Mystik Mandy Michelle Further PROVES Native Hawaiians Have Poor Education

My wife who is Native American shared an impassioned factual history in defense of an Hispanic hero, Don Juan de Oñate. Donald A. Chavez y Gilbert, resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, provides his perspective on the current WOKE trend to redefine U.S. history to “incite” protests and demonize Europeans. I’ll include Mr. Chavez y Gilbert’s commentary below.

Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is. To awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.⁠

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J. Krishnamurti⁠
Education and the Significance of Life⁠

I continue my series on the false claims and misinformation furthered by Native Hawaiians (Kanaka) in Hawai’i. I began this work showing how tragic is that Native Hawaiians Have Such Poor Education. If stupid people want to be stupid, that should be their right.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but people are FREE to be what they choose to be. However, their ignorance fuels anger, division and hatred. If a person wants to harm themselves, up to them. When they harm others, society has a duty to speak out.

Hinol Mokiao Kekuia Keoki, or Keoks, posted that he was “not a native Hawaiian, I’m a kanaka maoli🤙🏾🤙🏾” What is “native” in Hawai’i or the U.S.?

David Ruch proved my claim that Native Hawaiians Have Poor Education by adding, “Nothing funnier then (sic) blanket statements from an outsider claiming we are uneducated. Dude doesn’t even know who we are.”

Today, Mystik Mandy Michelle claims a digital creator from Eugene, Oregon, single, and “half woman half cosmic horror 🏳️‍🌈 🇲🇽.” She added her misinformation to the chorus. For the past 15-20 years, identity politics has been trending. However, most Identity Individuals are quite confused about their identity. What a crazy work and time.

Mystik Mandy wrote, “I believe the Hawai’ian Kingdom lives on in our hearts and when I came here I gave my loyalty to the queen. I have an altar for Queen Emma with he (sic) picture. I bring her random pieces of nature I find here on my walks. From bresd (sic) fruits I find to pieces of trees. I leave her money as well. Let me tell you that I have been well protected and provided for. I came here in January to flee domestic violence at the invitation of my half sister who is one local and I give My allegiance to the Hawai’an kingdom. As an indigenous Mexican whose mother his (sic) my ethnicity for 38 years I too was colonized and made American by force!”

Mystic Mandy was responding to another misleading comment by Hinol Mokiao Kekuia Keoki. “Nobody wants to hear the truth; they prefer to hear what aligns with their hypocrisy. When the truth does not seem to matter🤔🤔 Hawaiian Kingdom. Illegally occupied since 1893.”

Keoks highlights why Kanaka men fail. Rather than improve his mind, work to land a better job, Keoks wastes his life arguing nonsense about the past. He lives in anger; makes other Kanaka angry; and none move forward. They are killing the Kanaka culture and lahui. Sad, right?

Let’s review and analyze the silly comments of Mystic Mandy.

[1] “when I came here I gave my loyalty to the queen.” Queen Lili’uokalani died at the age of 79 in 1917. Mystic Mandy isn’t old enough to have met the queen. KOOKY, right?

[2] “I have an altar for Queen Emma with he (sic) picture.” HER picture? Emma Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke was the wife of King Kamehameha IV, and served as queen between 1856 until his death in 1863. Emma ran to sit on the throne in 1874 in a constitutionally mandated royal election. The Legislative Assembly, which elected the monarch, favored Kalākaua, who won the election, 39 – 6.

[3] “I leave [Queen Emma] money as well.” Truly a kook. Emma died in 1885 at the age of 49. Many keiki and families in Hawai’i could use money. Mystic Mandy leaves money to a dead person.

[4] “I give My allegiance to the Hawai’an kingdom.” There is NO Hawaiian kingdom. Queen Lili’uokalani officially, formally and legally abdicated the throne in 1895, and officially, formally and legally pledged her allegiance to the Republic of Hawai’i. As queen, Lydia Lili’uokalani had appointed her niece, Princess Ka’iulani, to secede her on the throne. Ka’iulani however died in 1899 at the age of 24. There is NO line of secession; there is NO Hawaiian Kingdom.

[5] “As an indigenous Mexican …” MEXICAN, like AMERICAN, is a political identity — not genetic. If Mystic Mandy claims indigenous roots, she might be Aztec, for example, and mixed with Spanish. Again, not well-educated. See the story of Don Juan de Oñate below.

[6] “I too was colonized and made American by force!” The Mexican-American war occurred between 1846-1848. The U.S. gained modern-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, and Kansas. Mexico ceded over half its territory and received $15 million. Mystic Mandy was never colonized or make “American by force.”

It’s unclear what drives people today to make up these false claims about their history. Maybe they’re insecure, listless and incapable people? Maybe these stories feed their ego and help them deal with their personal failures. Rather than buckle down, work hard, accept failure and blame others. Elon Musk coined this behavior, “WOKE Mind Disease.” Truly sad.

I share this fascinating history of Don Juan de Oñate, as Don Juan de Oñate is the Spanish inventor of the cowboy (vaquero: vaca meaning cow; -ero meaning worker). The pre-European Native American Indians had no horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, domestic foul, cowboy tack, boots, spurs, cowboy hats, chalecos, chaps, etc. These animals and items came from the Spanish.

IN DEFENSE OF AN HISPANIC HERO

A perspective by Donald A. Chavez y Gilbert

The time has come to honor the man and colonists who introduced the culture of the cowboys and ranching to these United States of America, Don Juan de Oñate. A statue paying tribute to their cultural and historic contributions erected in downtown Albuquerque was illegally removed by Mayor Timothy M. Keller.

Predictably, a minority of Native American Indian activists continue protesting and predicting vandalism against the image of Oñate. For those new to New Mexico this protest is a regular occurrence. Every time we make an overture of gratitude to the Oñate colony of 1598 there are protests against one small piece of the story, the true facts which have over the last four hundred years of oral reiteration, been omitted, forgotten, embellished, and impassioned into something which no longer resembles actual history.

Native American Indian people are being incited to protest by radical querulous anti-Oñate activists with chronic victim syndrome for having allegedly cut off the feet of Acoma men whom ambushed and killed Onate’s men. I, for one am proud of both my European Spanish, Portuguese, and Basque ancestors, as well as my Native American ancestors.

As an Oñate 14th generation nephew and descendant of a number of the colonizing Oñate families, as well as (20% Native American DNA) Indian grandparents, I would like to put this matter into proper perspective; first, the real history. Shortly after arriving in New Mexico in the spring of 1598 the Indian Pueblo of Acoma invited Don Juan de Oñate to visit the Pueblo for purposes of good will trading and feasting.

Hence, in good faith on December 4, 1599 Oñate sent his nephew Ensign Diego Nuñes de Chaves and company to accept the offer. The invitation was a rouse and when Diego de Chaves and the men in his military party arrived they were ambushed and summarily slaughtered. Any reasonable person would interpret this surreptitious attack as an act of war, and as such Oñate consequently conquered the Pueblo and sentenced the attackers to remove the toes of a foot and twenty years of hard labor working for Spanish families.

As a point of information since 1599 there is no written documentation of the so-called foot amputation of the twenty-four Indian warrior perpetrators. The actual personal documentation in the archived journals of Oñate report that the Acoma perpetrators had their toes cut off, not a foot. Oddly, in the Spanish language then as now, we have no word for the anatomy of toes. Toes of the foot are referred to in modern Spanish as dedos del pie, or the fingers of the foot.

In sixteenth century Spanish, Oñate’s journal referred to their toes as “las puntas del pie,” or literally, the points of the foot, the toes.  These Indian men would have been of little practical use as laborers carrying water and firewood if they were missing a foot and walking on a bloody stump! Acoma oral history has exaggerated for dramatic effect that Oñate punished the Acoma attackers with a foot amputation, and that is what is erroneously being taught in our school history classes.

Years ago, when the statue of Oñate was erected in the Española area of New Mexico, unknown persons vandalized the statue by symbolically cutting off the foot of the image of Don Juan de Oñate.

In my opinion the protesters are not a representative sample of the majority of American Indians. I believe the liberal media unethically and unduly fuels the fires of protest, resentment, and anger as it relates to my uncle Don Juan de Oñate y Salazar. In my personal observations having worked and lived in Indian country and with Indians over fifteen years from tribes in Montana and North Dakota, in the north, south through New Mexico to Texas, most Indians appreciate and honor Oñate every day.

They pay him (the Hispanic inventor of the cowboy) homage when they are wearing cowboy clothes, the Oñate work uniform. They pay him homage by riding his horses, raising his livestock, and enriching their lives in the cowboy, (Oñate) tradition? The work uniform of the Oñate party was vaquero/cowboy clothing. Don Juan de Oñate only wore full armor and lace for formal affairs like official events or for military applications.

The pre-European Native American Indians had no horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, domestic foul, cowboy tack, boots, spurs, cowboy hats, chalecos, chaps, etc. To Indian crops like corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, chili, and melons, the Oñate colonists added yeast, and crops such as oats, wheat, and all kinds of fruit trees, including Quince/Membrillo. Yet there are so many Indians who wear cowboy clothes religiously; almost exclusively on reservation ranches. It is said that imitation is the highest form of flattery. If you wear Oñate’s work uniform, the cowboy outfit, then you are a living, breathing, walking memorial to Oñate, like it or not.

By way of comparison, where in New Mexico is all the fuss about all the other Indian fighters in American history? As Indian wars go, there is no shortage of atrocities against Indians and plenty of blame to go around. For thousands of years prior to the arrival of Europeans, Indians regularly massacred each other. Aztec king Montezuma ritually sacrificed five thousand of his neighboring Indians per day for four days every year!

Small wonder why the Cholulan, and Tlaxcalan neighbor tribes were happy to recruit the help of Don Hernando Cortes to help them put a stop to Montezuma. There is no way Cortes could have defeated a million Aztec without the help of Montezuma’s native enemies. After the 1680 massacre of Spanish men women and children, the Pueblo Indians did not embrace the use of left behind Spanish horses like the more aggressive tribes, so they either let the horses go or traded them to the warring tribes.

These nomadic combatant tribes used the horses, among other things, as instruments of war. Once the Comanches, Apaches, and Navajos acquired horses they almost exterminated the Pueblo tribes, had it not been for the protective intervention of Spanish Juan Bautista de Anza (of Basque descent), the founder of San Francisco and Governor of New Mexico in 1778. George Washington, “father of our nation,” killed many Indians by destroying Indian crops in order to starve out whole Native American villages. Englishman, Lord Jeffery Amherst ordered the extermination of Indians in the Pontiac war in 1763 by the use of germ warfare, (smallpox).

President Andrew Jackson ordered the deportation of all Indians east of the Mississippi in 1830. Texans were responsible for the Council House murders in 1840 much the way Acoma Pueblo murdered Spaniards in 1598. The American forty-niners exterminated Indian and Mexican natives in 1849. As head of US military forces Kit Carson brutally deported Navajos from their homeland in 1864, prior to Custer perpetuating the Washita Massacre in 1868. Reverend Chivington’s Coloradans perpetrated the Sand Creek Massacre November 29, 1864.

The Camp Grant Massacre was perpetrated by citizens of Tucson (1871). The US military deported “loyal” Chiricahuas to dungeons in Florida in 1886, and gunned down the surrendering refugees of Big Foot’s band of Sioux at Wounded Knee in 1890. The list goes on today without as much as a whimper about memorials and monuments to these European Indian fighters. Why is Don Juan de Oñate such an easy target for criticism?

For fifteen years I lived and worked on and off some two dozen Native American Indian reservations ranging from the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota, Coeur d’Alene Montana, and ten southern New Mexico Pueblos, to the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo in Texas.

The one Indian proclivity I observed almost universally was the adorning of cowboy attire on Native American Indian bodies every day of the week. The only tribal clothing exceptions like buckskin deer and bison hides, dresses, moccasins, leggings, feathers,  and porcupine-quill embroidery for certain customary ceremonies specific to each tribe worn in the traditional Indian style.

My personal opinion of the Oñate monument controversy in Alburquerque is that if non-Indians are not allowed to meddle in Indian matters on their Native American Indian reservations, then Indians who live in non-Indian country should be expected to honor the same “non-meddling” courtesy or rule in non-Indian country. It seems the rule these dissidents are following only apply at the convenience of these whining protesting activists.

To those Native American Indians whose answer is that all the non-Indian lands were once Native American lands, I remind them that for hundreds of millennia, Native Americans guaranteed a fresh tribal gene pool, and avoided the genetic problems of inbreeding, such as increased homozygosity, reduced heterozygote advantage, and increased extinction risk by raiding neighboring Native American tribes, raping women, and stealing their children, to say nothing of killing their men, long before the arrival of White Europeans.

I believe that my Native American Aztecan and Mayan ancestors having endured their perils of life considered themselves warriors, and proud survivors, rather than chronic victims.

What I can say with one hundred percent certainty is that what ever happens to the Oñate statue and monument, so objectionable to certain Indians and non-Indian activists, is of little importance in light of the great Spanish culture of the Western Cowboy he and his colonists comrades contributed to these United States of America and paid a huge message of acceptance, love, and veneration Oñate and his party are paid every day by millions of Indians and everyone else in the world who has ever uttered a western word, carried a Country Western tune, ridden a steed, put on a cowboy hat, boots or anything of a western ranching nature.

Chief Dan George, in the movie, Little Big Man, (based on a true story of Spanish American pioneer, Andrew Garcia’s book, Tough Trip Through Paradise reminded me of my own grandfather who always had a levelheaded way of reflecting on difficult topics. He even managed to allay some of the natural tension by putting a humorous spin on how things fit into the big picture. I would have liked to hear Chief Dan George’s Indian perspective on this controversy before passing on.

Everyone loves a cowboy, so let’s get on with saying thank you to the people who developed the cowboy persona and brought us the ways of the west. Keep the focus on actual history rather than giving credence to a few malcontent dissidents, who whine, distort the truth, and are not a representative sample of the vast majority of both Native Indian and non-Indian fans of the Don Juan de Oñate y Salazar, inventor of the American Cowboy. 

Mayor Tim Keller, please do the right thing and replace Governor Oñate’s statue to its rightful place in Old Town Alburquerque.” {NOTE: Alburquerque is the historical Spanish spelling of Albuquerque.}

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