The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples was celebrated Monday, August 10, 2009 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. There were messages from the Secretary General, President of the General Assembly, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and Chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. There was a cultural presentation by the Crimean Tatar Dance Ensemble then a panel discussion on Indigenous Peoples and HIV/AIDS.
CRIMEAN TATAR DANCE ENSEMBLE
KENT LEBSOCK, Owe-Aku-Bring Back the Way – a traditional Lakota (Sioux) Cultural Preservation organization.
OLIVIA SLOAN, (Navajo/Tohono O’Odham) Special Liasion, Partnerships, Programs and Policy, Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
TONYA GONELLA FRISCHER (Onondaga Nation, Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy Haudenosaunee - United States) Member the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and Chris Archibald, Director, Surveillance and Risk Assessment Division of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
For more information:
www.un.org/esa/ocdev/unpfii . Look for International Day, you can also view a video of the event.
Sandy Sheridan, Sunray UN/NGO Representative
9/1/09
CRIMEAN TATAR DANCE ENSEMBLE
KENT LEBSOCK, Owe-Aku-Bring Back the Way – a traditional Lakota (Sioux) Cultural Preservation organization.
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