Occoneechee Village
Families Working Together

Occoneechee is one community of what eventually will be hundreds within Yesah Nation and thousands within United Native America and tens of thousands globally. Occoneechee Village is a village of families working together to create a safe, warm, vibrant community. We are organized based upon tradition tribal values of our Native American ancestors, that has sustained indigenous people for most of human history. Somewhere in all of our hearts we ALL know that the family/tribal system is the only system that can work for humanity. We are Occoneechee and Saponi indigenous people native to the Saponi River region (now called the Roanoke River), in what is now Mecklenburg County Virginia. We are re-establishing the traditional values and norms indigenous to this land of family, ecology, love, peace, liberty, diversity, abundance, dialogue, synthesis and collaboration as described in the book Infinite Wealth.

As the Authoritarian Age, of 6,000 years, ends and the Industrial Age, of 300 years, ends a new civilization is emerging. Information Technology is compelling the global transformation. This new civilization shall return us to our true human nature, of love, which has been covered over during the Authoritarian Age. The new civilization is based upon the Indigenous Way. The Indigenous Way has enabled humanity to organize for thousands of years in tribal family/communal groups connected to other small tribal family/community groups forming entire peaceful nations with no need for government, police, jails, laws, courts or any of the other artificial and poor systems of the Authoritarian Age.

Occoneechee Village is a farm, children’s play grounds, learning laboratory, university and business incubator and generator with horses, dogs, cows, chickens, acres of organic gardens, ponds, streams, bikes, toys, tree houses, trampolines, hiking trails, exercise centers, businesses and learning centers. We are first and foremost a child-centered environment focused on tapping into each child’s unique genius via formal education, hands on learning, one-on-one teaching, experience based learning, and diversity.

The children will become healers, engineers, inventors, writers, doctors, artists, singers, creators, orators helping to create, re-discover and communicate better ways to live. We use seven generations thinking in decision-making where we take into account the effects of our current decisions seven generations out.

We are a leading edge technology development center exploring and developing nano-technology, advanced internet technology, virtual reality, quantum physics, chaos theory, alternative energy, advanced medicine, healing and other advanced technologies helping to form the Information Age infrastructure as we all globally create a new civilization. The community is also a leading edge art center, re-discovering our ancient songs, ceremonies and art and merging it with contemporary art and music. We are a healing center combining analytical medicine with ancient holistic knowledge and wisdom.

Though there is shared ownership of some property, liberty is a primary virtue, with each person also being a one-person profit center as is traditional for our people. Each person is the first and last of his/her own nation subject only to the Great Spirit. The key to social order is free thinking people self-forming into teams for the purpose of creating wealth, meeting human needs, exchanging and gifting in harmony with nature.

The first primary objective of Occoneechee Village is providing safety, security and protection to our members, especially the children and elders, as our world becomes more and more turbulent in the transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. The second primary objective is providing liberty, freedom and space where people get to continually and for life grow, learn, heal, explore, create and express their own unique genius in creating wealth, peace and abundance for themselves, the community and world. The third primary objective is connecting with other intentional communities co-creating, networking, partnering, trading, bartering, gifting, and learning. A fourth primary objective is integrating into Mecklenburg County and Southside Virginia, as good productive neighbors, so that others get to see better ways to live, raise children, create wealth and live in harmony with Mother Earth. A fifth primary objective is to begin facilitating the interconnecting of communities economically, physically and virtually (via information technology) to begin forming the global infrastructure for the Information Age civilization. A sixth primary objective is mental, emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual health in all of our actions. A seventh primary objective is helping to solve the current world’s problems of racism, oppression, corruption, pollution, violence, abuse, starvation and the false impression of human nature as selfish and fear based, by helping to create new ways of living based upon ancient wisdom, new technology and creativity.

Not only are we creating one community, we are creating a network of communities that is intended to help lead the communities movement world wide. As of this writing there were 1486 intentional communities in the United States and this number is growing at a rate of about seven new communities per week (www.ic.org). We are witnessing the creation of a new tribal civilization directly under our noses.

The communities that we are building are not intended to be separate from other people, and the world, but to help the world as we transition into the Information Age and beyond. There are millions of people globally that are searching for better ways to live that ends: 50,000 people from dying each day of starvation, global warming, peak oil, the polluting of mother earth, our land, the rivers and oceans, the destruction of species, the clear cutting of our trees, rape and abuse of our children, racism, oppression and corruption. The Information Age has us headed towards a shift from bureaucracy and authoritarian systems of control, towards networks of empowered individuals coming together in teams and virtual teams. Information Technology, nano-technology, is shifting us into a new way of doing everything. The Information Age has humans headed towards connecting horizontally, creating wealth, ordering society all without authority, as new social institutions arise that are far more democratic and liberating.


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