Indigenous Peoples are a unique and important segment of humanity. Their rich heritage, their ways of life, their observance towards this planet, their insights and their direct experiences can serve as lessons for modern society to take notice of and weave into its own infrastructure.
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Article Source: USA Today
PHOENIX — As special adviser for Indian affairs at Arizona State University, former Navajo Nation president Peterson Zah spent the past 16 years trying to develop Native American youth leaders. He pressed students to get educated, return to their villages and build a future on the reservation. But that message began to ring hollow over the past year as his own tribe became mired in power struggles and corruption scandals.
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Article Source: The Daily Camera
For the past 40 years, the Boulder-based Native American Rights Fund has fought to maintain American Indian tribal sovereignty, providing legal support to more than 250 tribes in 31 states.
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Article Source: CulturalSurvival.org
President Obama needs to hear from you--today. He needs to know that all Americans believe that the day has come for him to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
This Declaration marks the first time the United Nations has agreed on a single set of values governing relations between national governments and Indigenous Peoples living within their borders. It promises that governments will respect tribal rights to lands and sacred places, and spells out Native Peoples' right to self-determination.
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Article Source: CulturalSurvival.org
World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, organized by the Bolivian government, was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia April 19-22, 2010 as a response to failed climate talks in Copenhagen during the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP 15) climate meetings in December 2009.
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Article Source: CulturalSurvival.org
On 20 April 2010 at the annual meeting of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York City, New Zealand's Minster of Maori Affairs, Dr. Pita Sharples, formally delivered a statement on his government's recognition and support of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. With an overwhelming majority of 144 votes in favor, only 4 negative votes cast (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United States) and 11 abstentions, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on September 13, 2007.
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