FOUNDING DECLARATION

We, the descendants of the original Indigenous peoples of this land—reclassified through colonial systems as Negro, Colored, Black, African-American, and other imposed racial designations—do hereby establish the National Ancestral Defense Patrol (NADP) as a lawful, peaceful, rights-based defensive institution for the protection of our people, our communities, and our ancestral dignity.

Our right to exist, organize, defend, and ensure the safety of our people is affirmed under:
✅ United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) – Articles 4, 5, 7, 8, 22, 23, and 35
✅ American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (ADRIP) – Articles I, III, VI, XIII, XX, XXII
✅ International Right to Self-Defense (UN Charter, Article 51, and customary international law)
✅ Natural Law, Ancestral Authority, and Inherited Communal Duty of Protection
✅ Historical right to self-defense and community protection as practiced by earlier Indigenous-led patrols and civil defense organizations, including but not limited to the Deacons for Defense and Justice

We affirm:
We are not aggressors. We are not seeking conflict. We are the ancestral defenders of a people who have faced state violence, racial targeting, systemic surveillance, and now digital warfare through AI manipulation and racialized incitement.

We declare NADP to be a nonviolent, community-built protective patrol and investigative authority, structured as a national defense force under ancestral sovereignty, formed to safeguard life, monitor and investigate abuses, and ensure the protection of those historically and presently targeted on the basis of their Black or Indigenous identity—whether self-identified or racialized by state or societal actors.

We are duty-bound to protect. We are legally authorized to exist. We are morally obligated to defend.

DECLARATION OF IDENTITY PROTECTION

The NADP acknowledges and protects:
🔹 All descendants of Indigenous nations reclassified as Negro, Colored, Black, African-American
🔹 All who are targeted as “Black” or “Other” by state or racist violence
🔹 All Afro-Indigenous, Black Indigenous, and American Indian kin whose heritage has been suppressed or erased
🔹 All oppressed persons seeking lawful community defense under Indigenous and international rights

V. CLOSING DECLARATION

We rise not as an army of aggression but as a Shield of the People, forged in ancestral duty, international right, and a commitment to protect life against tyranny and racialized incitement—physical, digital, or systemic.

We are NADP.
We do not seek war.
We enforce peace by defending the dignity of our people.
We patrol. We protect. We document. We defend.

➤ National Ancestral Defense Patrol (NADP)
“Guardians of the Ancestral Homeland.”