United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
"Indigenous Peoples, equal to all other peoples...."
Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
Indigenous Peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions, while retaining their right to participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the State.
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Resolution in Support
of the United Nations Declaration
On the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
WHEREAS, The UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples was approved by the National Latino Congreso on January 31, 2010 in El Paso, Texas and
has been endorsed by hundreds of
Native American, Latino and progressive community organization across
this country; and
WHEREAS, On November 5, 2009 at a historic summit in
Washington, DC hosted by President Barack Obama, Chairman Joe Kennedy -
Timbisha Shoshone of the Western Shoshone Nation, delivered a message on behalf
of the Indigenous Peoples and Nations of North America calling for immediate
action by the president to support the UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples; and
WHEREAS, The Doctrine of Discovery, emanating from the European invasion and
subsequent colonization after 1492, of the continent later to be known as the Americas
has served as an instrument of dehumanization and genocide of the Indigenous
Peoples and Nations of the Americas; and
WHEREAS, such doctrines of exploitation and
expropriation of the natural resources and labor of the Indigenous Peoples and Nations
of the Americas continue unabated to this day and find their contemporary
instruments of expression in the multilateral and bilateral Trade Agreements
such as NAFTA; and
WHEREAS, During the March for Human Rights in
Phoenix Arizona on January 16th 2010, a Community Indictment was served upon
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona which specified numerous violations
of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as stated in Article 36 of the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
1. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Arizona Democratic Party adopts endorsement
and commitment to the principles of the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on September the
13th, 2007; and
2. FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that Arizona Democratic Party send a
letter to President Barack Obama and to all members of the Arizona Congressional
Delegation to encourage them to adopt as soon as possible the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples.
Summitted
on March 11, 2012
Dan
O’Neal - LD-12 (formerly LD-22)
Adopted at the State Committee Meeting of the Arizona Democratic Party
September 13, 2020
The Geography of Self Determination
It is an incontrovertible fact that the transfer of
territorial jurisdiction from Indigenous Nations authorities to dominion
concepts of control and allegiance by the states is historically flawed and
legally suspect. There are
unquantifiable elements. The case of the Western Shoshone is contemporary
evidence that this is not just history but reality in the context of the
hemisphere of the Americas, yet there is a larger issue.
The social and geographic realities of the Indigenous
Peoples as Nations continue to exist as a political anomaly in terms of the
international legal system of the United Nations. Specifically, in this hemisphere of Abya Yala
[the Americas] not only is this true in the face of centuries of colonization
but also in terms of the options for relief from the crime.
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TIME is NOW:
Architectures of the States and the Territorial
Integrity of Mother Earth
NAHUACALLI
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