67.) Exposing the "shadow libraries" of the Ivy League universities and collages across the United States and how they helped contribute to the "Insidious Genocide" of the indigenous people . These "shadow libraries" contain books that the general public are forbidden from reading. (20 min. read )

 And usually, the only place the general public can find these books, are for sale on the internet's used book websites, or in used book stores. If you're lucky. And that's how I started to fine these books of the "shadow libraries" concerning indigenous people. By simply walking down the aisle of a used bookstore, seeing a title of a book on the shelf and saying- that looks interesting, and start reading it.

This was a few years before the pandemic. Although there have been a couple of books I have been trying to locate in used bookstores, for the past 40+ years.

I came up with the term "shadow library" in relation to it being a shadow of the public library. Always there, but in discernible to the public.

And if a person of the general public doesn't even know the title of a "shadow library" book or that it exists, how can they even ask for it or try to locate. 

If you go to Worldcat to look up a title of a book contained in these secret "shadow libraries", it will not be found in any public library. You have to look further and then you will see these "shadow library" books, are only in certain university libraries across the United States. 

These "shadow libraries," do not contain all the same books.

It doesn't appear that museums are included in Worldcat, for the above location of these "shadow library" books. You have to call or email each museum and niche library-archives to see if they have any of the books that you are looking for. And even then, you may have to "register as a researcher" to view these books.

There are also internet digital libraries such Hathitrust and Archives.org that may have the titles of some of these books. But again, you have to know the title of the book to search for it. And usually, these sites have restrictions and are for viewing purposes only for the general public.

Not having "researcher status", I simply stumbled across the titles of books and websites by accident. And also through the bibliographies of these books of the "shadow libraries," once I discovered these books on the shelves of used bookstores.

I came across these secret "shadow libraries" of universities while trying to locate books on the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the relationships of the English empire with, the Cayuga Nation and the Revolutionary War, for example.

The following is from article 23.) 21st paragraph, published on April 6th 2022. But I experienced this before the pandemic. I relate my experience with the University of Illinois school library. I called the library about the three volume set biography on George Washington by Rupert Hughes,1924, which I first located in a used bookstore. A public domain book with no copyright restrictions. The librarian answered the phone and the first question I asked her was- does the library have this book? Her first words to me, came in the form of a question which was "why do you want to read this book?" My initial reaction was shock, probably the same as yours, reading this. But I didn't express that shock, as I was trying to gain further information on the books. So I explained to the librarian that I was looking for an e-copy or a PDF of the book, so I could get people to read the book. And continued on to explain that I would try to get it "printed on demand" by the "espresso book machine", so people could easily aquire the books. This type of back and forth went on, and then the librarian finally explained to me that the "sponsor" of the book would only gave it to the university with "the stipulation that only students and staff of the university are allowed to view this book". I asked the librarian who the "sponsor" was, and she said "I don't have that information". I pressed on, and finally the librarian said "the public cannot view this book, but you MAY be able to get a visitor's pass to view this book". I didn't ask further, but it sounded as though I would have to go to the University of Illinois to do this. And that was IF I could get a visitor's pass to view this book. And that is how this call to the University of Illinois librarian ended. (I sent this article 23. to numerous Indigenous Study Programs at universities such as Harvard, Cornell, Dartmouth, etc. And just last month, someone sent me a PDF of volume 2 of this biography by Rupert Hughes. So I don't know if this was just a PDF that I missed- which is unlikely, or did my article cause something to happen within those university Indigenous Study Programs  to produce a PDF of this volume. Over the last few years, similar situations have occurred with these books from the "shadow libraries" that I have found and passed along to others, to start looking for them. So I don't know if it was my sending Article 23. to these Indigenous Study Programs that caused this or is it just a coincidence that PDFs and e-reads are now becoming available from these "shadow libraries".)

But it's not just university libraries that do this. There are museums that have certain books that you must "register as a researcher" before able to view these books. Now this may be the same form of control that the university libraries use to keep the public from viewing these books. Or it could be these books are in such delicate condition, that they only want to have certain people who know how to handle rare books, view the books under the premise of research. But this would only apply before the availability of e-books.

You would think it would be a priority to e-copy these rare books first, before all the other books of the libraries that the general public can get at any local library.

And if these books of the "shadow libraries" are not currently e-copied or e-read, why not?

But in any case, the american/canadian public is kept from viewing these books. If rare books are e-copied, the explanation of a book being in such delicate conditions that only "researchers" can view it, can no longer be a valid explanation.

A reasonable person with the above information, would come to the conclusion that there are indeed secret "shadow libraries" in the United States of America. And the U.S. commonly condemns other countries because of their forms of "censorship restrictions" on the people of that nation.

But these "shadow libraries" that exist in the United States are simply another form of "censorship restrictions" on the people of the United States. Does it seem that way to you?

This is not to say that the information in these books in the "shadow libraries" are all truth. But I'm sure everyone would agree that all books must be made public and equaly available to all people, so that individuals can decide for themselves. Wasn't this the whole purpose for the U.S. Public Library system to begin with.

Now let's get into exactly who is able to view these books of the "shadow libraries". If you can find these books in these "shadow libraries", some will actually list in the book's information- "viewing restrictions". This is listed along with: title and author, publisher and date of, number of pages, etc. So this is knowledge usually known only to the librarians of these institutions and the university personel, usually PhD's, who are allowed to view these books.

A PhD is a Doctor of Philosophy. It is the highest academic or professional doctorate degree, in any discipline except medicine. This academic degree allows the person to teach at the university level or work in a specialized, professional field.

Yet, when was the last time you heard a PhD talking or more importantly sharing the titles of these "restricted books" of the "shadow libraries". How can this be such a well kept secret from the public? Could it be that by the time a person gets through the educational system with a PhD, they have become indoctrinated and believe the general public should not view these books, just as their alma mater believes? What other conclusions can you draw from this?

Or, are there PhDs who never knew about access to these "shadow libraries" and have never heard or read these restricted books, because they never knew the titles of the books. If so, perhaps they should go back to their Institution of Higher Learning and ask why they were kept in the dark about these "shadow libraries". If they now feel they didn't get the education in the Indigenous Studies Programs that they paid for, perhaps they should demand a refund of their tuition.

And if this is the case, what are these Indigenous Study Programs actually teaching the students, propaganda? What else do you call it.

Or is it possible that the PhD's keep the secret of these "shadow libraries" because this is the well, from where they draw the information from, to produce their papers. So that only PhD's can produce these papers. Could it just simply be a form of job security. Now I understand, this is a wide brush to be painting with.

But lawyers invented a language of their own, so that only they could be the ones to understand and administer it. The public must go to lawyers because only the lawyers understand the language to interpret and "practice law". Simple job security. And lawyers also withhold important legal documents from indigenous people that could help the indigenous people who are combating forced assimilation and genocide.

But no matter the reason, the "shadow libraries" have contributed heavily to the continued genocide that has been done to  the indigenous people, by holding back valuable information from the indigenous people. And that genocide will continue until all of the books in the "shadow libraries" are revealed and made readily available to the public and Indigenous people. 

With the internet in everyones pocket and in public libraries, it would be no problem to accomplish this quickly. Put all the contents of the "Shadow libraries" on Worldcat, now.

Could the premeditated actions of these "shadows libraries" be a violation of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes of Genocide:

Article II, (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

Article III, (e) complicity in genocide; 

Because clearly, it could be reasonably argued that keeping the "shadow libraries" a secret and also the information they contain, would be considered being complicit in genocide and the continuing of genocide. If the information were made public and made available to the indigenous people right from the start, much of the genocide that occurred against the indigenous people of the U.S. and Canada, would not have occurred or at the very least, would not have been as severe. Simply because the whole truth would have been made available to the general public and the indigenous people. 

Public Sentiment to help the indigenous people, should never be underestimated.

The "shadow libraries" must be brought into the sunlight, for all to see.

Now let us look at the indigenous youth who get educated through these universities that house these "shadow libraries". The indigenous people see this with their young people who go to college to get fully educated. Many times, the educated indigenous young people come back to their people and try to change them towards assimalation, explaining to their people: "these are different times". But ever since European contact, it has always been "different times" for the indigenous people

The educated indian seems to feel an allegiance to keep the secrets of the "shadow libraries" and their higher educational institutions intact.

This happened to the indigenous people of South America and Central America during the 1970's. When the indigenous youth were sent to get educated through the colleges and universities of South America. They came back home as educated PhDs and and tried to change the indigenous people. To force their people into the assimilation of the spanish empire. The South and Central American indigenous people coined a negative phrase to call these young, educated, indigenous people, coming back to change them. They called them the: "Indian Intelligentsia". The spanish empire in South America would seem to be ahead of the curve of assimilation. This is a type of "insidious genocide". A phrase I coined and invented, to describe this type of genocide.

It's easier for governments to control a few PhDs, who in turn control the indigenous people. Rather than the government trying unsuccessfully to control all of the indigenous people at the same time. And sometimes, they will give an honorary PhD to an indigenous person, who the government feels is helping their indigenous people too much. That person, without their knowledge, is expected to control the indigenous people around them. This is also a type of "insidious genocide". 

These types of "insidious genocide", is usually well on its way, before the individual realizes the part they unwittingly played in the genocide. They were used as a tool to advance this "insidious genocide", to control the indigenous people, without their conscious understanding of what they were doing. They are not at fault.

So you see, the indoctrination into assimilation that is happening to the young indigenous people of the United States and Canada who get educated, and come back as PhDs, and try to change their people and force them into assimilation, is nothing new. 

Again, it is understood that this is a wide brush to be painting with, but what was described here, does occur and is occurring now. This does not include every indigenous PhD. But it is a necessary conversation for indigenous people and indigenous PhDs to have, and PhDs among themselves. This subject should be made into a college class, as part of the curriculum of indigenous studies. Everyone means well.

Recently, at an Indigenous Storytellers Conference at a local university, a faculty PhD. of the Indigenous Studies Program, who is indigenous, clearly stated out loud to the audience with a smile: "Indigenous Intelligentsia". It was an off to cuff remark and I'm sure this PhD faculty member meant well, but making such a statement, shows how much work needs to be done. All of us, including myself, have so much to learn about the "insidious genocide" that has been done and still being done to the indigenous people. And the Institutes of Higher Learning are part of this "insidious genocide".

Some readers may feel uncomfortable from the above. This is a very complicated and difficult subject to bring forth.

I'm just broaching these subjects, touching on a much larger and sensitive discussion. This may be the focus of a future article.

It is well known among all people, the worst thing a people can do, is to fool around with their religious belief. It can make people sick, it can kill people. This has already happened to indigenous people, and it continues to happen to indigenous people.

This discussion could turn into a PhD thesis. Or did I just give one. Lol.

As always, provided for your consideration and discussion within your circle, and hopefully beyond.