The Moskitian Oracle

Whenever the Nicaraguans talk about the Moskitian Independence sentiment, they always try to brush it aside or finish their statement by quoting that "Nicaragua is an independent, free, sovereign, unitary, and indivisible State." It is the first sentence of the sixth article of their constitution. To understand this, we must first understand what a state is. S trictly speaking, a state is the government; it is the body with the authority to govern a people and their territory. The existence of a government begins when a nation forms a social contract (agreement), either explicitly or tacitly, to be governed by a certain set of rules, laws, norms, etc. This social contract allows the nation to bestow or lend its authority and consent to the state (government), which uses that authority and consent in return to provide security to the nation. Therefore, the authority of a state extends as far as it is accepted. This is what is called its jurisdiction: the power or right to exer...

Will of His Majesty the King of the Mosquito Nation. Before his death in October 8, 1842, King Robert Charles Frederic issued, on February 25, 1840, a Will for "the affairs of [his] kingdom to be continued in the hands of the Commissioners appointed by [him] upon the nomination of his Excellency Colonel Macdonald, Her Majesty's Superintendent, to be managed, conducted, and administered, under the sanction and approval of the said Colonel Macdonald, with the functions and powers of Regents, during the minority of [his] heir"; that Macdonald should be guardian of his children; and that, in the view of the spiritual wants of his people, "the United Church of England and Ireland [to] be the established religion of [his] nation for ever." Superintendent Macdonald served as chairman of the Regency until May 4, 1843, when the Colonial Secretary wrote to the Moskitian leaders, Prince Wellington, Colonel Johnson, and General Lowry Robinson, informing them that ...

A familiar Description of the Mosqueto Kingdom in America. Ever since Michael D. Olien published his article in 1983 in an attempt to explain the line of succession of the Moskitian Dynasty, it has been extensively used by other scholars. And while his work was a great help in piecing together the line of succession of the House of Moskitia, there are, however, a few errors that can be found if one reads it carefully and double-checks the original sources. One of his mistakes is the assertion that there were two Moskitian Kings by the name of Jeremy: one who ruled between 1687 and 1720 and another who ruled between 1720 and 1729. This same mistake is repeated by Christopher Buyers on his site about the line of succession of the House of Moskitia. In English sources, he is known as Jeremay, Jeremy, Gerromi, or Jeremiah, while in Spanish sources, he appears as Don Bernabe. But he was the only Moskitian King from 1686, when his father, the founder of the Kingdom of Mosquitia , died, unt...

The existence of a polity always has an event that marks its beginning. For example, the United States of America came into existence with ' The unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America ', which was adapted on July 4, 1776; the current Jamaican polity came into existence with the ' Jamaica Independence Act 1962 ', which took effect on August 6, 1962; and the current Belizean polity came into existence with the ' Belize Act 1981 ', which took effect on September 21, 1981. As for Moskitia, its existence then as a kingdom can be marked with the return of Oldham from London in 1637, who became the first Wihta Tara (Great Chief) to officially adapt the title of 'king'. A map of Mosquitia , 1822. First, although the Moskitian Dynasty, or House of Moskitia, had more than a dozen different leaders spanning over more than 260 years, not all of them ruled over the same state or polity, nor did all of them hold the same title. Only eight leade...