Navajo Nation Vice President Hon. Rex Lee Jim
and Dr.Robert Ornelas
Announcement
from Ambassador Mussie Hailu in Ethiopia:
Dear
Friends, Greetings of peace, light and blessing from Africa. Hope
this finds you all in peace and good health.
I
am happy to inform you that the 8th Navajo Nation Vice President,
Hon. Rex Lee Jim joined us in proclaiming the Golden Rule Day.
Background
Info about
the Hon. Rex Lee Jim, Vice President of Navajo Nation, Window Rock,
AZ. After serving as a ranking member on the Judiciary
Committee and chairman of the Public Safety Committee within the 21st
Navajo Nation Council, Delegate Rex Lee Jim was sworn in as Vice
President of the Navajo Nation on January 11, 2011.
Born and
raised in Rock Point, a small farming and ranching community in
northern Arizona. Vice President Jim after graduating from Princeton
University started work with the Rock Point Community School teaching
Navajo to students K-12. During this time, he developed a curriculum
for K-Graduate programs that was culturally and pedagogically
appropriate for Navajo students. He has published books and produced
plays using the Navajo language.
An author, playwright, and
medicine man, Vice President Jim continues to make diplomatic trips
abroad on behalf of the United Nations to improve relations between
nation states and indigenous peoples. As a representative of the
Carter Foundation, the Vice President has helped improve relations
between the United States of America and the Andean Countries of
Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. Vice President Jim
played a key role in the drafting and final passage of the
International Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. On 16
December 2010, President Barack Obama declared that the United States
is going to sign the declaration.
The Navajo people elected Vice
President Jim for his vision to foster our language, traditional
songs and prayers, and to ensure the prosperity of the Navajo
Nation.
Attached with this email I sent you the proclamation I
just received form the Vice President.
The
Golden Rule teaching is spreading in the four corner of the Earth.
The more we promote the Golden Rule the more we create a culture of
peace, interfaith harmony, understanding, compassion, human right,
respect for all form of life, right human relationship and better
world for all
May
Peace Prevail on Earth
In Peace and gratitude
Mussie Hailu