NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

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 2016 2017 AGENDA

NAAIP has initiated the new year with universal energy and
international support. 2016 began with the development and cofacilitation of the first annual "International Indigenous Peoples
Cultural Conference" which was presented April 9th 2016 in Rhode
Island. The event hosted the Taino culture of Arecibo (Borekin, Puerto
Rico), and the event has developed as an annual international
indigenous cultural event. The event will feature a different
indigenous group , tribe or nation as annual Northeast Indian Country
event. NAAIP with the participation of the FANA institute has entered
into agreement with the Department of Health for the state of Rhode
Island to implement American Aborigine Healthcare reform. The
reform addresses broad healthcare provisions for un-counted, unserviced American aborigine in Rhode Island. The project includes
enumeration assessment of all Aborigine within the entire state, and
region.

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

Northeast Indian territory. Through the development of unified membership,

implementation has taken a broad turn affecting the freedoms and rights of many
indigenous people in the region. Participation from government agencies and
educational institutions have spurred region-wide development of new policies and
innovative platforms, garnering diverse protections for the indigenous people in the
region.

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.

***** Indian Identity*****

In American society, we have all seen, heard and
learned from childhood that every person has a Culture
and an Identity.
In todays ever conquering climate, increased
destruction and genocide of peoples occurs based on
culture, nationality, identity and lack of identity.
In American history, the original cultures
and identities of the
pre-colonial inhabitants
varied from region to region across
the entire
North America. The only term to survive those
catastrophic times of conquest, is the word
Indian, and we all
know what an Indian is, or
do we?
For education and government institutions it is
vital that

Why It Is Important To Know What An

Indian Is?
In America, Indians are recognized as a special cultural and racial group
existing within the border territories of the United States.
As a special group, American Aborigine (Indians) are afforded
internationally protected rights and accommodations as foreign nationals
and at all levels , those rights are guaranteed for implementation.

United Nations A/RES/69/2

General Assembly Distr.:
General
25 September 2014
Sixty-ninth session Agenda item
65 14-57597 (E)
*1457597* Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 22 September 2014 Outcome document of the
high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly
known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples.
The
Assembly
Adopts
theand
following
outcome
1. We,
the General
Heads of State
and Government,
ministers
representatives
of
document:
Member States, reaffirming our solemn
commitment to the purposes and principles

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.

2. We welcome the indigenous peoples preparatory processes for the World

Conference, including the Global Indigenous Preparatory Conference held in Alta,
Norway, in June 2013. We take note of the outcome document of the Alta
Conference1 and other contributions made by indigenous peoples. We also welcome
the inclusive preparatory process for the high-level plenary meeting, including the
comprehensive engagement of the representatives of indigenous peoples.

2014 Outcome Document

Continued 3, 4, 7, 8
3. We reaffirm our support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the General Assembly on 13 September 2007,2 and
our commitments made in this respect to consult and cooperate in good faith with
the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in
order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and
implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them, in
accordance with the applicable principles of the Declaration.
4. We reaffirm our solemn commitment to respect, promote and advance and in no
way diminish the rights of indigenous peoples and to uphold the principles of the
Declaration.
7. We commit ourselves to taking, in consultation and cooperation with
indigenous peoples, appropriate measures at the national level, including legislative,
policy and administrative measures, to achieve the ends of the Declaration and to
promote awareness of it among all sectors of society, including members of
legislatures, the judiciary and the civil service.
8. We commit ourselves to cooperating with indigenous peoples, through their
own representative institutions, to develop and implement national action plans,
strategies or other measures, where relevant, to achieve the ends of the Declaration.

2014 Outcome Document Continued 10,

11, 14, 15
10. We commit ourselves to working with indigenous peoples to disaggregate data, as
appropriate, or conduct surveys and to utilizing holistic indicators of indigenous peoples wellbeing to address the situation and needs of indigenous peoples and individuals, in particular
older persons, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities.
11. We commit ourselves to ensuring equal access to high-quality education that recognizes the
diversity of the cultures of indigenous peoples and to health, housing, water, sanitation and
other economic and social programs to improve well-being, including through initiatives,
policies and the provision of resources. We intend to empower indigenous peoples to deliver
such programs as far as possible.
14. We commit ourselves to promoting the right of every indigenous child, in community with
members of his or her group, to enjoy his or her own culture, to profess and practice his or her
own religion or to use his or her own language.
15. We support the empowerment and capacity-building of indigenous youth, including their full
and effective participation in decision-making processes in matters that affect them. We
commit ourselves to developing, in consultation with indigenous peoples, policies, programs
and resources, where relevant, that target the well-being of indigenous youth, in particular in
the areas of health, education, employment and the transmission of traditional knowledge,
languages and practices, and to taking measures to promote awareness and understanding of their
rights.

WHAT IS AN INDIAN
TRIBAL RIGHTS AND U.S. POLICY

WHO IS AN INDIAN?

Department of Energy Employee Guide

2000

Its not always easy to define who is Indian and

who is not. Because of intermarriage between
Indians and people of other ethnicities, there are
many people who by blood are only partially
Indian. So how can you determine who is an
Indian? The simplest answer is that an Indian is
a person with some amount of Indian blood who
is recognized as such by the individuals tribe
or community.

WHAT IS AN INDIAN TRIBE?

An Indian tribe, is generally a community of Indians who

are ethnologically similar, but who also exist in a
legal/political sense.
Since 1978 the Bureau of Indian Affairs has used powers
delegated by Congress to extend recognition to tribes.
The Bureaus regulations require that a tribe seeking
recognition has maintained a distinct identity, has exercised
political authority over its members through history to the
present, has drawn that membership from a historical tribe,
and currently has governing procedures and methods of
determining membership.
In addition, Congress must not have expressly terminated
or forbidden a federal relationship with the tribe. As of this
writing the Federal government has recognized 557 tribes
by treaty, statute, executive order, the presence of a longterm historical relationship, or by other means.

U.S. Department of Health and Education Policy

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

NAAIP Project Development

Initiatives
International Indigenous Peoples
Cultural Conference
Membership
Establishments of State Level Chamber
of Commerce
Develop and Promote Government to
Government Relationships and
Commerce Domestic and Abroad
Other Commerce Initiatives
Clean Energy Technologies
Organic Agriculture
Education and Healthcare

Contact
us

Tushka Humoc Xelup

Director General
naaip7@gmail.com

Belene Berhane Tesfaye

Chief Administrative Director

preservingethiopia@gmail.com
(401) 696- 6427
2030 Kingstown Road, Wakefield,
Rhode Island 02879