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TRIBAL IDENTITY
AND
SELF
DETERMINATION
WHAT IS NAAIP?
The National Association for the Advancement
of Indigenous People (NAAIP) began as a
research group studying United States Constitutional
Law, Tribal Law and International Law. The group has
provided free research information to thousands of
fellow researchers, ancestry seekers, native
indigenous groups, tribes, clans and nations across
America.
NAAIP Director General and chief Researcher,
Tushka Humoc Xelup (pronounced SHEE-LUP), along with
former judicial professionals, researchers and other
indigenous advocates, founded the institution.
Developed under international Tribal Trust
Charter, NAAIP has established an exclusive
NAAIP 2015
ACCOMPLISHMENT
The continued intent, missions and purposes of NAAIP for 2016 2017 shall further
embrace and assist those individuals who are part of reclaiming their
identity, establishing sustainable development platforms, while actively
assisting members in securing justice and remedy in many areas of their
existence, including land claims, child custody and protection, and
reclamation of cultural heritage rights.
This year NAAIP comes forward to the United Nations with seventeen (17)
NAAIP delegates from ten different tribes and nations, including tribal
leaders from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Moving forward
with a robust agenda, leaving 2015 with great accomplishments in
membership development and implementation of aborigine rights in
accord with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights for Indigenous
People. The year included NAAIP co-facilitating the rebranding and
redevelopment of the Federation of Aboriginal Nations of America (FANA),
and the development of nine FANA administered and facilitated "American
Aborigine Chamber of Commerce" offices in nine states in America. In closing out
2015 NAAIP established new office in Northeast Indian Country, providing resource
for aborigines of Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.
NAAIP IMPLEMENTATION OF
UNDRIP
NAAIP UNDRIP implementation is facilitated by well informed NAAIP members, whose goal is and has
been the uplifting of the American Aborigine condition through implementing UNDRIP in
NAAIP has implemented the development of two support institutions. The "American
Aborigine Council on Human Rights" (AACHR), and the "International Coalition of
Aborigine Women" (ICAW). The development of the NAAIP "American Aborigine Council
on Human Rights" (AACHR) will specifically address long ignored issues of human
rights abuses of aborigine not only in America, but throughout the western
hemisphere. The AACHR along with the current missions of the NAAIP Aborigine
Reclamation Council (ARC) will continue to seek rights and protections for all
aborigines of the Americas, the Caribbean, West Pau Pau (Indonesia), Canada,
Columbia and Ethiopia. NAAIP International, in association with provisions and
protections provided within the UNDRIP and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals
and Sustainable Development Agenda structures, the guiding instruments for international
protections and implementation.
of the Charter of the United Nations, in a spirit of cooperation with the indigenous
peoples of the world, are assembled at United Nations Headquarters in New York on
22 and 23 September 2014, on the occasion of the high-level plenary meeting of the
General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, to
reiterate the important and continuing role of the United Nations in promoting and
protecting the rights of indigenous peoples.
WHAT IS AN INDIAN
TRIBAL RIGHTS AND U.S. POLICY
WHO IS AN INDIAN?
2000
AN INDIAN IS.
2-1.1GENERAL
This Chapter sets forth the policies, standards and procedures for
determining those persons who come within the scope of the
Indian Health program.
2-1.2PERSONS TO WHOM SERVICES MAY BE PROVIDED
A person may be regarded as within the scope of the Indian Health
program if he is not-otherwise, excluded therefrom by provision of
law, and:
Is of Indian and/or Alaska Native descent as evidenced by one or
more of the following factors:
Is regarded by the community in which he lives as an Indian OR
Alaska Native;
Is a member, enrolled or otherwise, of an Indian or Alaska
Native Tribe or Group under Federal supervision;
Resides on tax-exempt land or owns restricted property;
Actively participates in tribal affairs;
Any other reasonable factor indicative of Indian descent; or
Is an Indian of Canadian or Mexican origin, recognized by any
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