#October12DecolonizationDay
October 12, 2022
#DecolonizationDay #DiaDeLaDescolonizacion
#Octubre12DiaDeLaDescolonizacion
March 12, 2022
Phoenix, AZ - Following the lead of the Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples in Bolivia who proclaimed October 12 as the Day of Decolonization in 2018, TONATIERRA announced today that this year “#October12DecolonizationDay” will be the theme of a set of community empowerment initiatives from the local to regional, continental to global levels of engagement being coordinated by a continental alliance of Indigenous Nations and organizations.
Today March 12, 2022, marks the first day of the new year in the Mexica
calendar of the Nahuatl Nations, one of many calendar systems developed over
millennia by the Indigenous Peoples which are still being utilized on a daily
and yearly basis by many Indigenous communities.
“There is a need to move beyond the cultural gesture of simply relabeling of ‘Columbus Day’ into ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ in in the Gregorian Calendar of North America, while the structural dynamics of the colonization project that began 530 years ago continues full force under the modus operandi of the international trade agreements among the states such as US Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA). Just like the original charter of the Papal Bulls by Pope Alexander VI (1493) Inter Caetera that purported to lend legitimacy via “Discovery” by Christendom to the expropriation and exploitation of Indigenous land and labor, the USMCA subjects Indigenous territories and resources to illegal and violent expropriation at the hands of extractive industries,” said Tupac Enrique Acosta of TONATIERRA.
In addition to drawing attention to the violations of the right of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent for economic projects that impact Indigenous Peoples territories and Human Rights in the USMCA context from Mexico to Canada, the initial call to consciousness that motivates the #October12DecolonzationDay will begin with the invocation of the original article 36 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as follows:
Article 36
Indigenous peoples have the right to the recognition, observance and enforcement of treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements concluded with States or their successors, according to their original spirit and intent, and to have States honour and respect such treaties, agreements, and other constructive arrangements. Conflicts and disputes which cannot otherwise be settled should be submitted to competent international bodies agreed to by all parties concerned.
The relevance of invoking the principles of the Original Article 36 of the UNDRIP is drawn from the recalling of the violent conflict of the Wounded Knee takeover in 1973. At the time, the Oceti Sakowin sent a delegation of traditional chiefs from Wounded Knee to the United Nations to call for international support and intervention against the violent invasion of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty Territories. The violation of the 1868 Treaty Territories was again a principal issue in the fight at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016.
One of the powers of international personality in the UN system is the power to enter into treaty agreements, most importantly Peace Treaties. In this regard and in this spirit, the Indigenous Peoples have relaunched the Indigenous Peoples Peace Initiative which was proclaimed from the Nahuacalli, Embassy of Indigenous Peoples during the Gulf War of 2003:
“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."
In a critical time in the history of humanity, when the so-called great powers of geopolitical stature maneuver and war against each other to dominate or control their competing spheres of influence, the Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples call to spirit of humanity as a whole, to recall that we cannot hope for Peace on Earth if we do not live in peace with Mother Earth.
At a time of great uncertainty being fomented by the real threat of nuclear warfare and climate chaos exacerbated by fossil fuel based economic development across the world, the Indigenous Peoples have reemerged to offer the hope of the Xinachtli Nuclear Peace Pact, for all peoples and nations great and small to address their disagreements and disputes in non-militarized manner and with utmost respect and appreciation for the Territorial Integrity of Mother Earth.
The activities of the #October12DecolonizationDay initiative this year will specifically address the right of Self Determination of the Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples in the context of Resolution 48/7 adopted by the Human Rights Council on 8 October 2021 titled “Negative impact of the legacies of colonialism on the enjoyment of human rights.”
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TONATIERRA
Indigenous Nationhood and Self Determination
The Legacies of Colonialism and the 1999 Treaty Study by
Miguel Alfonso Martinez
In consideration of the adoption of Resolution 48/7
“Negative impact of the legacies of colonialism on the enjoyment of human
rights” by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on 8 October 2021, and the call
for input by the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP)
as a subsidiary body to the UNCHR for a study whose purpose is to assess the extent
to which article 37 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) has been and is being
implemented or considered nationally, we submit the following:
TONATIERRA
www.tonatierra.org
tonal@tonatierra.org
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Yancuic Xihuitl: WorldWaterONE
In preparation for the Mexica New Year ceremony on March 12, 2022, there is a five day period of preparation and purification called the Nemontemi.
The Calpolli Izkaloteka have allowed the sacred fire of the Nahuacalco which has been sustained all year, to expire and lay in repose for the five days of the Nemontemi.
The sacred Axicalli Gourds of Water have been laid before our altars in our homes, in our communities, and upon the sacred sites of Mother Earth. Accordingly, here is where and how the essential intentions, prayers, dreams, and visions of the Nemontemi will be collected as the Xinachtli (Seed) of memory for the coming generations of all life on Mother Earth.
Passing through a time of the most extreme threat of war,
destruction, ecological devastation, and inhumanity, the Calpolli Nahuacalco of
Izkalotlan offers once again the simplest of prayers for the well-being and
protection of all life: Cemanuak - Water of Life:
WorldWater: ONE
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