From: Jyothi Raj <jyothi.dalitreds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:05 PM
Subject: Statement-World Parliament
World Parliament of Indigenous Peoples
First Round Table
07 – 10 January 2011
Booshakthi Kendra, Tumkur, India
We, 39 Indigenous delegates from 10 countries who attended the First round Table of the World Parliament of Indigenous Peoples from 07 to 10 January 2011 at the first ever Dalit Ashram, Booshakthi Kendra,[i] Tumkur in India, make the following Statements.
Preamble
Today the world is in need of Indigenous Peoples to ensure its survival into the future. The Indigenous Peoples of the world have sustained life with vibrancy, despite thousands of years of assault on their dignity and life-ways by dominant and colonial powers. The inclusive worldviews of the Indigenous Peoples have inherent capacity of providing the critical values and ethics, understandings, processes and protocols of respect and reciprocity, which unfold in ways that include relationship with all of life, ensuring that everyone is valued for their own unique gifts and contributions, which is the essence of real leadership and governance.
The unrelenting assault on the cultures, histories and dignity of the Indigenous Peoples and the living Universe must be understood and responded to creatively by Indigenous Peoples themselves. The First Round Table of the World Parliament of Indigenous Peoples asserts that while we recognize our cultural differences, we simultaneously and synergistically gather together our common cultural ethics and ancestral understandings toward the fulfilment of our self-assertion, self-actualization, self-determination, sovereignty and ultimately, our transformation. These at once ancient and contemporary strengths will enable us to move within the formation of nation-states within which we find ourselves, transforming them in ways that embody Indigenous ethics of respect, relationship and reciprocity for Indigenous communities, along with all other peoples, particularly marginalised and/or excluded communities. The historic First Round Table in Tumkur, India has been held with the purpose of forming a World Parliament of Indigenous Peoples, which will provide an alternative model of leadership, protocols and understandings, envisioning and expanding into a future in which all the world's children have the possibility of living healthy, happy and fulfilled lives, secure in their identity, strong in their culture, proud of who they are, and able to carry themselves with honour, respect and dignity into our collective future.
Statements
1. Humanity has the opportunity to benefit and grow from the collective spiritual strengths that arise in the global spirit of Indigenous Peoples and have been honed in their struggles.
2. The mindless exploitation of the cosmos in its totality poses a serious problem to the Indigenous Peoples, as we consider Earth as our Mother and we have lived in harmony with nature for millennia. Any threat to the Earth and other planets is a simultaneous and inseparable threat to the existence of Indigenous Peoples. Our suffering has been inextricably intertwined with the sufferings of the cosmos. The World Parliament of Indigenous Peoples, when it becomes a reality in world history will become a veritable mouthpiece of the peoples of the world.
3. The adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples signals a commitment to Indigenous Peoples that has not been much demonstrated to this point.
4. Further, this adoption shows that the time has come for Indigenous Peoples to unite in collective action aimed at creating benefits for Indigenous communities and the world at large.
5. The formation of indigenous parliaments and indigenous political entities will facilitate this unity, as well as facilitate collaboration, discussion, decision making, monitoring roles and support for Indigenous communities and individuals.
6. We see merit in developing closer ties among the political entities of Indigenous Peoples. We are confident that our knowledge, experience, and worldviews can be valuable resources in addressing common challenges for human beings, animals and plants and in assuring our survival. We see these possibilities as both opportunity and responsibility.
7. In anticipation and preparation for the United Nations World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in 2014, we invite indigenous parliaments, governments, and other indigenous political entities to join the efforts in recognizing our full and just participation in the global political arena.
8. The role of the World Parliament will also be to raise awareness in the dominant world about the true nature and value of indigeneity. The world will then realize that Indigenous Peoples have the answer to most problems that beset the world that is groping in darkness today.
The following delegates took part in the historic First Round Table of the World Parliament of Indigenous Peoples in Tumkur, India.
1. Ms. Ang Dawa Sherpa Nepal
2. Ms. Shanti Jirel Nepal
3. Mr. Walter Hahn Germany
4. Ms. Heidi Oline Salmi Sapmi, Norway
5. Mr. Jarle Jonassen Sapmi, Norway
6. Ms. Maria Therese Aslaksen Sapmi, Norway
7. Mr. Rune Fjellheim Sapmi, Norway
8. Ms. Kirsten Anne Guttorm Sapmi, Norway
9. Ms. Silja Somby Sapmi, Norway
10. Ms. Donna Ngaronoa Gardiner New Zealand
11. Mr. Tiopira Porutu Keith McDowell New Zealand
12. Mr. Charles Royal New Zealand
13. Ms. Trish Johnston New Zealand
14. Ms. Monica Royal New Zealand
15. Mr. Kerry Laiana Wong Hawaii
16. Ms. Eomailani Kukahiko Hawaii
17. Ms. Margaret Jane Maaka Hawaii
18. Ms. Darlene Hoskins McKenzie Australia
19. Ms. Debrah Ann Hocking Australia
20. Mr. Lenzerini Federico Italy
21. Mr. D Thangaraj IAS India
22. Ms. Rose Mary Nagaland, India
23. Mr. Anil Gaikwad India
24. Dr. Ruth Manorama India
25. Dr. Nara Singh Manipur, India
26. Mr. Jon Ross Alaska
27. Ms. Leanndra Ross Alaska
28. Ms. Jessica Ross Alaska
29. Ms. Ruby Shannon Vail USA
30. Mr. John Vail USA
31. Ms. Amanda Holmes N. America
32. Ms. June Lorenzo N. America
33. Mr. Frank David Ettawageshik N. America
34. Ms. Rosalie Little Thunder N. America
35. Mr. Tupac Enrique N. America
36. Mr. V B Rawat India
37. Ms. Jyothi India
38. Mr. M C Raj India
39. Ms. Arul Kani India
[i] Booshakthi Kendra is the first ever Dalit Ashram in India initiated by Jyothi and Raj in Tumkur, India. It means Mother Earth Centre. It has the avowed purpose of being the springboard of learning, indigenous spirituality, indigenous philosophy and through these learning also generate liberative action for indigenous and other excluded peoples of the world.
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