For expedience’s sake: the Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas is FANA.
The SandHill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians( NY, NJ. PA) is SandHill.
Returning again to the First Annual Meshanicut Cultural Placemaking Confestival Weekend held on the weekend of August 17th, 2023 in Providence Rhode Island, where a series of historical moments occurred for the member Tribes of FANA. I was honored to attend that weekend.
(Please read the article titled FANA’s 1st ANNUAL Meshanicut Cultural Placemaking Confestival in Providence, Rhode Island published Monday, Sept 11, 2023, to read about the purpose for that weekend)
A historic moment occurred when FANA, its Allies, and the Representatives of the Saamaka Tribe signed the FANA
For those of you who are not familiar with the Saamaka Tribe allow me to deviate from the Treaty to tell you a little about them, The Saamaka Tribe is one of six Maroon groups and they inhabit the Upper-Suriname River Region in a country called Suriname. They are the descendants of captured Africans who escaped from the Dutch Colonial plantations and settled deep within the rain forests of South America. There are some Saamaka who live in French Guiana which borders Suriname.
They have inhabited this area since the late 1600s and through the early part of the 1700s when the escaped slaves settled there. They are descendants of captured West and Central African people who were loaded onto slave ships and had been sold to Europeans in Suriname during the above dates.
Coming back to the present day. I have discovered that many of the contracts and Treaties can be rather complicated to understand. So I am going to make the explanation simple.
The recent treaty establishes the ability for FANA and the Saamaka to develop trade routes for…