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Feb. 17—PEMBROKE — The American Indian Studies Department at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke will host the 17th annual Southeast Indian Studies Conference March 31-April 1. The ...
This gathering, and the IITC which resulted from it, was called for by the American Indian Movement, [1] and was attended by delegates from 97 Indian tribes and Nations from across North and South America. IITC held the Second International Treaty Conference on the land of the Yanktonai Dakota people in Greenwood, South Dakota in June 16–20 ...
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 second summit was held in November 17–18 Bangalore, India in 1986. The Heads of State or Government welcomed the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on the establishment of the SAARC Secretariat by the Council of Ministers and their decision to locate the Secretariat in Kathmandu and appoint Ambassador Abul Ahsan of Bangladesh as the first Secretary-General of south Asian ...
In October, 2024, cards with the UNIO logo were distributed at the 81st Annual Conference and Marketplace of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI). The cards critiqued the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina's for alleged "[s]hifting claims of tribal ancestry", "speculation" without "genealogically verifiable information", and inability ...
The Traditional Circle of Indian Elders and Youth, established in 1977, is a native American cultural society which operates as a council of respected leaders of American Indian nations. It aims to renew and preserve native American culture, values, and worldview at a grass-roots level, and to provide avenues for that culture to inform and ...
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII or PFII) is the UN's central coordinating body for matters relating to the concerns and rights of the world's indigenous peoples. There are more than 370 million indigenous people (also known as native, original, aboriginal and first peoples) in some 70 countries worldwide.
I.I.M.U.N. (India's International Movement to Unite Nations) [1] is a youth organisation which simulates the workings of Indian Parliament and multilateral organisations to nurture global citizenship among India students with ages between 13 to 19.