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03. Old News from Indigenous Nations | Indigenous Sovereignty | Sovereign’s Handbook

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Onondaga Insist on Self-Rule

The Onondaga Nation has insisted on self-rule and independence from the federal government for centuries. Today, enter the Onondaga Nation territory and one will enter a foreign country. 

The Onondaga Nation does not recognize federal jurisdiction or consider themselves “U.S. citizens”. They travel freely on their own passports. They refuse to accept federal programs that other tribes recognized as “nation within a nation” have accepted at the cost of their sovereignty and independence.

The federal U.S. government doesn’t concede the Onondaga’s independence and the Nation has been in numerous legal battles with the State of New York which still claim jurisdiction over the Nation. 

According to Chief Irving Powless, by western standards the tribe lives in poverty, but the Onondaga’s consider themselves blessed to be free and not accept the trappings of civilization such as being taxed, drafted, investigated and counted.

Chief Powless is a member of a tribal council picked by clan mothers in a matriarchal society. He asserts there are lots of happy, well-fed people who are firmly rooted in their culture. “We’re still here…surviving without compromising our position for the last 244 years.”

Oneida Shoot for Economic Independence

The nearby Oneida Nation doesn’t share the Onondaga’s strategy for sovereignty. They are convinced true sovereignty must be built on economic independence. 

The Oneida Nation have raked in $100 million or more in casino profits since 1993 and expanded their land base from 32 acres to 4,000 acres through reacquisition of land that was once part of their Nation before colonization. 

Being run by tribal governments installed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) doesn’t yield an independent voice for the indigenous people, but a mouthpiece for and cooptation by the federal U.S. government. Not to mention the immorality of raking in profits on gambling and disempowerment – a prostitution of the human spirit.

Many other tribes have gone this route, and it could be a short-term working strategy for economic development and ultimately long-term sovereignty if they don’t lose the heart and soul of their people in the process. 

The tribe could gain economic independence only if they converted the financial resources into an infrastructure that provides for self-reliance, sovereignty and true interdependence.  

Shawnee Declare War on United States

On January 23, 1990, the Shawnee Nation Reserve was violated by an armed force which invaded the reservation in order to steal Shawnee Indian property and impose civil jurisdiction upon Shawnee Indian Country and the Indians thereon, according to Chief Jimmie D. Oyler.

A recent tax levied against the Chief personally has prompted him to file Motions with Demand and Warning to Governor Bill Graves, the Secretary of Revenue and the Board of Tax Appeals for the return of all Indian property and/or monetary compensation for property, taken during the January 23, 1990 action. He is suing for an excess of $1,000,000.

Chief Jimmie D. Oyler and other unnamed tribal members sent a legal warning to the State of Kansas that anything short of “total compliance with the Constitution of the United States, United States Treaties with the Shawnee and others” shall result in total war. 

Northern Russian Federation Calls for International Assistance

Indigenous groups in the Northern Russian Federation have called for international support for negotiations with Russian President President Yeltsin. The group is transmitting a call to “political parties and movements, to the Russian public, to all people of good will, to whom the life and rights of every nationality is dear, to support the aims of minority peoples of the Russian North for self preservation.”

Socio-economic conditions among indigenous people of the North Russian Federation continue to deteriorate and the extinction of the Aleut, Ket, Iganasan, Negidalets, Orok, Oroch, Tofalar, Enets and Yukagir people seems imminent.

V.B. Shustov, General Secretary of the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East, says annexation of lands to accommodate “rapacious petroleum, natural gas, coal, gold and non-ferrous mining interests, without any form of just compensation to indigenous people of the north, is threatening 29 endangered nations representing some 200,000 individuals.” 

He asserts that “the transition to a market economy is characterized by a total break down of traditional economic activities and way of life, an uncontrolled growth of unemployment and impoverishment, life threatening levels of crime and alcoholism that undermine traditional outlooks on life, sharp decline in the health of our peoples and death rates that are one and a half times the average in the country.”

As a result, indigenous groups are demanding the Russian government start a negotiation process with the government of the Russian Federation before it is too late, addressing the questions of direct compensation, guarantees of traditional resource use and economic activities, social services, economic advancement, government representation and related issues. 

Unfortunately, this strategy is flawed as it is an appeal from an affiliated NGO of the United Nations (UN). Although, application for international recognition of the injustice is well intended, this is an appeal to the same Global Power structure that created the injustice in the first place. Can you appeal to the wolf to stop eating the chickens?

Huaorari Nation Occupies Oil Platforms

The Huaorani Nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon (ONHAE) occupied oil platforms and rigs belonging to Maxus Ecuador Inc., according to an ONHAE spokesman, as well as Hector Villamil of the Pastaza Indigenous Peoples Organization (OPIP). Maxus Ecuador Inc., denies that the wells were seized, but the Quito Daily News reported that there are about 100 soldiers in the area who could be used to remove the protesters.

The Huaorani group says that despite an Agreement of Friendship, Respect and Mutual Support signed between the indigenous people and Maxus, the company’s true intentions have become manifest. The compact was signed amidst divisiveness and deceit on Maxus’ part and the corporation’s paternalism and manipulation is resulting in loss of autonomy for the Huaorani people.

As a result, the Huaorani have proposed a new agreement to the government of Ecuador and Maxus, Inc. for the conducting of oil exploration in Block 16. The new agreement challenges the government and Maxus to defend and protect the cultural, organizational and territorial integrity of the Huaorani people and to guarantee their participation in the decision making process for oil development in their territory. 

They also are requesting the corporation to coordinate its activities with the Huaorani’s own economic development plan. 

Indians Threaten Mass Suicide

About 250 Brazilian Indians with a tribal history of suicide are threatening to fight to the death or kill themselves if they’re forced from a ranch in the western brush-lands. Dozens of families of Kaiowa-Guarani Indians have lived on the 1,230-acre ranch, 800 miles west of Brasilia, since it was expropriated and turned into a reservation several years ago.

Earlier this year, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso signed a decree allowing such expropriations to be contested in court, and former owner Miguel de Oliveira sued successfully. A judge ordered the Indians off the land.

Indigenous people have been exploited for generations for the natural resources they command. This is as true in the former Soviet Union, in Ecuador, in Brazil, elsewhere in the world and in the American Southwest. 

Indigenous people have understood the destruction of their sovereignty much longer than the “U.S. citizen”. We have much to learn from each other. Enough of the domination of the white race over the red, black or yellow races. We must respect the sovereignty of all the people of every culture and Nation including our own.

Martial Law at Black Mesa (Big Mountain)

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) had blockaded the annual spring Dine’ (i.e., Dineh) gathering on disputed territories of the Hopi Partitioned land at Black Mesa (Apache-Navajo Counties), Arizona. This is where “Hopi Partitioned Lands” were carved out of the Navajo Nation by a 1974 Presidential Executive Order which called for the forced eviction of traditional Navajo under the Navajo-Hopi Relocation Act or Public Law 93-531. 

Since the 1960s the mesa has been strip mined for coal )and uranium) by the Peabody Western Coal Company, stirring a controversy over Peabody Energy’s use of groundwater to transport coal. Even though the mine has closed, the Dine’ people are still being relocated and removed from their homes.

Martial law has been imposed over a large area on Black Mesa, or Big Mountain, since May 15th, 1996. Operating under the joint authority of BIA Superintendent Robert Caroline at Kearns Canyon and by Hopi Chairman Ferrill Secakuku at Kykotsmovi, U.S. government agents wearing flak jackets and brandishing automatic weapons are enforcing road closures and conducting warrant-less searches, improper detentions, seizures of personal belongings, food stuffs and medical supplies and intimidation of legal residents in their homes and on their premises.

The residences of Louise and Ruth Benally in the Community of Big Mountain, Arizona and the surrounding area, are covered with scores of law enforcement personnel. 

Violence has been reported by several area residents as police have used batons and force to take the gathering participants into custody. Police are now preparing to use tear gas at the site. Many Navajo Elders are resisting arrest as their children and supporters have already been taken into custody.

The situation escalated as a group of Elder women prevented the arrest of a Dine’ youth. Police then attempted to arrest Elders who sat and clung to each other to avoid being taken into custody. Supporters and family members continue to arrive and confront the Hopi Rangers. The Traditional Elders have called on the legacy media and the American public to come and witness the violence and the occupation of their ancestral homelands.

Hopi Tribal authorities have also verbally threatened to disrupt the upcoming July Sun Dances at Big Mountain.

Leonard Peltier Denied Parole Again

Leonard Peltier’s parole was denied again who is serving two consecutive life sentences and has spent more than 32 years in prison. The next scheduled hearing for Peltier is 2024 when Peltier would be 79 years old.

“A prominent member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), Leonard Peltier was convicted of the murders of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents, Jack Coler and Ronald Williams, during a confrontation involving AIM members on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota on 26 June 1975. While Leonard Peltier admits having been present during the incident, he has always denied shooting the agents at point blank range as alleged by the prosecution at his trial.”

The United States Parole Commission (USPC) states that regardless of the information brought back to them from the parole officer and despite favorable recommendations following the U.S. government’s distinct concessions that no direct evidence exists against Peltier, it is more convenient to keep an innocent man in prison than to deal with the controversy that might result from paroling him. 

The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee urges people to voice their outrage with phone calls and faxes. People of every color have their political prisoners, those who have fought, died or been incarcerated for their cause.

It will greatly benefit the “U.S. citizen” and sovereign “state” Citizen and all concerned to build strategic and diplomatic relationships with all other indigenous sovereign nations and people of North America. In order to survive, and participate fully in “Another World Order”, based on the sovereignty of all the people of the world,  we must humble ourselves and lead the way by facilitating a healing and restore justice in the USA.

As Bob Dylan once said, “A man not busy being born is busy dying.” The choice is ours. Americans – grow or die!

References:

  1. Ann Botticelli, Honolulu Advertiser; Review by Estar Holmes, North American News Service, Spring ‘96, p.19.
  2. Russian Federation Association Of Indigenous Peoples Of The North, Siberia and Far East; 117876 Moscow, ul. Stroitelei, 8, k. 2, kom. 707; Tel: (095) 930-7078; PeaceNet: May 19, 1996; Article reviewed by Estar Holmes.
  3. Quote from the Gathering of Native Writers, Artists & Wisdom Keepers at Taos, New Mexico, Oct 14-18, 1992.
  4. Wikipedia | Hopi Nation; Wikipedia | Navajo Nation; PeaceNet (International Indian Treaty Council); Wikipedia | Black Mesa; Sheep Dog Nation Rocks | Once Upon a Time in Big Mountain; Reviewed by Estar Holmes. John Abalone Walsh, Native American Support Group. Dineh Alliance at (520) 607-1449, or the Treaty Council News at (520) 770-9754.
  5. AAA Native Arts | Leonard Peltier again denied parole.
  6. Wikipedia | Leonard Peltier; Peltier Defense Committee www.leonardpeltier.net

Source: Sovereign’s Handbook by Johnny Liberty (30th Anniversary Edition), Volume 1 of 3, p.95 – 100

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03. Native Sovereignty & Doctrine of Discovery | Indigenous Sovereignty | Sovereign’s Handbook

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Self-determination is the deciding by a people of a nation what form of government they shall have without reference to the wishes of any other nation….the people have a range of choices from total assimilation within another nation, territory status, autonomy, statehood, free association, commonwealth to total independence and sovereignty.” ~ Francis Anthony Boyle, Attorney

The right of a people to self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law commonly regarded as a jus cogens rule. All people, based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity, have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no interference.

Indigenous “Native sovereignty” is a necessary precursor to continue our exploration of “sovereignty” as it relates to the united states of America. Prior to our discussion in the last chapter, many people had only learned about “sovereignty” in the context of indigenous First People’s struggles to reclaim their inherent rights to self-determination, their right to just and fairly administered treaties and the recognition of First People’s culture, language and nations under international law. 

Manifest Destiny & Spiritual Debt

The Power structures of both Western and Eastern nations cannot continue to desecrate or ignore indigenous people’s rights to “Native sovereignty”, to allow First People’s nations to co-exist amidst our destructive pursuit for land, wealth, gold and resources. What was once considered the “manifest destiny” of colonial “Sovereign Powers structures” are now, and justly so, finished.

Today, there are no more continents or native people left to conquer or vanquish. The last frontiers on this ever shrinking planet are not outside of us, but the pursuit of higher consciousness, as well as achieving economic, social, political and environmental justice for all the people. 

To manifest these last frontiers, we must not only include indigenous nations, but learn how to live sustainably on the earth in our last noble quest for self-determination and “sovereignty for all the people”. 

We the People of the united states of America have a spiritual debt to the indigenous people in this country, and of the earth, that can never be repaid except with humility and gratitude. 

We the People must acknowledge the terrible transgressions and genocides of our forefathers and foremothers for us all to be healed. No sincere happiness can be found in these united states of America or any other European nation until this healing work is done. 

Western civilization and the Roman Catholic Church is riddled with centuries of deeply ingrained guilt and shame for the horrible deeds done in the name of religion and the name of “progress”. This all must be healed to restore “sovereignty for all the people”. 

Perpetual Slavery for Indigenous Native People

Forty years before Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas on behalf of Spain, Pope Nicholas V gave express permission by issuance of the papal bull Romanus Pontifex (1455) to King Alfonso of Portugal to claim and capture lands in West Africa “to capture, vanquish, and subdue, the Saracens, Pagans, and other enemies of Christ…to take all their possessions and property, and to put them into perpetual slavery.”

With this document, and its predecessor in Roman law, terra nullus, Pope Nicholas V essentially declared war against all non-Christians throughout the world. 

“This Doctrine of Discovery, an ancient doctrine of the Christian world, still serves as the foundation of federal Indian law in the United States.” ~ Steven T. Newcomb

After Pope Alexander VI heard of Columbus’ successful “discovery” to the America’s on behalf of Spain he promptly issued the Inter Cetera papal bull on May 3, 1493 in which he declared that “the Catholic faith and Christian religion be everywhere increased and spread and that barbarous nations be overthrown and brought to the faith itself.”

Pope Alexander VI called on the monarchs of Spain and Portugal to subdue and convert all native lands and possessions. In essence the Pope decreed under papal law that unconverted heathens had no rights whatsoever to self-determination. Even if the indigenous tribal chiefs signed a peace treaty, it was considered non-binding because they were non-entities under the “Canon law”. 

Thus generations of treaties with indigenous people have been routinely dishonored, and native people still suffer great injustice at the hands of their conquerors to this very day. 

The roots of religious persecution and racism go long and deep in the united states of America, and around the world. There can be no religious justification for genocide, or the annihilation of any indigenous culture in the eyes of Source or God. If ones religion does not teach and practice the Golden rule, then religion has nothing to offer us.

No Separation of Church and State

The U.S. government is believed to have conducted its affairs in accordance with separation of Church and State. This is not true, however, with regard to the indigenous people of North America.

The U.S. Supreme Court formally wrote the “Doctrine of Discovery” into the laws of the United States in the case of Johnson v. McIntosh (1823). Chief Justice John Marshall wrote: “Discovery gave title to the government, by whose subject, or by whose authority it was made, against all other European governments.”

This doctrine has been primarily used to support decisions invalidating or ignoring aboriginal possession of land in favor of modern colonial governments such as in the case of Sherrill v. Oneida Nation (2005). 

Furthermore, in the case of County of Oneida v. Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y. (1985), “Fee title to the lands occupied by Indians when the colonists arrived became vested in the sovereign – first the discovering European nation and later the original States and the United States”.

Today, very few people realize that the legal distinction between Christians and aboriginal people (i.e. indigenous people, Native American, First People, Indians) is still incorporated in the U.S. Constitution as the “law of the land”. 

Based on this ancient “Doctrine of Discovery”, and the federal law based upon it, the United States government continues to deny indigenous people the recognition of their inherent tribal sovereignty and treaty rights in their own ancestral homelands of North America with a singular exception that Indian Territory (i.e., Reservations) is not subject to state or local taxes.

“Indian people are still denied their rights simply because they were not Christians at the time of European arrival.” ~ Steven Newcomb

Natural Law Rights & Inherent Sovereignty Under International Law

Indigenous people still have unalienable, natural law rights to inherent sovereignty as independent nations under international law. This principle has never been refuted in American law, despite numerous treaties being dishonored or ignored.

The indigenous people of North America never lost or surrendered their inherent sovereignty, but were conquered and subdued to the point of annihilation through the horrible genocide of the U.S. military and private mercenaries. Indigenous lands were essentially taken by force and stolen, then sold to private individuals and corporations by the federal U.S. government. 

Many indigenous people, dispirited and dispossessed by the genocidal actions against their families and tribes, were forced to submit to the federal U.S. government under the stewardship of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the federal U.S. government. Crazy Horse was one of the last free Indians to ride the plains and preferred death instead of submitting to white rule and forced to live on a reservation.

Indigenous people can still reclaim their native and tribal sovereignty by disengaging from federal U.S. government benefit programs if they can restore economic, legal and political sovereignty over their own affairs as an independent nation such as the Onondaga People of New York.

“The Onondaga people have consistently rejected the notion of changing from our traditional chiefs to become a ‘tribal’ or switch to an elective government. The Onondaga have remained steadfast despite the many efforts by the United States and the Bureau of Indian Affairs to change us.” 

Indian tribes exercising powers of self-government under the jurisdiction of the federal U.S. government are limited by the U.S. constitution. 

Tribal Governments As Sovereign Nations

Whereas tribal governments who choose to function as sovereign nations can still do so, but incorporated tribes must revoke their corporate charters to reclaim their inherent sovereignty or be subject to the municipal law of the District of Columbia (D.C.) like any other U.S. state. 

Tribal members with Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) numbers similar to SSN’s, they must revoke those numbers to reclaim their inherent sovereignty.

Eventually, tribal governments could dissolve their corporation, then break all in voluntary contractual relationships with the state and federal U.S. government except for diplomatic and trade relationships. 

For those tribal members who are also U.S. citizens, perhaps one can restore inherent sovereignty on non-tribal land by updating land patents land and declaring “allodial” titles on those lands.

Vatican Must Rescind Doctrine of Discovery & Provide Reparations with Land

One of many steps to bring this immoral, though legal, system of colonization, exploitation and genocide to its conclusion as a tragic part of human history, is for the “Doctrine of Discovery” to be formally rescinded by papal decree with reparations provided in land. The Pope and the Vatican are the third largest land owner in the world with over 177,000,000 acres.

An Open Letter to the Pope has been written to the Pope many times by many people and religious organizations, although he has so far ignored the request. 

In 2012, the United Nations Economic and Social Council Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues called for a mechanism to investigate historical land claims based on the discovery doctrine.

In 2009, the Episcopal Church repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery as did the Unitarian Universalist Association in 2012. Other religious groups – the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the World Council of Churches, New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, the United Methodist Church, to name a few – have also repudiated it. 

But the Vatican has refused to publicly address Catholicism’s role in bringing about the Doctrine of Discovery, or revoke the papal bulls that articulated it.

Indigenous Economic Sovereignty

For purposes of economic development and improving conditions on the reservations in Indian Territories, casino gambling as a tourist attraction, and other sustainable industries such as wind and solar power, could be an economic means toward economic sovereignty. Any environmentally destructive industry such as uranium mining should be shut down.

Tribal governments who have already built casinos could continue to operate them for a limited time for the purposes of economic development, then shut them down and convert the facilities to tribal use such as offices, schools or hospitals. Funds generated by these indigenous enterprises could be used to rebuild infrastructure and a balanced relationship with the land.

Any indigenous enterprises that remain could be integrated into a “Sovereign Trust” on behalf of the indigenous nation. This could be a legal instrument for implementing sovereignty in all tribal nations, and having them recognized internationally by establishing self-government under the Law of Nations.

The federal U.S. government recognizes indigenous sovereignty in economically and legally. Consider this excerpt from an affidavit of a former, high-level CIA operative who was responsible for developing a copy of the Inslaw software on the Cabazon reservation.

“The Cabazon Band of Indians are a sovereign nation. The sovereign immunity that is accorded the Cabazons as a consequence of this fact made it feasible to pursue on the reservation the development and/or manufacture of materials whose development or manufacture would be subject to stringent controls off the reservation.” ~ Michael J. Riconsciuto

Indigenous sovereignty movements are afoot in many of the stronger native cultures in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania such as the Haida people. 

There are over 5,000 distinct indigenous cultures in the world, often nations within nations, that have not been recognized by the 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) as sovereign nations with the unalienable rights of self-determination. The UN estimates the indigenous population at over 370 million people spread out over 20% of the planet. 

May all indigenous people restore their cultural traditions and native languages,  self-reliance and self-sufficiency on the land.

In hindsight may we remember, according to Charles C. Mann, author of 1491, indigenous people were the “persecuted survivors of a recently shattered culture…not a people without history incapable of change.”

References:

  1. Wikipedia | Dr. Francis Anthony Boyle; Infoplease | Indigenous Peoples of the World.
  2. Wikipedia | Right of Self Determination.
  3. Wikipedia | Discovery doctrine; Special thanks to Stephen Newcomb for his monumental research on the Doctrine of Discovery, the papal decree by Pope Nicholas V sourced in part from an essay, A Matter of Religious Freedom and Five Hundred Years of Injustice by Steven Newcomb | Philharmonie PDF | Apolegetica Historia Sumaria by Bartolome de Las Casa (1530)—a conquistador who repented his actions against indigenous people who became a Jesuit priest; Indigenous Law Institute
  4.  Ibid; Pagans and the Promised Land (2008) by Stephen Newcomb | Amazon | We the People of the Dominated Native Nationscommentary on assimilating native people into We the American Peopleby Stephen Newcomb.
  5. Wikipedia | John Marshall quote from an essay, A Matter of Religious Freedom and Five Hundred Years of Injustice by Steven Newcomb.
  6. Wikipedia | City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York, 544 U.S. 197 (2005) held that repurchase of traditional tribal lands 200 years later did not restore tribal sovereignty to that land. 
  7. Wikipedia | Oneida v. Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y., 470 U.S. 226, 234 (1985)(Oneida II) and Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y. v. County of Oneida, 414 U. S. 661, 667 (1974) (Oneida I).
  8. Indian Country Today | See also: Birgil Kills Straight by Maria Braveheart Jordan commentary on intergenerational trauma and native suicides; Indian Country Today | Quote from an Open Letter to Pope John Paul II.
  9. Wikipedia | Crazy Horse; Wikipedia | Crazy Horse Memorial; This author remembers being the last free Indian Crazy Horse in another lifetime.
  10. Wikipedia | Onondaga People are one of the original five nations of the Iroquois. The Cayuga and Seneca have territory to their east and the Oneida and Mohawk to their east. The Haudenosaunee Councils have remained sovereign; Onondaga Nation
  11. Cornell Law | 25 USC §1302 – Constitutional rights.
  12. An “allodial” title is a sovereign title with no superior claim to such land.
  13. Counterpunch | Open Letter to the Pope to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery by Deacon Joe Beasley; HuffPost | Nuns Blast Catholic Church’s Doctrine of Discovery That Justified Indigenous Oppression; Amah Mutsun | Religious Society of Friends Letter to Pope Francis Re: The Doctrine of Christian Discovery; Fountain of Light | Refute the Doctrine of Christian Discovery.
  14. Wikipedia | UN calls for mechanism to investigate historical land claims.
  15. National Catholic Reporter | Doctrine of Discovery: A scandal in plain sight.
  16. Wikipedia | Indian Gaming Act of 1988;  300 tribes in 27 states.
  17. Defrauding America by Rodney Stitch (1994), p.389.
  18. Wikipedia | Haida People; The Dominion | The Struggle for Haida Gwaii; Haida Nation | Constitution of the Haida Nation.
  19. Wikipedia | Unrecognized tribes in the Unites States; Wikipedia | List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies; UNPO | InfoPlease | Indigenous People of the World | Unrecognized Nations: Travels to Countries That Do Not Exist; Amazon
  20. Wikipedia | Quote sources from 1491: New Revelations Before Columbus, p.10; Amazon

Source: Sovereign’s Handbook by Johnny Liberty (30th Anniversary Edition), Volume 1 of 3, p.76-81

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01. Breakdown of Family & Tribe | Reclaiming the Sovereign Mind | Sovereign’s Handbook

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With the surrender of the mind to external authority and control, will power is soon to follow. With no will power to individuate or discover your true self, we become totally dependent upon the indoctrinated dogma and belief systems upon which we were conditioned. This is defined as “mental slavery”.

Until we examine our beliefs, reexamine our indoctrination, challenge external authority and leap into a bold inquiry into the nature of life and the universe, the status quo of this mental prison, victim mindset will continue ad nauseum.

As the immortal Bob Marley once sang passionately, “Free yourself from mental slavery”.

Breaking Free of Traditions

Family and tribe (i.e., village, neighborhood, community) have been the center of human life for millennia. The most basic root chakra of the human being needs to belong to a family and tribe for safety and security. This need is hard-wired into a human being and irrefutable.  

So the question remains what family and tribe were you raised in, and how do you lovingly break free of the traditions that holds us back from fully actualizing ourselves? Until this question is answered, you and I are easily subject to manipulation, hypnosis and control by external forces and institutions. 

In many tribal cultures individuation and self-actualization were not valued above the common good of the entire tribe. The needs of the individual were secondary. It seems reasonable that a balance between individual self-interest and the collective needs of the community must be considered in a healthy and vigorous society.

Family, Community & Tribe Under Attack

The Global Power Structure and elite have waged a decades long war against the family, tribe and community because it is against their self-interest to have strong, independent families or tribes.  Strong communities do not need the State. Weak or dependent ones do.

In the “Communist Manifesto”, the breakdown of the family was essential to achieving centralized control by the State. Today, the State is no longer imagined as a single nation, but all the nations in the world aggregated under a Global Power structure.

In Western Civilization, it is self-evident that traditional family systems are breaking apart, further dividing, alienating and wounding both adults and children emotionally, creating insecurity, angst, a rising suicide rate and a loss of belonging to a community. This trend is also emerging in more culturally homogenous countries in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Africa, China, India, South and Central America.

Furthermore, the sexual revolution of the 1970’s and widespread gender confusion of the early 21st century has blurred the lines between male and female, and polarized a variety of sexual orientations and preferences (e.g., gay, lesbian, transgender, etc.).

Marriages between male and female are at an all time low while divorces are on the rise. Gay and lesbian marriages are now legal while an alarming number of single parents from all races are raising children on their own. The loss of family, community and tribe has left millions of people vulnerable, without basic safety and security needs being met, further becoming dependent upon the State for their economic survival. So how does the State control a modern family in the usA?

Marriage License as Three-Party Contract with the State

The marriage license is a three-way, secular contract with the State and is based on ancient property law. The State is the dominant party and the parents have no property rights in their children. 

In a patriarchy, the man owned his seed and the eggs of the female were considered property. If a man and woman got married, they had to get the “consent” of the father who gave his daughter (i.e., property) away. 

If the father did not consent, they might elope, but without the consent of the father, the property (i.e., title) did not convey under the Common law. In a matriarchy, all property conveyed through the woman.

Technically, the marriage license is a business license allowing the husband and wife, in the name of the marriage, to enter into contracts with third parties. If the marriage dissolves, the “divorce” amends the contract, but the terms remain in effect.

Common Law Marriage

If you live together for seven years and the father neither consented nor contested the marriage, the couple would be legally married under the Common law. A Common law marriage is still recognized in every American state Republic with the exception of Louisiana which is a Napoleanic Code state (i.e., French law). 

State as the Legal Parent & Parens Patriae

In the American legal system, the doctrine of “parens patriae” confirms the State is the legal parent and the children produced from a State-licensed marriage are the property and chattel of the State. The parents are only conditional caretakers, thus the doctrine “in loco parentis”.

Following from old property law, if you are chattel (i.e., a slave) or the property of the State, then you need the consent of the State (i.e., the father) to marry or divorce which is evidenced by the marriage license, and any property derived from the marriage (i.e., children) belong to the State.

In 1921, the federal Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act was passed creating birth “registration” or what we now know as the “birth certificate”. It was known as the Maternity Act and was sold to the American people as a law that would reduce maternal and infant mortality, protect the health of mothers and infants, but had other purposes. 

One of those other purposes provided for the establishment of a federal Children’s Bureau designed to cooperate with State agencies in the overseeing of its operations and expenditures. This can now be seen as the first attempt of “government by appointment”, or cooperation of state governments to aid the federal government in usurping the legislative process of the several states of the Union as exists today through the federal grant-in-aid to the states programs. Sheppard-Towner set the framework for the inclusion of substantial provisions for maternal and infant care in the Social Security Act of 1935. 

The objectives of the New World Order, Global Power structure, Deep State and the elite are the same as the Communist Manifesto. Dare to read it and weep.

Thus, the breakdown of family and tribe is in the best interests of the State seeking always to expand its power base. When the family system is breaking down, the State becomes the new, improved parent. 

The State imposes controls over the raising of the children through mandatory public education, public health agencies and the Department of Human Resources. The State decides what is taught in public schools; what the child will learn and based on testing scores what career track is best for the child (just like in Communist China). The State decides what schools they’ll be able to go to based on race, sex and economic considerations.

Thus the State takes precedence over the biological parent in influencing and controlling the child until they are of legal age. This is evident in child custody battles or decisions over compulsory medical treatment.

The State decides what is appropriate social behavior, and what is politically correct. The State decides and defines abuse, and what is appropriate affection or discipline in the family.  

All this power in the hands of the State further alienates children from their biological parents who are often left as nothing more than the custodians of State property. May we not surrender our power or rights over the raising and education of our own children to the State. No more marriage licenses.

Biological Parents Often Powerless

As a parent have you ever felt that your children were out of your hands?  Read the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and you’ll get a chilling sense of what is on the horizon for “parental rights” in the New World Order (NWO).

In traditional, cohesive tribal systems, families were too strongly bonded to be broken or replaced by the State. But as communities and tribes have weakened parents can be more easily influenced by the media or compelled by public education to stand behind the State’s agenda. May parents not become agents of this tragic agenda.

We the Children As We the People 

Like many generations of parents before them, We the Children are now taught to give our minds, power and sovereignty to external authority and State sanctioned government institutions. Thus, We the Children became slaves instead of sovereigns in relationship to the social and political manipulators, whether the State or an indoctrinated biological parents. 

The result is yet another generation who have lost their freedom and right to be a fully fledged human being.  These are the lost generations. We the Children must soon become We the People again.

Hope for the Children, Youth & All Future Generations

Our hope for the future lies in new generations of enlightened, awakened, aware children and adults establishing the conditions necessary for sovereignty, beginning with physical, spiritual, mental and emotional sovereignty, then extending these internal aspects into the external legal, economic and political realms. These are the “seven aspects of sovereignty”. 

The ultimate challenge of our time is to free enough minds, young and old – to transform the well-conditioned patterns on Earth from negative (i.e., destructive) energy to positive (i.e., creative) energy. Within this transformation lies the solutions for every problem, every injustice that plagues the human race. May we live free in an unfree world as sovereign individuals families and communities, or else die as the chattel property of the global manipulators. The choice is ours.

The Wisdom of Insecurity

We cannot predict the future. None of us know the exact date on the calendar when we are going to die. We may feel insecure at times, because insecurity is the way of life. There is no security, not even in death. The “wisdom of insecurity” is a profound Eastern philosophical idea that is beyond the comprehension of  most Western minds. 

May we get back to values that respect and honor all life, and our deepest, truest, most honest sense of our human nature. Not only are we often disconnected from this precious planet, many have lost touch with their own humanity.  We must reject “trans-humanism”, stop acting like robots and claim our innate humanity instead. This may be the most difficult, and rewarding journey yet!

Economic Sovereignty

  1. An economic system involves the exchange of goods and services.
  2. You are responsible to be a producer in that system, not just a mere consumer.
  3. It is not the money, but the circulation of money and the production of wealth that matters in a true economy.
  4. Embrace the principles of prosperity consciousness.
  5. Remember the principles and economics of free enterprise and circulation.
  6. Attitudes and beliefs must be changed with knowledge, education and persistent hard work. Achieve economic sovereignty.

Legal Sovereignty

  1. A course of study to learn about your individual rights and how they are taken away through your ignorance of the law 
  2. Choose lawful Sovereign Citizenship.
  3. Understanding Common law commercial, administrative and judicial remedies.
  4. You have the right to do business in the jurisdiction of choice.

References:

  1. Wikipedia | Sourced from a song lyric by Bob Marley.
  2. Myss | Carolyn Myss’s books and tapes on “why we don’t heal”.
  3. WIkipedia | Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (1848).
  4. Government Services Corporation Watch | Marriage is a three-party, secular contract with the State.
  5. Findlaw | Common Law Marriage; Wikipedia | Napoleanic Code law or Civil Law of the French.
  6. Wikipedia | Legal Information Institute & Cornell Law | Doctrine of parens patriae. 
  7. Legal Dictionary | Doctrine of in loco parentis.
  8. Wikipedia | Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act of 1921.
  9. Wikipedia | Social Security Act of 1935.
  10. Wikipedia | United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Child.
  11. Wikipedia | Inspired by The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan Watts.
  12. Sourced from ICR’s Success Education Course: Economics of Free Enterprise and Principles of Circulation | Freedom Catalog or Liberty International Books.
  13. Sourced from ICR’s Success Education Course: American and International Law |Freedom Catalog or Liberty International Books.

Source: Sovereign’s Handbook by Johnny Liberty (30th Anniversary Edition), Volume 1 of 3, p.44 – 47

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