TRUE FOLLOWERS OF INDIGENOUS SPIRITUALITY NEVER SPREAD INSULTS OR RUMOURS ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE by Damon Corrie

TRUE FOLLOWERS OF INDIGENOUS SPIRITUALITY NEVER SPREAD INSULTS OR RUMOURS ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE - ONLY PROVEN FACTS, ONLY 'FAKE NATIVES' ENGAGE IN SUCH IGNOBLE PRACTICES. NEVER FORGET THAT OUR INDIGENOUS BROTHER LEONARD PELTIER STILL LANGUISHES IN PRISON FOR OVER 43 YEARS NOW BECAUSE OF UNPROVEN RUMOURS AND SLANDERS, YOU SAY YOU SUPPORT HIM - BUT THEN YOU DO THE SAME INJUSTICE TO ANOTHER INDIGENOUS PERSON?

Not everyone who LOOKS like a 'pure' indigenous person IS one, and many who look physically 'pure' are spiritually corrupt as hell, neither are the obviously genetically mixed ones who CLAIM to be 'pure in heart Indigenous Peoples' and who love to play the role via external cosmetic image projection (aka 'dressing up to look native) - one should never 'judge a book by its cover', always remember that a person's ACTIONS speaks much louder than their words, you can talk as much BS as you want - or that you can get away with - to people who don't know any better, but at the end of the day a TRUE follower of traditional Indigenous spirituality ALWAYS recognizes the frauds.

One of the MAIN things NO REAL PRACTITIONER OF INDIGENOUS SPIRITUALITY WOULD EVER DO - is 'believe' or 'spread' defamatory accusations and unproven rumours - about ANYONE else, ESPECIALLY ONE OF YOUR OWN TRIBAL MEMBERS!

What kind of nasty-minded spiteful and envious little imitation indigenous person are you to do such things?

If you discovered an actual TRUE and legally PROVEN negative thing about one of your own Indigenous people, you COULD publicly reveal it - as it is already public knowledge in the legal system, but even THAT is a low moral caliber thing to do, what is more noble is to just privately mention that fact to someone who was unaware and who had mistakenly had a false impression of that person as being 'a pillar of virtue', as Idolising another human being is never a wise thing to do, because no human has ever been - or ever will be - perfect. Furthermore, while THAT other person might be truly and proven guilty of some crime you did not commit yourself, you better be honest with yourself and remember the skeletons in YOUR closet, all the bad things YOU did and got away with...this is something that those who are quick to rush to believe and spread slanderous unproven rumors NEVER DO, and that is why they are the biggest hypocrites.

The wise traditional elders of my tribe always taught the younger generations to live by ONE code when it comes to talking about other people - and it is this: ''IF YOU HAVE NOTHING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE, IT IS BETTER FOR YOUR SOUL THAT YOU SAY NOTHING AT ALL ABOUT THEM''

For EVERY indigenous and non-indigenous hero you can name, I can tell you that someone somewhere sometime - has spread unproven slanders about them, so-called Christians should know about this very well - because even to this day there are Jewish sects who STILL preach to their followers that 'Jesus was not divinely inspired, he was not a prophet, he was a lying whoremonger and alcoholic who was himself the son of a whore'' so if these kinds of low-minded people can say such terrible lies about 'the most famous Prophet of God' - why do you think other ordinary human beings would not ALSO be slandered in the vilest of ways?

I won't quote any more famous examples, I will now talk about MYSELF, because I also have vile enemies who love to spread unproven rumors and false accusations about ME, in my 28 years of dealing with the non-traditional elected Chiefs of my own tribe I have enjoyed fraternal and cordial relations with all of them except 1, and this one Chief and his family went out of their way to spread public vitriolic slanders against me (and probably still do so to this day), but did I respond by lowering myself into their moral gutter and doing the same to him? NO! I pity ignorance and their lack of traditional Indigenous spirituality that I was raised to practice by MY loving elders. So I ignore the ignoble behavior because all it does is show intelligent neutral observers who is the bigger higher-thinking person, and who is the petty lower-thinking envious person. So I have nothing to say about such people because they are from a lower standard than the upbringing I benefitted from.

If they change their ways and mature intellectually, and try to learn and practice Indigenous spirituality themselves, I will be happy to embrace them as friends and allies focused on the advancement and betterment of our people

ONE SLANDEROUS RUMOUR about me is this:

'' He illegally armed and trained the Embera Tribe in Panama''

INCORRECT - THE TRUTH IS:

I LEGALLY purchased guns and ammunition in Panama out of my own pocket (including the airfare from Barbados to Panama) in the name of the Indigenous Democracy Defence Organization I created, I personally trained Embera men, women, and children in Panama who live near the lawless border area that is rife with armed criminals, in self-defense military tactics in full view of the Panama Police who had no problem with it, and I donated the guns and ammunition and the ALSO legally purchased military uniforms - to the Embera Tribe at the end of the training, leaving the receipts proving legal purchase for all items as well. See the first photo.

A SECOND SLANDEROUS RUMOUR about me is this:

''He works for the Cuban military that is why he wore a military uniform in Cuba and was not arrested like any other civilian would be''

INCORRECT - THE TRUTH IS:

I have never had any contact with anyone senior in the Cuban government, only the now-deceased former Cuban Ambassador to Barbados Lazaro Cabezas (whom I gifted one of my books too once, and used to invite home for dinner), I only have contact with retired members of the Cuban Army - some of whom are friends - like a Lieutenant who was trained by - and served under Che Guevarra (and I visit this Lt. every time I go, and he also attended my birthday dinner party in Cuba 2 years ago at the home of my cousin - himself retired Cuban Army, and my cousin's wife is head of the local Peoples militia for that area, and her father was a trainer in the Cuban Special Forces in Angola), as well as other blood relatives (including 2 veterans from the war in Angola), and the only other Cuban officials I am friends with are in the Cultural Ministry in Cuba in mid-level positions. I only get moral support from these ex-Cuban military persons for the Indigenous Democracy Defence Organization I created, no financial or tangible support. See the second photo.

A THIRD SLANDEROUS RUMOUR about me is:

''His Indigenous Democracy Defence Organization is a terrorist organization involved in International armed struggles under its 'Foreign Legion' section.

INCORRECT - THE TRUTH IS:

The Indigenous Democracy Defence Organization is NOT listed as a terrorist organization by any country, because we do NOT engage in terrorist activities anywhere, and the 'Foreign Legion' section is comprised of Indigenous volunteers who at their own expense, are willing to go to indigenous communities in other countries to TEACH them about their Rights under International Law, and TRAIN them in SELF-DEFENCE TACTICS AND SKILLS, and if legally possible - locally purchase and donate items they would need for these purposes, ALL of which is 100% LEGAL everywhere we go.

On a PERSONAL level, I do communicate privately with the leaders of two indigenous 'Freedom Fighter' Guerrilla Armies in Asia, but only because these men are former students and friends of mine that I co-mentored on United Nations Indigenous Rights training courses since 2007 for Indigenous students from around the world, it would be dishonorable for me to turn my back on my former students who became lifelong friends - just because the Oppressive governments and militaries that they have no choice but to fight in their own countries, in order to defend their people's lives, have declared those 2 Indigenous Armies to be 'armed insurgents' - because these same governments THEMSELVES are considered to be illegal habitual human rights violators under International Law...and this is the arena I operate in, so what moral rights do such regimes have to call the people they violently oppress 'terrorists' for TRYING to defend themselves?

Just last month I was involved in helping to organize Tribal peoples in the Middle East and North Africa (Iraq, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Yemen, and Libya) in a historic vote for their INTERNAL autonomy in each country - in full accordance with International Indigenous Rights Law - within all those countries, I even helped to write a part of the Constitution for one of these Indigenous Tribal Nations, and you will be reading about this in the coming weeks. So when I make a statement such as 'I am the most radical Indigenous Rights leader from the Caribbean in modern history', I am not boasting or exaggerating, I am simply telling you the factual truth, which Caribbean Indigenous leader in all of recorded human history has ever played any role whatsoever in the Indigenous politics in all 4 corners of the Caribbean region AND in other parts of the world? I hope I will NOT be the last, but I definitely am the first, whether you like it or not. See the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth photos.

A FOURTH SLANDEROUS RUMOUR about me is:

''He gets rich from his indigenous rights work''

INCORRECT - THE TRUTH IS:

I have NEVER received any salary or grant donation of money (unlike my enemies) for ANY of my 28 years of Indigenous Rights work, it is always voluntary and dangerous, many colleagues have been killed over the years and my own family wanted me to quit this line of voluntary work MANY times because as they said 'you not making anything only spending money on others instead of your own family and not getting thanks for it - only death threats'.

I believe that this is what I came into this life to do, so I am not concerned with short-sighted narrow-minded people who don't see how my life is helping others around the world, therefore I continue, no matter what.

Anyone who truly knows the Indigenous rights struggles at the highest levels at the United Nations (where I have put in 13 years of voluntary work so far) and the Organization of American States (where I have put in 16 years of voluntary work so far) knows that the best we ever get is having our airfares, accommodation, and food provided for us while we are working, no-one gets any money to go shopping with or take back home, and if any government arrests you and tortures you - the best the UN will do for you is ASK that they release you (no guarantee they will), and the UN cant protect you from assassination either, they can only file a report about it after you are dead, so we don't have some magical protection for the work we do either. So if you think we are making money doing this important dangerous work - it is only because you actually do not know ANYTHING about this work yourself, so you let your envious and ill-informed wild imagination cause you to speak utter nonsense.

We LOSE money doing this work, I have been diverting 50% of the profits of every small business I ever owned - into subsidizing my indigenous rights work and donations whether it be Eagle Clan, Caribbean Amerindian Development Organization, or Indigenous Democracy Defence Organization. To go even further, the reason why at the age of 47 I still do not own a car, or a house, or even one square foot of land in my name anywhere on Earth (and never have) - is because I have been pumping all my excess income (after unavoidable life expenses for my own little family) into Indigenous Rights efforts since I was 19 when I married back into the tribe. I spent more money over these almost 28 years so far on other indigenous peoples who are poorer than me than on my own wife and children because no-one else was doing what I was doing, so if not me - then who?

Yet these despicable people, who have not done 10% of the self-sacrifice that I have, have the arrogance to call MY efforts and proven commitment into question, sometimes they even try to call my ancestry into question - even though they are of mixed race descent themselves and their children are even LESS indigenous by DNA than my own tribal land born children are. Brother when your record can reach even half of mine - then you can open your mouth to criticize me, until then - hold your peace, or as my Kalinago allies like to say 'check your own scene'.