United States: Tribes Lead The Efforts To Implement UN Declaration

United States: Tribes Lead The Efforts To Implement UN Declaration   Robert T. Coulter, 2011   It has been just a year since President Obama announced the Administration’s support for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and promised action to implement at least some of those rights. Across the country, tribal governments are seizing the Declaration and using it creatively to protect their lands and resources, and especially their rights to cultural and sacred...

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