Obama's Reparations to the Indians ; White House Approves U.N. Redistribution Scheme

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At th e Dec. 16 White House Tribal Nations Conference, President Obama announced that the United States is rec-

ognizing the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, also known as UNDRIP. The declaration was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 13, 2007, with just four negative votes, coming from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Australia and New Zealand later reversed course, and Canada endorsed the declaration in November. America was the lone holdout of the four, until now.

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Obama's Reparations to the Indians ; White House Approves U.N. Redistribution Scheme

UNDRIP was promulgated by the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, whose vice chairman, Tonya Gonnella Frichner, an Onondaga activist, said she was looking forward to "working with the Unit...

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