What Is Indian Country? The Legal Definition and the Republic’s Usage
A term with a federal statutory definition and a broader meaning: self-governing Indigenous nations within the United States.
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What Is Indigenous Self-Determination? Meaning and Examples
The right at the center of both declarations, what it means in practice, and how the Xi-Amaru Republic exercises it.
Read the article →Do Tribes Without Federal Recognition Have Rights?
Federal recognition creates a relationship with the U.S. government. It is not the source of a people's identity, its rights, or its jurisdiction.
Read the article →Afro-Indigenous and Melanated Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
Indigenous peoples of the Americas have never been one complexion. Records that sorted people by appearance often wrote melanated Indigenous families out of their own history.
Read the article →How to Trace Indigenous Ancestry When the Records Are Wrong
Many Indigenous families were written into the records as something else. Here is where to look, and what each source can and cannot tell you.
Read the article →Tribal Citizenship and U.S. Citizenship: How Dual Status Works
Holding citizenship in an Indigenous nation and in the United States at the same time is long established. Here is how the two relate.
Read the article →What Is the ARK? The Assembly for the Remnant of the Kingdom
The Republic's pathway for Christian individuals and families: a place of safety and protective national standing, with no Indigenous lineage required.
Read the article →Who Is Chief Nnakina Xi-Amaru Fears?
The Founding Mother and Chief of the Xi-Amaru Republic, and the administrative head of the Aboriginal Ministry of Justice.
Read the article →What Is Tribal Law?
Tribal Law is how an Indigenous nation governs its people, records and internal affairs. It is one of several legal systems that operate side by side.
Read the article →What Is Inherent Sovereignty?
Inherent sovereignty is the authority to govern yourselves that exists because your people exists, not because another government allowed it.
Read the article →Where Do Rights Come From?
The Republic's teaching on rights runs in a clear order: Divine Authority, Universal Rights, Indigenous Rights, then Tribal Law.
Read the article →ADRIP and UNDRIP, Side by Side
Two declarations, one regional and one global, affirm the rights of Indigenous peoples. Here is how they compare, article by article.
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