For expedience, the Federation of Aboriginal Nations of the Americas will be addressed as FANA, and the Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians (NY, NJ, PA) will be addressed as The Sand Hill.
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Over the years, the member tribes of FANA have assisted other tribes in formulating Constitutions, writing treaties, assisting with legal matters, and addressing other Tribal needs.
The Sand Hill Tribe is a founding member of the Federation. Principal Chief Dr. Ronald Yonaguska Holloway asked me to publish the Sand Hill Constitution’s preamble and first amendment.
Therefore below is the aforementioned document
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Whereas The Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians (NY, NJ, PA) are the heirs, inheritors, upholders, possessors, protectors, and sovereigns of the inalienable, inherent, natural, and sovereign rights, laws, spiritual systems, customs, traditions, lands, territories, and resources that The Great Spirit, The Almighty God, The Most High, The Creator of All Living Things- In infinite wisdom, knowledge, power, and authority- accorded to their ancestors, clans, clan mothers, great warriors, principal chiefs, and spiritual leaders who have previously walked the earth;
Whereas in infinite wisdom, knowledge, power, and authority, and intending that The Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians (NY, NJ, PA) perpetually possess, protect, and uphold the inalienable, inherent, natural, and sovereign rights, laws, spiritual belief systems, customs, traditions, lands, territories, and resources it has been accorded, The Great Spirit, The Almighty God, The Most High, The Creator of All Living Things conferred into the trust of The Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians (NY, NJ, PA), as an individual sovereign, the responsibilities and duties of self-governance, self-provision, and self-protection;
Whereas The Sand Hill Band of Lenape and Cherokee Indians (NY, NJ, PA) retain inherent rights to ancestral knowledge, heritage practices, Traditional ecological knowledge, Traditional environmental knowledge, intellectual property,…
Crumbley (Courtesy Lackawanna County Central Processing)
FRANCES P. WAYMAN