The UN Declaration is the first comprehensive human rights document entirely devoted to the rights of Indigenous Peoples as peoples. It includes the rights to land, language, self-determination, and many other things (see the description on the other side of this sheet). The Working Group that produced the declaration, after a quarter century of debate, included governments and many Native peoples, participating on an equal footing. The UN General Assembly adopted the declaration in 2007, with only four countries voting against it, unfortunately one of those countries was the United States.
