Indigenous
Peoples Peace Initiative
Year 4
Reed, Day Two Crocodile
Wednesday,
March 12, 2003
O’odham Jeved
(Territories of the O’odham Nations) - 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 Calpolli Nahuacalco, Izkalotlan Pueblo, Nahuatl Nations Confederacy.
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 Nahuacalli 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 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 Great Turtle Island Abya
Yala [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 the Izkalotekah which correlates to
other counts of calendar systems among the Maya and Nahuatlaca Nations of Anahuac, the legation
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."
"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."
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