INSULAR POLICY CONFERENCE

                            HONOLULU HAWAII

                            SEPT. 19.20‑1989

 

HONORABLE LUJAN,

 

Hello, my name is Rudy Kairaiuak‑ Administrator of Chefornak Elders Council at Chefornak Alaska.

 

As we  have heard these past two days there is an air of "new winds" in the political arena. We live in a changing world and all parties involved must change accordingly, Superpower or not.

 

To be a great country, in my opinion not only means great in terms of land mass, war machines, gross national product or national debt, but also to have the heart, foresight and the ability to recognize the needs and desires of their people, commonwealths, territories and "states" whether they were obtained by discovery, cession,treaties,overthrows, "implied consent", occupation or theft, and to act accordingly under the direction of human rights. For it is these seemingly minute people that know exactly what they need and what works or does not for them. An imposition of a foreign system does not always work as we have seen.

 

Here the United States can be a truly great world leader in Liberty, Justice and Freedom for all to have the strength and wisdom to grant "such" possessions their life‑giving freedom, autonomy based on human sovereignty and to recognize them as such.

 

In closing I would like to submit the U.N. Draft Universal Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Chefornak Elders tribal Council Resolution on this Compact for a complete assessment and an inclusion into the declarations of governance as a preamble to these assertions of Sovereign Right to Govern.

 

Thank You very much

 

Sincerely

 

Rudy Kairaiuak