Nemenhah Indigenous Traditional Organization - an Inter-Discipline Convocation of the Medicine Men and Medicine Women of the Oklevueha Native American Church of Sahnhempet and Nemenhah (An Independent Branch of the Oklevueha/Sioux Nation Communal Native American Church and of the Oklevueha Free Native American Church).

Declaration of Good Conscience and Practice, Constitution, and Establishment of the Nemenhah.

Being a restoration of the Pre-Colonial and Pre-Conquest Nomadic Indigenous People which inhabited parts of Central America, North America, the Pacific Islands, Japan, Korea, China and Tibet anciently, and which left evidence of its periodic occupation of these Traditional Territories in writings and records left and religiously guarded in order that they might be brought into the light in a day of futurity so that the ancient, sacred ways of the Nemenhah might be restored, beginning in this State of Utah, in the United States of America, and spreading therefrom as far as the wind may carry the message, and for as long as the trees grow and the rivers flow.

We Walk In A Sacred Manner, We Talk In A Sacred Manner.

Preamble

We, Nemenhah, believe in the Creator and that the Creator made all men and women who have lived, do now live, and who will yet live, as free and equal beings. We recognize the inherent, ancestral, sovereign rights granted to all people by the Creator, human conscience, international law, and legal constructs of reciprocity, mutuality, and comity, which cannot be diminished or extinguished. We believe that we derive from and that we may become like the Nemenhah who lived in this land anciently and that, through their literal descendents, we claim the right to form a Indigenous Traditional Organization based upon their teachings which have been passed down to us through the traditions, customs, ceremonies, records which have been guarded through the ages by their Descendants, among which we acknowledge the Mentinah Archives by way of example.

Accordingly, we believe that we are all relations one to another and we are children of the same Creator. We affirm the UNITED NATIONS Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (U.N. Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 1994/45, August 26, 1994. U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/1995/2, E/CN.4/sub.2/1994/56, at 105 (1994), which finally culminated in the Unanimous Ratification of the Members States and has become part of International Rights Law. Fundamental to our traditions is the truth that, as children of the Creator, we are entitled to the freedoms of thought, religion, education, assembly, opinion, speech, movement, our sacred rights of worship and methods of healing, our traditional lifestyle and security within our historical territories, insofar as that freedom does not prevent others from likewise enjoying the same freedoms. We believe that men and women have been endowed with intelligence enough to govern themselves in such a manner as to guarantee to themselves these freedoms, to establish just and right ways to deal with each other, to maintain a tranquil and secure domestic life, provide for defense of these rights when needed, and to insure for ourselves and our posterity the blessings that our culture, traditions, and teachings bring. Accordingly, we exercise the Right of Self-Determination, which has been guaranteed by International and Domestic Law, to form the Nemenhah Indigenous Traditional Organization, comprised of individuals shose lineage descends from Hagotl, as well as out of many Federally and Crown Recognized Tribes and Bands, Non-recognized Tribes and Bands, Native Hawaiian and Native Alaskan, other Indigenous Peoples worldwide, and also from those individuals whom the Nemenhah shall fit to admit by the exercise of our Religion and the administration of our Cultural Traditions and Institutions, whom we recognize as our people, founded upon the Customs, Traditions, Pribciples, Religion, Governance, and Belief Systems cited herein, and we ordain and establish this Constitution for the Nemenhah Indigenous Traditional Organization as an Indigenous Group under UNDRIP.