Mar de Plata, Argentina November 2, 2005
The
Legend of Truth and the Doctrines of Power
MAY
IT BE KNOWN:
Amixpanzinco,
Amixtlamatqueh,
Good
greetings. We take this opportunity to
deliver the attached documentation regarding the agenda of responsibilities
which are of priority to the Indigenous Nation Pueblos gathered in Summit in
Mar de Plata, Argentina November 1-4, 2005.
We
stood by the Sacred Fire in
We
were at the Second Continental Encounter
of Indigenous Nations and Pueblos in 1993 in
Spiritual
Commercial and Economic
Agreements of Exchange and Development - Pochtecayotl
And
so we stand today once again among our relatives of the great and humble family
of Indigenous Nation Pueblos of our mother continent Abya Yala in summit at Mar
de Plata. May the Creator continue to
guide our footsteps, as we leave a trail for the future generations.
The
previous assertion of the sequence of continental gatherings from
In
fulfillment of these sacred obligations and the mutual commitments made under
the Treaty of Teotihuacan at the First Continental Indigenous Summit of
Indigenous Nations and
A
basic issue for the Indigenous Nation Pueblos of the continent Abya Yala (the
Americas) continues to be the discrepancy of the eventual outcome of self
determination for the Indigenous Peoples as viewed from the perspective of the
interests of the government states and from within the cultural based
cosmovision of the Nican Tlacah, the
Indigenous Peoples themselves.
The
elemental issues derive from utterly divergent presentations of the
relationship of human society to territory, individually and collectively, as
either government states or the reality of the Nican Tlacah Indigenous Peoples
and Nations. The jurisdiction of the states is one of dominion and colonization, that of the Nican Tlacah is one of
inter-relationship and reciprocity. As evidenced by the Global Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), recently commissioned and completed by the United Nations, the
reality of the Indigenous Peoples relationship of territoriality is
increasingly recognized scientifically at a global level as being the best hope
for humanity to achieve homeostasis within the environment of the world’s
ecosystems.
Any political position on self determination, whether by the government states or the Nican Tlacah will inevitably be determined within the context of the sum of global ecological systems as sets of parameters, including humanity itself as a subsystem among all these relationships.
In terms of the continent Abya Yala, (the Americas) a centuries old Doctrine of Denial takes its place among a regime of genocidal policies that is centuries in the making and continues till today. Beginning with the Papal Bull Inter Cetera of 1493, continuing with the present militarily enforced Monroe Doctrine and now projected under the Free Trade Area of the Americas, the Doctrine of Denial is insidious for presenting to the world’s Peoples a denial of the very processes of history in terms of recognition and self determination for the Indigenous Nation Pueblos of our continent.
In view of the above, we now
propose that:
A
special session of the Decolonization
Committee of the United Nations under section
73(e) of the United Nations Charter must be held in order to evaluate the
above mentioned Doctrines of Power
in light of the Spirit of Truth, and under the criteria of evaluation
established by United Nations General
Assembly Resolution 1514 "Right of Self Determination" and GA 1541 which outlines the processes
and criteria for identifying and rectifying the crime of colonization under the norms of international law of the
member states of the United Nations system.
An
finally, we propose that in the process of undertaking such an initiative,
namely the implementation of the processes of DECOLONIZATION for the Indigenous Nation Pueblos and territories of
our continent Abya Yala, without which any declaration of self determination
would be of only limited rhetorical value in the practical sense of
International Law, special attention be given to the establishment by the
United Nations of the regional organization of the Organization of American States OAS itself, as yet another example
of the usurpation and violation of the Right of Self Determination in our
hemisphere by establishing yet another regime of political representation on
our territories in our continent without our participation or consent and in
violation of GA 1514, as evidenced under GA 1541.
Respectfully
submitted,
Tlahtokan
Nahuacalli
Izkalotlan,
Aztlan
NAHUACALLI
Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples
c/o TONATIERRA
Tel: (602) 254-5230
Email: chantlaca@aol.com
www.tonatierra.org