Article: Haudenosaunee Confederacy a presence at UN: Environmental restoration

Doug George-Kanentiio
News From Indian Country
09-30-1995
Haudenosaunee Confederacy a presence at UN: Environmental restoration. plan offers concrete solution to return Mother Earth to her former state.

by Doug George-Kanentiio

News From Indian Country

For decades Native leaders have been knocking at the doors of the United Nations, trying to get in so they can make their arguments for admission as sovereign states, an idea the US is adamantly opposed to.

Several native nations, such as the Hopi, Shoshone and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, maintain they have never ceded their independence to the US.

They point to a long history as nations, a tradition which the US recognized when it entered ...

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