A Cypher Indigenous Manifesto - the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Digital Era, September 13, 2022 and its interpretation by the Oyxabaten & Mycelia Collective.

1. A
Cypher-Indigenous
Manifesto The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in
the Digital Era

2. A Cypher-Indigenous Manifesto
The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Digital Era
September 13, 2022
We, the indigenous peoples, in virtue of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
adopted by the General Assembly on 13 September 2007, have the right to self-determination.
By virtue of that right we freely determine our political status and freely pursue our economic,
social and cultural development and have the right to autonomy or self-government in
matters relating to our internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing our
autonomous functions.
From this acknowledgment, and in order to preserve the integrity of these rights, and to maintain,
control, protect and develop our cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural
expressions, we claim that digital and decentralized technologies may be critical to protect
us, the indigenous peoples, from repression, extortion and intrusion, while preserving and
strengthening our traditions.
We admit that the digital realm tends to be an extension of the physical one, therefore the privacy,
autonomy and decentralization inherent to indigenous cultures must be extended into the
digital realm to preserve our integrity.
Privacy empowers us, the indigenous peoples, to express our right of self-determination, to
maintain, control, protect, develop our cultures and to preserve the autonomy of our
institutions from external actors who are not explicitly allowed to interfere with them.
Decentralized technologies empower us, the indigenous peoples, to integrate our cultural,
social, and economical institutions in the digital era as an extension and expansion of our
traditional institutions.
Therefore, we the indigenous peoples give our support to humans who protect and build
privacy and decentralized technologies fundamental to the preservation of our rights and,
by extension, to the freedom of all humanity.
This manifesto is a call to projects that want to help us protect and expand our rights in the
digital era. In this respect, we propose to work together in the creation of digital indigenous
institutions, opening beneficial reciprocity for the development of free and protective rights,
as stated in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to provide global solutions
for planet Earth and all its inhabitants.
We, the indigenous peoples, are dedicated to the expansion of life, and we believe that it is
through the union of all our efforts, knowledge and technologies that we will find real solutions
for the preservation and evolution of humanity.
We, the indigenous peoples, see freedom as the expression of life itself, and now more than
ever, we must come together to protect its full expression as a legacy for future generations
The United Peoples
By Oyxabaten Collective
Translation by Mycelia

3. I N T E R P R E T A T I O N
From the Oyxabaten & Mycelia Collective
A Cypher-Indigenous Manifesto is an invitation to create a Collaborative
Framework between Indigenous Peoples and the Cypherpunk Community [1] to
protect and expand the right to self-determination of Indigenous Peoples as
stated in the UN Declaration of 2007 (UNDRIP).
Note that A Cypher-Indigenous Manifesto can be interpreted in many ways, and this
short paper is only intended to give a first interpretation from the perspective of the
Oyxabaten & Mycelia Collective.
Why
Cypher
?
Cypher as mentioned in the title A Cypher-Indigenous Manifesto is a reference to
the importance of cryptography [2] and mathematics to defend the rights of
Indigenous Peoples in the digital era, especially their right to self-determination.
By labelling ‘Cypher’, the manifesto creates a link to the Cypherpunk
Community who promotes the use of strong cryptography to defend the right to
self-determination on the Internet — a fundamental human right endangered by
the increasing loss of sovereignty over our digital tools, not only for Indigenous
Peoples, but for all humanity.
A Cypher-Indigenous Manifesto is also a direct reference to A Cypherpunk
Manifesto published by the renowned cypherpunk Eric Hughes on Mars 9, 1993.
In his manifesto, Hughes wrote that ‘privacy is the power to selectively reveal
oneself to the world’. For Cypherpunk, privacy is fundamental to create an open
and free society as it ensures not only freedom of speech, but also freedom after
speech, in the sense that privacy allows each of us to decide when, where and how
to reveal our unique expression to the world.
The connection with Indigenous Peoples is obvious when we know that they have
almost no power over how their culture is communicated in the digital realm. In this
context, the Internet is becoming a new form of colonialism as its current use is
imposed unilaterally by third parties who are often not aligned with the
indigenous mindset and more broadly with all humans. This means that the use
of cryptography proposed by Cypherpunks becomes a legitimate tool for
autonomy, self-determination and cultural emancipation in the digital age.
This is the reason why it is of the utmost importance for digital communities to
use cryptography and decentralised technologies, as it allows anyone to protect
their diversity while belonging simultaneously to the worldwide network of the Internet
— Diversity within Unity.
[1] : A Cypherpunk is any individual advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social
and political change. Originally communicating through the Cypherpunks electronic mailing list, informal groups aimed to achieve privacy and
security through proactive use of cryptography. Cypherpunks have been engaged in an active movement since at least the late 1980s’, source:
Wikipedia.
[2] Cryptography is ‘the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behaviour. More generally,
cryptography is about constructing and analysing protocols that prevent third parties from reading private messages. The Core concepts
related to information security, data confidentiality, data integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation, source: Wikipedia.

4. Digital Indigenous Institutions
A Mycelia Initiative based on the UNDRIP
Mycelia's objective is to enable and accelerate the creation of worldwide, digital and
decentralised indigenous institutions based on the UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
The UNDRIP is the baselayer of Mycelia as it is the most comprehensive international human
rights instrument on Indigenous Peoples. This declaration was adopted by an overwhelming
majority at the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007 after more than 20 years
of negotiations. The UN Declaration does not create new rights but elaborates on existing ones
that are enshrined in various international human rights treaties and instruments, placing them in
the context of indigenous peoples’ realities.
A Cypher-Indigenous Manifesto is a continuum of this founding text. Released for the first
time on 13 September 2022, exactly 15 years after the UNDRIP first adoption, as a symbol to
expand the rights of Indigenous Peoples into the digital realm, especially the right to self-
determination.
Mycelia's mission is to articulate A Cypher-Indigenous Manifesto with the UNDRIP to open
a new realm for Indigenous Communities and by extension all humanity. Our vision is to
create a clear and open legal framework in which every indigenous community could imagine
its own Digital Indigenous Institutions that respect the beauty and unicity of their
traditions while having the freedom to include different sensibilities of Humanity.
The UNDRIP, in its current form, is a text allowing the creation of Cross-Cultural Indigenous
Institutions that can use cryptography and decentralised technologies to expand their
right to self-determination.
Based on the UNDRIP, Mycelia is also willing to enable free and open Digital Indigenous
Jurisdictions that could serve as a legal cornerstone for the Web3 digital economy. Its role
would be to create a positive framework for this emerging pool of innovations and direct it to the
expansion of life on planet Earth. In other terms, those Institutions would allow anyone from the
digital economy to freely orientate its resources, talents, creations, technologies and
economic forces towards a financial system powered by Life Principles.
By combining A Cypher-Indigenous Manifesto with the UNDRIP, we open the opportunity to
create new international institutions based on wisdom and global cooperation giving
humanity a coherent framework to preserve future generations – The DNA for an Open
Society.
Article 3:
Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination.
By virtue of that right they freely determine their political
status and freely pursue their economic, social and
cultural development.
Article 33:
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine their
own identity or membership in accordance with their
customs and traditions. This does not impair the right of
indigenous individuals to obtain citizenship of the States
in which they live.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine the
structures and to select the membership of their
institutions in accordance with their own procedures.

5. S E C O N D
Connecting with Cypherpunks and Life guardians willing to
contribute to the emergence of Worldwide Digital and
Decentralised Indigenous Institutions;
R E Q U I R E M E N T S
V I S I O N
Mycelia's vision is really simple: directing full power and
attention to Indigenous Peoples by creating Cross-Cultural,
Digital and Decentralised Indigenous Institutions. Only
powerful Indigenous Institutions will be able to protect future
generations.
T H I R D
Connect all stakeholders and start building this new
Indigenous institutional ecosystem anchored in Life
Principles.
Mycelia has identified three
requirements necessary to bring this
vision to life
F I R S T
Gather as many indigenous Leaders as possible from all
around the world to support A Cypher-Indigenous Manifesto
and come with Mycelia to defend the right to self-
determination of Indigenous Peoples in the digital era;

6. Oyxabaten is an Indigenous Collective coming from
the reunion of rival historical tribes, the Brazilian ethnic
groups Paiter Surui and Cinta Larga. The collective is
focused on socio-environmental causes, illustration,
digital art and decentralised finance with goals of
recording culture, traditions and ancestral customs.
They created the 1st Cross-Cultural Indigenous World
Currency.
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Mycelia, is a Proof of Concept emerging from the
paper, 'Worldwide Indigenous Institution - A Seed
from the Future'. Its unique objective is to enable
and accelerate the creation of global, digital and
decentralised indigenous institutions to collectively
manage our most precious public good – The
Future.

7. We are a collective of leaders, entrepreneurs,
innovators, and artists coming together to enable and
accelerate the creation of global, digital and
decentralised indigenous institutions in capacity to
protect the full expression of future generations and
collectively address the systemic crisis of our times.
Together we are the answer.
Onward.