Study Guide: Address to the Western World
The address had to be given in Switzerland because the current occupiers of North American refused to allow Native Americans to address the United Nations assembly. In response, the United Nations voted to move the meeting to Geneva, Switzerland.
The non-governmental organizations had called for papers which describe the conditions of oppression suffered by native peoples under three subject headings, with supportive oral statements to be given to the commissions. The Hau de no sau nee, the traditional Six Nations Council at Onondaga, sent forth three papers which constitute an abbreviated analysis of Western history, and which call for a consciousness of the Sacred Web of Life in the Universe."
The enclosed document contains parts of the book, Basic Call to Consciousness, edited by Akwesasne Notes, published by Book Publishing Company, Summertown, Tennessee.