The Council of Affairs for Naturally Occurring Autochthon’s (CANOA) nation members are engaged in a range of life changing issues that uniquely apply to American Indian Aborigine Communities and our many Nations. For more than a century Indians of America have been hidden in plane sight; and because of this, CANOA must take a comprehensive approach to law, as each case is an unchartered venture taking unprecedented steps to reveal evidentiary truths in our juridical matters.
The goal is to create a definitive guide maps that can be utilized and shared by other Indian Nations.
While there are a plethora of topics impacting our culture and history, the defining issue is bringing our visibility to the forefront. However, the core issues remain the same—our right to exist as our ancestors did pryor to European encroachment and their effort to remove us from visibility, our sovereignty, and the inheritance of our lands.
To advance this mission, CANOA’s advocacy efforts are organized into various juridical and communal areas: Community & Culture, Protection & Advocacy, Commerce, Education, Self Care initiatives and Housing Development & Capacity Building. Each of these areas serves as starting points for advancing and understanding the cross-cutting and multi-dimensional issues that advance CANOA’s mission to Independence and Self Governance.
The policy council and education on issues and documentation work of CANOA are driven by the resolutions that are voted on and passed by our membership. Each are complemented by the council’s agendas, government-to-government agendas and conferences and events, initiatives, as well as petitions, campaigns, and other researched positions.As American Indian Aborigines, in the Universal Spring of our Autochthonous existence, we rise to find our Homelands ravaged by those who have no inalienable, Constitutional or Lawful rights to act in a managerial or juridical capacity on our Lands.
We find our own Great Law and the protections our ancestors wrote in the Constitution commands our attention, that we must now rise and bring forward the Universal Laws and all laws of nature in order to remove the lawlessness, by which the Crisis of Identity, the degeneracy and Genocide were created by those who abide by the shadows of death.
What is a Demand
We create demands as written letters in petition form to first bring notice to the offender and awareness the offended and the general public who is unaware of the Social problem. The letters are usually written by an Counil on behalf of the Aborigine American Indian People.
Whereas; the dispute between the two opposing parties and demanding that the recipient of the letter take or cease a certain action. The purpose of a demand letter is to also begin the negotiation process that will hopefully result in a Lawful dispute resolution, to avoid filing a claim in court if it is possible to resolve the issue without litigation. The demand letter is drafted to influence the recipient’s understanding of the dispute’s risks and rewards in a way that favors the client’s interests.
Demand letters usually state the harm the we have suffered, the relief we request and our intent to accelerate the dispute via a lawsuit if the recipient does not respond accordingly.
Certain state statutes may require prospective plaintiffs to send a demand letter to prospective defendants before they can claim a viable cause of action under the statute. Demand letters also create a paper trail, which can be useful as evidence if the good faith or reasonableness of a party’s conduct is later called into question.
Demand letters usually attempt to convince the recipient that their chance of success in litigation is low or that the expense, time commitment, and inconvenience of litigation is too high. Demand letters can be particularly persuasive when they contain legal, practical, and emotional arguments.
In order to craft a compelling argument, it is important for the lcouncil to be familiar with the recipient’s interests and goals, and to adapt the tone and content with the reader’s perception in mind.