The Constitution is North American Indian Law

Rian Nelson

March 10, 2025

The Constitution is North American Indian Law

I love the Iroquois Nation and I especially love the Onondaga Tribe of whom Zelph was a member. Zelph’s prophet during the time frame of the Book of Mormon was Onondagus according to the Joseph Smith Papers here. With my love of the Prophet Joseph Smith and of Zelph, I call the Onondaga Nation of Iroquois, Joseph Smith’s Lamanites.

You may remember about the Founding Fathers that appeared to Wilford Woodruff in the St George Temple asking for baptism? Just one week later 85 Famous Indian Chiefs were also baptized in the St. George Temple on Aug 29, 1877. Of the 85 total, 74 were of the Iroquois Nation and 11 were from the Algonquian Nation of North America. See Blog here.

There is a belief that the Iroquois Nation played an important role in the life of Joseph Smith. He lived in an area with many Iroquois chiefs and may have even met many of these great men. Ganargua Creek (Mud Creek) near Palmyra, NY, was a primary stopover point for the Iroquois on their trade routes. Joseph Smith also had an interest in the creek after hearing a speech from Seneca Indian Chief Red Jacket at Palmyra in 1822.

Many historians believe that Iroquoian ideas of federalism, and balance of power directly influenced the US system of government. Benjamin Franklin admired native American government structures. In 1744, Canassatego advocated in Washington the federal union of the American colonies. See Here

The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy, and to the English as the Five Nations, comprising the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca. After 1722, they accepted the Tuscarora people from the Southeast into their confederacy and became known as the Six Nations.

“The Onondagas: These have special interest… this warrior, Zelph, was an Onondaga, as well as a “white” Lamanite, and that the Onondagas (of New York), consequently must be of Lamanite lineage.” J.M. Sjodahl, An Introduction to the Study of the Book of Mormon

Who is Russell Means?

Russell Charles Means (Lakota: Waŋblí Ohítika) [wə̃blɪ ohitika] (November 10, 1939 – October 22, 2012) was an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans, libertarian political activist, actor, musician and writer. He became a prominent member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) after joining the organization in 1968 and helped organize notable events that attracted national and international media coverage.

Means was active in international issues of indigenous peoples, including working with groups in Central and South America and with the United Nations for recognition of their rights. He was active in politics at his native Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and at the state and national level.

Beginning an acting career in 1992, he appeared on numerous television series and in several films, including The Last of the Mohicans, Pocahontas, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. He released his own music CD. Means published his autobiography Where White Men Fear to Tread in 1995.” Wikipedia

In Mr. Means article below, he explains how today’s constitution is hanging by a thread. His ancient peoples laws, were a basis for our current US Constitution. He explains how our government today has fallen into a huge snare by unrighteous bankers and oligarchs.

The Constitution is Indian Law and that’s why I Love it, by Russell Means

“In the words of Benjamin Franklin in1744 to a collection of colonists discussing Freedom he said to them, and I quote. “If a nation to the north can form a near perfect union that has endured for centuries why cannot we form a more perfect union?”

So they’re talking about the Iroquois Confederacy and that’s where the Constitution comes from, because in 1988 on the eve of the 200th anniversary of the Constitution it was unanimous, thank you by the Congress of the United States, they sent in writing to the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, thanking them for the input into the Constitution and the formation of the United States of America.

So you see the Constitution is Indian law and that’s why I love it. You know beginning in the 1840s they start stripping away your freedoms by developing the Corporation, you know a piece of paper, a piece of paper and then in the 1870s of course during Lincoln, when they declared martial law and even after they see Civil War, martial law continued on for another 3 or 4 years when it was no need to and you go on and on.

But in the 1870s that’s when Congress started giving the banks the right to rule, and of course you go on to 1913 and the beginning of the 20th century, that’s when they officially gave away the power of our economy to the banks.

You know they can print the money for us according to our Constitution. You should never allow the people, should never allow their money to be printed by someone else. Hello, so the history of the Indian and the history of the Americans have now come full circle and were intertwined and in the dictatorial policies of those that control the monetary system of America and they’ve done such a bad job of it that they’re destroying themselves
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It’s ludicrous at best what has happened to Indian policy. I should say American policy now, is that because you don’t have control of your money. The International Community has refused to invest anymore into the financial instruments of America because they know they’re worthless, that the United States is too foreign debt and cannot cover it so consequently they’ve refused to buy the bonds and the treasury notes etc.

At any rate the Federal Reserve has been for over a year, way over a year been printing money when no one’s buying the financial instruments of the United States. So, what the Federal Reserve has been doing is buying those Federal bonds and treasury notes and then printing more money. It’s absolute suicide and it’s been proven from Empire to Empire and when you allow your human right, your individual rights to be usurped, that’s when Empire grows and could care less. I was growing up when this country, they started emptying this country around the 50s. The unions had become so powerful they were about to form their own political party. They had shown during World War II how powerful they were in the vote for the presidency and the Congress, but they sat down with the bankers and the government around 1950 give or take a year, and they made a deal with the leaders of the unions, made a deal with the leaders of America, and so sold out the unions so when the people began to organize and gather and really have some power it was negated and it’s been negated ever since.

Everyone knows you have no privacy, none of you have protections anymore. Now I could just be a smart aleck and say how does it feel, because I know how it feels living on a reservation prisoner war camp. Now I can be an American take my social security card and leave the reservation and be like the rest of you. You know they welcomed that because in America they had forced relocation for Indian people back in the 50s. It was fostered under Truman, the relocation plan and the man appointed to run that. The first man he was the one who headed up the Japanese internment relocation program during World War III. So, he went and headed up to relocation office for American Indians and we were. I know I went on relocation twice that’s kind of a con job, but I made it out twice and that’s what they want to do, a diaspora and therefore guess whose land they’re after?” Russell Means: “The Constitution is Indian Law and that’s why I Love it.” Transcribed from YouTube Transcript here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awPBCHx4I9Y

Concurrent Resolution to Acknowledge the Cntribution of the Iroquois Confederacy

Con. Res. 331–Concurrent resolution to acknowledge the contribution of the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations to the development of the U.S. Constitution and to reaffirm the continuing Government-to-Government relationship between Indian tribes and the United States established in the Constitution; to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. By Mr. UDALL (for himself, Mr. Campbell, and Mr. Lagomarsino) Reported with amendments (H. Rept. 100-1031) Debated Rules suspended. Amended and passed House Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs Agreed to in Senate