The Foundation for Indigenous Americans of Anasazi Heritage
United Nations Geneva, Switzerland
Working Group for Indigenous Populations
July,
2004
Intervention
Agenda Item 5(b) Heritage- Human Rights
Aquechewa, Honorable and distinguished members of the Working Group, Member States, Indigenous brothers and sisters.
My name is Rev. RaDine Amen-ra of the Foundation for Indigenous Americans of Anasazi Heritage.
The
Foundation for Indigenous Americans of Anasazi Heritage has spoken
before to support the rights of Indigenous People in general and in
particular for the recognition of the largest Indigenous American
Indian population still living in North America, currently under
colonel occupation to the United States.
It is an
ignored, but undeniable fact the racial identity for the largest
population of Indigenous American Heritage is represented by brown skin
with wavy to extremely bushy hair. The original name for the race of
American Indian people is Anasazi. The name Anasazi was replaced by the
termed Negro by the colonilizers invading the Americas to exterminate,
enslave the people, and exploit their heritage culture, and lands. .
Today, I take this opportunity to be a voice for 35million Negro
Americans representing the factual descendants for the continuation of
the direct American Indian/ Anasazi bloodlines, and let their unspoken
expression of spiritual, emotional, and physical suffering from
generations of dehumanizing violations.
The Anasazi
people or Amerindians of North America comprised of woodland people
with over 500 nation/states, including Cherokee, Chickasaw, Muskogee,
Comanche, and Apache, with a population at time of discovery of over
150 million people. The Anasazi People was a tremendous matriarchal
culture and civilization developed by Negro women for over 8000 years,
represented by the Statue of Liberty for America. The wealth from the
Anasazi heritage is the foundation for the creation of wealth the
United States enjoys today.
Since the discovery
of the wealth in natural resources, bio-diversity, cultural,
intellectual property, arts, and heritage knowledge, within the
Americas. Over the last 500 years to the present, Anasazi descendants
have been surviving through a holocaust of magnanimous proportions from
systematic and institutionalized systems of racism directed towards
them. The enormous impact of colonization over generations against the
humanity of Amerindian people has allowed the tremendous rape of the
Amerindian heritage from the Descendants to Amerindian heritage by
non-indigenous people. These violations ranging from being deprived the
human right to human dignity towards the respect for their Indigenous
ancestral heritage identity, recognition of our humanity as a
race of people to our Ancestral names, artifacts, culture, sacred
ceremonies, ancestral remains, ethnic and racial identity distortion,
cultural exploitation, poverty, police brutality, intellectual property
theft, including genetic harvesting of DNA from the afterbirth of
Negro/ Anasazi children, by bio genetic corporations to sell to
European people, who want the genetic qualities of Amerindians
people but not the racial identity. The Anasazi people as Negro's
are forced through assimilation into accepting a false ethnic identity
for integration into the U.S, allowing their future generations to be
classified as non-indigenous nationals without the right to live to
sustain our race in our homeland.
The violations to our
human rights are compounded by in-direct to non-indigenous people
posturing as representative of Indigenous ethnic and racial identity,
allows the continuation of the rape of our heritage, artifacts,
culture, to continue ,and maintains our invisibility.
To
combat against the miss- education of their children into a very
distorted western view of their ancestry, The grandmothers, still
continued to tell there stories of the truth of their ancestry to the
children, However, if truth be known, enslavement is an experience of a
people; it is not the ethnic identity of heritage for a people.
Today,
because of the mis- education about the racial identity and ethnic
heritage belonging to the Anasazi children by the United States. It has
allowed people of in-direct decent to claim the heritage protection of
another race for themselves and to capitalized from the theft of
heritage belonging to direct descendants of the Anasazi Amerindian/
Negro heritage.
We recommend to the Working
Group on Indigenous Populations to recognize the factual representation
of racial identity for tribal connections belonging to Anasazi American
heritage and include legal instruments , which foster against racial
and ethnic identity distortion towards Heritage claims by in
direct/non-indigenous people. This will allow indigenous people living
under colonization recovery and restitution against the theft of their
heritage.
2. We urge the adoption of the draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
3.
We support the Commission on Human Rights draft principles and
guidelines for the Protection of the Heritage of Indigenous people.
4.
We recommend the working group on Indigenous populations to extend its
principles and guidelines to rectify the effects on the morbidity of
Anasazi people from the destruction of the indigenous Forest (tree's)
environment belonging to North America.
In
conclusion, the Anasazi People request the Commission on Human Rights
to support the efforts for the promotion and protection of Human Rights
belonging to the Anasazi people in the United States.
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