Hundreds of indigenous leaders and activists from all across the world
are gathering in New York City this week for the 11th Session of the
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. We speak with Dalee
Sambo-Dorough, an Inuit from Alaska who teaches political science at
the University of Alaska, Anchorage and serves as vice chair of the
Permanent Forum. Sambo-Dorough discusses the range of hardships faced by
indigenous peoples in Alaska today, from environmental devastation and
threatened land ownership in the Arctic, to rampant sexual violence. "In
various political and economic agendas, indigenous peoples in the
United States are at the bottom of the bottom — they always have been,"
Sambo-Dorough says. "The issues facing Alaskan Native communities,
indigenous communities across the United States never appear on the
radar screen as a priority issue."Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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