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Kautantowit’s Mecautea American Native Church (KM) is the first and only state and federally registered “Human Rights” based church in the United States.

KM, per the explicit instruction of its founding father Mr. Jack Herer, has and continues to remain at the frontlines when it comes to the protection and preservation of All of our earth based sacred healing medicines, including specifically both Cannabis and what they know to be the sacred mannas of biblical communion (aka Mushrooms).

Led by Reverend Sachem Healer Joy Maxine ‘Hawkeye’ Graves, KM remains a non-denominational spiritually based organization that has and welcomes All living breathing human beings of all nationalities and creeds regardless of faith based belief systems.

Kautantowit’s Mecautea was first established as a chapter church of the United Cannabis Ministries Of central California in the beginning of 2010 and under the blessings of Reverends Steven and Seneca Cherms along with several others, KM was blessed and became legally known first as “Soldier if Jah Ministries”(SOJM) which incorporated in the state of Oregon reluctantly in early 2011 and became the first church to proclaim rights to multiple sacred medicines which otherwise were deemed federally controlled substances.

On August 31st, 2013 Graves and SOJM were gifted the blessing of their current name Kautantowit’s Mecautea by the chief (Sachem Matthew Thomas) and tribal counsel of the Narragansett American “Indian” tribe of Rhode Island which is the tribe of her paternal great grandmother as a symbol or recognition as being an organization of the warriors of the rainbow and as fulfillment of the Seven Sacred Fires prophecy.

The name is in the traditional language of the Narragansett tribe and is very clear in its meaning as well as obligation: Kautantowit= “Great Creator” Mecautea= “Warrior soldiers who fight off evil and the enemy”.

In September of 2013 KM agreed to a confederation with patriarchal founder of the Oklevueha Earthwalks Native American Church (ONAC) Of Spanish Fork, Utah at which point they became known publicly as “ONAC KM” and were gifted the blessing of rights to the “Grandfather” medicine Peyote by James Warren ‘Flaming Eagle’ Mooney personally.

In 2014 Graves and two church members faced criminal charges in Grant County Oregon for cultivating cannabis on sanctuary lands which were claimed to be within 1,000 feet of a school “as the crow flies”for church healing purposes. Quickly “Religious Defense” was asserted in the case which by April 10,2015 the case was dismissed but not before Circuit Court judge William Cramer along with deputy district attorney Matthew Ipsom acknowledged, confirmed and validated not only the legitimacy of the church but also too, that cannabis is and remains the primary focal sacred medicine of KM for spiritual as well as healing purposes- On official court record!

In January of 2017 the church filed a federal injunction in the 9th District court in Portland, Oregon claiming retaliatory victimization Of profile targeting and other hate crimes by the state of Oregon for the churches advocacy of cannabis liberation and also against the United States Postal Service for theft of a care package for a member recovering from cancer who subsequently died after the package was illegally seized and never yet to date returned. Due to incompetent legal counsel the case was dismissed with great disappointment expressed in record by the presiding judge who encouraged it promptly be refiled but properly “so to protect the members” who were and remain under unjust attacks by Oregon state government officials. In 2018 the case was again filed in federal court with the promise of ONAC that it would provide legal counsel to represent the case, but this time without legal counsel come court, again the case resulted in a dismissal, this time by the Eugene Oregon court.

In late 2019 the case was again filed in the Portland federal court but this time by KM alone and pro-se after the church and members suffered retaliatory attacks from Oregon law enforcement personnel to the point of intolerance by church officials, one of whom remains under threats of being murdered without cause or justification by police. Attached to the case is a $25 Million dollar lawsuit against the state of Oregon as a whole claiming victimization by several state agencies.