagles be gathered together.”

Revelation 3, verse 11: “ … hold that fast which thou hast that no man take your Crown;

As the Prince,

I welcome all questions, comments and advice.

___________________________ May 29, 2009
Author of this Commentary:
Jesusjamey Sterritt, Kitksan, email:

; tel: 250 622 2558

Regrets??

Are we going to regret what Ed John and Stuart Phillip are promoting with Gordon Campbell, who hated the Nisga'a Treaty? I am a Nisga'a and we live in a nightmare reality of lands stolen, resources extracted and our own people live in poverty..how much level of intelligence do we see in these two representatives? Are their heads so big, they are forgetting what their forefathers taught them?

I don't get influenced by media, words are words, promises are promises, think of the future gnerations..will we have regrets? Who will go down in history as participating in this government scam? I don't trust what Gordon Campbell promotes, he wants our resources and title to our lands as the government is broke..wise up and smell the coffee before we do have regrets and then more. Trust me, I know what I talk about and I speak only the truth..

And it is Am, that is, it is good.

Amen