[IMC-Editorial] Indigenous Peoples Peace Initiative

[Glenn Welker]

Ehecatl
El Viento de Aztlan
Primavera     Xihuitl Nahui Acatl     Spring
2003
 
Indigenous Peoples Peace Initiative
Year 4 Reed, Day Two Crocodile
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
 
Izkalotlan, Aztlan 
 
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 Xicano
Nahuatl Nation.  
 
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 Nahaucalli 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 (IPPI) 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 continent Itzachilatlan,
(the 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
Izkalotlan, Aztlan which correlates to other counts of
calendar systems among the Maya and Nahua Nations, the
delegation 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!
 
Ehecatl is the official publication of  NAHUACALLI -
TONATIERRA

Contact: Tupac Enrique Acosta, chantlaca
Tel: (602) 254-5230 Fax: (602) 252-6094

chantlaca at aol.com

TONATIERRA
http://www.tonatierra.org

Email: tonal at tonatierra.com
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Mandate of the Indigenous Peoples

“All peoples have the right to self determination.” 
These are the words of United Nations General Assembly
resolution 1514, passed on December 14, 1960, in the
wake of the cresting global movement to declare
colonization a crime against humanity, a violation of
the international law of nation states. 

The declaration of colonization as a violation of
international law for the first time in the context of
the United Nations system, placed the government
states who were in violation under the scrutiny of the
General Assembly. Procedures were put in place to
identify criteria that would specifically describe the
Non-Self-Governing Territories under colonization and
also establish a reporting system for the violating
government states to move these colonized peoples
towards self determination. As example, the U.S.
government reported to the UN Decolonization
Commision, established under section 73(e) of the
United Nations Charter until 1960, in the case of the
territories of Alaska and Hawaii.