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ILLUMINATE
TRIBAL
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Before one continues 1 there is one fact that must be made clear, not to the readers, but to the Ancient Traditionalist and the CREATOR, GREAT SPIRIT.
As a Dakota, which applies to any American Indian tribe, I am bound to the one condition of a Tribal Code or Law. There are, like Custom and Usage, hundreds of Tribal Codes which are open to tribal review with the exception of,one. For sake of a name to identify, I will call it: THE ILLUMINATE TRIBAL CODE. This one Tribal Code like the· only Clan Code or Law, is not to be violated because it is reviewed by the CREATOR, GREAT SPIRIT, and One deals with my Spiritual Self and the other deals with my Genetic Self. ['
One code restricts me as a Man, from taking up with a Woman who may
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of the same Clan that I am. Clan membership is taken from the Mother.
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There is another tribal code that Indian reservations misinterprete. Indians are to marry Indians only! This is not the true tribal code. As Indians, who believe in the Ancient Ways, are to marry only those
that believe in the Ancient Ways. Because we have traditionally, no color ·line, it is left open to every race in the world. But they cannot be of
the same Clan in marriage. Any remember of the same Clan, no matter what race they belong to, is family and one does not marry into one's own family. The other code restricts· .me from speaking about my beliefs or religion
with anyone that does not know it, has forgotten it, or does not believe in it. This tribal code breaks down into detail. I cannot say or d6 any act that would change the established religious beliefs of·an individual to another religious belief.