In a recent announcement by President Obama, the United States became the last of four members of the United Nations that voted against the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to reverse position and issue a statement of support. Some commentators applauded the U.S....
Wilton “Willie” Littlechild Years ago, a small boy in a Canadian residential school hid beneath his bed with a flashlight, reading, dreaming about hockey, and creating the building...
The late Muskogee-Creek elder Philip Deere declared at the historic 1977 address to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, that “We the Indigenous Peoples, are the evidence of ...
Facing international and internal pressure, the Canadian Parliament on April 8 voted to endorse the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples...
A federal appeals court ruling giving New York State the green light to implement its latest cigarette tax-collecting scheme on sovereign American Indian land contravenes the U.N...
When indigenous leaders first visited the United Nations offices in Geneva, Switzerland in 1977, they were seeking justice and a fair forum for the many treaty and human-rights vio...
What’s my take away from the White House Tribal Nations Conference? Easy. This is an administration that actually believes the United States government must represent all of the people, including American Indians and Alaska Natives....