It’s down to Band-by-Band now to choose to develop an authentic self-determination plan or accept the status of a municipality/corporation federally defined as “Indigenous government".
Authentic Self-Determination starts with not accepting illiterate inherited imperial colonial notions as to what money itself is. Colonial western governments are themselves at odds with simple logical and mathematical principles of Abstract Representation and Applied Mathematics.
As Marc Gauvin, formerly of Canada and now in Spain, teaches: "an "abstraction" in math/logic is a representation of the essential structure and properties of a pre-existing 'thing". To be valid, an "abstraction" cannot initiate the existence of anything new. Formal intenSional [1] definitions are abstractions while extenSional definitions are not.
Our definitions of natural physical phenomena are also abstractions as are the logic and relations that emanate from the physical universe and that underlie human "inventions" adapted to operate in the physical world. Math and formal logic are in essence discovered as opposed to being invented.
Purely human constructs like "money" in order to be meaningful in any common domain e.g. material real world economy, must be defined in terms of said domains in valid intenSional logic Otherwise they are useless absurdities, at best laughable but never as foundational concept of anything relevant.
I highly encourage Tribal Leaders to study and challenge the thing called money itself in colonial systems of it as being illiterate and impossible, and in violation of basic principles of law even within these same colonial governing legal systems.
Should ANY level of government accept something other than bank notes as payment for services and/or local taxes the whole game changes. SO ANY town could accept TimeBank/Mutual Aid credits (community service) for payments on the light bill or the water bill or the garbage bill, or rent credit, etc. If the community court systems around the world will accept basically the same "community service" hours as payment for restitution from a person convicted of crime that has no bank credit, is this not a legitimization of another form of money? If this form of money is acceptable within the community for an indigent person convicted of a crime against the community then why would this "currency" not be acceptable for other members of the community to use outside of the criminal justice system?
That is why I suggest that the local governance (at, say, the city or town or municipal level) start this.
The thing is that many will not give much credence to something new if some level of "authority" is not backing it. That is why local communities, towns and such that still have some control over the governance, take the initiative to incorporate "community service credits" as a legitimate form of payment for things having to do with "public services” and local taxes.
Maybe you have looked at the goings on in Jackson, MS? The group, Cooperation Jackson, is making great progress toward regaining genuine control over local governance. The leadership there is people oriented. Should they take the lead in also promoting the awareness that the Community Service capacity of The People can easily be understood to be spendable their power and community resilience explodes!
If a convicted criminal in a community can "spend" time doing things of value to restore his/her standing within the community then we should be able to see that the genuine "value" within the community resides in what they can do and give "credit" to that!!
We Are The Money!
Remember, in that history about colonial Africa, it was the disallowance of "in-kind" contributions toward one's responsibilities within the community (that is how I see taxes) that took the very heart of local self control and reliance away from The People. Time to take that back!
The MSTA is pointing to the conceptual basis of money itself and the liberation that comes when A People start with a valid and workable knowledge of what money is and does. It's just numbers in a bookkeeping system.......what is real is what The People have from Nature and do.
Authentic Self-Determination starts with not accepting illiterate inherited imperial colonial notions as to what money itself is. Colonial western governments are themselves at odds with simple logical and mathematical principles of Abstract Representation and Applied Mathematics.
As Marc Gauvin, formerly of Canada and now in Spain, teaches: "an "abstraction" in math/logic is a representation of the essential structure and properties of a pre-existing 'thing". To be valid, an "abstraction" cannot initiate the existence of anything new. Formal intenSional [1] definitions are abstractions while extenSional definitions are not.
Our definitions of natural physical phenomena are also abstractions as are the logic and relations that emanate from the physical universe and that underlie human "inventions" adapted to operate in the physical world. Math and formal logic are in essence discovered as opposed to being invented.
Purely human constructs like "money" in order to be meaningful in any common domain e.g. material real world economy, must be defined in terms of said domains in valid intenSional logic Otherwise they are useless absurdities, at best laughable but never as foundational concept of anything relevant.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Extensional_and_intensional...
It seems to me that First Nations can challenge the imposed systems of imperial colonial money on the basis of the illiteracy of such systems.
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2/19-english-root/learn/174-a-legal-approach-to-cancelling-all-current-money-contracts
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2/19-english-root/learn/271-brief-history-of-money-s-misrepresentation
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2/19-english-root/learn/286-the-beast-of-compounding
Much more to be found here:
https://bibocurrency.com/index.php/downloads-2
I highly encourage Tribal Leaders to study and challenge the thing called money itself in colonial systems of it as being illiterate and impossible, and in violation of basic principles of law even within these same colonial governing legal systems.
Should ANY level of government accept something other than bank notes as payment for services and/or local taxes the whole game changes. SO ANY town could accept TimeBank/Mutual Aid credits (community service) for payments on the light bill or the water bill or the garbage bill, or rent credit, etc. If the community court systems around the world will accept basically the same "community service" hours as payment for restitution from a person convicted of crime that has no bank credit, is this not a legitimization of another form of money? If this form of money is acceptable within the community for an indigent person convicted of a crime against the community then why would this "currency" not be acceptable for other members of the community to use outside of the criminal justice system?
That is why I suggest that the local governance (at, say, the city or town or municipal level) start this.
The thing is that many will not give much credence to something new if some level of "authority" is not backing it. That is why local communities, towns and such that still have some control over the governance, take the initiative to incorporate "community service credits" as a legitimate form of payment for things having to do with "public services” and local taxes.
Maybe you have looked at the goings on in Jackson, MS? The group, Cooperation Jackson, is making great progress toward regaining genuine control over local governance. The leadership there is people oriented. Should they take the lead in also promoting the awareness that the Community Service capacity of The People can easily be understood to be spendable their power and community resilience explodes!
If a convicted criminal in a community can "spend" time doing things of value to restore his/her standing within the community then we should be able to see that the genuine "value" within the community resides in what they can do and give "credit" to that!!
We Are The Money!
Remember, in that history about colonial Africa, it was the disallowance of "in-kind" contributions toward one's responsibilities within the community (that is how I see taxes) that took the very heart of local self control and reliance away from The People. Time to take that back!
The MSTA is pointing to the conceptual basis of money itself and the liberation that comes when A People start with a valid and workable knowledge of what money is and does. It's just numbers in a bookkeeping system.......what is real is what The People have from Nature and do.
Sounds like a page out of Washington D&C's (Divide&Conquer) book.
anti-indian law in both countries... and australia and new zealand...
Geographical lesson appreciated. And that's four of the Five Eyes countries, also UK.
Dividing tribal nations, keeping them apart, has always worked. And fighting for scraps always worked, too.
an old game..