With Beloved Sisters of the National Indigenous Women's Coordination of Panama ( CONAMUIP) who represent the Seven First Nations of Panama. They are one of the Co-Hosts of the Indigenous Council the Americas (ICA) that will be held at the City of Knowledge, February 18-22, 2015, in Panama City. One of the primary focuses of the ICA will be overcoming the challenges facing Indigenous Women across the Americas.
Draft ICA Topics to be addressed:
1) To support the emergence of the "Seventh Generation", as long prophesied, by fostering youth participation, leadership, wisdom, and contributions in all decision-making processes impacting life on Mother Earth.
2) To establish an Indigenous Bank of the Americas (IBA), owned, controlled, and led by Indigenous Peoples. The IBA will unify the strength of the financial and natural assets of Indigenous Peoples for supporting sustainable and harmonious development.
One of the fundamental focuses of the IBA will be the support of poverty alleviation initiatives in Indigenous Communities and beyond for balancing the extremes of wealth and poverty, including the equality of economic and social opportunities for women and men.
3) To protect and restore Sacred Sites for ceremonial use, including the repatriation of cultural and ceremonial effects to Indigenous Peoples of origin. To support unified actions that educate and ensure that Indigenous arts and cultural expressions of the Sacred are portrayed in the media in a respectful manner.
4) To unify networks of Indigenous Peoples and Allies to further galvanize the actualization of the Reunion of the Condor and the Eagle across the Americas and beyond. This includes the expansion of International Indigenous Treaties like the International Treaty to Protect the Sacred from Tar Sands Projects and the International Treaty to Protect the Sacredness of the Salish Sea. This includes the implementation of International Trade Agreements between Indigenous Peoples and Nations and direct Trade Agreements with other Nation States.
5) To halt the destruction of the lands, waters, life, and cultures of Mother Earth by extraction industries are destroying the lands and waters of Mother Earth and Replacing them with alternative energies, including solar, wind, tide, and geothermal, as well as, other green technologies on both the macro and community levels.
6) To protect and restore the use of Indigenous plant medicines, and sciences, including the further establishment of Indigenous healing and educational centers for these purposes.
7) To support unified, global efforts to have the Papal Bulls of 1455-1493, and resulting Doctrine of Discovery formally denounced by Pope Francis.
This includes the issuance of a formal apology to all Indigenous Peoples and other members of the Human Family, who were unjustly colonized, with the full understanding that this global colonization process and resulting, related political and legal systems have created immeasurable suffering and damage and continuing intergenerational poverty, injustice, violence, and disunity that must be healed and balanced!
No reconciliation, without restoration!
