The House of Mica and the Treaty of Teotihuacan 2020

Seas of Emergence
The House of Mica 
and the 
Treaty of Teotihuacan 2020

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April 11, 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 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 occasion was the launching of the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Peoples for 1993.

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 deliver 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 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), and in consequence of the 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 organic 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 (sacred geometry: www.www.www) Pacha Mama have now irreversibly crossed over the line of definition and demarcation - the path of choice and decision that Thomas Banyacya shared in his message 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, (Dawn Butterfly 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 Mexico where plates of naturally formed mica have been put to use architecturally, not merely 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 Teotihuacan 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

Since the First Continental Summit of Teotihuacan in 2000, there have now occurred a total of five continental indigenous summits: 2^nd Summit Quito, Ecuador 2004; 3^rd Summit Iximche, Guatemala 2007; 4^th Summit Puno, Peru 2009; 5^th Summit Cauca, Colombia 2013.  This year, in light of the present realities and revelations, the call to the 6^th Summit in Honduras has been also delayed and instead a series of coordinated and synchronized continental Indigenous Uprising and Emergence actions are now in motion. These are known as the 2020 Izcalli Abya Yala 2020.

In January of 2001, the Oceti Sakowin were at the Nahuacalli to follow up and follow through with operationalizing the Treaty of Teotihuacan on a permanent basis and in 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. There is a lack of clarity regarding the source and biometrics of the spread of the Covid-19 virus, and also regarding the historical and ecological context of the pandemics which our Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples have 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 (UN) over the past decades ever since Wounded Knee ’73, our determination 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 Earth 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 through 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 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 Abya Yala proposes advancing our collective continental agenda as Original Nations of Mother Earth, beyond the constraints, limitations, and failures of the UN system.  From the Nahuacalli, Embassy of Indigenous Peoples, we call for a coordinated and synchronized initiative of international and global outreach and consolidation in the Spirit of World Peace and Peace with Mother Earth as Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples.

We call for the regeneration of our ancestral international instruments of responsibility and accountability as inscribed in our cosmetric calendars, instruments (aztli) of our own design and institution which mark our histories on Mother Earth since Time Immortal and unto the Future Generations.

We call for the regeneration of the vision of Our Common Future in light of these universal cultural principles and in full, complete, and respectful exercise of our collective rights of Self Determination as Original Nations of Mother Earth, equal to all other peoples.

In this context, and as the theme for the 19^th session of the UN Permanent Forum 2020 was set to be: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, accordingly and in complementarity we now propose to open a permanent portal of intra-national and international communications on these issues via the Nahuacalli localized by our particular and planetary responsibilities to the watersheds and traditional territories of our Original Nations, bound by the Waters of Life and our Grandmother Sea that interconnects our continents across the planet: World Water One.
 

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In this time of global pandemic, in the looming shadow of ecological and nuclear threat being driven by the competitive capitalistic interests that drive the international relations among the states, we call for the regeneration of the life sustaining Seven Global Currencies of the Indigenous Peoples as a solution to the endemic pathology of treating Mother Earth as a limitless exploitable commodity of property interests and not a living being.

Accordingly, we call for the redefinition of our common humanity not in terms of our citizenship, nationality or allegiance to the systems of state sovereignty that have fractured the spirit of human solidarity and dignity under regimes of competition, conflict, borders and war.  We call for return to our ancestral forms of self-governance and Confederations of Peace and Friendship in responsibility for the well-being of all of our relations.

We affirm our mutual INTERDEPENDENCE as nations, relatives all to all other nations of kindoms of life on the planet and commit to strengthen our Indigenous Institutions of Self Determination in shared responsibility to defend the Territorial Integrity of Mother Earth.

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The Water of Life: The Waters, the Clouds, Waterways, Rivers and Streams, and Oceans

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The Foundation of Life: The Land and Territory, Mother Earth

The Sharers of Life: Community, Clans and Pueblos and Nations

The Seed of Life: The Spirit, The Light: Quetzalcoatl
 

NAHUACALLI

Embassy of Indigenous Peoples

c/o TONATIERRA

Tel: (602) 254-5230

P.O. Box 24009 Phoenix, AZ 85074

Email: tonal@tonatierra.org