While Juan Diego of South America has recently been declared the first Roman Catholic indigenous American Saint, the first Orthodox indigenous North American Saint,  Peter the Aleut, and one of the first Orthodox Saints in North America, has been recognized as such by the Orthodox Church for some time.  Having been baptized by Russian monks on Kodiak Island and later being in the employ of the Russian-American Trading Company, he was captured in 1815 by Spanish sailors and taken to San Francisco.  Roman Catholic priests tried to force him to embrace Roman Catholicism.  He said. "We are Christians; we have been baptized."  When the Saint refused to renounce Orthodoxy, the Latins cut off his fingers and then his hands.  St. Peter died as a result of the tortures, thus accepting martyrdom rather than betraying the true Faith.  His festival is September 24th.  More information can be

obtained HERE.   St. Peter was the first native-American martyr to have been glorified (i.e. officially acknowledged to be a Saint) by the holy Orthodox Church.  Several Russian missionaries in Alaska from the end of the 18th century and the early nineteenth century have also been glorified.  Some were martyred.  St. Innokenty later became the chief hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow.  The missionary work in Alaska (while it was still Russian, before Alaska was urchased by the USA) is the root and foundation of North American Orthodoxy--the only Orthodox body in America till Communism upset the situation in Russia, and various groups formed their own hierarchies--a very uncanonical situation that can be resolved only by ecclesiastical unity under a single American patriarch.  

     If the main Orthodox bodies cannot unite in a an American Orthodox Church with its own patriarch, does it make sense for these bodies to think of discussing an improbable unity with OTHERdox, CACOdox, NEOdox,  AUTOdox, MICROdox, and SCHETICOdox forms of Christianity?  Isn't that turning reasonable priorities upside-down--rather like trying to unite a county council of one state with the legislature of another state, or trying to use a keyboard and monitor when the computer is lacking?