Chief Pomaj-chakmam-yajalaji
Executive Director
Land Stewardship & Environmental Justice
STGMNA SW PA
Chief Pomaj-chakmam-yajalaji is a respected Aboriginal American medicine woman, educator, and environmental justice advocate. A natural descendant of the Tuscarora, Chata, Caddo, and Appalachee Nations, she brings over three decades of experience in healing, land stewardship, and cultural preservation. She is the founder of Cultural Oasis Apothecary and IPAA Food Forestry, and a recognized leader in urban agriculture, policy advocacy, and Indigenous environmental justice. Her work unites ancestral knowledge with community-based solutions, focusing on land rights, wellness, and the protection of Aboriginal American identity and sacred traditions.
Provides visionary leadership in advancing environmental justice, protecting the rights and sovereignty of Aboriginal American Nations, and guiding initiatives for cultural preservation, policy advocacy, and community empowerment.
Our Mission
We are a faith-based, Aboriginal American-led organization established to confront and dismantle the ongoing systems of genocide, ethnocide, ecocide, and paper genocide that continue to harm Aboriginal Americans of the American Continent.
Our mission is to restore truth, protect the sacred, and defend the rights, identity, and sovereignty of Aboriginal American Nations through a multidisciplinary approach that includes cultural preservation, environmental justice, public education, historical research, legal advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
We stand in defense of our land, our people, and our future.
We serve as spiritual guardians, educators, and organizers uplifting ancestral wisdom and exposing the intentional erasure, reclassification, and poisoning of our communities.
Through policy reform, healing-based programming, food and land sovereignty, and the reclamation of historical identity, STGMNA empowers our communities to rise with dignity, purpose, and truth.
We operate under a sacred trust, recognizing our original covenant with the Great Spirit and honoring the memory and legacy of our ancestors.
Land & Ancestral Territory Acknowledgment
We acknowledge and honor the sacred lands and sovereign territories of the Aboriginal American Nations and Tribes whose roots run deep through the region presently known as Pennsylvania. Long before the formation of colonial borders and foreign governments, this land was — and remains — the domain of vibrant, self-governing peoples who upheld sacred relationships with the natural world and each other.
We recognize the enduring legacy of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy
The ancestral territories of what is now known as Pennsylvania remain the home of our many sovereign Aboriginal American Nations, each with their own governance, culture, and sacred relationship to the land. Among them are the Mohawk, Catawba, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Alongside them were the Delawares, Munsee, Mahican, Shawnee, Conoy, Conestoga, Twightwee, Piqua, Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippewa, Nanticoke, Powhatan, Wea, Plankashaw, Wappinger, Choptank, Metoac, Accomac, Caughnawaga, and Adirondack Nations.
Each Nation represents a thread in the living fabric of this land’s original stewardship. Our history and presence endures despite centuries of displacement, erasure, and colonization. Our Nations continue to steward and protect the rivers, valleys, and mountains of this region since time immemorial.
STGMNA SW PA stands in reverence and responsibility not only to remember, but to actively protect and restore the cultural, spiritual, and ecological wisdom carried by these original Nations. We reaffirm our commitment to environmental justice, restorative truth, and the ancestral continuity of the Aboriginal American peoples, whose presence is not past, but living.
Our Vision
We envision a future where the Aboriginal American Nations of the American Continent are recognized, respected, and restored.
A future where our descendants inherit an environment where their land is clean, their identity is protected, their history is taught truthfully, and their bodies are no longer poisoned for profit.
A future where our ancestral knowledge is not just remembered but governs how we grow food, heal illness, resolve conflict, and build community.
A future where the foreign colonial legislation and institutions no longer erases our identity, but upholds our sovereignty and protects our right to exist in our natural and original form.
Our vision is to reclaim what was stolen, to restore what was broken, and to revive what colonial systems have tried to extinguish.
STGMNA exists to be the voice of the silenced, the memory of the erased, and the shield for the vulnerable.
We are building a movement that heals, educates, and liberates not just for survival, but for sovereignty, balance, and renewal of the sacred order between land, people, and Spirit.
Empowering Communities for Lasting Change
Through knowledge-sharing, grassroots training, and public education, we build capacity for Indigenous, marginalized, and underserved communities.
Our Founders
Minister Antonio “Tomahawk Tony” Lorenzo
A nationally recognized author, researcher, and historian, Minister Antonio Lorenzo is the founder of STGMNA. A descendant of the Cheroenhaka Nadawa, Choctaw, Tuscarora, Caddo, and Atakapa Nations, he has dedicated his life to truth-telling and historical restoration for Aboriginal Americans. His works—including We The People Have Been Poisoned—expose the systemic use of environmental toxins and racial identity reclassification to destroy Indigenous identity and health. He leads national policy strategy, education, and reclassification resistance work across the ministry.
Chief Pomaj-chakmam-yajalaji
Executive Director of Land Stewardship & Environmental Justice, Chief Pomaj is a traditional medicine woman, healer, and cultural preservationist descending from the Tuscarora, Chata, Caddo, and Appalachee Nations. She is the founder of Cultural Oasis Apothecary and IPAA Food Forestry and leads STGMNA’s initiatives in environmental justice, community healing, and land-based activism. Her work bridges ancestral knowledge with public policy, urban agriculture, and Indigenous spiritual practice.
Together, Minister Antonio and Chief Pomaj lead STGMNA with a unified vision: to expose the harm, restore the truth, and protect the spirit and sovereignty of our people.
Our Leadership
Our board and executive team include environmental scientists, public health experts, Indigenous historians, attorneys, and grassroots organizers—each bringing their discipline in service to a unified cause.
We are:
- Survivors and descendants of reclassified nations
- Veterans of urban and legal resistance
- Keepers of land, story, and medicine
- Builders of truth, healing, and justice
Why We Exist
We exist because our ancestors endured.
We exist because our history has been rewritten, our identity misclassified, and our communities poisoned, spiritually, biologically, and legally.
We exist because silence is complicity.
And we choose to speak, stand, and build.
STGMNA SW PA is not just a nonprofit. It is a ministry, a movement, and a mandate.
We are reclaiming what was stolen.
We are restoring what was erased.
And we are rising, not through revision, but through revelation.
Contact Us
To collaborate, support, or learn more about our work:
📧 contact@stgmna.us
🌐 www.stgmna.us
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