Press Release
June 21, 2015
Contact:
Tupac Enrique Acosta (602) 466-8367
Email:
chantlaca@tonatierra.org
DISMANTLING
THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY
O'otham Jeved - O'otham Nations
Territories [Phoenix, Arizona] - Moving forward from a ceremony of
rectification and cosmetric reference known as the Icuauhtonal Yei Acatl which took place at the Nahuacalli, Embassy of Indigenous Peoples on the summer solstice of
June 21, a delegation of Izkaloteka
have begun a 91 day campaign whose purpose is to bring about the definitive end
to the Doctrine of Discovery of
Christendom 1492 as a legitimate construct for the democratic societies in
the continent of Abya Yala [Americas].
The timing of the campaign will coincide
with the fall equinox of September 23, 2015 when the deliberations of a Continental Tribunal of Justice Abya Yala
which is set to take place in the Maya
Territories of Ixim Uleu [Guatemala]
also in September will bring forward their findings on the history and illegality
of the perpetuation of the Doctrine of Discovery as fundamental to the
violation and of the Right of Self
Determination of Indigenous Peoples by the all of the American States.
In spite of the call for repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery by an ever growing number of human rights movements, organizations, religious denominations and even the United Nations, there has been no action to move towards a full and effective application of the relevant procedures of the UN Decolonization Committee which are mandated and appropriate to address the violation of the Right of Self Determination of the Original Nations of the Great Turtle Island Abya Yala [the Americas].
Instead the Organization of American States has engineered a fiasco of a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples among themselves without the full, equal, and effective participation of the Indigenous Peoples. This attempt by the OAS members to subscribe the territorial and Human Rights of the Indigenous Peoples under the domestic constitutional framework of the states that are successors to the dominion concepts of the Doctrine of Discovery recently resulted in a walkout by the Indigenous Peoples Caucus of the Americas in Washington, D.C. In denunciation of the systemic policies and practices of discrimination against the Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples across the continent and over the centuries, the Indigenous Peoples Caucus rejected the subservient role of minions that the OAS system has scripted for the Original Nations of Abya Yala.
In follow up to the
campaign, the presentation of the findings of the Continental Tribunal of Justice Abya Yala on the Doctrine of Discovery will be brought to the Lenape Territories on September 26, 2015 and presented to the City of Philadelphia where Pope Francis of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, will be
present. In representation of the Vatican State, a member state within
the UN system with Permanent Observer status, Pope Francis is also a successor to the basic principles established
under the purview of a set of Papal Bulls such as the Inter Caetera 1493 that continue to justify and sanctify the
Doctrine of Discovery as a norm of public policy and social relations in the
hemisphere.
September
26, 2015 is the one year
anniversary of the forced disappearance of the 43 Normalista students of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, Mexico whose
parents and families have been demanding justice and accountability from the
government of Mexico, a narco-government that has to date refused to allow the Interdisciplinary Group of International
Experts of the Inter American
Commission of Human Rights to inspect the facilities of the Battallion 27 in Iguala, Mexico where the Ayotzinapa students were abducted by
police agents of the state nine months ago. A core demand across Mexico is the
issue of the fundamental structural causes of the state sanctioned impunity
under which the Indigenous Peoples of
Mexico have suffered for over 500 years, since the Doctrine of Discovery
was instituted under the laws of the Republic of Mexico, placing the Original Nations of Anahuac in the
position of being treated as vassals under a series of corrupt governments
controlled by Hispanic Latino elites.
The term Ayotzinapa is derived from Nahuatl, one of the principle
Indigenous languages of Mexico and refers to “the valley of the precious little
turtles.”
In presenting the call for solidarity and
alliance that the present campaign is now actively organizing from
local-regional, continental-global levels of engagement, Tupak Huehuecoyotl
organizer of the Nahuacalli, Embassy of Indigenous Peoples stated:
"The question is no longer whether
the Doctrine of Discovery as it is still being perpetuated in policy and
practice across the hemisphere is valid. That question has been answered,
definitively and finally. There is no
moral, legal, or cultural presentation that can legitimately argue that the theory
of the Divine Right of Kings, which
spawned the Doctrine of Discovery by Christendom,
can hold any validity in a democratic society.
What is in question now, is on what side of history will each of us as
individuals, as families, as communities, as nations and as Human Beings stand.
Will we stand up in continental uprising
to DISMANTLE the DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY, or will we comply
with the dehumanizing regimes of state sanctioned genocide and colonization
that continue to prop up the racist relics and psychological pathogens of the
European American project of colonization known as America?"
Embassy of Indigenous Peoples
www.nahuacalli.org
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Links:
Links:
November 15, 2013
Maria Piendamo, Cauca [Colombia]
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Amah Mutsun Tribal Band: Open Letter to Pope Francis
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Annex:
2010 UNPFII Preliminary Study on the Impact of the Doctrine of Discovery
2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
1493 Papal Bull Inter Caetera
1513 El Requierimiento
1984 ANASAZI Letter to Pope John Paul II
1984 Letter of Response : Vatican Secretary of State
2013 Catholic Herald: "Usurped" Malvinas-Falkland Islands
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2010 UNPFII Preliminary Study on the Impact of the Doctrine of Discovery
2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
1493 Papal Bull Inter Caetera
1513 El Requierimiento
1984 ANASAZI Letter to Pope John Paul II
1984 Letter of Response : Vatican Secretary of State
2013 Catholic Herald: "Usurped" Malvinas-Falkland Islands
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Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Fifth Period of Sessions May 15- 26, 2006
United Nations NY, NY
Continental Proclamation Abya Yala