Chief Wana Dubie
(formally Joseph Bickell) is an American Activist, Theologian, Politician, and Philosopher currently living outside Salem, Missouri.
Dubie (spelled as in dubious) is today best known for his 1993 secession from the United States and subsequent Copper Hill Pot Planting Party (modelled after the Boston Tea Party) where he declared his 6 acre farm in Osage County Missouri a Santimaw Indian Reservation and thusly established it as an indepentant sovereignty country known as the Dubie Nation.

Dubie prominently displays a marijuana leaf tatoo on his forehead that he got while in prison at Algoa State Correctional Center. In addition to this he has nails tatooed on his wrists and feet, a "sacred heart" on his chest, plus a spear point on his side in a self imposed stigmata.

In 1992 Chief Wana Dubie ran for President of the United States and won 42 votes.

Chief Wana Dubie is currently running for the office of Governor of Missouri in the 2008 elections.


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Early Life

Chief Wana Dubie was born Joseph Bickell in Flint, Michigan, in 1958. Dubie claims that he was born already circumcised and that the doctors smashed his chest cavity upon birth causing perminent severe health effects.
When five years old Dubie saw John F. Kennedy get shot while sitting on his mother's knee moments after she told him to grow up to be like JFK.
At age ten Dubie unknowingly participanted in the Electric Koolaid Acid Test when before a youth talent show he and his fellow scout members were dosed with LSD. Dubie claims that his troop subsequently won every competition they entered.

Chief Wana Dubie Born

After "overdosing" on CNN in the late 1980s while in ill health and sequestered to bed Joseph Bickell decided to take a stand against what he saw as government tyrenny and "walk the walk instead of talk the talk." After this relevation he deceided to reinstate his Native American heritage writing in a letter he sent to family and the government:

"I Joseph Bickell, who have tried to follow within
the system, which was created by our fore-fathers,
which I thought was a system of the people, by the
people, and for the people, And I failed! So I
tried again, and I failed! I discovered that it was
a system of big corporations, by big corporations,
for big corporations.
So I have given up fighting as an American
citizen. And, with the consent of my immediate
family, we have reinstated our Indian heritage. And
I will be hence forth known as Chief Wana Dubie of
the Santimaw Indians."

War with the United States

In 1990, Dubie watched on television as then President George H.W. Bush declared war on drugs saying "This scourge will stop." Feeling threatened by his status as a free lance medical marijuana grower and user in response drafted his own Declaration of War against the United States on March 19, 1990:

"We the people of the Santimaw Tribe, led by Chief
Wana Dubie, do hereby declare a war with the Union
of the United States of America, Until such time
that the government does agree to sign a peace
treaty with the Santiamw Tribe.
We are not declaring a war of violence. But one
of revolt for your system! We want our ancestry
back! And, we want the rights and benefits of the
other civilized American Indian tribes.
Give me liberty or give me death!"
Chief Wana Dubie^[1]

External Links

Chief Wana Dubie's homepage[2211]