Sunday, December 7, 2025, marked the Tenth Anniversary Commemoration of the Charter of the Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas (FANA).  The FANA Nations Charter was signed on December 5, 2015.

Principal Chief Raymond Two Hawks Watson gave the opening ceremonial speech.  He gave a brief statement about the Federation.  I am including a direct quote from his opening  speech:

“The Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas (FANA) is a confederation of pre-colonial American Indian Tribes and Nations that are ancestral inhabitants to the lands contemporarily referred to as the Americas.  FANA works collectively to develop and implement policies, procedures, and initiatives that ensure and support the public safety, economic and cultural progress, and general well-being of the FANA Member Nation Tribal Citizens.

Operating through private foreign American Aborigine Tribal Trust established according to international Hague Trust Treaty standards, FANA assists its Member Nations in addressing violations of their inherent aboriginal and human rights by shedding light on the over 600 years of ancestral lineage the FANA Member Nations possess.

The Mission of FANA is “To provide leadership and serve as the collective voice for the development of the mass unification of the Aboriginal Tribes and Nations of the Americas.”

The Vision of FANA is “To be the catalyst and foundational federation for the progression of global respect and support for the Aboriginal Tribes and Nations of the Americas…”

Gathered for the virtual Anniversary celebration were representatives from different countries and Aboriginal Nations.  However, before sharing the event with you, I would like to take you back 14 years to the United Nations cafeteria during its annual Indigenous Forum.

It began as a typical early spring day in New York City.  The wind was blustery, and the sun’s warmth made the temperature feel like the low 50s.  At the entrance gates to the UN, hundreds of Indigenous people stood in line to pass through security.

Once inside the building, we collected our badges and attended the opening ceremony of the United Nations Indigenous Forum, which is held yearly.

After the ceremony, it felt like a meet-and-greet as we introduced ourselves to others attending the Indigenous Forum.  A small group formed as we headed to the UN cafeteria, comprising the SandHill, Mashapaug Nehaganset, and Pokanoket Nation delegations.  We put tables together, and it was around that extended table that the beginnings of the Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas were born.

Gathered at that table were the chiefs of the Mashapaug and Pokanoket Tribes of Rhode Island, and the SandHill (NY, NJ, PA).  Chief Two Hawks (Director of FANA Mashapaug Nahaganset Tribe) shared his vision for a Federation comprised of first-contact tribes that have never given up their sovereignty and were not seeking federal recognition.  That it would be a Federation seeking out other sovereign tribes/Nations/Countries to re-establish their inherent sovereignty and ancient ties was a vision of the future shared by all of us gathered around the very cramped tables.  To re-establish the great league of Indigenous Tribes/Nations as it existed long before the Europeans arrived in the Americas.

That discussion led to future talks, and we decided to meet again over the summer.

That summer, the SandHill traveled to Rhode Island to meet with Chief Two Hawks and the Sagamore (Pokanoket) to establish FANA.

Over the past ten years, The Federation has issued Public Notices, filed their land deeds in their respective homelands, and sought out and developed relationships with other Indigenous Tribes/Nations who were first-contact nations.  They built an International Indigenous Federation that has exceeded all other Federations dating before the arrival of the Europeans.

Currently, FANA has over eighty (80) million Indigenous people with whom the Federation is affiliated at this time.  This is due to the FANA’s treaties and cooperation agreements with Tribal Nations, Tribes and Countries.  Their treaties are with Indigenous Tribes/Nations/Countries throughout Africa, Polynesia, Hawaii,  North America (including Canada), South America, Central America, Mexico.

All the many interactions and actions that FANA experienced over the years led to the 10th Anniversary event and to the realization that the vision we had for the Federation years ago, sitting at crowded tables in the UN cafeteria, had come to fruition.

The Anniversary Event moved with precision, with each speaker staying within their allotted time to deliver their speeches.  A feeling of camaraderie seemed to encircle everyone present, and a sense of belonging to something larger than one’s tribe/Nation blanketed the attendees.

Each speaker spoke from their heart, sharing a brief history of their relationship with FANA and the benefits it has brought to them, their Nation, and to FANA.  Present at the meeting as speakers were some of the Federation’s many Ambassadors, some of its Lawyers, and FANA’s Court Judge.

The speakers discussed sovereignty, the reality that FANA has established a modern-day Great League of Indigenous Nations, and financial endeavors, among other topics.

Below is the list of other speakers representing the different Tribes/Nations/Countries with which FANA has either signed treaties or entered into cooperative agreements.  The Vice Prime Ministers from the State of African Diaspora and Representatives from other countries with which FANA has treaties also spoke.  There were sixteen speakers in total, and each shared with event attendees their relationship with FANA and the accomplishments that came with it.

Among the listed speakers were: Mashapaug Principal Chief Raymond Two Hawks Watson, Esq., FANA- Director General, who spoke for the Pokanoket,  SandHill Principal Chief, Dr. Ronald Yonaguska Holloway – FANA’s Minister of International Affairs;  Baramaya Guania Principal Chief Kasike Ama’ Guatu’ Taino (Taino Fire River Palermo), and Principal Chief Lovell Pierce of the Cape Fear Indians spoke at the three-hour event, to name a few, as well as other FANA Chiefs.  Cibuco Bayamon; Kiskiack; Caney Orocovis; the Lenca Nation; First Taupaw of the FANA Inter-tribal Court System, H. E. Lord Chief Justice Robert Orville Thomas; ⁠1st Vice Prime Minister of SOAD, H.E. Keturah Amoako;  2nd Vice Prime Minister of SOAD, H..E. Hugh Johnson;  Ambassador at Large for the Garifuna Nation, H.E. Cynthia Ellis; H.E. Ambassador Doug Scott;  FANA Ambassador to India, H.E. Honorable Dr. Raja Seevan;  H.E Ambassador Kevin Inglesby, 1st Seat Holder of FANA Nimmuog;  H.E. Ambassador Gerren O’Neil, and H.E Maria Lorena Cosme, FANA Ambassador to the United Nations and Director of Indigenous Outreach.

I am including the link to the recorded 10th Anniversary Event below, in case the embedded link does not work for everyone.  Please take the time to watch the video, as you will hear a truly unique moment for the Indigenous People worldwide.

I am also sharing below the speeches of FANA’s Minister of International Affairs, Principal Chief Holloway; FANA’s UN Ambassador and Director of Indigenous Outreach, H.E. Maria Lorena Cosme; and H.E. Ambassador Kevin Inglesby, 1st Seat Holder of FANA Nimmuog.

The link to the recorded Event   https://youtu.be/t7jeDrKCHGQ?si=__HSn2jBVBPS6IVb

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Minister of International Affairs, Principal Chief Dr. Ronald Yonaguska Holloway:

Good evening; I am Ronald Yonaguska Hollway, and I serve as the Minister of International Affairs for the Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas.

As a founding member of FANA, I have been entrusted with this position, a position that scrutinizes all prospective FANA applicants to make sure that their history and compatibility are in line with FANA’s direction, ideology, constitution, and energy.

In addition to that, I scour the nation-states of the globe to find indigenous Tribes, Tribal Organizations, Tribal Confederations, and sovereign governments that are willing and capable of signing Sovereign – to - Sovereign Treaties.

This process is monumentally important to understand, as only true sovereigns can sign treaties with each other.  Sovereignty cannot be bestowed as it is inherent with the sovereign, and in the case of indigenous sovereignty, it predates the colonial genocidal period of modern history.

As we look around the world, we see that there are many nation-states, and the vast amount of them are successor states from the colonial period.     This is important to understand as world dominance is at the point of the barrel of a gun, occupation of a land, enslavement of a people, attempted genocide of those people, and the assignation of their rightful leadership is not sovereignty, its the equivalent of a car jacking where everyone in the car except one survivor is murdered, and the survivor is thrown into the trunk of the car.

That’s not true sovereignty; sovereignty is not, and cannot be bestowed by any person or state, but is inherent; it can’t be stolen, the sovereignty always resides with the people to whom it belongs.  So, using those standards on behalf of all the FANA member nations, I seek out true sovereigns.

Sovereigns that can substantiate continuity from before the murderous European expansion.  To explain this clearly, I look at the root system of the tree, the soil itself, if you would, not the carpet that has been laid upon it.

I oversee all external interactions on behalf of FANA, even down to our interactions with the United Nations.  In order to accomplish this mandate, the Ministry began to court other non-BIA-affiliated tribes to join us in gathering regional tribal leaders and then expanding that initial circle - to reach out to other groups such as the Polynesian kingdom of Atooi, and its representatives, culminating in the signing of a historic peace and friendship treaty as well as a Health and Wellness treaty, whose signing was hosted by The Seneca, in Niagara Falls at their beautiful casino.

During the congresso international in 2020 and 2021, we urged indigenous leaders in Central and South America to do the same- to gather to form regional groups, take stock of collective education and skill sets, confederate, and make a treaty amongst themselves.  At those meetings, our current Ambassador to the United Nations, Ms. Maria Cosme, addressed the Chiefs and dignitaries on the topic of “actionable sovereignty”.   She explained that sovereignty is not a piece of paper and cannot be granted to you; you either are or you are not.  How a sovereign carries themselves and executes their lawful rights is paramount.

The Ministry has developed Treaties of friendship, of health and wellness, such as the Treaty of Montaup, cooperation agreements, the Creation of Observer Status for future FANA membership, and Treaty-making with larger international organizations, so we can come together within naturalistic time frames and build cohesion.

The drafting and development of these treaty instruments are based on a genuine fellow feeling, and a true wanting to re-establish those old ties.  What really helps is that I don’t want anything from these tribes; we don’t want their land, assets, or anything from them- our aim is to re-establish the old communications systems, and to be of assistance in their reclaiming their sovereign rights.

As I’m a bit old school, I’ve been known to have delegations from other countries come up to the house in the mountains, and stay for days at a time, so we can talk old school as if they were runners from tribes.  We put mattresses on the floor, cook up beans, etc., and have a couple of beers.  Usually, I ask “how can I be of assistance to your people?

The reason for that is, I have to know what each side needs, as these treaties are supposed to reconnect all of us.  I’m charged by my tribe, and FANA, to look seven generations out, and we/I want all of our lost family back.

All of FANA’s tribes are sovereign, a fact held up by their treaties with colonizing powers prior to the formation of the United States, and subsequent treaties with the founding fathers and the developments from them are significant.

The Ministry oversees most everything that is outward-facing to FANA, even in business contracts with Unidoc to provide their medical equipment to all of the indigenous people of the world.

In general, I handle all negotiations with Chiefs and government officials in preparation for the processes of agreeing on treaty terms.  Once the understanding has been reached, I craft the initial writing of the treaties personally to ensure that all parties are happy with the general energy, flow, and spirit of the agreement.  I make it a point to stay intently focused on how the creator and the ancestors will view this work.

As the years progressed, I undertook a program of finding the best and brightest Ambassadors to place around the globe to achieve long-term strategic and tactical goals to advance and expand FANA’s membership, and find like-minded Sovereigns to Treaty with.

My Chief of Staff, Chief Doug Scott, who is from the Canadian side of the Iroquois, has been working with me tirelessly for the last 9 years finding the highest educated and competent individuals available.

Each of these Ambassadors has been hand-selected by me personally in consultation with Chief Scott, and I will add that no one who works in my Ministry takes a salary; they are all committed to the program we’ve put together.  We have placed ambassadors throughout the United States, Africa, Mexico, Central and South America, Asia, Canada, and the Caribbean.

As a result of this coverage, the Ministry has been blessed with abundant successes.  We have been able to execute numerous treaties with large portions of Polynesia, from Hawaii to Tahiti, Canada, Belize, Suriname, the United States, the Caribbean, the 6th region of the African Union, as well as a very special treaty that we are very excited to announce later this evening.

Our Ambassadorial Department fields inquiries from around the globe- Chief Scott and I prioritize, categorize, and provide feedback and guidance to our Ambassadors in the field with a view of seeing whether these contacts are able to work with FANA, through Treaty, or should be moved to the internal, joining FANA as a member nation.

In select cases, we provide organizational assistance to help them solidify and stand up their sovereign rights.

We at FANA understand that indigenous is a big word, and not confined to just the Tribes of the United States.  All indigenous people were tribal before the attempted genocide by the Europeans, whether they were slaughtered , enslaved by the Dutch, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, or their successor contemporary Nation States.

We had relations with many of these tribal nations during the Old-Old Great League; we traded with each other and had reliable ties.  We don’t believe that any one tribe is better than another, and we at the Ministry are committed to re-establishing those old relationships according to the ways our ancestors did, prior to Columbus getting lost and coming here.

To that end, the Ministry has written Health and Wellness treaties, Peace treaties, Commerce treaties, Domestic Court treaties, International Human Rights Tribunal treaties, and International Banking Treaties.    These treaties have tied indigenous groups together from around the world with the entire infrastructure that FANA built out, a completely Sovereign infrastructure that is underpinned by historical and modern Sovereign-to- Sovereign treaties.

All treaties are reviewed and adjusted to meet the necessary domestic and International legal requirements by FANA’s Indian Law; Bar-admitted attorneys, who are all Chiefs themselves, and are overseen by our Executive Director Chief Two Hawks.

This Afternoon, [evening for a lot of our guests], you will hear from dignitaries representing their peoples from other continents who FANA has treated with, as well as FANA Ambassadors from Canada, South America, India, and the United States on the projects they are undertaking on behalf of FANA.  We will be announcing our newest global Treaty that’s been signed and saved for this space tonight.

When the program is complete, you will have a map to understand the scope of indigenous connections that are underway.  We have done our research and concluded that, historically, the head count of FANA, and all of its members, as well as treaty allies, is larger than that of the old great league.

Also, you will see that the affiliation and cross-treaty work that has been stabilized gives us a headcount that is larger than quite a few of the nation-states that exist inside and outside of the United Nations.

I’m pleased to tell you that we have so much more in queue already for 2026 that we will have another banner year of treaty work cross connecting the world’s indigenous.  From FANA, the Ministry of International Affairs, and myself: Thank you for attending our 10-year anniversary event.

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Lorena Cosme  FANA Ambassador to the United Nations and Director of Indigenous Outreach

Good Afternoon to everyone present with us today- Foreign Dignitaries, Heads of State, Ambassadors, Excellencies, Beloved Chiefs, and last but not least, Proud citizens of FANA nations, this is for all of us after all.

This is a very happy and auspicious day.  It amazes me how time flies.  When FANA first formed, I had the privilege to be the proverbial fly on the wall, a guest of one of the signatories.  I was offered a rare bird’s-eye view of history in the making.

I could say, as many do, that the scope of this project was invisible, or that I didn’t understand the magnitude of what was transpiring.  But that would be untrue- a useful rhetorical device but a lie- I understood just as each chief and council person present that day did, the importance of those early meetings and the path through history that was being carved on the day Chief Two Hawks, Chief Winds of Thunder and Chief Yonaguska- drowning bear- signed the initial document forming the final iteration of what would become FANA.

Earlier that day, we had all stood and held hands in a ceremony at the seat of the Massasoit in RI.  A sacred spot just under the cliff where the great Metacomet lived and died for his people, for their freedom, for the rights of the first people of New England,  stewards of northern Turtle Island.  We felt the guiding energy of those who came before descending from that bluff beyond which an unknowable ocean breathed its blessings in patterned rhythms to those of us gathered.  Our intention, based in respect of our mutual struggles and brotherly love, was set into motion there.

The Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas.

The hope was clear - to begin the process of rebuilding the Great League with the family lines and clans of the few indigenous Americans, Indians on the east coast of Algonquian heritage that still had the legal right and historic imperative to seek out methods to engage with the sovereignty that had been stripped from those held hostage under the bloody pen of the BIA system.  To actualize indigenous sovereignty in a way that it had not been actualized in centuries, to move it from conceptual to literal.

Actionable sovereignty became the goal to synthesize and synergize our collected cultural riches.  To find and prioritize the similarities between us and use those similarities to build trellising structures for a united future, and to reinforce those structures with a treaty, and with the rule of law.  To build bridges and then roads.  As we grew, we would protect one another with collectivism and make our way to the table of global power.  There was an innate understanding that the time had come.  The collected education and creativity formed a brain trust that was heavy with potential.  Its representatives were ready to move in directions once thought lost to colonial narratives of hegemony and power.

It was the idea that, by combining forces of intent, intellect, and spirit, FANA was going to alter the way Indigenous people engaged with global power in a modern context forever.  Undergirding this idea was this notion that our relations as Native People of this hemisphere are not the provenance of the Colonial Powers.  These relationships belonged to us, were a part of us – were our birthright - and no matter how long treaty as both an action and archetype had lain dormant, its embers still burned in the minds of each chief, each clan mother, each individual tribal member.  Treaty meant honor, a promise to fulfill, an obligation to protect, sacred under the ever-giving and watchful eye of the creator.  Treaty law supersedes all other forms of law in the western hemisphere; it is the first and most primal.  FANA would fully revive this sleeping practice as a way to interface with the outside world at large.

As you have heard from many of our speakers today, FANA has accomplished many of its early objectives and then some.  FANA has  forced open space for Indigenous authority to exist fully on a global scale and within its own context.  FANA has networked, built foundational legal structures for international trade, heritage tourism, low-cost, high-quality medical clinics, and banking.

Indigenous people are a collectivist people, and we are a matriarchal people.  Our clan mothers guided our tribes and clans.  Through the divine feminine, we understood our place in nature and were able to keep harmony and balance with the natural world.  This is yet another sacred way of being that FANA is reviving and raising to the global scale.

Several years ago, it was decided that while each tribe has their own clan mother or grandmother council, it was imperative that FANA create a large-scale version of this tradition to help guide and protect future generations of FANA’s citizenry.

I was tasked with gathering women from FANA’s Nimuog to begin the process of codifying our matriarchal ways into a framework that allows this unique form of wisdom and energy to flow into FANA’s governance structures.  It is my honor to announce that we are in the process of finalizing those foundational documents so that we may begin to populate this body.

The process of creating the FANA Women’s Council has been lovingly guided by the wise hand of Kasique Bibi Naniki.  She has helped those of us on the building committee to feel comfortable to create as women, in the manner of women; by listening and sharing patiently with love at the center, giving us the much-needed space to create and lead with emotion and intuition.

The matriarchal way of existing is the most profound difference between Indigenous nations and the corporate  modern nation-state.  There is a warm camaraderie that is palpable and lives through our relationships.

During our years of interacting at the UNPFII, I have come to understand this key point regarding what is a defining aspect of indigenous global power:  that we as the global Indigenous of the world exist as part of sacred and living creation.  We are the breathing, dreaming planet.  Each of us is a breath of the sacred earth mind in that vast cosmic and phenomenological stage upon which we live out our physical lives.  That as we live in the cosmos, the cosmos also lives through us.  We share in a more literal sense and thus hold a powerful connection to actual reality and to one another- our energy grows geometrically and fractally.

Our connections are felt in the body and in the air.  We are here on this plane in a more visceral way than those who wish to eliminate or control us.  This cultural and spiritual difference between the purely material power of the modern nation-state apparatus and the Indigenous authority we are collecting and gathering through organizations such as FANA, SCNI, and SOAD makes us formidable.

The phrase “we didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us” comes to mind when thinking of the scope of FANA’s projects.  This Pan-indigenous concept is the energetic and spiritual thread that runs through our forays into Central and South America, the Caribbean, Polynesia, Asia, and Africa.  From this same notion, we understand FANA as a larger player in a bigger project of uniting global indigenous power.  With the help of our beloved friends, such as Queen Ama Nimley of Mali and the gentle and honorable Sheik Bey, we began to communicate with the leadership of SOAD, and in doing so, came to understand that a shared genetic heritage between SOAD members and many FANA citizens was yet another source of power.

We now walk side by side with SOAD in mutual aid and respect as we build bridges that connect Turtle Island and the African continent.

FANA is a replicable blueprint for indigenous freedom- our innate sense of interconnectedness and a collectivist multiplicity is our greatest strength.  The West does not signal the definition of civilization, but rather has proven with its machinations to be the means of its collapse.

We owe it to the power and beauty of Gia, the great mother, Patchamama, to keep it up, to keep fighting by creating and by wholeheartedly engaging our similarities, not just appreciating them.  We honor each other through actionable sovereignty- we bravely exist with and within our power in earnest.  We choose when and how to connect and engage with our galactic and spiritual relations worldwide.

I see FANA as a lighthouse- we do not signal for the colonial eye, we signal to find one another, to guide one another.  Over the last 10 years, FANA has grown from the interests of  3 tribes to close to 80 million global participants through our various diplomatic missions.

As many of the UN’s major functions begin the move to Africa, we are well-positioned to take advantage of the shifting sands of this unstable era to advance our mutual aims.

In conclusion, I would like to leave you with some thoughts.  That like our ancestors before us, we can continue to represent nature and channel the elements through our actions.  That like water, we hold the past and present with all its truths, the good, the bad the beneficent the evil- that we hold it in and manage to reflect back into the world only the light only the warmth of the sun- That like fire we burn off what is impure, that which is tainted and let it rise to the sky.  That like wind we spread the ashes of what is left behind to the furthest reaches so that like our ancestors before us, those first humans whose blood flows in our veins and whose DNA vibrates across time through our bodies and our works- we act as the earth and plant the seeds of the new world together.

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Kevin Inglesby  1st Seat Holder of FANA Nimmuog

Thank you, Chief Two Hawks, for welcoming me here today, for this opportunity, and for being allowed to offer some words on this day; Also, thank you to all of your Excellencies, Chiefs, Dignitaries, Ambassadors, Seat Holders, and Everyone in attendance today for coming and sharing this celebration of FANA’s decade and commemoration of FANA’s Charter.

With my time today, I would like to offer 3 points that I have come to observe from the Nimmuog and Federation generally that have largely been informed by my experiences over this past summer.

If you will travel back in time with me for a moment to the International Day of the African Diaspora on July 1, 2025, hosted by the State of the African Diaspora, I want to tie into my first point an important concept that was discussed, in part, throughout the duration of the IDAD conference/anniversary.

Namely, this concept relates to philosophical activism and is effectuated by our rebuttals to claims of domination, as is present through the doctrine of discovery, for example.  While in papal terms, the doctrine of discovery was, quote unquote, “repudiated” on March 30, 2023, its legacy continues to pervade our social domains and legal landscapes.

In the context of philosophical activism, rebutting deleterious and exploitative claims is but one element in the process of meaning production; the next critical step is to reliably, stably, and habitually walk a new path, to embody precisely what should be in its place.  In that sense, existence is resistance, but that is also just one feature of the combinational units that must be deployed to bring interpretation to action.

On Monday, August 11, 2025, the Federation issued an Official Decree: The Law of Continuity.  With that in mind, I would like to share with you some other elements that support what the Law of Continuity may mean in different contexts.

From my experiences over the summer- I developed my understanding, and still am, of the Law of Continuity by Speaking with our Leaders in different instances about the customary and cosmological underpinnings provided through the FANA Intertribal Court System, for example, like Nuwomanitook Nutuksowoag which means, Constitutionally- both written and unwritten-  (“the relatedness of all”).

With that context, my mind began processing and identifying common threads as to how the relatedness of all intersects through our Federation Law- Wunnandry as it is enlivened by each of our member Nations’ nuanced customs, habits, and standards.

So over the summer, I spoke with Chief Two Hawks to different degrees about the Nanhigganeuk- the Mashapaugs’ traditional spiritual belief system, customs, traditions, and practices.

I spoke with Chief Yonaguska about the Great Spirit and different ways to channel a clear soul and good heart into different levels of practical action.

I spoke about Urende & the Skarure Hadnagonyo with Chief Eagle Elk, which in themselves translate almost directly to the relatedness of all via the Great Law of Peace;

I also spoke about Ubuntu with Vice Prime Minister and her Royal Highness Keturah Amoako.

And as a final example, also by experiencing the Law of Continuity itself when my partner Morgan and I were invited to Cacique Tureyguas Areito, or the summer solstice ceremony, and honestly so much more.

However, these are all components of what I have come to understand as elements of Wunnandry, which provides that there is a creator, that creator commands different laws or decrees, and our proximity to those features influences the manners in which diverse iterations of these principles may be channeled through the good mind, heart, and clear soul.

I would love to and am looking forward to having more of these interactions, detailed discussions, and to participate in our ceremonial proceedings because; I come into my next point beyond philosophical activism, I want emphasize- interfacing with the diversity Wunnandry can entail as it relates to all of our Nations- that these are just some of the very important actions to help to reliably stabilize the Nimmuog’s interpretation of the cultural content we are expressing through the processes to review, assess, and promulgate our Draft Federation Law.

So, to ground my second point- the Nimmuog operates as one form of checks and balances in the Federation; in a certain sense, how unwritten tradition is channeled into and stabilizes our written law.  At this moment, I’d like to offer some remarks about the structure of the Nimmuog itself.

Article X of FANA’s Constitution provides the Nimmuogs framework, standard operating procedures, and general conduct of this governmental arm.

In that sense, it is important to call to mind an old axiom associated with Ubuntu and Wunnandry generally: that I am only as strong and effective as we are.

So a crucial feature of the Nimmuogs’ conditions to ensure its’ proper function resides in representatives being appointed from each member Nation to be a Seat Holder, to operate with the Federation first as is stipulated in Section 11 of Article X- specifically that Every Seat Holder shall represent and act in the interest of the whole of the Federation, not merely or solely in the interest of their Respective FANA Nation.

In considering the Observer Statuses of the Garifuna, the SOAD, and the Lencas’ completion thereof, I am very much looking forward to the expansion of our multicultural base within the Nimmuog that drives our specific system and models for formal cultural exchange & customary law exchange as the mutually modifying system the Nimmuog operates as.

That notwithstanding, before I take up all of my time here, I would like to end with the idea that the Nimmuog represents, to different degrees, Cultural and political revitalization through the renegotiation of traditional governance systems; one marker to support that point is recognizable through our utilization of Algonquian language triggers like Nux (in the affirmative) and Matta (in the negative) for our proceedings.

In tandem with language bases being infused into our standard operating procedures, it is important to include that we operate through the 13 Wequiaog or Lunar Calendar as well to reassert the Law of Continuity from a multidimensional and relational perspective, so that way the Nimmuog may act as a formal site to harmonize our multicultural philosophies, actions, and ways of being that inform the way we perceive, experience, and walk in the world- to not only philosophically rebut imperial legacies, but to actionably hybridize our world beyond its immediate reach.

Again, thank you so much for welcoming me here today, and with that, thank you everyone!