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ATALM seeks to provide support to indigenous archives, libraries, and museums through programming, collaborative work, and advocacy. [6] ATALM further works to guarantee that indigenous nations will, through tribal memory institutions, be empowered to conserve and house their own historical documents, artifacts, and histories. [7]
He was a professor and Coordinator of the Indigenous Studies Program at the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences at the University of British Columbia–Okanagan. [9] Younging was "instrumental in the development of the Indigenous Studies program." at the university. [15] He published numerous works, including nonfiction and poetry. [16]
The history of the Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) reflects the importance of balancing the traditional Native values with the modern demands facing us as indigenous peoples. TCC works toward meeting the health and social service challenges for more than 10,000 Alaska Natives spread across a region of 235,000 square miles (610,000 km 2) in ...
The AILA supports this conference, which takes place every two years, in order to address major issues and concerns facing libraries and other organizations that deal with indigenous information. The conference also focuses on the similarities of the Native experience within the Library and Information Science profession, in addition to ...
The conference was therefore seen as the first UN conference on Indigenous Peoples. [3] [4] After a further thirty years of campaigning, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on September 13, 2007. It was opposed only by the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The Alta Outcome Document was a document of indigenous peoples' recommendations for a high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly to be called the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in 2014, produced from the Global Indigenous Preparatory Conference in Alta, Norway on 10–12 June 2013. [1] [2] [3]
The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) is a coalition of indigenous, grassroots environmental justice activists, primarily based in the United States. Group members have represented Native American concerns at international events such as the United Nations Climate Change conferences in Copenhagen (2009) and Paris (2016).
In 1966, the NCAI mustered nearly 80 tribal leaders from 62 tribes to protest their exclusion from a US-Congress sponsored conference on reorganizing the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs). The congressional event was organized by Morris Udall , chairman of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs , to discuss the reorganization of the ...