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It Aint Easy Being Indian – December 2024

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By Ricey Wild

There is a lot I could write about, like the farce of the U.S. presidential election, which in my opinion was stolen. It sickens me so I won’t do that except to say it ain’t over. Oh! And Ima stop watching so much news and start watching more kitten videos.

Instead, I will share with yooz what I’ve only previously teased about: the existence of extraterrestrials and my personal experiences with them. Go ahead and scoff and roll your eyes, I know what I saw and I am not the only one. Go ahead and put on your aluminum hats but I have to break it to you, they don’t work.

Ahem! Gather ‘round my readers as I tell yooz about my strange, at times scary UFO journey. The first time I saw UFO’s (now called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena or UAPs) was when I was three. It happened in Indiana where we were visiting some relatives who lived in a trailer park.

The adults suddenly became excited and rushed outside in the dark and I, being a nosy kid, followed them. Of course I was slower, but still in time to see three whitish, glowing discs flying in formation rather slowly – it seemed to me from right to left. Once back inside a phone call was made to report the sighting and they heard it that hundreds of people had already called about the same thing. Oddly, I was not frightened.

As I got older I began to have what some dismiss as sleep paralysis but while I don’t rule that out, for me it was more intense than that. During the day I would have weird feelings like something was gonna happen and when I went to bed I would think to myself, “I’m going for a ride tonight”. Lying on my back my body would vibrate like a buzzing feeling and I would have what I thought were dreams about being on a metal table with bright light in my eyes.

When I woke up, if I recalled anything at all, I dismissed it because I had no frame of reference for the ‘dreams’. Then I read “Chariots of the Gods” by Erich von Daniken – which is a fascinating book about ancient technology – in which he writes that extraterrestrial beings were the ones who built ancient sites like the pyramids of Giza, Mayan pyramids and Cahokia in Illinois.

If you have ever watched Ancient Aliens on the History Channel you will know their research. What irks me is that the hosts usually say that, especially in North and South America, the structures could not possibly have been built by Indigenous Peoples because they were simple people who did not possess the ability to do so, but I digress….

When I became pregnant with my son the activity stepped up, it seemed like the E.T.s were very interested in my condition. One night while living in Duluth, Minn, in a basement apartment I saw a grayish face peeking at me through the window just before I dropped off to sleep. In my ‘dream’ I was sitting under a tree in my nighty and saw another woman nearby who looked catatonic and I tried to reassure her she would be okay, that ‘they’ would take us home.

When I woke I had small twigs and dry leaves in my long hair and the bottom of my feet had dirt on the soles. When I remembered that moment I wondered what the heck I was doing outside? It was January and freezing cold with heaps of snow! I moved back to Minneapolis and the visits continued. I once woke up to two small humanoid creatures standing by my bed while I was still pregnant.

After my son was born I recall waking momentarily and seeing bright, colorful lights bouncing on the walls and being in a vehicle looking out of a window and thinking, “So that’s it looks like from up here”. Mind you this was in the city.

In Rezberry, I was still being monitored, then one night the E.T.s informed me they would not be bothering me anymore (my words). I was soooo happy! I asked them to leave me something to show they had been here and I woke up thinking that there’s something out there for me in the backyard. I looked around and there was a small crop circle about four feet in diameter! I had another witness to see it but forgot to take a picture.

The above are only a few incidents I have been through in my life. Because last month I saw a huge, reddish glowing UFO through the trees. For some, the Star People are showing up again.

Actually, they never left.

Staff Reporter,
Environment & Politics
Elaine Strongbow is a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and has covered environmental and tribal sovereignty issues for The Circle since 2019. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and was a 2023 fellow of the Institute for Nonprofit News.

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