Document 01: No. N-8201 Articles of Association of the North American People of the Dawn, Sovereign Nation. State of Vermont, Secretary of State's Office Field October 12, 1993. Sign Stamped by Donald M. Hooper, Secretary of State. Paid $35.00 Cash.
Document 02: Articles of Association, The name of the corporation shall be North American People of the Dawn, Sovereign Nation. The initial registered agent shall be David A. Hill with registered office at 2-4 Second Street, Newport, VT 05855. The corporation shall be located at 2-4 Second Street, Newport, Vermont 05855. Vermont Non-Profit Corporation, (Title 11, Chapter 19).
This corporation is organized for the purpose of:
1. To preserve and protect the spiritual and cultural heritage of the People of the Dawn.
2. To develop educational and cutlural programs to teach and preserve the history and religion of the People of the Dawn.
3. To provide assistance and guidance for the economic well-being of the People of the Dawn including the provision of medical, housing, food, employment and educational assistance.
4. To recieve and collect funds by way of gifts, contributions, grants and other legal means.
Document 03: Having named fewer than three directors I hereby state that the number of shareholders does not exceed the number of directors.
Directors:
David A. Hill (a.k.a. Sly Wolf) 2-4 Second St. Newport, VT 05855
Sheila E. Hill (a.k.a. Laughing Eyes) 2-4 Second St. Newport, VT 05955
Robert H. Maynard (a.k.a. Spirit Wind) 2-4 Second St. Newport, VT 05855
Dated at Burlington, in the County of Chittenden this 12th day of October 1993 (October 12, 1993)
Incorporators and Post Office Address:
David A. Hill P.O. Box 117 Newport Center, VT 05857
Sheila E. Hill P.O. Box 117 Newport Center, VT 05857
Robert H. Maynard P.O. Box 117 Newport Center, VT 05857
Document 04: Amendment of Articles of Association of North American People of the Dawn, Sovereign Nation...at a meeting of members, duly called for that purpose and held on June 02, 1996, a quorum was present, and it was voted by two-thirds of the members present, or voting by proxy, to amend the articles of this corporation as follows, viz,: Please add these Amendments to our Corporation: To Wit: Algonkian Confederation: Wabanaki Confederation/ Eastern Woodlawns (Woodlands?) Tribes and Clans: Penboscots, Wawenocks, Norridewocks, Amonoscoggins, Pigwackets, Ossipees, Indians de Saco, Podunks, Winnepesaukees, Penacooks, Wamesits, Wampanoags, Narragansetts, Mohegan-Pequots, Agawams, Woronokes, Norwottucks, Pocumtucks, Sokwakis, Nipmucs, Cowasucks, Cowass, Coo's, and Wabanaki/ Abenaki Country. Dated June 02, 1996 Signed: Chief David A. Hill/ Pres., Hereitary Grand High Chief/ Prince of the Wabanaki/ Abenaki Nation. Princess Sheila E. Hill/ Sec. Princess of the Wabanaki/ Abenaki Nation.
Document 05: North American People of the Dawn - Wabanaki Confederation. Dated June 03, 1996. By Laws of the North American People of the Dawn (Wobanaki-Abenaki Indigenous Peoples) Article II Name, Address and Form Corporation.
1. The name of this Corporation is North American People of the Dawn.
2. The Principle office of the Corporation is: 1 Oak Street, 2nd Floor in Bellows Falls, Vermont 05101.
3. The fiscall year of this Corporation shall be from January 1 annually and end on Dec 31 of each ensuing year.
4. This Corporation shal be organized under the laws of the State of Vermont as a non-profit corporation without Capital Stock or issue shares of stock or pay dividends and be regulated by section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as amended and by Title II Chapter 19 section 2301-2806 of the Vermont Statutes as amended.
5. Duration-This Corporation shall have perpetual duration and succession in its corporate name.
6. Other Provisions: A. Nothwithstanding any other provisions of these articles, the organization is organized exclusively for one or more of the purposes as specified in Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Code of 1986, and shall no carry on any activities not permitted to be carried on by an organization exempt from Federal income tax under IRC 501(c)3 or corresponding provisions of any subsequent tax laws. B. No part of the net earnings of the organization shall inure to the benefit of any other member, trustee, director, officer of the organization, or any private individual (except that reasonable compensation may be paid for services rendered to or for the organization), and no member, trustee, officer of the organization or any private individual shall be entitled to share in the distribution of any of the organization's assetts on dissoluion of the organization.
C. No substantial part of the activitis of the organzation to influence legislation (except as otherwise provided in IRC 501 (h) ) or participating in, or intervening in (including the publication or distribution of statements), any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidates for public office.
D. In the event of dissolutioin, all of the remaining assets and property of the organization shall after payment of necessary expenses thereof be distributed to such organizations as shall qualify under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or corresponding provisions of any subsequent Federal tax laws, or to the Federal Government or State or local government for a public purpose, subject to the approval of a Justivce of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont.
Document 06: Article VIII Current Information. Current Information:
1. Address of Corporation
North American People of the Dawn
1 Oak Street 2nd Floor
Bellows Falls, Vt. 05101
2. Officers of Corporation:
a. President/Vice President/Hereditary Grand HIgh Chif/ Prince:
David A. Hill/Decoteau
C/O/ North American People of the Dawn
1 Oak Street 2nd Floor
Bellows Falls, Vt. 05101
b. Treasurer. Princess:
Sheila E. Hill/Decoteau
C/O North American People of the Dawn
1 Oak Street 2nd Floor
Bellows Falls, Vt. 05101
c. Security/Princess:
Sheila E. Hill/Decoteau
C/O North American People of the Dawn1 Oak Street 2nd Floor
Bellows Falls, Vt. 05101
d. Directors:
Sheila E. Hill/Decoteau
C/O North American People of the Dawn
1 Oak Street 2nd Floor
Bellows Falls, Vt. 05101
3. Fiscal Year: Shall commence on January 1, and end on December 31st of each consecutive year.
4. Resident Agent:
Hereditary Grand High Chief/Prince David A. Hill/Decoteau
1 Oak Street 2nd Floor
Bellows Falls, Vt. 05101
Document 07: Name of Corporation NORTH AMERICAN PEOPLE of the DAWN, SOVEREIGN NATION. The text and date of each amendment adopted. January 17, 1997. See attached Page. At a meeting of members, held on January 17, 1997, a quoram was present, and it was voted by two-thirds of the members present, to amend the articles of this corporation. See Attached Page). The approval was obtained to amend the articles of this corporation.
Signature: Chief David A. Hill-Decoteau
Title: Hereditary Chief/Pres.
Date: January 17, 1997
Document 08: Chapter 7 THE SCOPE OF TRIBAL SELF_GOVERNMENT.
Document 09: LETTER of RECOGNITION Sovereign and Exclusive, dated March 05, 1997. The Wabanaki/Abenaki Sovereign Nation is the Legal Entity of the Wabanaki Territory, since the beginning of time and will always be here to the end of time, as long as the grass grows, Etc. etc.
We, the Wabanaki/Abenaki Sovereign Nation, will handle their own Peoples if they are doing wrong - Federal Law - and will police their own Territory forever.
Address:
Hereditary Grand High Chief/ Prince David A. Hill/Decoteau
1 Oak Street 2nd Floor
Bellows Falls, Vt. 05101
Document 10: North American People of the Dawn, First Nations, Wabanaki Confederation. Letter dated November 15, 1996.
General Services Center
US/Rte 2, Middlesex. Drawer 33
Montpelier, Vermont 05633-7601
Mr. John Yacavonie - Director of Vital Records
Dear Mr. Yacavonie:
As per letter dated February 05, 1996 to Lt. Governor Barbara Snelling; as the statement made to this State of Vermont General Services center, on June 23, 1994, in which was filed in this said office and signed and notarized by the Director A. John Yacavonie; and as the statement of this said filing on the 4th day of November, 1994, signed and notarized by John Yacavonie, Director, that David A. Hill (Wawanolette) thorugh his father, Frederick R. Hill, is Hereditary Grand High Chief of the Wabanaki Sovereign Nation, and Prince of the Wabanaki Sovereign Nation, through his mother, Capitola Jane Hill (Morse) and there is no St. Francis or Delaney, or Benay, or Larocque in his Genealogy in which is on file in this office.
The names that Chief Greylock used were, Wawanolette, from the original "roaster tail"
tribal roles, from 1812 to 1875 of Odanak, Pierreville, Province of Quebec, Canada, and furthermore, the name Laurent, Louis, and Lafvfre, Pierre Jean, Decoteau, Descoteaux, Heill, Hill, Jean de Baptiste, La Tete Blanche, The Whitehead, Chief Owl, which all these names are all the same person, which means "Angel of the Hills" the proper translation of the Abenaki Language.
To be Prince of the Wabanaki Sovereign Nation, you have to be a Morse. From my mother, Capitola Jane Hill who is a first cousin to my father, Frederick R. Hill. My father's father whi is my grandfather, Jerry Hill. It is my grandfather, Jerry Hill's brother, Clarence Fred Hill is my mother's, (Capitola Jane Hill's father. My mother's mother is Eva Jane Hill Morse). Her father, was Edgar Walter Morse, and his father was Benjamin Morse and his father was Dr. Joseph Morse marrying Eliza A. Goodnow. From Certified Records, Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, from Newfane, Vermont Town Hall and also Vital Records Division, General Services Administration Offices in Middlesex, Vermont.
Sincerely, Cheif David A. Hill, Hereditary Grand High Chief/Prince David A. Hill-Decoteau.
Document 11: Document dated January 17, 1997. Please add these Amendments to our Corporation: To WIT:
Abenaki Endeavors, Abenaki Acres, Wobenaki Constitution, Missisquoi Valley, Missisquoi River, Clyde River, St. Francis River, First Nations, Beautiful Waters, Missisquoi Government, Lake Memphremagog, Lake Champlain - Petabowk Valley, Abenaki Constitution, Bilwi City Council, Great Sacred Falls, Great Sacred Springs, Great meadow, Wobenaki Inc. Abenaki - Vermont, Governor Commission on Native American Affairs, Abenaki Bands, Missisquoi College, Shadacok, Mazipskwik, Maliseet, Abanaki, Mohicans, Abenaqui, Republic of Abenakis, Stockbridge, Munsee, Stockbridge Reservation, Menominee, Inuit, Becancor, Abenaqui Rod and Gun Club, Abenaki Housing, Wobanaki Inc., Wolanak Abenaki Medicine Society, Wawawaldemeskweda, Missisquoi Band of the Abenaki Nation, Fort Dummer, (First Nations Reservation) Micmac, Goden Hill Paugussetts, Wollinack, Beothak, Chippewas, Ojibowa, Delawares, St. Johns and St. Francis Native Tribes, Mississquoi Valley, Mississquoi Tribal Government, Becancour,Mississkoik, Mississquoi Economic Development Inc., Traditional Abenaki of Mazipskwik, Scaticook Bands/Peoples, Sovereign Republic of the Abenaki Nation, Abenaki Self Help Inc., Corporation (ASHAI), Mississquoi Corporation NCB, AbenakiEmployment, St. Francis Sokoki Band of Abenakis of Vermont, David Andrew Hill-Decoteau-Hereditary Grand High Chief/Prince, David A. Hill, Sheila Elizabeth Hill-Decoteau, Sheila E. Hill, Morse Genealogy, Wabanaki Legal Registration Offices, Wabanaki Confederacy/Confederation, North American People of Dawn, (NAPOD) First Nations, Robertson's Lease 1765. Mazipskwik Tribal Council, Sovereign Abenaki Nation of Mississquoi, (ACCI) Abenaki Heath Clinic, Mashpee Tribe, Committee of Reburial on Native American Skeletal Remoains, Wabanaki Council of Elders, Wabanaki General Council, Abenaki Van Lines, Inc., Laughing Eyes Construction, DAR-JEN Enterprises, Inc., Abenaki Spring and Mineral Water, Abenaki Artesian Sacred Springs, Angel of the Hills Orphanage/Elderly Home, Running Water Retail/Thrift Shops, Abenaki Day Care, Abenaki Bottling Inc.,Wabanaki Grand Council, Traditional Native Crafts/Basketry/Pottery/Beadwork/Native American Jewelry/Shops.
Cowasuck of North America, Eastern Woodlawns (Woodlands?), Green Mountain Band, Legal Registration Offices for all/Community Abenaki/Wobanaki Peoples Bands/Clans/Tribes/Corporations, Nations, existing or non-existing. Abenaki Communications, Computers, Telephones, etc.etc. By Federal Law, Inheritance.
Felix Cohen's Federal Indian Law, Chap. VII Sec. I.
Signed: Chief David Hill - Decoteau
Pres./ Hereditary Grand High Chief/ Prince of the Wabanaki/Abenaki Nation (and) Sheila E. Hill - Sec.
Princess/Secretrary the Wabanaki/Abenaki Nation
Document 12: N-08201 Algonquin Wabanaki Nation of Turtle Island, A Sovereign Nation, Haudenosaunee First Nations. Resolving Issues for Universal Peace. Dated October 12, 2005.
Secretary of State
State of Vermont
Corporations Division
Heritage ONe Building
81 River Street Drawer 9
Montpelier, Vt. 05609-1104
RE: North American People of the Dawn, Inc. Sovereign Nation
New Officers, New Address
Article VIII Current Information
1. address of Corporation:
NORTH AMERICAN PEOPLE OF THE DAWN, INC. A SOVEREIGN NATION INC.
29 Cross Street/Newport, Vermont 05855
2. Officers of Corporation
a. President/ Cheif- Reynold Choinere
C/O North American People of the Dawn, Inc. A Sovereign Nation
28 Governor Drive Apt. B-2/Newport, Vermont 05855
b. Vice President/Associate Chief-Robert W. Bruce Jr.
814 Norfolk Drive/Pearland, Texas 77584
c. Secretary/Princess-Sheila E. Hill
29 Cross Street/Newport, Vermont 05855
d. Treasurer/Princess-Sheila E. Hill
29 Cross Street/Newport, Vermont 05855
e. Associate Chief Raymond Choiniere
445 Dane Hill Rd./W. Charleston, Vermont 05872
Document 13: (Continued from Document 12)
f. Associate Chief Aubrey Perley
9 New Road
First Tobique Nation New Brunswick
Miliseet, Canada E7H3C9
g. DIRECTORS:
Sheila E. Hill
Chief Reynold Choiniere
Ambassador Brian Burns- 17 Scampini/Barre, Vermont 05641
Councilwoman Rebecca Austin- 17 Scampini/Barre, Vermont 05641
Chief Allen Snow/309 S. Ellwood Avenue/Baltimore, Md. 21224
3. Fiscal Year Shall commence on January 1, and end on December 31st of each consecutive year.
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