Seven Caves : Seven Stars - The House of Mica and the Treaty of Teotihuacan 2020

Seven Caves : Seven Stars

The House of Mica and the Treaty of Teotihuacan 2020

The storm that hit New York City and flooded the United Nations headquarters in New York on the evening of December 10, 1992 occurred on the same day that that Thomas Banyacya delivered the Message of the Hopi Nation on the floor of the General Assembly of the UN on behalf of the Indigenous Peoples of the world. 

The presentation by Thomas Banyacya was preceded by three shouts by Oren Lyons, of Onondaga Nation, and Faithkeeper of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The shouts were a spiritual announcement to the Great Spirit and the peoples assembled of the intention to give a message of spiritual importance.

Thomas began his remarks with a ceremonial sprinkling of sacred corn meal, and then gave the address which culminated a 40-year mission of the Hopi that began in 1948: delivery of the Message of Peace of the Indigenous Peoples at the House of Mica.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the annual gathering of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues which was set to begin on Monday the April 13, 2020 has been cancelled. As a result, the Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus will not gather this weekend in New York in preparation for the nineteenth annual session of the UN Permanent Forum. The global COVID-19 pandemic and the attempts to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus with social distancing, travel restrictions, and “shelter at home”, quarantine measures have completely dislodged the economic, cultural and social agenda of global society, especially for the UN whose headquarters in New York are at the worldwide epicenter of the virus pandemic.

In preparation for the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, it had become customary for the Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus, with representatives of Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples from around the world to gather and collectively strategize on the Saturday before the Forum, which would have been today, April 11th.

The UN system is a membership body of states founded in the principle of “state sovereignty” as established by the Treaty of Westphalia (1648), in consequence of international legal systems of Christendom. While the bureaucratic structure of the UN is a reflection of the administrative mechanisms of the British Empire, the actual structure of the UN building itself - the House of Mica, reflects the natural geometry of the Golden Rectangle, a recurring fractal of the design inherent to life on planet earth.

These two paradigms of global order, one imposed by dominion and patriarchy and the other unfolding from the inherent organic ordering systems of Mother Nature (sacredgeometry: www.www.www) have crossed over the line of definition and demarcation - the path of choice and decision that Thomas Banyacya shared at the UN in 1992 when he spoke of the Hopi Prophecy:

“There are two paths. The first with technology but separate from natural and spiritual law leads to these jagged lines representing chaos. The lower path is one that remains in harmony with natural law. Here we see a line that represents a choice like a bridge joining the paths. If we return to spiritual harmony and live from our hearts, we can experience a paradise in this world. If we continue only on this upper path, we will come to destruction.”

The point of choice has passed.  It occurred upon arrival of the dawn of the Tlanexpapalotl, (DawnButterfly Sun) Chikyei Tekpatl Xihuitl (Year 8 Flint) which corresponds in the modern mercantile version (Greenwich) of the Roman Calendar (now called the Gregorian calendar) as the date March 19, 2020: First full day of spring 2020 following the equinox.

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Mica is a translucent silica mineral of exceptional dielectric properties that forms naturally in sheets (similar to glass). The use of commercial sheet glass at the UN Headquarters in NY is the iconic feature of its architecture, but there is another House of Mica in the Mexico where plates of naturally formed mica have been put to use architecturally, not just for exterior window paneling but for its structural properties and purposes.  The location is known today as the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico.

Treaty of Teotihuacann 2020

Twenty years ago this summer the Oceti Sakowin, the Seven Council Fires Dakota-Nakota-Lakota, guided by Staff Keeper Gerald One Feather (Lakota), led the ceremony at Teotihuacan, Mexico during the closing of the First Continental Indigenous Summit.  The Treaty of Teotihuacan with its four aspects of mutual commitment, alliance and mandate as Original Nations of Abya Yala was the result.

The TREATY OF TEOTIHUACAN 2000 is a mutual commitment among the Indigenous Nations, Pueblos and organizations at the continental level, empowered by the Jurisprudence of Indigenous International Law in four aspects:

Spiritual Alliance,

Political Solidarity,

Cultural Complementarity, and

Pochtecayotl - Economic and Commercial Agreements of Exchange and Reciprocity

In January of 2001, the Oceti Sakowin were at the Nahuacalli to follow up and follow through with operationalizing the Treaty on a permanent and consistent manner. The Nahuacalli, Embassy of Indigenous Peoples is the result.

Now, in alliance and coordination with other sister organizations of the Continental Commission Abya Yala, with TONATIERRA as Secretariat, the call is made from the Nahuacalli to advance our collective geopolitical agenda under the principles and mandate of the Treaty of Teotihuacan 2020 in this critical historical moment of global disruption and confusion.

There is void of leadership at all levels that exacerbates the present pandemic crisis, a lack of clarity regarding the source and historical context of the pandemics which the Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples has suffered over the past 526 years.  With the intention of following through with the sacred offerings of prayer and purpose that led us to gather at the House of Mica in New York over the past decades ever since Wounded Knee ’73, our intent is to deliver a global intervention on behalf of the Indigenous Peoples of the Great Turtle Island Abya Yala towards the regeneration and purpose of our common spiritual and cultural responsibilities as defenders of the Territorial Integrity of Mother and the Human Rights of the Future Generations.

One of the most critical and nefarious aspects of the current Covid-19 pandemic crisis is the pathological policies of the government states who are using the pandemic as a “Shock Doctrine” smokescreen to advance the fossil fuel industries agenda in violation of the territorial rights of the Indigenous Peoples. One specific example is how the Canadian government pushed though parliament the approval of the USMCA (US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement) at the very last minute on March 13 before closing sessions in reaction to the outbreak of the pandemic. The smokescreen approval of USMCA is an oily cloud that shrouds the violation of the right of Indigenous Peoples to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent, a smokescreen that now threatens with life and death scenarios across Indian Country from Mexico-US-Canada as the governments prioritize saving the profit margins of the corporations over the well-being of the peoples, and the sacredness of Mother Earth.

Today, April 11, 2020 in absence of the Global Indigenous Caucus the Continental Commission proposes advancing in collective continental council Tlahtokan Abya Yala, in coordination and synchronization in order catalyze a proactive conversation and discussion on the theme:

Peace, justice and strong institutions:

The role of Indigenous Peoples in Defense of the

Territorial Integrity of Mother Earth

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