With famous native Canadian Hollywood actress Tantoo Cardinal

Eagle Clan Lokono-Arawak faithkeeper & 4th generation heir to the hereditary Chieftaincy – Damon Gerard Corrie

The only one of the 300 living Diaspora exiled community descendant heirs of the last ruling Hereditary Chief of the Eagle Clan Lokono-Arawaks of Guyana – to marry back into the tribe and have his children born once again on Tribal lands, by doing so he alone has fulfilled the deathbed criteria the old Chief spoke to his only surviving child – Marian (whom we call the ‘Princess’) before she emigrated into exile from Guyana, to the Caribbean island of Barbados in 1925; on who would qualify to inherit his authority and restore the power of the Clan.

With famous native American Hollywood actress Irene Bedard

With famous Lakota Holy Man - Chief Avrol Looking-Horse

With famous UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya

With Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of Saint Vincent

With Reggae Mega Band 3RD World Stephen Cat Coore

With Chief Willie Littlechild of Canada

With famous native Brazillian leader - Marcos Terena - Inventor of the World Indigenous Games

With then Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela - Felix Plasencia, and other high Venezuela Government Officials, in a private 2 hour meeting held on December 1st 2021 in Barbados, it was the first and only time in history that a Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela requested to meet an Indigenous leader anywhere. Minister Plasencia was in Barbados for 2 days, he met with Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, President of Barbados Dame Sandra Husbands, Barbados Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Damon Corrie.

With famous native Brazillian Chief Tashka Yawanawa and famous native Taino Chief Roberto Borrero at the UNHQ in New York City, USA

With President Fernando Gonzalez Llort of the Cuba Institute of Culture with the People/IPAC, and Cuban Ambassador to Barbados - Jorge Pastrana (above)

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We are pleased to announce that we are the first Indigenous People to OFFICIALLY recognize His Excellency Chief Richard Currie and the Maroons of Jamaica (who are descendants of our Taino-Arawak kin) as the only Indigenous People of Jamaica who have a historic treaty of official territorial recognition.

Photos from the victory day at the OAS when the American Declaration was finally approved

On June 15, 2016, after nearly 30 years of advocacy and negotiation, the Organization of American States (OAS) adopted the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The OAS is a regional intergovernmental organization of 35 member countries of the Americas, including the United States.

The American Declaration offers specific protection for indigenous peoples in North America, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. It affirms the right to self-determination, rights to education, health, self-government, culture, lands, territories, and natural resources, and it includes provisions that address the particular situation of indigenous peoples in the Americas, including protections for those living in voluntary isolation and those affected by a state’s internal armed conflict. Article VII of the Declaration addresses Gender Equality, and includes a commitment that “States shall adopt the necessary measures, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, to prevent and eradicate all forms of violence and discrimination, particularly against indigenous women and children.”

The American Declaration is a comprehensive, regional human rights instrument and it will become one of the most important instruments of the Inter-American Human Rights System. Both the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will interpret the Declaration to provide content to other instruments, such as the American Convention on Human Rights – the main regional human rights treaty, and the American Declaration of Rights and Duties of Man.

Damon Gerard Corrie was one of 3 key members of the Caribbean Caucus (along with Taino Chief Roberto Mukaro Borrero, and the Kalinago Chief of Dominica) on the Indigenous Working Group of the OAS from the year 2000 – to 2016 when the great victory was finally achieved and the Declaration was adopted, this remains his greatest personal achievement in life – for he was part of a team that has ensured greater rights to the 70 million indigenous peoples of the Americas. It is the second most important Indigenous Rights Declaration ever made, second only to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which gives greater rights to the world’s estimated 370-500 million indigenous peoples.

On 8th May 2017 Damon was appointed as the Official Ambassador-at-Large for the 500,000 Yazidi people of Northern Iraq, this is Damon’s 2nd greatest achievement in life.

On June 25th 2017 Damon was appointed the Interim Commander of the Yazidi Army in Northern Iraq (a mostly ceremonial title to legally allow Damon to negotiate with foreign governments for support on behalf of the Yazidi Self-Defence Forces). At left is the official letter of military appointment. Note – the Yazidi Army is not the Official Army of the Republic of Iraq, it is one of the several Tribal/Rebel armed forces that defend specific territories inside the Republic of Iraq from competing Armed Groups and ISIS forces. It is Damon’s third greatest achievement in life.