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Article: Long push for rights nears success: Indian leaders hope to see U.N. pass measure to protect native peoples.
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- Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- September 13, 2007
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Byline: James M. Odato
Sep. 13--ALBANY -- For 30 years, traditional leaders of the six Iroquois tribes statewide have been urging the United Nations to declare the rights of indigenous peoples.
Today, the U.N. General Assembly is expected to pass a declaration drafted in 1977 by the New York tribes that could influence legal disputes, particularly land claims by the Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawks.
The document was first presented to the worldwide body by more than 100 Indian delegates when New York's tribes began pursuing claims for land they say was wrongfully taken from them.
Advocates who have pushed the issue for three decades are so ...