And we need alliances with the other peoples of the world to assist in our struggle to regain and maintain our ancestral lands and to protect the Way of Life we follow. We know that this is a very difficult task. Many nation states may feel threatened by the position that the protection and liberation of Natural World peoples and cultures represents, a progressive direction which must be integrated into the political strategies of people who seek to uphold the dignity of Man. But that position is growing in strength, and it represents a necessary strategy in the evolution of progressive thought. Traditional Native peoples hold the key to the reversal of the processes in Western Civilization which hold the promise of unimaginable future suffering and destruction.
Spiritualism is the highest form of political consciousness.
And we, the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, are among the world's surviving proprietors of that kind of consciousness. We are here to impart that message. This position paper was presented to a UN Commission of Discrimination Against Native Peoples. Its message is just as true and even more timely today than at its first presentation exactly 12 years ago. This message has an added, deepened irony today as Russian, Balkan, Polish, Chinese, and many other peoples struggle to establish genuine liberty and democracy.