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LAW OF THE LAND

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.

Issues

Adverse Conditions built within U.S. policies are a major issue for American Indian Aborigine. These policies are constructed to enforce At-Risk conditions upon our offspring and our elders; assimilating then into compromising situations which expose them to the possibility of danger, harm, and loss.

In Indian culture our offspring are our future of and the elders are revered as the “Wisdom-Keepers” In our Nation, both are respected and held in the highest regard and  must be able to flourish in their coexisting roles as keepers of our time immemorial culture. Unfortunately, U.S. policy makers exploit use a legal lnguage to exploit and assimilate them into social stereotypes such as, “underserved and disadvantaged—increasing the at-risk of behavior.

That’s why, the members of CANOA are committed to ensuring that our American Aborigine “Wisdom Keepers” receive the respect and resources, owed. It is our elders who carry the baton of wisdom and pass it on to our youth to remember all encounters for all time: both, the good and bad.

For example, politically constructed fake histories and narratives are created and commissioned to created the idea that we are Unites states citizens and thereby to be treated as such. Politicians commission policy makers to create socially constructed pathways that force our elderly into poverty, homelessness and displacement via “Enforced Population Transfer”. Many have lost their homes under the belief and fraud that they somehow owe the U. S., when in fact, it is the other way around. So let us bring into our memory, House Congress Resolution 331, that says we are time immemorial and that they owe us a great debt.