read read read! 24-page PDF, overview of American Indian Movement by Walter R. Echo-Hawk. More info: In this essay, Walter Echo-Hawk lays out the history of as well as the next steps for securing the rights of the United States’ indigenous peoples. Echo-Hawk is a Pawnee Indian, working as attorney, law professor, tribal judge, author, and activist. His activism began in the late 1960s in the Red Power workshops of the NIYC. As a Native American rights legal advocate since 1973, he has represented American Indian tribes and indigenous groups in the United States. Echo-Hawk persuasively argues that the framework of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), which the United States has endorsed but not yet implemented, offers the best path for redressing the injustices that American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians continue to suffer. It is time for all Americans—whether Native or non-Native—to come together to bring the United States in line with international human rights standards and thereby begin to undo the original contradiction at the heart of the American experiment.
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