This chapter has been established in response to the many issues facing the Indian community, both locally and internationally, which the American Indian Movement has historically addressed. These issues are many-fold, but are centered around our sovereignty, spirituality, and human rights. We also stress proper education about who our people were historically, who we are now, and our efforts toward the future.

1. We are grounded in our spirituality. Our inherent spiritual nature, which our ancestors have passed on to us, will be the basis for all actions and undertakings. We believe the right to practice our spirituality is not a privilege to be granted or rescinded by any of man’s laws. The Creator gave us our beliefs, and we must be allowed to worship in our traditional ways. We honor all traditional beliefs, and their preservation.

2. We repudiate divisiveness in the Indian community. We refuse to take part in rumourmongering, badjacketing, or any of the other evil-natured weapons used to attack and divide our community, and undermine our efforts as a National Liberation Organization. We strongly support Indian unity, and reach out to all Indian people, who wish to take up this cause. We are not concerned with who people are aligned with, so long as we can agree on the basic tenets of Indian Sovereignty, and Unity. We will not waste our time, energy, and effort attacking other Indian people, in lieu of addressing issues.

3. We support Leonard Peltier, and his struggle for freedom. His continued incarceration, as a political prisoner, is an affront to Indian sovereignty. Until he and other political prisoners are granted EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY, the governments of the Western Hemisphere cannot legitimately claim a commitment to good relations with First Nations people.

4. We demand that all treaties with Indian people be reinstated and observed. In the united states alone, some 371 treaties have been broken. The other nations of the Western Hemisphere, by and large, are just as culpable in their treatment of aboriginal peoples. These treaties were made in good faith, between sovereign entities.

5. We support sobriety, renouncing alcohol and drug abuse, and their horrendous effects on Indian communities. These agents of addiction have been used to manipulate and undermine Indian sovereignty.

6. We denounce the use of Indian people as mascots, particularly in school environments. This is nothing more than institutionalized racism towards Indians, especially considering the curriculum based misrepresentations of our people, prevalent in schools today. Efforts must be made to educate properly, and honestly.

7. As a member of the International Confederation of Autonomous Chapters of the American Indian Movement,we support the Edgewood Declaration. We express our support and solidarity with all AIM chapters, the Sovereign Dineh Nation, The Native Youth Movement, Zapatistas, The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee and all traditional Warrior Societies.

The media in recent years has kept us alert to details of global wars that involve "ethnic cleansing," as the term "attempted genocide" is currently euphemized. We tend to relegate such events to some place outside our own country, but here in our United States, many nations are facing extinction at the hands of industrial capitalist colonialism. For these nations live, or rather subsist, on lands where resources like oil and uranium generate a steady flow of dollars into the coffers of rich, white Americans. As pressure to flood, poison or eliminate huge tracts of inhabited Native lands continues, a number of tribal women have begun to speak out in resistance to the exploitation and pollution which directly affects their survival as sovereign nations.