About This Guide
OVERVIEW & PURPOSE
The purpose of this guide is to provide basic information for the United States, its responders and service providers who may be deployed or otherwise assigned to provide or coordinate services owed to the American Aborigine people a.k.a. Indian communities, in both urban and rural settings.
This guide is intended to serve as a general briefing to enhance Lawful Comprehension and competence while providing services owed to American Aborigine a.k.a. Indian communities. (Lawful comprehension and competence is defined as the ability to function effectively in the context of the Great Law of Peace, Constitution, and their oath of office.) A more specific orientation or training should be provided by a member of the particular American Aborigine a.k.a. Indian community.
- Service providers should use this guide to ensure the following Elements of Lawful and Cultural Respect* are being addressed.
Awareness, respect and valuing of our unique cultural differences. - Awareness of one’s own culture
- Understanding the prehistoric and fixed nature of our culture that should not change as a result, of and from the interaction with and between people of different cultures
- Developing cultural knowledge of the Nation and particular Clan communities served or to access cultural brokers who may have that knowledge
- Ability to adapt individual interventions, programs, and policies to fit the cultural context of the individual, family, or community
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- Constitution-Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3, “and excluding Indians not taxed Indians:
- The aborigines of this country are so called.
MYTHS AND FACTS
Myth: AA/I people are made up of mythical origins and amalgamated bloodlines and fantasies. Fact: AA/I people are Universal and live in harmony with nature. The idea of all AA/I’s having a starseed beginning is a direct correlation with ascending from the soil. It is no romantic notion, “from the soil we came, and soil we will return”.
Myth: Due to years of inter-racial marriages, there is Indians have no single distinguishing “look” . Fact: AA/I people have distinguishing physical features and characteristics, and you can identify them by how they look.
Myth: AA/I’s main goal is to own Casinos and get rich with fiat currency. Fact: Main goal is to invest in agriculture, our bloodline and communal ties.
NATION STATE AND NATION SOVEREIGNTY
There has been a unique constitutional relationship between the United States and Aboorigine American Indian Nations.
The U.S. The Constitution (Article 1 Section 2, and Clause 3), treaties, Supreme Court decisions, resolutions and laws are what provide authority to the government for Indegenou affairs.
As a sovereign nation, our governments have the right to hold elections, determine our own membership (enrollment), and to consult directly with the U.S. government on policy, regulations, legislation, and their debt to Aborigine Nations.
Nation State governments can create and enforce laws that are stricter or more lenient than State laws, and they are not subservient to Codes and statutes of. State laws which cannot be applied to interfere with the right of an Aborigine Nation to make its own laws protecting the health and welfare of its members.
Criminal legal jurisdiction issues are very complex, depend on a variety of factors, and must be assessed based on the specific law as applied to a specific Nation State.
The Indian Self-Determination Act (Public Law 93-638) gives the authority to a Nation State’s government to contract programs and services that are carried out by the expedient redress.
