The United States must adopt new measures to advance a reconciliation process with its indigenous peoples and address historical wrongs that have stopped them from fully realizing their rights, a United Nations independent expert said today.
“Indigenous peoples in the United States – including American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian peoples – constitute vibrant communities that have contributed greatly to the life of the country,” the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya, said in a news release on his report, made public today, on indigenous peoples in the United States.
Mr. Anaya stressed that these measures must “address persistent deep-seeded problems related to historical wrongs, failed policies of the past and continuing systemic barriers to the full realization of indigenous peoples’ rights.” (...)

The article:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42854&Cr=united+states&Cr1=#.UFCzhFF1jCY

Sull'argomento:

http://www.nationalgeographic.it/dal-giornale/2012/08/24/foto/in_the_shadow_of_wounded_knee_the_lost_land-1167240/1/

http://www.ilmanifesto.it/dossier/scorie-ai-nativi/

http://www.lastampa.it/2012/12/06/blogs/finestra-sull-america/obama-promette-internet-strade-e-lavoro-alle-tribu-indiane-yWrNzDDfqxS0CM3HlpfimI/pagina.html

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Lettera del capo indiano Seattle al presidente Usa Franklin Pierce:

http://www.peacelink.it/pace/a/1513.html

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Basic information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States

Passato...prossimo:
http://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5476:giornata-internazionale-dei-popoli-indigeni-2012&catid=46:diritti-umani&Itemid=105