Declaring our Inalienable Right to Return to the Indigenous Way

In 1492 when our lands were invaded by Europe our people lived within a peaceful, tribal, communal social system that we refer to as the Indigenous Way. The Indigenous Way is a communal way of living in peace, spirituality, love, liberty and abundance on Mother Earth in harmony with all of her inhabitants. The Indigenous Way is the social system that humans have lived in for the vast majority of human history. In 1492 Europe had been off of the Indigenous Way path for thousands of years and had adopted the way of authority, control and fragmentation. The result was that European civilization was on its death bed after having devolved into a 1,000 year Dark Age of murder, theft, death, war, conquering, disease, rape, barbarianism—the natural conclusion of fear, control and authoritarian rule. The theft of 25% of Mother Earth’s virgin wealth, from Turtle Island, bought another 500 years of growth to the European Way. The price, however, is that today the entire world, now infected with the European thinking, of authority, fear and control, faces the same fate of death and destruction as 500 years ago, from the likes of peak oil, climate change, nuclear terrorism, environmental destruction, species extinction and far more. The authoritarian worldview will always bring humanity to the same conclusion—death and destruction!! We declare the authoritarian disease brought to the rest of the world to be a mental illness of fear. Fear is the opposite of the Original Instruction given to all humans. Now we are all infected with the mental illness of fear, authority and control and this is the source of all of the world’s current social problems from environmental destruction to war to terrorism to corruption to poverty and all of our other problems.

No matter what we do within the current civilization and fear paradigm we pollute, rape and desecrate Mother Earth. This alone tells us that there are no answers within the authoritarian paradigm. We must look outside of the current dominant paradigm and worldview for the answers. The historical evidence from the transition from the European Agricultural Age to the Industrial Age and the replacement of the entire European Agricultural Age civilization, shows that today as we transition from the Industrial Age into the Information Age, we must literally create a new civilization with very different social institutions. There are many indigenous prophecies that point to the times we live in and tell us that we must heal and return to the path of the Indigenous Way. These prophecies say that we must return to the Indigenous Way or there will be a purification in the coming years that will return us to the Indigenous Way.

The failing health of Mother Earth, the historical precedence and the prophecies all show the same thing—we must today create a new civilization that works on completely different social institutions than what we have today. We must all heal from the mental illness of fear and let go of the American Dream as the righteous path for humanity. It is not possible for six to nine billion people to live on the Mother Earth in the “American Way”. We will devour Mother Earth’s organs (natural resources) and poison the water and air beyond the point where it will support life. We must be humble and understand that America is not #1; Mother Earth is #1.

We the indigenous people of Turtle Island declare that not only is it our sovereign right, but our duty as the keepers of Turtle Island, to re-birth, re-generate, re-build, re-create and re-grow the Indigenous Way, so that it reclaims its place as the natural and sacred way that humans live on Mother Earth in harmony with her and not in dominion over her. It is our duty as Native Americans, Indigenous to Turtle Island, to help lead in humanity’s return to living the Indigenous Way by the Original Instructions.

We assert that we will be building hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands intentional sustainable tribal communities all over Turtle Island, on our land, all interconnected together, that operate in the peaceful traditions of our ancestors, which moves humanity to living in harmony with Mother Earth and all of her inhabitants. These communities do not pollute Mother Earth. They are places where our children learn in natural ways, where we grow and we eat natural foods, where we build our own dwellings from natural products taken from Mother Earth in balanced ways, where we produce our own energy with zero pollution, where we help Mother Earth and ourselves to heal, where we re-learn our songs, dances, languages and ceremonies; where we live in peace and abundance, where each person is free to pursue his or her unique genius and his or her soul’s hidden agenda, where each person is the first and last of his or her own nation. We assert that we will be connecting these communities with the thousands of intentional communities already being created to help create a true global free market based economy and social system with no controls, where individual liberty, is the heart of the social system as it was with our ancestors. We assert the sovereignty of indigenous Native Americans to create and build these communities on Turtle Island, on our land, free from control, interference or manipulation from the colonizer’s governments and agencies at the local, state and federal levels. We assert the right to create these communities based upon the tribal economic systems of our ancestors, the spiritual systems of our ancestors, the traditions of our ancestors, the social, family, ceremonial, healing and other systems of our ancestors.

In rejecting the colonizing borders, our network of thousands of interdependent tribal communities throughout Turtle Island will be made of indigenous people from through out Turtle Island, regardless of colonizing borders or colonizing labels and colonizing citizenships, as well as diverse people as decided by each community. We declare the inalienable right to determine our own citizenship free from dictates from the colonizers governments and agencies.

Our goal in creating these communities is to help provide models for humans to live in sustainable ways on Mother Earth and in respect of Mother Earth as our mother, as our ancestors did for most of human history and to help put humanity back on the path of the Original Instructions given to all humans.