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Funds have been sent to secure the Hotel Maya Bell in Palenque for the 2nd Gathering of the Union of the Condor, Hummingbird, Quetzal, and Eagle on March 18-22, 2024. The Hotel is a 15-minute walk from the Pyramids, where the Equinox Ceremonies will be held on March 22, 2024.
An All-Night Ceremony will be held at La Ventana, outside Palenque, in the Jungle, March 19-20. This All-Night Ceremony and the Equinox Ceremony will be conducted by our Mayan Relatives from Chiapas.
A large canopy tent that accommodates 180 will be erected for Union Gatherings. On March 21, after the Equinox Ceremony at the Pyramids, the second election of the Council of the Union of the Condor, Hummingbird, Quetzal, and Eagle will be held.
There are 53 rooms and camping spaces available at the Maya. There is a Temescal ( Sweat Lodge) on site. Wi-Fi, 24-hour services, Express check-in/ -out, Swimming Pool, Fitness/Gym, On-site Dining, Meeting Facilities, No Smoking Rooms, Air conditioning, and Area attractions, including Pakal and Agua Azul, are only a short walk from Hotel Maya Palenque. There is a business center and a photocopier at the venue.
Other hotels are within 3-4 Kilometers. More details will follow.
Background and History of the Union of the Condor, Hummingbird, Quetzal, and Eagle:
March 21, 2023-Draft
Foundation Covenant-First Council of the Union of Condor, Hummingbird, Quetzal, and Eagle
Pelenque, Chiapas, Mexico
Fifty-two years after the fulfillment of the Prophecy of the Reunion of the Condor and Eagle in Bolivia, after Soltice Ceremonies on March 21, 2023, in Palenque, Mexico, the First Council of the Union of the Condor, Hummingbird, Quetzal, and Eagle was unanimously elected using a spiritually-based, non-partisan, non-political, electoral process. This electoral process is included in this Covenant.
This Gathering and Election of the first Council of the Union was supported by Indigenous Spiritual and Community Leaders from Colonial Nation States, where more than 60 million Indigenous peoples live. Many Elders could not attend because of the lack of funding.
We look forward to a more encompassing Equinox Ceremony and Union Gathering and Election at Palenque, Mexico, March 18-22, 2024.
A primary focus of the Union of the Condor, Hummingbird, Quetzal, and the Eagle in 2023 is building the Union on a Digital Communication Backbone across the Americas. This international decentralized digital network utilizes emerging technologies and open-source systems to propel 21st-century social, educational, cooperative, and unification.
The Indigenous participants and others who choose to join this network will be able to unify and preserve their individual and collective cultural legacies, sharing knowledge and mutually beneficial prosperity and economic gain at a lower distributed cost.
The primary objective for implementing these tools is to accomplish “The Digital Fourth Way” – a way to preserve, promote, and leave a lasting legacy for the world and future generations of Indigenous culture, wisdom, and spiritual values.
We must establish this type of technological infrastructure to promote the goals and purposes of the Union, ensure individual and community sovereignty, and promote our unifying and peacemaking efforts.
The concept of a modern international technological framework for the specific benefit of Sovereign Indigenous peoples has been under formation for more than a decade. Fortunately, the IT tools are now readily available to make this a reality.
Our core sovereign technology principles are “SPOC”: Security, Privacy, Ownership, and Control.
The technological design integrates Advanced Open-source Operating Systems, Cloud Storage, Cryptography, Containerized Computing, Distributed Ledger Technology, Aggregate Data Mining, and, Sovereign ID Management Systems.
Decentralized Fourth Way nodes will formulate their own Cloud and terrestrial-level solutions by developing a hybrid Web 3.0 stack of micro-services and downloadable Dapps.
Another priority, as instructed by the Elders of Tiwanaku, Bolivia, is a film that tells the true story of the fulfillment of the Prophecy of the Reunion of the Condor and the Eagle that began in Sucre, Bolivia, March 21, 1970, and was concluded, at the Islands of the Sun and Moon at Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, May 23, 1971. This prophecy was then spread from South to North and beyond.
For the past 52 years, the Four Worlds International Institute has developed the foundation documents of the Union. These documents include Guiding Principles, Principles of Consultation, Talking Circle Guidelines, A Non-Political, Non-Partisan Electoral Process, the Remapping of the Americas into Bioregions, The International Treaty to Protect and Restore Mother Earth (the only comprehensive global approach to Stop Runaway Climate Change) a draft of a new Global Economic System based on new emerging, Blockchain, Holochain, and Cryptocurrency, and cutting-edge functional, systems-based, holistic health models, that integrate newly emerging Western and Indigenous scientific and spiritual understanding, have been developed and incorporated by Indigenous Peoples across the Americas.
The colonial, materialistic, economic, and political systems are broken and dying. It is Time to “Move to the Positive," as shared in the Sixteen Principles for Building a Sustainable, Harmonious, Prosperous World.
“Solving the critical problems in our lives and communities is best approached by visualizing and moving into the positive alternative we wish to create by building on our strengths rather than y giving away our energy to fight the negative.”
The Union of the Condor, Hummingbird, the Quetzal, and Eagle includes more than 80 million Indigenous Peoples in the process of being connected digitally across the Americas, with Indigenous networks everywhere. This number does not include the growing number of allies and relatives spiritually awakening to their Indigenous roots and agreeing with these Foundation Documents of the Union. The reality is every Human Being is an Indigenous person of Mother Earth.
This growing Union will constitute the 4th largest Nation-State in the Americas, with the youngest and fastest-growing population in the Americas and Mother Earth. The Union's natural resources, including an untold wealth of plant-based medicines, surpass every compatible Nation-State on Mother Earth.
The Union of the Condor, Hummingbird, Quetzal, and Eagle are united through a shared history, Sacred Teachings, Prophecies of the Four Directions, and the shared vision and dedication to manifesting Peace on Earth.
PREAMBLE
We speak as one, guided by the sacred teachings and spiritual traditions of the Four Directions that uplift, guide, protect, warn, inspire, and challenge the entire human family to live in ways that sustain and enhance human life and the life of all who dwell on Mother Earth, and hereby dedicate our lives and energies to healing and developing ourselves, the web of relationships that make our world, and the way we live with Mother Earth.
THE UNION’S GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Starting from within, working in a circle, in a sacred manner,
we heal ourselves, our relationships, and our world.
STARTING FROM WITHIN
Human Beings Can Transform Their World
The web of our relationships with others and the natural world, which has given rise to our problems as a human family, can be transformed.
Development Comes From Within
The human and community development process unfolds within each person, relationship, family organization, community, or nation.
No Vision, No Development
A vision of who we can become and what a sustainable world would be like works as a powerful magnet, drawing us to our potential.
Healing Is A Necessary Part Of Development
Healing the past, closing up old wounds, and learning healthy habits of thought and action to replace dysfunctional thinking and disruptive patterns of human relations are necessary for sustainable development.
WORKING IN A CIRCLE
Interconnectedness
Everything is connected to everything else; therefore, any aspect of our healing and development is related to all the others (personal, social, cultural, political, economic, etc.). When we work on any one part, the whole circle is affected.
No Unity, No Development
Unity means oneness. Without unity, the common oneness that makes (seemingly) separate human beings into a ‘community’ is impossible. Disunity is the primary disease of a community.
No Participation, No Development
Participation actively engages people's minds, hearts, and energy in healing and development.
Justice
Everyone (regardless of gender, race, age, culture, religion, or Sexual Orientation) must be accorded equal opportunity to participate in healing and development and receive a fair share of the benefits.
IN A SACRED MANNER
Spirit
Human beings are both material and spiritual. Therefore, it is inconceivable that the human community could become whole and sustainable without balancing our lives with the requirements of our spiritual nature.
Morals And Ethics
Sustainable human and community development requires a moral foundation centered on the wisdom of the heart. When this foundation is lost, morals and ethical principles decline, and development stops.
The Hurt Of One Is The Hurt Of All: The Honor Of One Is The Honor Of All-The basic fact of our oneness as a human family means that development for some at the expense of the well-being of others is not acceptable or sustainable.
Authentic Development Is Culturally Based
Healing and development must be rooted in the wisdom, knowledge, and living processes of the culture of the people.
WE HEAL AND DEVELOP OURSELVES,
OUR RELATIONSHIPS AND OUR WORLD
Learning
Human beings are learning beings. We begin learning while we are still in our mother’s wombs, and unless something happens to close off our minds and paralyze our capacities, we keep learning throughout our entire lives. Learning is at the core of healing and development.
Sustainability
To sustain something means to enable it to continue for a long time. Authentic development does not use up or undermine what it needs to continue.
Move To The Positive
Solving the critical problems in our lives and communities is best approached by visualizing and moving into the positive alternative we wish to create and building on our strengths rather than giving away our energy to fight the negative.
Be The Change You Want To See
The most powerful strategies for change always involve positive role modeling and the creation of living examples of the solutions we are proposing. By walking the path, we make the path visible.
UNION Of THE CONDOR, QUETZAL, AND EAGLE
CODE OF ETHICS
Each morning, upon rising and each evening before sleeping, give thanks for the life within you and all life, the good things the Creator has given you, and the opportunity to grow a little more each day. Consider your thoughts and actions of the past day and seek the courage and strength to be a better person. Seek for the things that will benefit everyone.
Respect. Respect means "To feel or show honor or esteem for someone or something; to consider the well-being of, or to treat someone or something with deference or courtesy." Showing respect is a fundamental law of life.
Treat every person, from the tiniest child to the oldest elder, with respect at all times.
Particular respect should be given to Elders, Parents, Teachers, and Community Leaders.
No person should be made to feel "put down" by you; avoid hurting other hearts as you would avoid a deadly poison.
Touch nothing that belongs to someone else (especially Sacred Objects) without permission or an understanding between you.
Respect the privacy of every person, and never intrude on a person's quiet moment or personal space.
Never walk between people who are conversing.
Never interrupt people who are conversing.
Speak softly, especially when you are in the presence of Elders, strangers, or others to whom particular respect is due.
Only speak if invited to gatherings where Elders are present (except to ask what is expected of you, should you be in doubt).
Never negatively speak about others, whether they are present or not.
Treat the earth and all of her aspects as your mother. Show deep respect for the mineral world, the plant world, and the animal world. Do nothing to pollute our Mother. Rise with wisdom to defend her.
Show deep respect for the beliefs and religion of others.
Listen courteously to what others say, even if you feel that what they say is worthless. Listen to your heart.
Respect the wisdom of the people in council. Once you give an idea to a council meeting, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the people. Respect demands that you listen intently to others’ ideas in council and do not insist that your idea prevails. Indeed, you should freely support others’ opinions if they are accurate and sound, even if those ideas differ significantly from those you have contributed. The clash of ideas brings forth the Spark of Truth.
Once a council has decided something in unity, respect demands that no one speak secretly against what is decided. If the council has made an error, it will become apparent to everyone in its own time.
Be truthful at all times and under all conditions.
Always treat your guests with honor and consideration. Give your best food, blankets, the best part of your house, and your best service to your guests.
The hurt of one is the hurt of all. The honor of one is the honor of all.
Receive strangers and outsiders with a loving heart and as members of the Human Family.
All the races and tribes in the world are like the different colored flowers of one meadow. All are beautiful. As children of the Creator, they must all be respected.
To serve others and be helpful to family, community, nation, and the world is one of the primary purposes for which human beings have been created. Refrain from filling yourself with your affairs and forgetting your most important tasks. True happiness comes only to those who dedicate their lives to the service of others.
Observe moderation and balance in all things.
Know those things that lead to your well-being and those things that lead to your destruction.
Listen to and follow the guidance given to your heart. Expect guidance to come in many forms: in prayer, in dreams, in times of quiet solitude, and in the words and deeds of wise elders and friends.
(From the Sacred Tree)
The Union of the Condor, Quetzal, and Eagle is Dedicated to Working Toward Actualizing this Vision for Every Member of our Human Family Across the Americas and Beyond.
Basic Physical Needs - Adequate nutrition, clothing, shelter, pure drinking water, sanitary waste disposal, and access to medical services.
Spirituality and a Sense of Purpose - connection to the Creator and a clear sense of purpose and direction in individual, family, and community life and the nation's collective life.
Life-sustaining Values, Morals, and Ethics - guiding principles and a code of conduct that informs choices in all aspects of life so that at the level of individuals, families, institutions, and whole communities, people know which pathways lead to human well-being and which to misery, harm, and death.
Safety and Security - freedom from fear, intimidation, threats, violence, criminal victimization, and all forms of abuse within families and homes and in all other aspects of the people's collective lives.
Adequate Income and Sustainable Economies - access to the resources needed to sustain life at a level that permits the continued development of human well-being and processes of economic engagement that can produce sustainable prosperity.
Adequate Power - a reasonable level of control and voice in shaping one’s life and the environment through processes of meaningful participation in the political, social, and economic life of one’s community and nation.
Social Justice and Equity - a fair and equitable distribution of opportunities for all, as well as sustainable mechanisms and processes for re-balancing inequities, injustices, and injuries that have or are occurring.
Cultural Integrity and Identity - pride in heritage and traditions, access to and utilization of the wisdom and knowledge of the past, and a healthy identification with the living processes of one’s own culture as a distinct and viable way of life for individuals, families, institutions, communities, and nations.
Community Solidarity and Social Support - to live within a unified community with a strong sense of common oneness and within which each person receives the love, caring, and support they need from others.
Strong Families and Healthy Child Development - families that are spiritually centered, loving, unified, free from addictions and abuse, and provide a strong focus on supporting the developmental needs of children from conception through the early years and through the time of childhood and youth.
Healthy Ecosystem and a Sustainable Relationship Between Human Beings and the Natural World - the natural world is held precious and honored as sacred by the people. It is understood that human beings live within nature as fish live within water. The air we breathe, the water we drink, the earth that grows our food, and the creatures we dwell among and depend on for our lives are kept free from poisons, disease, and other dangers.
Economic prosperity is never sought after at the expense of environmental destruction. Instead, human beings work hand-in-hand with nature to protect, preserve, and nurture the gifts the Creator has given.
Critical Learning Opportunities - consistent and systematic opportunities for continuous learning and improvement in all aspects of life, especially those connected to essential personal, social, and economic challenges communities face and those that enhance participation in civil society.
Adequate Human Services and Social Safety Net - programs and processes to promote, support, and enhance human healing and social development, as well as to protect and enable the most vulnerable to lead lives of dignity and achieve adequate well-being.
Meaningful Work and Service to Others - Opportunities for all to contribute meaningfully to the well-being and progress of their families, communities, nations, and the global human family.
UNION Of THE CONDOR, QUETZAL, AND EAGLE
PRINCIPLES OF CONSULTATION
Purpose
Create commitment, trust, and unity among all members of the Union, Identify opportunities and solve problems, and Determine the best course of action forward.
Ten Principles for Success
Respect each Union Member and appreciate each other’s diversity. Respect is the prime requisite for consultation.
Value and consider all contributions. Belittle none. Withhold evaluation until sufficient information has been gathered.
Contribute and express opinions with complete freedom.
Carefully consider the views of others --- if a valid point of view has been offered, accept it as your own.
Keep to the mission at hand. An extraneous conversation may be necessary for team building, but it is not consultation, which is solution-driven.
Share in the Union’s unified purpose- the desire for the success of the Vision.
Expect the truth to emerge from the clash of differing opinions. Optimum solutions emerge from a diversity of views.
Once stated, let go of opinions. Don’t try to ‘‘defend’’ your position, but instead let it go. Ownership causes disharmony among the team and almost always gets in the way of finding the truth.
Contribute to maintaining a friendly atmosphere by speaking with courtesy, dignity, care, and moderation. This attitude will promote unity and Openness.
Seek consensus. But if consensus is impossible, let the majority rule. Remember, though, that decisions, once made, become the decision of every participant. After the Union has decided, dissenting opinions destroy the mission's success. When decisions are undertaken with total Union support, wrong choices can be more fully observed and corrected.
STEPS FOR CONSULTATION
Define the problem clearly. Make sure everyone has the same understanding of what is being discussed. It may help to write down the question or issue so everyone can see it.
Identify the human values or spiritual principles that are related to the issue. It can be helpful to think about the principles and values that should be part of the solution and the values/principles whose violation has helped to cause the problem.
Gather information that might help you make a good decision. Union members may hold this information as common knowledge and must be made explicit. Other times, research may need to be undertaken by consulting relevant literature or talking to various kinds of people (both “experts” and ``ordinary citizens``). Do not try to decide or evaluate the information while gathering it.
Make sure everyone in the circle understands all the information that has been gathered.
Allow everyone to express their opinion about what should be done based on the guiding principles which have been identified. Everyone should have the opportunity to speak once before anyone speaks twice.
Avoid taking offense at the point of view put forward by someone else. It is out of the clash of differing points of view that a creative solution is found. In the same spirit, avoid speaking in ways that will be offensive to others.
Don’t hold on to your point of view. Once given to the circle, it no longer belongs to you. You don’t have to keep defending it.
After all, the participants have contributed their ideas; the facilitator (or any other group member) should try to synthesize what has been said into a course of action that everyone can agree on.
Anyone who feels a critical point must be considered in this synthesis should be allowed to speak again.
Steps 5 to 9 can be repeated several times until a consensus is reached. If it becomes evident during this process that a vital piece of information is lacking, be sure to get it before proceeding.
11. Use a majority vote as a last resort if a consensus can’t be reached.
12. Once a decision has been reached, it is crucial for everyone to support it wholeheartedly, even if you are not in complete agreement. Through this type of united action, any flaws in the plan will be revealed and can be remedied without hard feelings or conflict.
ELEMENTS OF AN EVOLVING COLLABORATIVE
GOVERNANCE MODEL OF THE UNION OF THE CONDOR, HUMMINGBIRD, QUETZAL, AND EAGLE
Step One – Prayer
Each, in their own way, asks the Creator (or however we designate a higher power or source of inspiration) for guidance and direction so that the Creator`s Will can guide everyone involved in the election process. Pray enough so everyone at the election meeting is truly connected heart and mind with the Creator.
Step Two – Consultation
Discuss the qualities of good leaders, particularly those needed in leadership for this time and situation. Do not discuss individual names – only the qualities required of a Council member should be addressed.
Step Three – Reflection, Prayer, and Meditation
Reflect (think deeply) about the qualities needed in those chosen for leaders in the situation. Then, consider who best combines those qualities from the council; consider everyone. Ask the Creator to guide you to make the best choice without the slightest trace of prejudice and with an open and loving heart.
Step Four – Vote
Write down the names of the people you have been guided to vote for. Do not discuss your choices with anyone before or after the vote. Your choice is between you and the Creator. The number of names you vote for should equal the number of positions on the council. Your ballot will not be counted if it has fewer or more names.
Step Five – Count the Vote
Those at the election meeting choose a special committee of four scrutineers (vote counters). The scrutineers count the number of votes each person receives. The people with the most votes are chosen. This is called a “plurality vote.”
For example, if the election is to choose seven council members, then the seven people with the highest number of votes are selected. The person with the most votes is responsible for calling the council's first meeting. Beyond that, how many votes each council member received is optional.
If there is a tie in voting for the last position on the council, a vote is held to break the tie. The vote is between only the people who tied. For example, if the election is to choose seven council members and there is a tie between the seventh and eighth number of votes, then a vote is held to break the tie. If there is a tie between the second and third, or fourth and fifth number of votes, no vote is necessary since it is clear they have been selected.
Step Six – Acceptance and Support
Everyone in the community must now give their wholehearted and unreserved support to the chosen. No one should speak secretly against those elected. Instead, everyone should now rally behind the council, pray for them, share their best ideas and insights with them, and cooperate to ensure everyone's success in promoting the healing and development of the people.
Step Seven – Servant Leadership
The newly chosen council members should always show the utmost humility and approach their work with the attitude of loving service to the community. They should actively solicit (ask for) the views and opinions of community members and work very hard to ensure that the real leaders are the people and the council their servants.
Suggested Qualities of Servant Leaders of the Union of the Condor, Hummingbird, Quetzal, and Eagle
Spiritually centered – actively in a relationship with the Creator.
Morally strong – lives a good moral life, suitable to stand as a role model (particular attention to the issues of addictions, relationships, and honesty regarding money should be considered.)
Believes in the people’s capacity to heal and develop, and shows this belief in how they work with the people.
Is engaged in their healing journey and is a relatively healthy person.
Has a good mind and heart and clearly understands the process of healing and development and the issues the people are facing.
Has demonstrated devotion to the people’s healing and development through hard work and a good attitude over time.
Shows respect for the Creator, Mother Earth, and all members of our Human Family. (does not show disrespect for anyone, including women, men, youth, the poor, other races, etc.)
Can work well with others in a team.
Strives to work from a position of forgiveness, unity, and harmony with everyone.
Locally, regionally, and globally, the Union of the Condor, Quetzal, and Eagle supports The International Treaty to Protect and Restore Mother Earth.
Mother Earth Day, April 22, 2016, New York City, N.Y.
Preamble
The spiritual foundation of the Indigenous worldview is the ancient understanding of the fundamental oneness and unity of all life. Therefore, all members of the Human Family are a part of the Sacred Circle of Life. Since all members of the Human Family are a part of the Sacred Circle of Life, we are all Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth. Therefore, every Human Being is responsible for the well-being of one another and all living things on Mother Earth.
Our Indigenous Peoples are moving dynamically forward in rebuilding and reunifying the Americas and beyond. Our actions and vision, guided by the Natural Laws and Guiding Principles inherent in our Indigenous Worldview and Legal Order, are based on an eternal and spiritually enduring foundation:
1. We have the ancient prophecies and the clear vision of a future of social justice and collective prosperity for the Americas we are in the process of manifesting. This new global civilization that is unfolding, as promised by the Ancient Ones and the Ancient of Days, fully honors Mother Earth's Natural Laws and Rights and the Unity and Diversity of our Human Family. This New Spiritual Springtime foretold by our Elders is unfolding globally as surely as the sun rises every morning.
2. We have always had a strong, enduring, and unbreakable spiritual foundation of cultural values and guiding principles that have empowered us to survive and arise with higher strength and wisdom than ever despite a long and bitter spiritual wintertime. Even though we experienced the utmost human cruelty, violence, injustice, abuse, and physical and cultural genocide during this spiritual winter, we have never surrendered our inherent sovereignty. Despite these long-suffered challenges, throughout the Americas and around Mother Earth, our Indigenous Peoples are reawakening to their spiritual and cultural identities and healing our sacred relationships between ourselves, Mother Earth, and all members of our Human family.
3. Together, our Indigenous Peoples and Allies of our Human Family have the cultural, spiritual, scientific, technological, social, environmental, economic, and agricultural capacities and wisdom needed to co-create and rebuild our Families, Tribes, and Nations more vital and more unified than ever before.
4. Our Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth have the growing collective social and economic capital and vast natural resources to bring our highest dreams and visions to reality. With growing collective strength, we dedicate ourselves to protecting and restoring our Beloved Mother as the sacred heritage of all generations yet to come.
Furthermore, these collective resources will empower us to become a primary spiritual and economic force in the Americas and throughout Mother Earth. We are destined to play an ever-increasing role as global leaders in wisely mandating sustainable and harmonious ways for developing Mother Earth's gifts and resources.
We will ensure that when the development of Mother Earth's natural resources is not sustainable, no matter the profit, they will not be developed. Our sacred places and the healthy life of our beloved Mother Earth are not for sale or exploitation for any price.
5. We, the Indigenous Peoples of the Eagle of the North, have the material resources to support the development of the collective resources of our Indigenous Relatives of the Quetzal and Condor of the South, as they choose. The Quetzal and Condor of the South equally have critical resources to share with the Eagle of the North. We fully realize that our greatest strength is our spiritual and cultural unity.
6. By utilizing emerging digital communications and green technologies in harmony with our vast, collective social, economic, cultural, and spiritual capacities, we will manifest a future with social, environmental, and economic justice for all Human Families and our Beloved Mother Earth.
7. Disunity is the primary challenge that stands before us as Indigenous Peoples in rebuilding the Americas and beyond. This disunity has been caused by all forms of colonialism, injustice, and genocide and is a direct result of the three Papal Bulls of 1452-1493 and the resulting Doctrine of Discovery. This ongoing colonization, with its injustice and genocide, has resulted in unresolved intergenerational trauma, internalized oppression, and other deepening global suffering and inequities. We are fully committed to recognizing, addressing, healing, balancing, and eliminating the highly destructive impacts of disunity by every peaceful and legal means possible.
As we move courageously and wisely forward, in greater and greater love, compassion, justice, and unity, we reconnect to our firm and eternal spiritual and cultural foundations for healing, reconciliation, and collective action for Protecting and Restoring the Sacred everywhere on Mother Earth. The full realization of our spiritual and cultural foundations for prayerful, wise, unprecedented, and unified action assures that our ultimate victory will gracefully unfold at the right time and place as foretold by our Ancient Ones. We fully dedicate ourselves and our resources to realizing these unprecedented and unified actions to stop runaway climate change with the full understanding of these unshakable, spiritual, and cultural foundations.
We, the Members of the Human Family, speak as one, guided by the sacred teachings and spiritual traditions of the Four Directions that uplift, guide, protect, warn, inspire, and challenge the entire Human Family to live in ways that sustain and enhance human life and the lives of all who dwell on Mother Earth. We hereby dedicate our lives and energies to healing and developing ourselves, the web of relationships that make our world, and how we live with Mother Earth.
As we move courageously and wisely forward, in greater and greater love, compassion, justice, and unity, we reconnect to our firm and eternal spiritual and cultural foundations for healing, reconciliation, and collective action for Protecting and Restoring the Sacred everywhere on Mother Earth. The full realization of our spiritual and cultural foundations for prayerful, wise, unprecedented, and unified action assures that our ultimate victory will gracefully unfold at the right time and place as foretold by our Ancient Ones.
With the full understanding of these unshakable, spiritual, and cultural foundations, we fully dedicate ourselves and our resources to realizing these unprecedented and unified actions to stop runaway climate change.
Articles~International Treaty to Protect and Restore Mother Earth
Article 1 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to Protecting and Restoring the Sacred. Our prayers, songs, ceremonies, and ancient prophecies will remind us and our human family that Mother Earth is our sacred provider of life.
Restoring the Sacred includes preserving and protecting sacred sites worldwide and returning holy heirloom objects taken from their rightful owners. We will return to these sacred sites and objects to their original cultural and spiritual purposes.
Article 2 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to supporting the global emergence of the Seventh Generation, as promised, by fostering youth participation, leadership, and wisdom in all decision-making processes impacting all life on Mother Earth.
Article 3 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to reducing consumption and waste. These reductions must start in prosperous nations among the wealthy and comfortable to restore the values of simplicity, respect, and humility. Our Human Family can live much happier and more fulfilling lives with less consumption and without wasting any of Mother Earth’s body and energy.
Article 4 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to protecting women’s reproductive rights and stabilizing our human population. We’ve grown past Mother Earth’s capacity, and our human numbers cannot keep growing.
Our ancient relatives knew that their communities had to fit their habitat. We practiced natural patterns of creation that resulted in extended families in balance with the natural world. Today, over a billion of our Human Family are hungry daily, and 10 million of these relatives die every year.
For the population of our Human Family to be stable, it is essential to ensure that women everywhere have reproductive rights and health. Wherever women have rights over their reproduction, the birth rate naturally declines
Article 5 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to transitioning to ecologically sustainable and renewable energy sources and zero waste.
We will take every peaceful action possible to reduce, mitigate, and eliminate fossil fuel emissions — coal, oil, gas — and to build the renewable zero-emission infrastructure for solar, wind, and hydropower, where it is acceptable and approved through a process of free, prior and informed consent.
Conservation and zero-waste will be components of any genuine energy transition, using power modestly and carefully to minimize consumption and eliminate non-conforming resource extraction projects like the Alberta Tar Sands.
We call for nation-states everywhere on Mother Earth to use all possible means to support the transition to solar technology and other proven renewable energy sources. We call for nation-states to increase carbon taxes, eliminate subsidies to the petroleum industry, and use these funds to subsidize renewable energy research and installation.
Article 6 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to restoring and protecting the health and vitality of our planetary ecosystems and ecosystem services by restoring and protecting the biodiversity of our ecosystems on land, water, and air and by reversing the decline of forests, coral reefs, wetlands, and other productive ecosystems.
We commit to replanting, restoring, and protecting the wild forests to provide natural species diversity to grow again and to supply human communities with materials and renewable energy solutions for modest lives connected to productive ecosystems.
Our economic systems require a paradigm shift from unsustainable growth and extraction to preserving real wealth: our natural ecosystems. Rather than monetize nature, we must do the opposite and naturalize the economy.
Article 7 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to permitting only organic and traditional farming by ending the industrial farming methods that have destroyed soils, spread toxins, and harmed our planetary ecosystems. For Indigenous Peoples, organic agriculture is conventional agriculture.
Through our farming methods, we also aim to protect and restore the biodiversity in our planetary ecosystems, with particular emphasis on safeguarding organic seeds from GMO manipulation and other forms of genetic manipulation.
Article 8 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to building a robust zero-emission infrastructure for public transportation by eliminating the overuse of fossil-fueled vehicles and restoring efficient public transportation systems, including light-rail, zero-emission trains, and trolleys. We will rebuild our communities so people can access their needs by walking and bicycling.
Article 9 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to waging peace with the understanding that war is the highest consumer of oil and energy, the most significant contributor to ecological destruction, and the most destructive force among the Human Family. War benefits only the powerful, the wealthy, and the weapons industry.
We will make peace a global priority, refuse to fund war machines, refuse to participate in war-making, and stop glorifying war. We call the nation-states to eliminate the weapons industry that lives off the misery of the victims among our relatives.
Through the full realization of the spiritual awareness of the Oneness of the Human Family, the elimination of all forms of prejudice, and the elimination of anything that causes a human being or society to feel superior and entitled to oppress another, World Peace will be realized.
Article 10 We, the Members of the Human Family, are committed to restoring, promoting, and protecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Industrial economies have consistently pushed Indigenous communities from their productive land. By restoring the rights of all Indigenous communities and all members of the Human Family who know how to live in harmony with the natural world, we take an essential step towards healing our world and Mother Earth.
These Indigenous rights include the entire legal implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, emphasizing the principle of free, prior, and informed consent.
Article 11 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to cleaning up and redeveloping toxic waste sites. We call for all nation-states and multinational corporations responsible for generating dangerous waste - including nuclear, petroleum, chemical, agricultural, and other poisonous waste - to immediately develop and implement a global plan to eliminate those toxins from all ecosystems, air, land, and water, by 2030.
Article 12 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to implementing universal gender equality by realizing that the full equality of women and men is a prerequisite for peace. Denying such balance is an injustice against half of the world’s population. It promotes harmful attitudes and habits among males, from the family to the workplace, political life, and international relations.
Ultimately, any gender discrimination, including gender violence, leads to a negative relationship with Mother Earth. There are no grounds — moral, practical, or biological — by which this can be justified. Only when women and men have a full partnership in all fields of human endeavor will we be able to create the moral and psychological climate to realize international peace.
\Article 13 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to facilitating decision-making and leadership that remains beneficial for seven generations into the future, a policy that Indigenous people know as "Seven Generations" decision-making.
In the Ihanktonwan Dakota Traditions, the thirteenth tepee pole is the women's pole, around which the hide or canvas is tightly wrapped. After erecting the first twelve poles, the thirteenth pole is put in place, and the skin of the tepee is unwrapped around the others, covering all. Without this pole, there is no shelter.
Scientific evidence shows that industrial culture's toxic pollution is poisoning womankind wombs, infecting our future generations, and causing disease, diabetes, congenital disabilities, cancers, and chemical violence.
These toxins are breaking the thirteenth pole, harming our women and all women, and endangering unborn children so that there may not be a seventh generation. Making decisions to generate money rather than maintaining the health of all members of our Human Family is the opposite of Seventh Generation decision-making.
Article 14 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to establishing and maintaining Bioregional Marine Sanctuaries throughout Mother Earth as soon as possible.
Bioregional Marine Sanctuaries are named areas of Earth, Water, and Air where natural animal populations are protected and restored to more than 50% of historic levels as soon as possible. Water quality and forest biomass levels are preserved and restored to very high concentrations.
Bioregional Marine Sanctuary boundaries correspond to natural features such as watershed topography, vegetation types, oceanic continental shelves, and margins, including all rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, estuaries, and aquifers. We will remap the Americas and beyond, as it was more than 500 years ago.
Article 15 We, the members of the Human Family, commit to reducing the large-scale farming of animals. Despite livestock being the world’s leading emitter of methane, the role of animal agriculture in climate change has been primarily ignored during climate conferences.
Furthermore, the increased demand for raising animals for human consumption is leading to the destruction of the rainforests and rural land that many of our brothers and sisters call home, causing human rights abuses, poverty, and violence.
We will hold the factory farming industry and the governments who shelter them with laws accountable for these tragedies. We will also play our part in protecting Mother Earth and our animal relatives from further destruction.
Article 16 We, the Members of the Human Family, commit to holding governments and corporations responsible for making genuine progress in solving the growing challenge of Climate Change. Historically, after decades of climate conferences, governments and corporations have accomplished little to address the ever-increasing global problem of climate change and have instead subsidized the petroleum energy industry that intensifies it.
While we will hold governments and corporations responsible for making genuine progress, we will not rely on them to restore the harmony and balance of life. The majority of the work to protect and restore the sacredness of life remains with every one of us.
We call all members of our Human Family of Mother Earth, including all levels of non-Indigenous and Indigenous governments, citizen organizations, businesses, labor unions, non-governmental organizations, and third parties, to recognize, support, and uphold this International Treaty to Protect and Restore Mother Earth. We invite you to signify your commitment by signing the Addendum to this International Treaty.
Signed by Indigenous Leaders from across the Americas, Indonesia, and other Allies of our Human Family, April 22, Mother Earth Day, 2016, in New York City, New York. Many other Supporters and Signatories have joined our Union to Stop Runaway Climate Change and the beginning of World Peace by 2030.
Everything expressed above is open for further consultation and refinement. We are looking for the light. We don't care what what the lampshade looks like!