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Witness list for SCIA hearing on indigenous rights declaration





The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is holding an oversight hearing today to discuss the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The hearing takes place at 2:15pm in Room 628 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building. The witness list follows:
Panel I
MR. DONALD “DEL” LAVERDURE, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs

Panel II
MR. ROBERT T. COULTER, Executive Director, Indian Law Resource Center

MR. JAMES ANAYA, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, United Nations

MR. LINDSAY G. ROBERTSON, Professor of Law / Faculty Director of the American Indian Law and Policy Center / Judge Haskell A. Holloman Professor / and Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor, University of Oklahoma College of Law

MR. RYAN RED CORN, Filmmaker / Member, 1491s

Panel III
THE HONORABLE FAWN SHARP, President, Quinault Indian Nation

MR. FRANK ETTAWAGESHIK, Executive Director, United Tribes of Michigan

MR. DUANE YAZZIE, Chairperson, Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission,

MS. MELANIE KNIGHT, Secretary of State, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma

Committee Notice:
OVERSIGHT HEARING on Setting the Standard: Domestic Policy Implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (June 9, 2011)

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