LINNA CHIEF'S

Our rights are already entrenched and provided for in the traditions, cultures and history of our people, including the documents and laws of Canada and the United States. We have only to study deeply in this treasury to regain the strength and courage to demand these rights of Indian nationhood, and citizenship be honored.

In a real sense, we as aboriginal Indian people must be reborn and with several guiding principals, We must re-educate non-Natives as to their promises understand and uphold all constitution around the world.. Resting on these traditions, the journey of “The League” with a group of individuals set in 1991 proposed to re-establish “The League”, with several of its leaders and members that had and still hold Hereditary rights to this land: under the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and the Canadian Charter of Rights Sect:35 , In Trust we hold hundreds of Indian Nation Government Cards that date fare as 1912 to 1984. Our people thrived back then and lived off the land as my late Grand Father, John McConnell.  

1. The Unity of Indian people is especially a spiritual reality…it does not depend on politics, economic development, (school books) education, tribal affiliation or political force. Rather, the Institutions of Indian culture should reflect the state of the Spiritual Unity. The future of Indian people will come from the uplifting of Indian spirits, minds and bodies.

2. Indian education really means the bringing out from darkness of Indian realities, not being educated in bookish learning. Indian education is a lifetime journey, involving children, youth, adults and elders…men and women equally. The twin visions of Indian education are true character and culture.

3. We already belong to enough bands, tribes, nations and organizations. The League should not be another membership group involving itself in competitions with groups that are already functioning, and must not involve itself as a political body, although its resources, strengths and vision may influence activities in the “practical world”.

4. Revitalized knowledge of “our Indian-ness” and of our relatedness must be matched with a new experience of self and other Indian respects. Rights can not exist independently of self change as some isolated legal matter. Instead, the hearts of Indian people must be reformed and institutions of family, community, band and nation must be re-established.

 

All Indian people have a local identification with their band or community. The League is working to assist a broader identity and relationship between all Indian nations and people. In registering with the League, no person “joins” a new organization, or turns away from a present membership affiliation; we are not “selling memberships”. It is your birthright.