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Occoneechee Village Prospectus
Revision Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The New Tribalism for the Information Age
Imagine a World!!
Imagine a world where we work where our passion is. We do what we love and “freely throw our genius gifts in to a vast
flowing river. We then reach into this river to freely take out what we desire to meet our living needs.” Imagine a world where the more we give and help others, the more we receive—the more we help others win, and the more diverse these people, the more we win ourselves. Imagine a world where we work in small teams interconnected with a few other small teams who are also interconnected with other small teams forming clans, whole tribes, communities and an entire interdependent global gift economy.
Imagine a world based upon love, collaboration and synergy with abundance for everyone. Imagine a world where the outputs of our systems become the direct inputs for others with no waste or pollution. Imagine a world where there is no difference between work, love, family, play, learning, creating and god. This is the world that is presently being created directly before our eyes in real practical and tangible ways. Imagine a world where the meek have inherited Mother Earth.
This is the Indigenous Way
Barry Carter 2002—
author Infinite Wealth – A New World of Collaboration and Abundance in the Knowledge Era
Note: Most of the financial and some other information has been removed from this online version. Please contact us if you have a serious interest in OV. This document is under revision and changes are being made continuously during our startup stage. The final partner contract that is signed between the member/partner and Occoneechee Village will contain the final version binding agreement between Occoneechee Village and member/partners.
Who are we? We are a Native American village, of Occoneechee Native Americans, started in 2006. We have our first thriving business and several more planned. Occoneechee Village is part of an emerging network of physical land based tribal communities on the North and South American continent helping empower indigenous people to become self-sufficient, wealthy and sovereign. We currently have and expect to continue having a high percent of Mexican, Central and South American people and families working with us since these are Indigenous people of the Americas like ourselves. Read more about our views at: www.indigenousway.net.
Objective: To create a safe, abundant, healthy physical environment for our families and extended families to live, work, raise children, create wealth, grow and flourish. To enable families to be able to stay together and have close family unity while creating significant wealth and prosperity for ourselves. To create a network of physical environments for indigenous people and others. To create models for better ways to live as we transition out of the Authoritarian Age and into the Indigenous Age, where we do not harm Mother Earth or others. To provide opportunity for indigenous people. To become a community incubator helping new communities to grow and flourish. To help in the global transition underway from the Authoritarian System to the Indigenous Way.
Vision: A world operating based upon the Indigenous Way, the natural way that our ancestors lived for tens of thousand of years.
Plan: To develop, operate and grow businesses for Occoneechee Village members to create income for us as partners. Information technology and advanced technology are our primary tools for creating wealth for ourselves and our partners and creating the network of fully functional communities. To finance other communities across North and South America through land purchases and business financing, and to partner with these communities. To support Occoneechee Village members starting businesses and prospering. To home and community school our children where they can grow healthy, strong and confident and we can teach them how to create significant wealth while being with their families (home schooling optional). To grow our own healthy natural food. To create an environment where we heal from past hurts and can grow spiritually, emotionally and mentally. To work for liberty and justice for all Native Americans and all people on Turtle Island (North and South America) and the world. To live in harmony with Mother Earth and all of her inhabitants and to help Mother Earth and all of her inhabitants heal from the abuse.
What is Community:
• We are groups of families coming together to live, work, create wealth on a piece of land jointly owned by all families.
• We have our own businesses because it is best way to provide for our families and become wealthy.
• We home/community school our children because we can best teach our children to thrive today and tomorrow.
• We grow our own food because this way we know that the food that we are eating is natural and healthy.
• We own our land because it provides us a place for community members to live, work, create wealth, grow and raise our children.
• We are helping to create other communities because we are stronger, more powerful & wealthier working together with others.
Why are we doing this?
• Because it is the best way to take care of our families. We desire a healthy, safe, child-centered, learning-focused family-centered, creative environment for our children to spend their childhood.
• Because tribal community is the Indigenous Way for indigenous people and all people.
• Because we ALL can make more money with partners than employees.
• To empower indigenous people in North & South America and elsewhere.
• Because we help ourselves by helping others—Win/Win
• Because the Indigenous Way is the way we can all live in abundance.
• Because there is a major global social shift away from the win/lose bureaucratic Authoritarian System way towards the indigenous, tribal, family, networked, community way.
• Because we believe in the community system which is tribal, family, indigenous.
• To help end poverty, pollution, starvation, oppression, war, the rape of Mother Earth and the win/lose norm of the current world.
• Because we have a vision of a better way to live which is consistent with the ways of our ancestors!!
• Because our ancestors have compelled us to do so.
Businesses: (Contact us for this information)
Occoneechee Village Financial Statistics: (contact us for this info)
Occoneechee Village Members:
• Three adults
• Nine Children
• Two Elders
• 4 to 6 potential new members
Living Situation:
• Current: Three acres of land with three houses; machine shop; welding shop; inventory storage, assembly, shipping & packing building.
• Planned by Oct 2008: Purchase 190 acres 90 (hectars) for $750,000.00 and build village with cabins and business facilities on the land.
Partner Investment:
• No financial investment is required by individuals to become an Occoneechee Village member or to partner in a business team. People invest their time and talents and are compensated with a percent of the income that the business produces and a percent of ownership in Occoneechee Village.
Types of Work Arrangements Offered at Occoneechee Village:
• External Partners who lives out of the community.
• Community members/partners who live in the community (preferred)
External Community Partner
Pay or Compensation: % of profit from business team and ownership in one or more business teams.
Community Member who is actively Partnered within a Business Team:
• % of profit from business team
• % equity ownership in business team.
• % equity ownership in all community assets.
• $50 per week until business team becomes profitable.
• Occoneechee Village pays living expenses: food, housing, land, utilities, computers, medical insurance, etc.
Community Member but not connected to any business team:
• $50 per week for up to six months while gets business profitable. Must be showing good progress towards profit.
• Occoneechee Village pays living expenses: food, housing, land, utilities, computers, medical insurance, etc.
Details of Work Relationships
New people coming into Occoneechee Village have the option of starting as an Occoneechee Village:
1. Community member working on a specific business team.
2. Community member working on no team but starting a business team.
3. A community member working internally to create, build and maintain the internal infrastructure of Occoneechee Village.
OV Member Plan: New community members/partners have a three months introduction period. This is a period where both OV and the new partner gets to evaluate each other to see if there is a good fit. In this period both Occoneechee Village and the potential partner may dissolve the partnership at any time without cause. All partner agreements are documented in contracts and signed by Occoneechee Village and the partner for the protection of all parties.
OV Members who work on a business team are compensated in three ways. Each partner receives all four of the following as confirmed in the partner contract.
1) A percent of income from his or her business team or teams. This is similar to item 3 below.
2) Living expenses paid by the community: housing, utilities, heat, electricity, phone, A/C, food, health insurance, doctor’s visits, high speed internet, satellite TV, transportation with community vehicles, computers, library, children’s college, community schooling for children, alternative fuels for community vehicles. Partners are responsible for their own car payments, if they choose to have one, their clothes, auto insurance, old loans, gasoline and debt. The community may work out arrangements to pay off debts, for new members coming into the community, on an as need basis.
3) Ownership in Occoneechee Village, which includes ownership of and full use of all community assets including: 190 acres of land $750,000 in value, a percent ownership in all other communities that OV helps to start, all cabins, barns, office buildings and structures on the property, library of books, construction and farm equipment (tractor, dump truck, bob cat, bulldozer, sawmill, wood working shop, machine shop, mechanic shop, arts, crafts shop, and other business shops), recreation equipment (boats, horses, jet skis, ATV’s, Go Carts, exercise room, untralight airplane, canoes, children’s play grounds, windsurf boards, in ground swimming pool, etc), computers, TV’s, furniture and appliances. This ownership is similar to stock ownership in a company. And it tracked in your Occoneechee Village ownership equity account.
4) Ownership in any business team that the member partners in.
Starting New Business Teams: OV Members who are NOT on a profitable business team are compensated with item 2 above. During their business team startup period, for six months, each individual receives $50 per week while they get their business off of the ground. Once their business becomes profitable the $50 per week per person is discontinued.
Internal Activity: All community members should strive to work in one or more external business teams producing income. If an individual is unable to work in an external team and does only internal work he/she receives 2 and 3 above plus $50 per week. Internal activity of Occoneechee Village includes: Building infrastructure: cabins, roads, swimming pool, play ground, ponds and other structures; farming and growing food, research and development, activism agreed to by the community, facilitating learning and recreation within the community with children and adults, maintaining equipment, managing the library, leading ceremonies and spirituality, facilitating health care within the community.
The majority of work of internal community activity will come from each member participating in internal work activity.
Elders: Elders may work in the farming, business teams or other activities as desired but are not required to work on a business team. They are expected to work with the children to pass on their knowledge and wisdom to the children. Elders receive 2 above and $50 per week.
Each month that a partner works he/she receives one month worth of ownership equity in Occoneechee Village, as defined in the Occoneechee Village partner ownership plan. This equity building starts the first day and first month that a new OV member signs the membership agreement and begins working as an OV member. There will be a spreadsheet open to all community members that shows exactly how much equity each member/partner has acquired in Occoneechee Village. This equity is paid out to the member/partner in the event that the person leaves Occoneechee Village for any reason. However, if a person leaves before the introduction period ends he or she acquires no equity and receives no equity.
Each day as money comes into a business team the money is split and paid out to team members into their accounts. Each team member then pays its suppliers from these funds. Business team suppliers are paid based upon the agreement with each individual supplier. For example most ******** suppliers are paid up front before we receive product or services. Teams is responsible for purchasing and paying for all supplies, parts, labor and costs needed to generate income for that business from their joint business account. Each business team has their own separate business account. Each day as each partner is paid, each partner re-invest a percentage of income, as defined in the Partner Income Split Plan Spreadsheet, into their joint business team account, in order to continue operating the business. Occoneechee Village is a supplier to each business team, supplying the items listed in 1 and 2 above and thus is compensated based upon a percent of profit produced by each business team, as defined in the Partner Income Split Spreadsheet. Each partner pays Occoneechee Village each day when he/she is paid.
In the event that a member leaves the community he/she receives the accrued equity from their community ownership account in accordance with the OV Member Ownership Equity Plan. The community in essence is buying back the partner’s share of ownership in the community. If the OV member is a partner in one or more business teams he or she receives the equity from each business team in accordance with the Business Team Equity Plan.
If a Member Leaves: People are very different and differences may arise that make a membership or partnership too difficult, unworkable or undesirable for either or all parties. For this reason it is imperative in the introduction process for Occoneechee Village and the person or family, to be as open and honest in trying to determine if there is a good fit. This is as opposed to the standard interview concept of putting one’s best face forward to get the job. This is especially true if the person or family being interviewed is relocating to the area since relocation requires a significant investment.
Ending Membership after the Introduction Period: Members are free to leave Occoneechee Village whenever desired and Occoneechee Village, by consensus, may decide that a partnership with a member should be dissolve. For whatever reason the partner leaves the community, the partner is entitled to equity built up in his or her Occoneechee Village ownership equity account, in accordance with the Member/Partner Ownership Equity Plan. Unless another agreement is reached a partner who is leaving Occoneechee Village may stay at Occoneechee Village for up to twelve weeks after the date that it is determined that he or she will be leaving, based upon the following criteria:
• The partner while continuing to stay at Occoneechee Village will continue to work and carry his or her load and continue to participate in community activities.
• The partner may stay during this period as long as he she is not causing repeated and major disruptions with the communities or endangering the community is some way.
Relocation assistance: Occoneechee Village may offer relocation assistance in special situations for partners. In the event that relocation assistance is provided, if for any reason the person or family leaves or stops working with Occoneechee Village or the Community Network within 18 months of starting to work with Occoneechee Village, the person or family shall repay the relocation assistance to Occoneechee Village. For partners this relocation assistance repayment may come out of the partner’s Occoneechee Village ownership equity.
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