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Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas and SOAD sign Historical Cooperation Agreement [1]

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Date: 2023-07-31

Something else had also developed over hundreds of years, and that was the ability of some countries to develop different ways of traveling and communicating. From the 1500s until what we consider modern times, people were able to learn about the explorations of different European Nations and their discovery of distant lands.

Throughout mankind’s evolution, war and slavery had been constant companions. From the most distant of ancient days until the middle of the 1990s the defeated citizens of the losing nation suffered death, imprisonment, slavery, and poverty. Their culture and history were denied to them.

However, when the first Europeans landed in the Americas, many indigenous Nations were conquered and those captured were enslaved. Their journey encompassed thousands of miles across vast oceans to foreign countries they never knew existed.

At the same time in history, on another continent, its people were having similar experiences. The Europeans had traveled to Africa and the African slave trade developed.

Both peoples suffered genocide, slavery, the loss of homelands, traditions, language, religion, and family because of the colonization by Europeans, and once established as a separate and sovereign country - the United States of America (USA)

As more and more African countries were gaining their independence from foreign governments, the Indigenous people began to seek ways of retrieving their stolen artifacts, and their history, establishing their rules and regulations that turned into laws and a way of life.

In the USA, the Indigenous people had been conquered and their lands, language, religions, customs, and history were denied to them until the late 1990s and into the early 2000s. Very slowly the indigenous peoples brought to the American citizens their fight for the right to self-rule and to regain all that they had lost under the rules of Europe and the USA.

Unbeknownst to many people, during the years 2003 to 2,018, two groups were formed to bring together Indigenous people who had lost so much of their country, their rights, and their heritage. Two such organizations are The Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas (FANA) and the State Government of the African Diaspora (SOAD).

The SOAD was recognized by the African Union as an organization that contributed greatly to the continuing development of Africa. So much so, that it became a State with a constitution, laws, and government in 2014. It is also working diligently to reach out to Africans who had left their homelands for whatever reason or were forced to leave their homelands due to wars in Africa and had to settle in a different African Nation or in other countries, as well as establishing contact with descendants of the Africans who were captured and enslaved to help them rediscover their culture and history. SOAD has helped different African groups to reclaim their stolen artifacts, land, and history.

(A side note: The word Diaspora is of Greek origin and it means to distribute or scatter abroad. It is used when referring to a group of people who had to leave their homeland and were forced to go to different countries. In this instance, the word diaspora can be applied to the Africans and to the Indigenous people of the Americas who were conquered by the Europeans)

FANA is a “confederation of per-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…”

Today, because of the technological advancement of various civilizations, it has become possible for different cultures to develop relationships that were impossible to form prior to the mid-1900s to early 2000s because of still being under European rule.

For the past year, a historic moment was slowly being made as FANA and SOAD began taking the first steps in bringing together “the global diasporas and indigenous peoples of the world” and have signed a cooperation agreement between them. The two signatories on the Cooperation Agreement are Dr. Louis – Georges Tin, Prime Minister of SOAD, and SandHill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians Principal Chief Dr. Ronald Yonaguska Holloway, Minister of International Affairs of FANA.

The two sovereign entities will work together on forming international diplomacy and alliances as stated in Articles 1-3 of the Treaty.

As stated in the attached SOAD newspaper article “To institutionalize this cooperation, FANA will be invited to sit in the Royal Chamber of SOAD, and similarly, SOAD will be invited to sit with the Chiefs of FANA, as provided for in Article 4. Articles 5 to 7 refer to the judicial cooperation that will henceforth exist between the two entities, notably on matters relating to crimes against humanity linked to colonization, genocide or ethnocide, restoration of indigenous land and matters of restitution and reparations.



To take things a step further, the two parties plan to work together in the field of agriculture, as provided for in Article 8, which refers in particular to the agricultural exchanges on which the two partners shall be working.

Vice Prime Minister, Keturah Amoako, Kandake (Queen) Houindokon formalizing the connection stated:

“I would like to extend my thanks and gratitude to Mr Raymond Two Hawks Watson for this collaboration with FANA. Our ancestral stories are the same, what we have lost is the same, our journeys to this space and place in time is also similar – we are very much connected. This is why the need to work together to bring about our collective justice, restitution and restoration of our heritage and protection of our cultural legacies is of paramount importance. Through our cooperation and judicial systems, our vision and aim shall be to work diligently to ensure that the after-math of colonialism is redressed and reconciled on our terms, and that we shall restore the dignity, rights, safety, wellbeing, liberty, social and economic empowerment for all our peoples and the generations hereafter. It is time”

Please click the links below to read the Cooperation Agreement, video and SOAD press release. If the link does not work, please copy and paste.

If you have any questions or concerns, please leave a comment or email [email protected]

https://fana.global/fana-soad-agreement

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