From
the
Doctrine
of Discovery
to
DACA
This PowerPoint presentation was originally
presented by the Nahuacalli Educators Alliance at the Annual Phoenix Union High School District MEChA conference
on October 27, 2017 in the Territories of the O'otham Nations, [Phoenix, Arizona].
It is a collective work in progress by members of the Calpolli Nahuacalco who are dedicated to the "Spirit of Truth" and realization of the purpose of the Nahuacalli, Embassy of Indigenous Peoples:
It is a collective work in progress by members of the Calpolli Nahuacalco who are dedicated to the "Spirit of Truth" and realization of the purpose of the Nahuacalli, Embassy of Indigenous Peoples:
Mission Statement
To create and sustain a
Cultural Embassy of Indigenous Peoples
Cultural Embassy of Indigenous Peoples
That will
support local-global and holistic indigenous community development initiatives
in education, culture, and economic development in accord with the principles
of Community Ecology and Self Determination.
Since formation in 1994, TONATIERRA has implemented
a cultural competency program that has been described a "paradigm
shift" in terms of educational services and methodologies. Known as the Xinachtli, "seed", the
program is a holistic approach to the Indigenous Peoples need for cognitive
development beyond the conceptual constraints of colonization. For the Indigenous Mexican communities and
families who are the base constituency of TONATIERRA, this program has led to
the formation of the Nahuacalli Educators Alliance, a professional association
of educators working with TONATIERRA to deliver a suite of educational services
built around indigenous language revitalization strategies. In 2015, the Nahuacalli became an affiliate
of the Continental Network of Indigenous, Intercultural, and Community Universities of Abya Yala (RUIICAY).
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It is with growing concern with which we hear of
developments in Mexico that give testimony to the degradation of the
Territorial Rights and Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the country. We are aware that ever since the adoption of
the principle of “Original Property of the Nation” in the Mexican Constitution
of 1917 that the “nefarious” principles of the Doctrine of Discovery and the
Papal Bulls of Pope Alexander VI “Inter Caetera” have served to legitimize the
usurpation of the territorial rights of the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico under
the cultural, political, economic, and legal superstructures of the Spanish
invaders who brutally attempted to dominate and colonize Mexico directly for
300 years, until independence in 1821.
This preliminary study establishes that the Doctrine
of Discovery has been institutionalized in law and policy, on national and
international levels, and lies at the root of the violations of indigenous
peoples’ human rights, both individual and collective. This has resulted in
State claims to and the mass appropriation of the lands, territories and
resources of indigenous peoples. Both the Doctrine of Discovery and a holistic
structure that we term the Framework of Dominance have resulted in centuries of
virtually unlimited resource extraction from the traditional territories of
indigenous peoples. This, in turn, has resulted in the dispossession and
impoverishment of indigenous peoples, and the host of problems that they face
today on a daily basis.
Links:
The Xicano Paradigm
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September
16, 2017
Nahuacalli
Educators Alliance
DACA Position Statement
Self
Determination is an inherent human right. It is not a delegated status to be
distributed according to the Machiavellian raison d’état of the state, much
less to be assigned or denied upon the whims of this or that political party in
power in the capitols of the settler state systems of America whose very
presence on our continent of Abya Yala
is based upon the globally denounced, repudiated, and racist Doctrine of Discovery of October 12,
1492, embedded in the jurisprudence of the US legal system by the SCOTUS
decision Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823),
extended continentally by the Monroe
Doctrine (1823) and instituted by the Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo (US-Mexico 1848) in violation of the Right of Free, Prior and Informed Consent
of Indigenous Peoples, as is once again
being now "modernized" in the era of the global Empire of Petropolis
by the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994-2018).
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March 12, 2012
March 12, 2012
In Imiuh Tenamaztle
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We demand that the Preliminary Study on the Doctrine
of Discovery, submitted to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues be
integrated into the Social Studies Curriculum standards immediately for
implementation across the spectrum of services delivered by the Arizona
Department of Education at all levels across the state with no exceptions.
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