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Nohuanyolqueh,

In attachment as pdf file you will find the document, Map of Aztlan submitted by Tlahtokan Aztlan, Traditional Gathering of Indigenous Nations to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Economic and Social Council, Second Session ' May 12-23, 2003 in New York. It is now archived within the Secretariat's office of the Permanent Forum as an official document of the United Nations system in complement to the following text intervention:

Recommendation for Action:
Update of Data Base from Tlahtokan Aztlan

Dear Mr. Chairman, and respected members of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues:

From the 7th to the 9th of March of this year, a regional consultation was held by the traditional councils of the Aztlan Indigenous Nations to complement the work of the Permanent Forum. Mr. Wilton Littlechild attended this regional consultation in his capacity as member and rapporteur of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

The United Nations documentation of the Declaration and Plan of Action of Tlahtokan Aztlan developed for submittal to this second session of the Permanent Forum is found at:

E/C.19/2003/CRP.2

Until this morning the appropriate infrastructure for the Permanent Forum to receive the entirety of the documentation submitted at the Tlahtokan Aztlan to Mr. Littlechild of the Cree Nation and member of the Permanent forum was not in place.

Upon arrival and with the indomitable memory, presence, and destiny of the Confederation of the Eagle and the Condor now in evidence before the Permanent Forum, delegates, and the world:

We submit the following map as additional update to the data base of the Archive of Aztlan now established, for the purpose of a more accurate assessment of the Social and Economic realities ofthe indigenous territories of Aztlan, among others.

 

Thank you Mr.Chairman.

 

Now, the following are excerpts from previous submissions related to the theme of territoriality and physical reality in cultural and political terms.

Tlazolli

The concept of title in relation to land is a mythological construct, in which the world view of cultural identity is embedded and perpetuated across generations.

The simple reason is of course that the land is eminence itself, preexisting and outlasting any human society. The relationship with the land, with the material world which emerges from the land, is then defined and evidenced by the traditional systems of inheritance and identity which perpetuate these teachings to the generations of the future. This is universal for all societies, but it is the traditional Indigenous Peoples from around the globe that create identity by ecological relationships to the constellations of families, mountains, rivers, deserts, nations, oceans and stars that define our homelands in the universe.

The societies of the European-American settlers do not.

The present systems of the United States and other governments states of the hemisphere which derive their justifications for jurisdiction over the land on the Divine Right of Kings to Dominion over the Earth and its Peoples, is pure myth. Or better said, it is false myth -- a dead story with no teaching to teach but only a power grab to justify.

It cannot even hold coherence before the science of its own culture, now finally clarified that matter-energy are aspects of relationship to life, with automatic inflection by the world view of each clan, family, tribe, community, nation, and culture.

To claim ownership by land title today in view of the above is the equivalent of proclaiming that the world is flat. It is the position of a lost world, and a false reality. It is an empire with no clothes.

Tlazolli is the sacred weaving of elements, our tie to Tonantzin - Mother Earth like an umbilical cord that connects Heaven and Earth (Mexico). It is what the religions of the world call love and the scientists call gravity.

5 de Mayo

Beyond the Battle of Puebla, corresponding in the calendars of the Catholic church named for the Santa Cruz, it is said that these days are traditionally and ceremonially celebrated by the Indigenous Nations of Mexico as the time when a certain constellation appears over the southern horizon in Anahuac for the first time since winter -- the Southern Cross, also spoken of as the constellation of the Confederation of the Condor, Tawantinsuyo. As members of the Indigenous Nations of the Confederacy of the Eagle and the Condor, el 5 de Mayo is thus a commemoration of the ancient Treaty between the North and the South which binds us culturally, politically, and spiritually to each other and the Universe of the Four Directions.

The border established by the Adams Onis Treaty 1819 is many times mistakenly used to identify the northern limits of the territories of Mexico, when in fact it is a purely Hispanic - Anglo colonial franchise agreement, the same as the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

This same political phenomena has a domestic subset, the corresponding state, county, city identities of the so called republics established under colonization continentally. The educational systems of European American colonization would reduce us to the use only of their concepts of geography to define reality, to develop strategy the better to control and subvert the resistance to colonization by the colonized.

"And yet it moves" These are the words supposedly muttered under his breath by Galileo as he was forced to recant his description of the context of human social reality for being in violation of the dogma of the sciences of the "West" before the Pope of Rome. One of these tenets of this dogma was the separation of the knowledge of physical reality from the spiritual and ecological context which is the parameter of the constitutions of the Indigenous Nations.

For this reason -self determination-, self definition is a precept to be applied both collectively and individually. This is the basic jurisprudence of the Eagle and Condor, which although unique in historical application for millennia in our continent of Itzachilatlan, ( the Americas) is universal as an in herent right of all Humanity.

"These are the human rights of each member of humanity born to this Earth under the Treaty: the right to sustenance and community, pure water, clean air, and spiritual fulfillment according to the conscience of each. To assure these rights is the only legitimate responsibility for the leadership of any nation of the treaty, unto the future generations."

The science of the Indigenous Nations affirms to this day, the definitions of territoriality that will lead our movement out of colonization will not come out of the colonizers systems of psychological control or ideological prejudice. We stand as we have at the beginning of World War I on October 12, 1492, in spiritual affirmation of our Humanity and in defense of our Cultural and Political Rights as Indigenous Nations.

 

stars

There were stars
before the sky was turned black by war guns
of alien armies who wished to put flame to
the land, searing scars of inhumanity and greed.
The echoes still roar
hollow eyed sockets
of false reality still see those rockets,
scorching the earth with titles
of manifest destiny, against
whom
they stood.
They who are we
Indigenous Peoples
understood.
The stars will
return in the sky.

Tupac Enrique Acosta
chantlaca@aol.com

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