2007

United States votes against UN Indigenous rights declaration

United Nations; Indigenous peoples including those in the Americas

The United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand opposed adoption of the declaration, which affirmed Indigenous rights and self-determination. Their later endorsement did not make the declaration a ratified treaty.

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Context / qualification

Later policy endorsements were not retroactive changes to the recorded 2007 roll-call vote.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 11

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