OVERSIGHT HEARING on Setting the Standard: Domestic Policy Implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Thursday, June 9 2011
2:15PM
Dirksen Senate Office Building 628

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The hearing will explore the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as an international policy goal to which the United States is signatory, the current ways existing domestic policy achieves the UNDRIP goals, and additional domestic policy considerations to make the United States a world leader in indigenous rights and implementation of the UNDRIP.

Mr. Donald Laverdure
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior

Witnesses

Panel #  1

Mr. Robert T. Coulter
Executive Director
Indian Law Resource Center

Mr. James Anaya
Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
United Nations

Mr. Lindsay G. Robertson
Professor of Law / Faculty Director of the American Indian Law and Policy Center / Judge Haskell A. Holloman Professor / and Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor
University of Oklahoma College of Law, Norman

Mr. Ryan Red Corn
Filmmaker
Member, 1491s

Panel #  2

The Honorable Fawn Sharp
President
Quinault Indian Nation

Mr. Frank Ettawageshik
Executive Director
United Tribes of Michigan

Mr. Duane Yazzie
Chairperson
Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission

Ms. Melanie Knight
Secretary of State
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma

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