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Indigenous issues should have been highlighted during the UN conference, an American Native lawyer on the Indigenous peoples' Non-Government Organization working group said.

"Indigenous issues have as much relevance as anything else," Terry Janis said.

Indigenous NGO delegates met June 10 and 11 to try to formulate policies on Indigenous rights to present to the United Nations during their world conference on human rights.

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Indigenous issues should have been highlighted during the UN conference, an American Native lawyer on the Indigenous peoples' Non-Government Organization working group said.

"Indigenous issues have as much relevance as anything else," Terry Janis said.

Indigenous NGO delegates met June 10 and 11 to try to formulate policies on Indigenous rights to present to the United Nations during their world conference on human rights.

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Indigenous issues should have been highlighted during the UN conference, an American Native lawyer on the Indigenous peoples' Non-Government Organization working group said.

"Indigenous issues have as much relevance as anything else," Terry Janis said.

Indigenous NGO delegates met June 10 and 11 to try to formulate policies on Indigenous rights to present to the United Nations during their world conference on human rights.

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Indigenous issues should have been highlighted during the UN conference, an American Native lawyer on the Indigenous peoples' Non-Government Organization working group said.

"Indigenous issues have as much relevance as anything else," Terry Janis said.

Indigenous NGO delegates met June 10 and 11 to try to formulate policies on Indigenous rights to present to the United Nations during their world conference on human rights.

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Not everyone who attended the UN's human rights conference in Vienna last month knew what they were going to say to the world assembly.

When asked what he had to tell the international community, Native American activist and actor Johnny Looking Cloud sat back in a plush leather seat in the foyer of

the UN's Austria Centre and shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't know yet," he said. "But I was willing to come this far. Might as well go all the way to help my people. Especially them kids."

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Not everyone who attended the UN's human rights conference in Vienna last month knew what they were going to say to the world assembly.

When asked what he had to tell the international community, Native American activist and actor Johnny Looking Cloud sat back in a plush leather seat in the foyer of

the UN's Austria Centre and shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't know yet," he said. "But I was willing to come this far. Might as well go all the way to help my people. Especially them kids."

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Not everyone who attended the UN's human rights conference in Vienna last month knew what they were going to say to the world assembly.

When asked what he had to tell the international community, Native American activist and actor Johnny Looking Cloud sat back in a plush leather seat in the foyer of

the UN's Austria Centre and shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't know yet," he said. "But I was willing to come this far. Might as well go all the way to help my people. Especially them kids."

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Not everyone who attended the UN's human rights conference in Vienna last month knew what they were going to say to the world assembly.

When asked what he had to tell the international community, Native American activist and actor Johnny Looking Cloud sat back in a plush leather seat in the foyer of

the UN's Austria Centre and shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't know yet," he said. "But I was willing to come this far. Might as well go all the way to help my people. Especially them kids."

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The United Nations has "no idea" who Indigenous peoples are, a high-ranking member of that international organization's Working Group on Indigenous Peoples said.

But recognizing Indigenous rights, as outlined in the draft Universal Document on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, will be a step towards understanding, said Julian Burger, secretary to the UN's Working Group on Indigenous Peoples.

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The United Nations has "no idea" who Indigenous peoples are, a high-ranking member of that international organization's Working Group on Indigenous Peoples said.

But recognizing Indigenous rights, as outlined in the draft Universal Document on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, will be a step towards understanding, said Julian Burger, secretary to the UN's Working Group on Indigenous Peoples.