HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Presentation of the 1999 Final Report of the United Nations Treaty Study by Dr. Miguel Alfonso Martinez to Fermina Stevens, Chair of the Noowuh Knowledge Center by Tupak Huehuecoyotl, Izkaloteka on behalf of the

Continental Commission Abya Yala, Secretariat TONATIERRA.

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49. It follows that the issue of treaties affecting indigenous peoples as third parties may continue to be relevant insofar as they remain in force and insofar as indigenous peoples already participate - or may in the future - in the implementation of their provisions. Among the 10 instruments previously considered for analysis, 18 apart from the Lapp Codicil, several others would warrant further scrutiny, among them the 1794 Jay Treaty and the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, both of apparent special significance for the indigenous nations along the borders of the United States with Canada and Mexico respectively.

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322. Finally, in connection with the indigenous affairs related activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur recommends:

(b) The establishment, at the earliest possible date, of a section within the United Nations Treaty Registry with responsibility for locating, compiling, registering, numbering and publishing all treaties concluded between indigenous peoples and States. Due attention should be given in this endeavour to securing access to the indigenous oral version of the instruments in question;

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Noowuh Knowlege Center

VOICES AND VISIONS:

Revisiting the 1863 Ruby Valley Treaty of Peace & Friendship Gathering

As operating Secretariat of the Continental Commission Abya Yala, we are particularly interested in the position of the US government in the case where they purport to claim the right to extinguish Shoshone land title by way of "gradual encroachment" of the Ancestral Territories of the Western Shoshone based upon the legaloid and "nefarious" tenets of the Doctrine of Discovery of Christendom.

“The United States claims that the title to the land in question was ceded to the United States by Mexico in 1848, subject to occupancy by the Native Americans. The United States maintains that in 1863, it signed a treaty with the Western Shoshone, referred to as the Treaty of Ruby Valley, and that under the Treaty the United States and the Western Shoshones agreed to end hostilities between them and live amicably. The United States claims that subsequent to the treaty with the Western Shoshones it treated certain lands within the area at issue as lands of the United States.”

Although the US government had announced its intention to recognize the independence of the Spanish-American colonies in 1822, Spain did not recognize Mexico's independence until the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty of December 28, 1836. This was the first case in which the Spanish monarchy acknowledged the independence of a state that had been erected within the limits of her former colonial empire in the New World."

Under the terms of the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty of December 28, 1836 the dominions of Mexico were to be comprised of the former Viceroyalty of New Spain, the captaincy-general of Yucatan, the commandancies of the eastern and the western interior provinces, lower and upper California, along with the annexed territories and adjacent islands. The source of the original purported territorial claim by the Viceroyalty of New Spain in Mexico which was transferred to the Mexico was the royal charters given to Columbus by the monarchy of Spain in 1492 and affirmed from the pinnacle of the imperial structure of Christendom (the Vatican) by Pope Alexander VI via the Papal Bull Inter Caetera of 1493.

Framework of Dominance:
UN Preliminary Study on the Doctrine of Discovery

January 4, 2021
Submission to Inter American Commission on Human Rights

Organization of American States , Western Shoshone Case 11.140, Mary and Carrie Dann

As we have now engaged the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in a public dialogue intended to promote the recognition, respect and guarantees for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples, we submit this report to the IACHR mindful of the lack of substantive response by the US government to your request of August 18, 2020 to the US Department of State regarding the case of our dear Shoshone relatives, Mary and Carrie Dann.

We submit here these principles for consideration in the Western Shoshone case going forward with the intent to connect principle with action, recognition with mutual respect, and humanity with the Territorial Integrity of Mother Earth.