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Message for Suheir Hammad (in support of the Palestinian
people)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/I_P_I/message/9265
Ehecatl
El Viento de Aztlan
Primavera Xihuitl Nahui Acatl Spring
2003
Indigenous Peoples Peace Initiative
Year 4 Reed, Day Two Crocodile
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Izkalotlan, Aztlan
Emerging from a three day traditional gathering of
Indigenous Nations and Pueblos, a legation of Indigenous
Peoples initiated today a global Indigenous Peoples Peace
Initiative intended to restore the principles
of "yectlamatcayetoliztli" (PEACE) as a mandate of
humanity from the future generations. The proclamation was
made from the NAHUACALLI, Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples
located in Phoenix, Arizona.
"We must disarm the global regime of nationalism of the
state. The psychologies of hatred and competition under
which the government states of the world would have us
sacrifice our humanity and our children to senseless wars
will no longer be tolerated. As Indigenous Peoples of the
world, we further challenge the government states of the
United Nations system to criminalize the destructive impact
of warfare upon the ecosystems of the Earth itself, by
defining appropriate international legal protocols
regarding the conduct of warfare such as the Geneva
Convention."
Said Tupac Enrique Acosta, member of the Xicano Nahuatl
Nation.
To implement the Indigenous Peoples Peace Initiative,
representatives of the diverse and distinct Indigenous
Nations attending the launch of the global campaign, moved
out from the Nahaucalli embassy in the Four Directions,
with assignments to convoke the traditional spiritual
leadership from around the world to engage in the
restoration process of Peace and Dignity. The first
objective of the Indigenous Peoples Peace Initiative (IPPI)
is to make known to the conscience of all humanity that the
calls to war by the government states will not apply to the
Indigenous Peoples globally, and will not be answered.
Instead, the Indigenous Nations of the continent
Itzachilatlan, (the Americas) propose that the indigenous
nation confederations from around the world rise to reclaim
the destiny of the future generations, by invoking
spiritual and moral authority as the protectors of the
Mother Earth. The Indigenous Peoples of this hemisphere
have maintained such a spiritual, cultural, and political
confederacy since time immemorial. This confederacy is
known as the Confederation of the Eagle and the Condor.
In terms of communications, the IPPI has implemented a
hyperspace linkup, and will be delivering a message to the
United Nations representatives of the Permanent Forum on
Indigenous Issues under the Economic and Social Council on
May 15 in New York. The NAHUACALLI in Phoenix, Arizona
will serve as clearing house for the first phase of the
Indigenous Peoples Peace Initiative.
Referring to the Xiuhpohualli, the count of years of
Izkalotlan, Aztlan which correlates to other counts of
calendar systems among the Maya and Nahua Nations, the
delegation travels now to fulfill an ancestral mandate
called the prophecy of the Sixth Sun given on August the
13, 1521 in Mexico. It is the dawn of the Sun of Justice.
The first rays of light from the East have been seen, they
have been felt, said one youth who has made a lifelong
commitment to the goals of the initiative. Now is the time
to go forward in a sacred manner. A new world is about to
be born!
Ehecatl
is the official publication of NAHUACALLI - TONATIERRA
Contact: Tupac Enrique Acosta, chantlaca
Tel: (602) 254-5230 Fax: (602) 252-6094
chantlaca@aol.com
TONATIERRA
http://www.tonatierra.org
Email: tonal@tonatierra.com
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Mandate of the Indigenous Peoples
“All peoples have the right to self determination.” These
are the words of United Nations General Assembly resolution
1514, passed on December 14, 1960, in the wake of the
cresting global movement to declare colonization a crime
against humanity, a violation of the international law of
nation states.
The declaration of colonization as a violation of
international law for the first time in the context of the
United Nations system, placed the government states who
were in violation under the scrutiny of the General
Assembly. Procedures were put in place to identify criteria
that would specifically describe the Non-Self-Governing
Territories under colonization and also establish a
reporting system for the violating government states to
move these colonized peoples towards self determination. As
example, the U.S. government reported to the UN
Decolonization Commision, established under section 73(e)
of the United Nations Charter until 1960, in the case of
the territories of Alaska and Hawaii.
From the same resolution, GA 1514:
“The General Assembly,
Solemnly proclaims the necessity of bringing to speedy and
unconditional end colonialism in all its forms and
manifestations…”
For over 3,500 years our relatives have been contending
with colonization under the Aryan philosophy of racial and
cultural superiority in their traditional territories, ever
since even before they were invaded by Alexander the Great.
They also, like we native nations of this continent are
mistakenly called Indians. They call themselves the
ADIVASI, one of the Indigenous Peoples of the Indian
subcontinent. Along with the Adivasi, the Maori of Aotearoa
(AKA New Zealand), the multiple and diverse Indigenous
Nations from the former Soviet Union territories, the Inuit
Circumpolar Conference, the Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders,
Indigenous Peoples of the Southeast Asian Peninsula as well
as the Mainland, we joined as the Indigenous Nations of
Itzachilatlan (AKA the Americas), Africa, Europe and
Australia to witness and strengthen the global political
position of the Indigenous Peoples upon the inauguration of
the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, May 13, 2002
in New York.
The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is a 16 member
body of independent experts, eight of whom are nominated by
the government states, and eight nominated by the
Indigenous Peoples themselves in a process that reflects 7
geo-cultural regions of the world with one rotating seat.
Established as an advisory body to the Economic and Social
Council, the Permanent Forum creates for the first time
within the global system of governance that is the United
Nations, a vehicle by which the Indigenous Peoples and
Nations can represent their interests directly to the UN.
The inaugural session of the Permanent Forum was opened by
the Tadodaho (traditional chief) from Onandaga, guardians
of the Grand Council Fire of the Haudenosaunee Six Nations
Iroquois Confederacy, upon whose traditional territories
the UN building itself stands. Among the Xicanos of
Aztlan, there exists an especially strong tie of culture
and kinship with the Haudenosaunee that goes back to the
Wounded Knee conflict of 1973, and further still to Mad
Bear Anderson's continental Unity Caravan under the White
Roots of Peace and the initiative he led to Cuba,
attempting to achieve international recognition for the
Haudenosaunee passport and nationality on a par with that
of the US or any other government state. More profoundly,
among the archives of traditional memory of the
Tezcatlipoca Aztlan, there exists the teaching of relations
between the founder of the Six Nations Confederacy, called
the Peacemaker, and the disciples of the teachings of
Quetzalcoatl Ce Acatl in Mexico.
As the first week of the Permanent Forum drew to a close, a
sense of urgency and acknowledgment united the indigenous
representatives at the UN. The Indigenous Peoples - our
nations, communities, and families are on the front line of
the assault being systematically waged as the global
multinational corporate structure voraciously extracts
natural resources and spews contamination in order to
maintain industrial dominance of the current consumer
market model of economic globalization. At the Permanent
Forum, the Indigenous Nations testified repeatedly that
time is running out to rectify the relationship of the
human society globally in order to achieve sustainability
within the natural ecosystems of the Earth. It will soon
be too late for words, too late to reverse the effects of
the petroleum based industrial model that has pushed the
world into the scenario of what will inevitably be the
terrible effects of global warming, environmental
degradation, and deforestation.
Among the Indigenous Caucus convened at the UN in New York,
it has also become mutually acknowledged and reinforced at
each international conference where the Indigenous Peoples
are in attendance, that the Indigenous Peoples worldwide
are the best hope as a strategic political bloc with global
context, history, and coherence that is not controlled by
the fractured allegiances or ideologies of the nation state
paradigm, nor captured by the values of the multinational
corporate regime of global resource expropriation. At the
core of this mutual acknowledgment is an appreciation for
the spirituality of the ancient and diverse Indigenous
Peoples as caretakers of the Earth. This enduring
foundation has provided the precept of a planetary
constitution that describes the Indigenous Nations and
Peoples as a global confederation of families, communities,
tribes, organizations, nations, and Nations of Nations in
alliance. In this hemisphere, this precept is known as the
prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor.
When Pope Alexander the VI, himself a member of the
infamous Borgia family, issued the Papal Bull Inter Cetera
on May 3-4, 1493 the precursor estates that have led to the
present colonial nation state formation on this continent
were given their empowerment in terms of the international
legal system of the so called “West.” It was under the
jurisprudence of this international decree, clothed in the
religious authority of the Vatican, that the colonization,
terracide and genocide of this hemisphere acquired its
initial justification as a civilized action, again in terms
of the “West”, and specifically for the representative
political powers of the time: the royal families of Spain
and Portugal. Under this edict, the geographical fact of
discovery was tied to the politico-religious act of
dominion implemented with exclusivity in favor of the
European American invaders. This Papal Bull has never been
abrogated or annulled and remains in effect.
The New World was such for the West not just in the
geographical sense, it was new and revolutionary in the
fact that the Indigenous Peoples social contract that gave
context to the political infrastructure of the culture
emanated through a spirituality of reverence for the
elemental forces of nature, in which there was no concept
of things outside of nature or “supernatural.” Nor was the
human identity given preference or exclusivity as the being
the dominant personality of society, which included all
other life forms of winged, crawling, swimming, and other
creatures in the natural world order. It was these
egalitarian political precepts that upon arrival in the
Europe of the 1500’s, gave germination to the revolutions
of liberation which eventually toppled the rule by royalty
in this hemisphere, and gave birth to the modern republic-
states presently internationally recognized and in status
as members of the UN. In the transition, however, from
colony to republic, not one of the newly formed nation
states of the hemisphere has revoked the initial claim to
jurisdiction established under the Papal Bull of 1493,
known as the Doctrine of Discovery.
In fact, although the UN General Assembly resolution 1514
proclaims colonization as a violation of international law,
and the criteria and protocols for decolonization clearly
are relevant and should be applied to the indigenous nation
territories, a Doctrine of Denial and complicity exists
among the government states of the western hemisphere to
block implementation by the Indigenous Nations and Peoples
of the right to decolonization. In other words, the
processes of decolonization applied after World War II to
the African continent and other colonial territories is not
to be repeated or made inclusive of the Indigenous Peoples.
To accomplish this duplicity, the government states of the
United Nation systems have refused to accede to identifying
the Indigenous Peoples as Peoples, referring to
us "indigenous populations" only or in the singular
as “indigenous people” thus precluding the right to self
determination and collective rights within the global
matrix which is the established international legal system
of the so called “civilized world.” Specific to North,
Central and South America, the government states of the
continent have colluded to enforce the Doctrine of Denial
under the international legal system and the United
Nations, within which these governments are recognized
as "indigenous to the hemisphere" thus shielding them
collectively as violators of UN General Assembly Resolution
1514.
The call for a permanent forum within the United Nations
system for Indigenous Peoples derives from the historical
resistance movement of the Indigenous Peoples and Nations
worldwide to colonization. In the implementation, the UN
has established within the Economic and Social Council the
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The concept of a
forum is a description of social space, wherein a dialogue
is possible. Any true dialogue requires a minimum of two
perspectives, a dynamic of duality must be present at all
phases of the process, including design, implementation,
and evaluation. Within the diplomatic language of the
international system, unless the Permanent Forum on
Indigenous Issues is to be simply a disempowering token
exercise for the Indigenous Peoples, there must be
recognition from the start that the Permanent Forum
operates under a Dual Mandate.
We have arrived at the moment in history of the world where
a dialogue among civilizations and world views is necessary
at the global level. Only so will the hope for Peace and
Dignity with justice for our human society survive,
established through a sustainable ecological relationship
with the Mother Earth itself as foundation. This is the
Mandate of the Indigenous Peoples; it supersedes that of
the United Nations system; it is an expression of the
jurisprudence of indigenous international law: it is the
path of Tradition and Liberation.
Tupac Enrique Acosta
TONATIERRA
P.O. Box 24009
Phoenix AZ 85076
Email: chantlaca@aol.com
http://www.tonatierra.org
CONIC
Council of Indigenous Organizations and Nations of the
Continent
CONIC is comprised of indigenous organizations with a 12
year track record of intercontinental organizing and
solidarity as Indigenous Nations and Pueblos. As a unique
model of native empowerment, one that is maturing into
proactive positions on native issues across the continent,
the CONIC provides the continental platform of context for
TONATIERRA in the present era of globalization. TONATIERRA
is a leading force among the CONIC member organizations,
collectively pursuing the process of organizational
development across the continent, guided by the ancestral
values and history of our Native Nations on the path of
self determination and sustainable community development.
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