The United States is not the only country where Indigenous people of the land have been persecuted and have experienced genocide at the hand of colonizing forces. It is common for Indigenous peoples to be denied rights that are inherent and just around the world.
Thankfully, the United Nations has done the work to declare what these rights are and how countries should observe them to honor and protect Indigenous peoples. What is unique about the United States is that it has not made a commitment to this declaration – a declaration that was greatly influenced by the U.S.
Join Vance Blackfox and Dr. Rosalee Gonzalez to learn more about the United Nations Declaration on the Right of Indigenous People (UNDRIP).
No pre-registration is required to participate. Just click "join the class" to attend.
Read the declaration.
August 1, 2023
Presentation: United Nations Declaration on the Right of Indigenous People
7 p.m. Central time
Presented by Vance Blackfox and Dr. Rosalee Gonzalez
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Dr. Rosalee Gonzalez Xicana-Kickapoo, has twenty-five years of international experience in the promotion and protection of Indigenous peoples, women's, and human rights. She is an elected leader of the Continental Network of Indigenous Women of the Americas and is Co-Founder of Indigenous Women Rise--a convenor for the Women's March in the US(2017). Dr. Gonzalez's academic research is informed by her engagement in the international indigenous peoples' movement.
She is former faculty at Arizona State University where she taught human rights, critical race theory, social work/welfare, and criminal justice. She worked for two United Nations Secretariats in Geneva and New York Headquarters. Dr. Gonzalez is the former Executive Director of the US Human Rights Network, a member-based network building a people-centered human rights movement in the US.
