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KWAJI:YA KNÖGÉ (My people live in abundance)
KWAJIANS are the descendants of the primordial inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century.
History
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples.
"The Maiden", one of the discovered Llullaillaco mummies. A Preserved Inca human sacrifice from around the year 1500. The Norte Chico civilization (in present-day Peru) is one of the defining six original civilisations of the world, arising independently around the same time as that of Egypt. Many later pre-Columbian civilisations achieved great complexity, with hallmarks that included permanent or urban settlements, agriculture, engineering, astronomy, trade, civic and monumental architecture, and complex societal hierarchies. Some of these civilisations had long faded by the time of the first significant European and African arrivals (ca. late 15th–early 16th centuries), and are known only through oral history and through archaeological investigations. Others were contemporary with the contact and colonisation period, and were documented in historical accounts of the time. A few, such as the Mayan, Olmec, Mixtec, Aztec and Nahua peoples, had their own written languages and records. However, the European colonists of the time worked to eliminate non-Christian beliefs, and burned many pre-Columbian written records. Only a few documents remained hidden and survived, leaving contemporary historians with glimpses of ancient culture and knowledge.
According to both Indigenous and European accounts and documents, American civilisations before and at the time of European encounter had achieved great complexity and many accomplishments. For instance, the Aztecs built one of the largest cities in the world, Tenochtitlan (the historical site of what would become Mexico City), with an estimated population of 200,000 for the city proper and a population of close to five million for the extended empire. By comparison, the largest European cities in the 16th century were Constantinople and Paris with 300,000 and 200,000 inhabitants respectively. The population in London, Madrid and Rome hardly exceeded 50,000 people. In 1523, right around the time of the Spanish conquest, the entire population in the country of England was just under three million people.This fact speaks to the level of sophistication, agriculture, governmental procedure and rule of law that existed in Tenochtitlan, needed to govern over such a large citizenry. Indigenous civilisations also displayed impressive accomplishments in astronomy and mathematics, including the most accurate calendar in the world. The domestication of maize or corn required thousands of years of selective breeding, and continued cultivation of multiple varieties was done with planning and selection, generally by women. Inuit, Yupik, Aleut, and Indigenous creation myths tell of a variety of origins of their respective peoples. Some were "always there" or were created by gods or animals, some migrated from a specified compass point, and others came from "across the ocean".
Geography
The settlement of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago).
These populations expanded south of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and spread rapidly southward, occupying both North and South America, by 12,000 to 14,000 years ago. The earliest populations in the Americas, before roughly 10,000 years ago, are known as Paleo-Indians. Indigenous peoples of the Americas have been linked to Siberian populations by linguistic factors, the distribution of blood types, and in genetic composition as reflected by molecular data, such as DNA.
KWAJIANS are descedents of a group of indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean Land known as the Americas/Turtle Island, which includes: north, south, Central Americas and Her 700 island areas, who historically lived in the Greater Antilles and northern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
The territory of the nation is an indigenous sanctuary for its people as well as the Indigenous plants and fauna. Ancestral methods and principles have always maintained a healthy balance between land conservation and sustainability. Our agricultural design is centred around permaculture and cultivation methodologies that ensure the lowest possible environmental impact. The national grounds of KWAJI:YA KNÖGÉ is located,13degrees 14’21” N 61 degrees 10’40” W Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, WI. Yurumi Island Republic Territory, Aborigine Americas Country
Many parts of the Americas are still populated by Indigenous peoples; some countries have sizeable populations, especially Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. At least a thousand different Indigenous languages are spoken in the Americas. Some, such as Quechua, Arawak, Aymara, Guaraní, Mayan, and Nahuatl, count their speakers in the millions. Many also maintain aspects of Indigenous cultural practices to varying degrees, including religion, social organization, and subsistence practices. Like most cultures, over time, cultures specific to many Indigenous peoples have evolved to incorporate traditional aspects but also cater to modern needs. Some Indigenous peoples still live in relative isolation from Western culture and a few are still counted as uncontacted peoples.
The precise date for the peopling of the Americas is a long-standing open question, and while advances in archaeology, Pleistocene geology, physical anthropology, and DNA analysis have progressively shed more light on the subject, significant questions remain unresolved. The "Clovis First Theory" refers to the hypothesis that the Clovis culture represents the earliest human presence in the Americas about 13,000 years ago.
Evidence of pre-Clovis cultures has accumulated and pushed back the possible date of the first peopling of the Americas. Academics generally believe that humans reached North America south of the Laurentide Ice Sheet at some point between 15,000 and 20,000 years ago.
Some archaeological evidence suggests the possibility that human arrival in the Americas may have occurred prior to the Last Glacial Maximum more than 20,000 years ago.
Geneticist and professor of anthropology Jennifer Raff (2022) in the book "A Genetic Chronicle of the First Peoples in the Americas" summarised that the first people in the Americas formed from the merger of a distinct Palaeolithic Siberian population (known as Ancient North Eurasians), with a deeply diverged Ancient East Asian group about 36,000 years ago, giving rise to both Paleosiberian peoples and Ancient Native Americans, which later migrated towards the Beringian region, became isolated from other populations, and subsequently populated the Americas.
Demographics
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European settlers in the 15th century, and the ethnic groups who now identify themselves with those peoples.The people are the most fundamental or essential characteristic or element of community.This group may be small or large but community always refers to a group of people. Because without a group of people we can’t think of a community, when a group of people live together and share a common life and binded by a strong sense of community consciousness at that moment a community is formed. Hence a group of people is the first pre- requisites of community. 'KWAJI:YÄ K’NÖGÉ offers a sentiment of common living that exists among the members of the community. Because of common living within an area for a long time a sentiment of common living is created among the members of the village.With this the members emotionally identify themselves.This emotional identification of the members distinguishes them from the members of other community. WeThe People of KWAJI:YÄ KNÖGÉ declare,proclaim,and affirm thatTurtle Island also known as the Americas were and still is the habitat/lands, earth, water and sky of our Aboriginal Indigenous Autochthonous Ancient American Mound Building fore mothers and fathers. As remnant seed of our various copper toned chocolate brown races and/or peoples that European colonisers, Pilgrims and followers found here when they all arrived on our American shores, we Al Amarikanos are hereditarily part and parcel with, and on, our American Ancestral Lands and our American country by birthright pedigree blood heritage. Where as both legacy and lineage are accepted as indissoluble, innate aspects of Amerindian culture; individual acknowledgment and appraisal of both the KWAJI:YÄ KNÖGÉ NATION and each KWAJI:YÄ KNÖGÉ member’s distinctive culture are defining attributes linking the members with their fellow KWAJIANS.This assertion is critical to one’s inclusion to the KWAJIAN community.Whereas the KWAJIAN Consulate recognises these individual members to ultimately be derived from the Americas, and acknowledges their ideology, historical contribution and/or mere existence to be inspirational to the modern state of the KWAJI:YÄ KNÖGÉ NATION, its constitution, ideology, and/or existence we honour these our embodiments of KWAJIAN Spirit and or zeal inspired by passion or enthusiasm. The people are still here and we are indigenous.We are Autochthonous Original American unified with and attachment to our Ancestral American lands/soil called Turtle Island particularly North America.This proclamation regarding our heritage, lawful, national, and political status, is our notice to the world and all its agents, principals, officers, affiliates, assigns, governments, officials, etc.Ye all be notified, nunc pro tunc, and into perpetuity, for time immemorial, that any and all contractual agreements lacking full disclosure, free informed prior consent or diminishing the people, were/are/will be fraudulent tricks that have always been and will forever be deemed void and not binding. Whereas all our liberty and our American heritage and usufruct is reaffirmed, reclaimed, and retained into perpetuity for time immemorial. The group that self-identified as the KWAJIANS, also known as the Lokono, descend from tribes that settled the coastal areas of what is now Guyana, Suriname, Grenada, Bahamas, Jamaica and parts of the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
Culture
Many Indigenous peoples of the Americas were traditionally hunter-gatherers and many, especially in the Amazon basin, still are, but many groups practiced aquaculture and agriculture. While some societies depended heavily on agriculture, others practiced a mix of farming, hunting, and gathering. In some regions, the Indigenous peoples created monumental architecture, large-scale organized cities, city-states, chiefdoms, states, kingdoms, republics, confederacies, and empires. Some had varying degrees of knowledge of engineering, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, writing, physics, medicine, planting and irrigation, geology, mining, metallurgy, sculpture, and gold smithing.
At least a thousand different Indigenous languages are spoken in the Americas. Some, such as Quechua, Arawak, Aymara, Guaraní, Mayan, and Nahuatl, count their speakers in the millions. Many also maintain aspects of Indigenous cultural practices to varying degrees, including religion, social organization, and subsistence practices. Like most cultures, over time, cultures specific to many Indigenous peoples have evolved to incorporate traditional aspects but also cater to modern needs. Some Indigenous peoples still live in relative isolation from Western culture and a few are still counted as uncontacted peoples.
Economy
KWAJI:YA KNÖGÉ is committed to creating pathways of opportunities for the benefit of all humanity, whereby The nation aims to positively influence and strengthen spiritual, social, cultural, environmental and economic recovery throughout the planet for the betterment of all living beings. KWAJIAN NationalTrust would be honoured to establish its legal tender and central banking with Global Humanitarian Initiatives We reaffirm the trust responsibility and obligation of the United States of America government and its corporations, offices, agencies, etc., to our people for our historic preservation, protection, and enhancement, including but not limited to the provision of health, education, social and economic assistance and provisions as we deem necessary, and including the duty to assist our People in the performance of governmental responsibility to provide for the social, economic, land, resources, etc., of our members and to preserve our lands, air, waters, life, cultural identity and heritage. Natural resources remain a crucial element of a nation’s power.They have crucial significance for economic as well as military power of a nation.A strong nation without resources can obtain them by one or the other method of power, whereas a weak nation even with abundant resources is likely to lose not only its resources but even its freedom. History is full of examples to show the lack of natural resource limiting the power of a nation.The ability to exploit the raw materials is almost as important as the existence of raw materials.Apart from raw materials, food is also an important ingredient of national power. The KWAJI:YÄ K’NÖGÉ civilisation depend heavily on farming, and intends to develop a complex irrigation system to take advantage of the rivers and wetlands available within the territory.An efficient series of irrigation canals and reservoirs, will allow farmers to produce more, in turn, allowing development in nonagricultural ventures and establishing of urban areas of trade and commerce. We intend to establish a strong position in the fallowing sectors for global engagement, which include but not limited to natural food production, spring water, holistic & wellness services.
Geology
Many Indigenous peoples of the Americas were traditionally hunter-gatherers and many, especially in the Amazon basin, still are, but many groups practiced aquaculture and agriculture. While some societies depended heavily on agriculture, others practiced a mix of farming, hunting, and gathering. In some regions, the Indigenous peoples created monumental architecture, large-scale organized cities, city-states, chiefdoms, states, kingdoms, republics, confederacies, and empires. Some had varying degrees of knowledge of engineering, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, writing, physics, medicine, planting and irrigation, geology, mining, metallurgy, sculpture, and gold smithing. KWAJI:YÄ K’NÖGÉ aims to restore our people to the lifestyles for-mentioned and establish a community rich in tradition as well as a viable economic program to ensure longterm sustainability.
Many parts of the Americas are still populated by Indigenous peoples; some countries have sizeable populations, especially Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. At least a thousand different Indigenous languages are spoken in the Americas. Some, such as Quechua, Arawak, Aymara, Guaraní, Mayan, and Nahuatl, count their speakers in the millions. Many also maintain aspects of Indigenous cultural practices to varying degrees, including religion, social organization, and subsistence practices. Like most cultures, over time, cultures specific to many Indigenous peoples have evolved to incorporate traditional aspects but also cater to modern needs. Some Indigenous peoples still live in relative isolation from Western culture and a few are still counted as uncontacted peoples.
Recreation
The Native Americans ancestors enjoyed a wide variety of entertainment in the form of sports, games, music, dance, and festivals. Likewise the people of KWAJI:YA KNÖGÉ have maintained tradition by implementing similar practice. Days of observance have been established to honour ancestral traditions and encourage the participation of future generations.
References
" One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile IN HIS OWN LAND."
Martin Luther King Jr., I have a dream speech, August 28, 1960
American - A native of America; originally applied to the aboriginals, or copper-colored race,found here by the Europeans. American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828-
Native - 1. An American Indian; 2. Native American; 5. A Negro {1848}.
A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles, 1942
Nigger - 3. A dark - skinned person of any origin. In early U.S use usually with early reference to American Indians.
Oxford English Dictionary. 3rd edition, 2003-
“The natives, the so-called savages…they are, in general, strong, agile, and supple people, ….” “They also besmear their children with grease and let them creep about in the heat of the Sun, so that they become the color of a nut…. They strive after a sincere honesty, hold strictly to their promises, cheat and injure no one. They willingly give of few words….” - Francis
Daniel Pastorius, Founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania
“For their persons, they are generally tall, straight, well-built, and of singular proportion; they tread strong and clever, and mostly walk with a lofty Chin, …. as the Gypsies in England: They grease themselves with Bears-fat clarified, and using no defence against Sun or weather, their skins must be swarthy.” -
William Penn, Describes Lenapi, Nanticoke, 1683-
“In 1524, the Carolina coast people were said to be ‘of a dark color’ not much unlike the Ethiopians. Africans and native Americans "
Jack Forbes, 1993
“The people differ very much in stature, especially in language, as before expressed…. but generally tall and straight, of a comely proportion, and of a colour brown.” -
Captain John Smith’s written description for American Indians 1612
“Pocahontas was probably one of Poston’s dusky maidens,’ -
Arizona Miner, Arizona Weekly Journal, March 1867-
" The skull… of a young woman, nicknamed Luzia, who is believed to have roamed the savannah of south-central Brazil some 11,500 years ago. Even more startling, a reconstruction of the cranium undertaken in Britain this year indicates that her features appear to be negroid rather than Mongoloid, suggesting that the Western Hemisphere may have initially been settled not only earlier than thought, but by a people distinct from the ancestors of today’s North and South American Indians.
“This skeleton is nearly 2,000 years older than any skeleton every found in the Americas, and it does not look like those of Amerindians or North Asians.”
New York Times Article (1999)
“The complexion of these people is dark copper, not much different from that of the Ethiopians. Their hair is black and thick, and long. They have sharp cunning and are agile, swift runners.”
Written Record of the Voyage of 1524 of Giovanni da Verrazano as recorded in a letter to Francis 1, King of France. July 8th, 1524.
“The Negros are a kind of men destined by Nature to inhabit Africa and America: she created them for burning regions; let us, therefore, take care not to overthrow the barriers which she has established; but let us preserve their races in their natural purity, and not permit the Negros to inhabit Europe..….”
by Jean Baptist Leonard Durand, A Voyage to Seegal, Atlas of Region 1802, Page 89
“The blood of the Southern Negros of the U.S is unquestionably Indian.”
by The Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology.
“All primitive tribes known in America are dark, coppered color with jet black hair, while most possess curls in the extreme, and every level of wavy hair in between. The texture of the hair is generally fine, soft or silk or coarse or harsh. The hair of the men, falling down to their hams and sometimes to the ground, is divided into plaits or slabs two inches wide and filled with a profusion of glue and earth, which becomes very hard and remains unchanged from year to year. Today this form of hair is called locks.”
by George Catlin, 1841, Books Letter and Notes on the North American Indigenous People of America.
“... All the American nations, excepting the Eskimaux, are of one race, and this race is peculiar, and distinct from all others. … All possess alike the long, lank, black hair, the brown or cinnamon colored skin, the heavy brow, the dull and sleepy eye, the full and compressed lips, and the salient but dilated nose. ….. It cannot be questioned that the physical diversities do occur, equally singular and inexplicable, as seen in different shades of color, varying from a fair tint to a complexion almost black; and this too under circumstances in which climate can have little or no influences… These facts, however, are more exceptions to a general rule, and do not alter the peculiar physiognomy of the Indian, which is as undeviantingly characteristic as that of the Negro; for whether we see him in the athletic Charib or the Stunted Chayma, in the dark Californian or the fair Borroa, he is an Indian still, and cannot be mistaken for a being of any other race.”
By Samuel George Morton, M.D., An Inquiry into the Distinctive Characteristics of the Aboriginal Race of America, Boston Society of Natural History, April 27, 1842 Page 4-6.
“First of all, there was a time when the New World was under the dominion of the aborigines, from ocean to ocean the copper-colored children of the woods ruled with undisputed sway.”
by John Clark Ridpath, A popular History of the United States of America: From the Aboriginal Times to the Present Day, January 1st, 1878.
“The almost total extinction of the Negroes during the time of the Spanish Conquest and the memories of them in the most ancient traditions induce us to believe that the Negroes were the first inhabitants of Mexico.”
by Nicolas Leon, Physician/Archaeologist, Historia General De Mexico 191
American – The copper colored races found here by the Europeans “
American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster
Definition of American Indian: a member of any of the aboriginal peoples of the western hemisphere except often the Eskimos; especially : an American Indian of North America and especially the U.S.
Compare Native American. by collegiate Merriam Webster
18 USC 31 (a)(6) - The term “motor vehicle” means every description of carriage or other contrivance propelled or drawn by mechanical power AND USED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES on the highways in the transportation of passengers, passengers and property, or property or cargo.
18 USC 31 (A)(10) - The term “USED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES” means the carriage of persons or property FOR ANY FARE, FEE, RATE, CHARGE OR OTHER UNDERTAKING INTENDED FOR PROFIT.
Thompson v. Smith 154 SE 579 - The right of a citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, either by carriage or by automobile, is not a mere privilege which a city may prohibit or permit at will, but a common right which he has under the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Kent v. Dulless 357 u.s 116 (1958) - “The right to travel is a part of the “liberty” of which a citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the fifth Amendment.
Chicago Motor Coach v. Chicago 169 NE 22 - “Even the legislature has no power to deny to a citizen the right to travel upon the highway and transport his property in the ordinary course of his business or pleasure….
Davis v. Wechsler 263 US 22, at 24 - The assertion of federal rights, when plainly and reasonably made, is not to be defeated under the name of local practice.
Schactman v. Dulles 96 App D.C 287, 293 - Undoubtedly the right to remove from one place to another according to inclination, is an attribute or personal liberty, and the right, ordinarily, of free transit from or through the territory of any state is a right secured by the 14th Amendment and by other provisions of the Constitution.
International covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 12 (1) - Everyone lawfully within the territory of a State shall, within that territory, have the right to liberty of movement and freedom to choose his residence.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1) - Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.
Sources
Population history of Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Pope's Apology To Indigenous Peoples
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
The American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
The UN International Decade for People of African Descent
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
United States Senate Apology to African Americans for Slavery