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On a June 21st of 1996, a small group of Aymaras-Qhishwas residing in Canada, decided to meet to share and interchange their traditions and customs that had seemed, up to that moment, to have remained far away in their forever unforgotten Andes. So, in the city of Toronto, in a garden of University Avenue, they gave life to the Aboriginal Andean Nations Council, with the purpose to unite to all the Andean Aboriginal community members living in Canada.
WHO ARE WE ?
The Aboriginal Andean Nations Council, CANO (or Consejo Andino de Naciones Originarias), is a community organization that regroups the aboriginal people from the Andean region (territories now known as Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, North Chile, North Argentina, South Colombia) who are living in Canada.
It is a non-profit organism that revindicates cultural and historical identity and postulates a fight for fundamental rights such as: International Recognition in the Nation category, Recuperating our usurped territories, Spiritual Emancipation, free self-determination, etc.
We are a community organization that subscribes to the andean principles of solidarity, fraternity and reciprocity, our purposes and activities taking source from a political optic based in the Andean Cosmovision, the moral values we inherited from our ancestors, so to mold it to the present and to project it into the future.
OBJECTIVES
1. To solidify the links of fraternity, solidarity and reciprocity between the Andean Aboriginal community members.
2. To spread and reaffirm Aboriginal peoples' cultural and historical identity in project of reconstructing the traditionnal ancestral Andean Land.
3.To organize a worldwide sensibilization campaign on the Andean Aboriginal Nations' reality in a resistance context.
4. To establish fraternal links with the aboriginal people of the territories today known as Canada and United States.
STRUCTURE
The Andean Council is structured on the ancestral basis of Chacha-Warmi, (Feminine-Masculine) Sacred Duality, the Amawtas principles of balance and harmony.
We now count on workgroups in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec. Each of these structures is leaded by a directive council which supreme authority is the Jisk’a Tantachawi/ Juch’uy Tantanakuy (Local Assembly)
On National level CANO is directed by the Jach’a Tantachawi /Jatun Tantanakuy, that meets at the end of each year.
To become member of CANO
The persons belonging to any of the andean aboriginal nation and actively participating to our activities are authentic members . Those who, without necessarily being aboriginal, identify with the goals and the aboriginal fights, are considered sympathizing members. Are considered as collaborators those who, without being aboriginal, support us in some specific projects or plans. To become member of CANO in any of these categories, please contact the responsible person at regional or national level. Contact
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