Continental Indigenous Solidarity Action with the Oceti
Sakuwin of Standing Rock North Dakota in the fight against 524 years of
Colonization, Genocide, and
CONSULTATION IS NOT CONSENT
On Tuesday October 11th during the convening of the National Congress of
American Indians (NCAI) in Phoenix, Arizona agencies of the US government will
be conducting a "listening session" with federally recognized tribes
on improving tribal input on federal development of infrastructure projects,
such as the Dakota Access Pipeline. The session is scheduled for Tuesday
October 11th from 6:00-8:00 PM.
The opposition by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to the
Dakota Access Pipeline, which has caught national and international media
attention, resulted in this listening session and other field hearings.
The three federal agencies stated in a news release last
week that on Sept. 9, they announced their intention to hold these consultation
sessions after important issues were raised by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
and other tribal nations and their members regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline
specifically, and infrastructure-related decision-making more generally.
CONSULTATION IS NOT CONSENT
The standard and criteria in the decision making process for
these discussions that are contextualized by the extra-constitutional rights of
Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples is the legal principle of Free, Prior,
and Informed Consent in Good Faith as articulated in the UN Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007).
Furthermore, being that the issues in dispute involving the
Dakota Access Pipeline are being contested within the ancestral homelands of
the Oceti Sakuwin, referenced in the Treaty Stipulations of the 1868 Fort Laramie
Treaty with the US Government, should justice be the goal it becomes paramount
and inescapable that these Treaty Issues must be first addressed in a competent
legal venue of International Law.
Any domestic court of the US legal system, or any subdivision
of the US government for that matter such as the EPA would simply not have
purview over these international issues, as they lie completely within the
realm of International Law, and therefore until the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty is
integrated into the global framework of International Law of Treaties and
Agreements on a par as a legitimate International Instrument within the United
Nations system, there will never be a chance for the just resolution of
disputes among the parties to the Treaty as is now being made visible to the
world in the standoff at Standing Rock.
WE DENY CONSENT
Before the Wounded Knee chiefs went to the UN in ’73,
representatives of the Traditional Hopi Nation had also attempted to
communicate a message of warning to the world community via the UN on behalf of
the Future Generations. That warning is now a present reality. The horizon of
Climate Chaos exacerbated by carbon emissions of industrialized society is upon
us with every season, where there is no normal in the weather patterns any
longer, and the arctic ice sheets accelerate their demise in the north.
In this fight to revere, uphold, and defend the ability of
Earth to be the Mother to the Future Generations, the Right of Mother Earth to
continue being our mother, we stand in solidarity and commitment with the Oceti
Sakuwin and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, demanding an immediate halt to all
construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
Further we assert that these clarifications command
rectification of the crime of colonialism and a moratorium on all North
American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA economic development projects
[Canada-USA-Mexico] impacting the territories of the Nations and Pueblos of Indigenous
Peoples until the right of Free, Prior and Informed Consent of the Indigenous
Peoples is fully recognized, respected, and protected in the spirit of the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as follows:
“Affirming that Indigenous Peoples are equal to all other
peoples...”
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