Reactions to the historic White House
Tribal Nations Conference
"Adoption of the UN Declaration by the United States would be a formal commitment to respect the most basic rights to fairness, equality before the law, respect for treaty commitments, rights to our lands and resources, rights to education and cultural preservation, and perhaps most importantly self-determination for Indian peoples."
Lucy Simpson, Navajo, Senior Staff Attorney with the Indian Law Resource Center.
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“The Obama administration should enforce the right to property due process of law and equality under the law.”
Joe Kennedy, chairman of the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe of the Western Shoshone Nation, reflects on the White House Tribal Nations Conference held November 5, 2009.
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"What Obama told us about partnership, collaboration, consultation and sovereignty ... was music to my ears."
The issues mentioned by Ben Shelly — self-determination, control over resources, economic development and self-sufficiency — are important for all Indian and Alaska Native nations and are included in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
More links to transcripts and videos from the Tribal Nations Conference
Robert T. Coulter, Indian Law Resource Center, responds to Congressional apology to Native Americans
October 8th, 2009
"What happened is a failure on the part of Congress to really acknowledge what it has done in the past."
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