Specifically, Blackfoot People, historically have possessed, and in the present-day possess and/or can and have the right to reconstitute to stop genocide and extinction: 1) Recognized and Commonly-shared Territory; 2) Recognized and Commonly-shared History, Culture, Spirituality and Language; 3) Recognized and Commonly-shared Legal and Political Institutions, Processes and Traditions; 4) Recognized and Commonly-shared Economic Institutions, Processes and Traditions; 5) Recognized and Commonly-shared Mechanisms and Institutions for Determination of Membership in and Leadership/Composition of the Nation; 6) Recognized and Commonly-shared Ancestors and Ties of Blood–Family, Clan and Tribe; 7) Recognized Capacity to Enter Into Relations with Other Nations; 8) Recognized and Expressed Common Will of Blackfoot Individuals to Live Together in Collectives Forming Whole Societies Greater Than the Sums of the Parts; 9) Close Attachment to Ancestral Lands and their Resources; 10) Self-identification and Identification by Others as Members of a Distinct Nation or Cultural Group; 11) Recognized and Expressed Desire to Remain Distinct as Blackfoot and Not to be Assimilated;
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 05:44:41 +0000
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