Tonya Gonnella Frichner: Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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Channel: Joe Friendly · 2009 · News & Politics

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Tonya Gonnella Frichner, Esq., of the Onandaga Nation, Founder & Director of the American Indian Law Alliance, and Vice Chair & Representative to the North American Regional U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues,   reports on her recent trip to Geneva where she testified about Native American human rights. She also talks of paving the way for the meeting of Obama with Native American leaders, coaching them to urge Obama sign the UN Declaration of Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the General Assembly September 13, 2007, but vetoed by the U.S..
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