A metafinding aid and guide for Indigenous peoples' archives and resources related to the UNPFII.
Find resources and archives related to Indigenous peoples and the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). This metafinding aid provides access to a wide range of materials, including documents, statements, and reports from various Indigenous organizations and initiatives.
Doctrine of Discovery Booklet
Continuing Christian Domination - April Online
Continuación de la dominación de la Cristiandad: una respuesta a la declaración de repudio del Vaticano a la Doctrina del Descubrimiento - Español
Doctrine of Discovery Project
We Remember the Stolen Generations
We Remember the Stolen Generations
An Open Letter on “Indian Residential Schools”
An Open Letter on “Indian Residential Schools”
Pagans in the Promised Land: a Primer on Religious Freedom
Pagans in the Promised Land: a Primer on Religious Freedom
Fact Sheet EMRIP
Technical Advisory Note, Country Engagement Mission to Norway
Annual Reports
Constitutions, laws, legislation, policies, judicial decisions and other mechanisms through which States have taken measures to achieve the end of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in accordance with article 38 of the Declaration
Efforts to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: establishing effective monitoring mechanisms at the national and regional levels for the implementation of the Declaration
Joint Intervention The Haudenosaunee and AILA World Conference on Indiegenous People
Yanapaq
Yanapaq.info
What kind of documents can be found in the League of Nations and UNOG archives?
Water Protector Legal Collective – Statement (Natali Segovia) (PDF)
UNPFII Recommendations Database
Sacred Places Institute – Youth Members (PDF)
Factsheet: UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (SRRIP) – 2025 (EN)
Docip (Documentation, Research and Information Centre)
Docip Documentation Center (CENDOC)
Warrior Women
Warrior Women Archive
Wampum Chronciles a site maintained by Mohawk historian Darren Bonaparte.
--Videos about the Akwesasne Freedom School:
--Videos about the Akwesasne Freedom School:
UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
This Land, Crooked Media
The Nagoya ABS Protocol
The International Indigenous Women’s Forum
The 6 Iroquois Nations at the League of Nations (Deskaheh collection)
Tebtebba Foundation
Study on the extractive industries in Mexico and the situation of indigenous peoples in the territories in which those industries are located
State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples Volume I
Sami Council
Policy of Engagement with Indigenous Peoples
peruse websites of the Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (SPFII) and of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Our Traditional Government as part of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) founded on the Great Law of Peace as well as other cultural aspects are nicely overviewed in the Haudenosaunee educational guide
Mohawks of Akwesasne (Canada)
Making the Declaration Work: The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Länsman et al v Finland
Leave No-one Behind: the SDG’s and Indigenous Peoples (film produced by the Asian Indigenous Peoples’ Pact)
lands territories and resources
Jack D. Forbes
Jack D. Forbes Memorial
Jack D. Forbes and UC Davis NAS
Ivan Kitok v. Sweden,
Inuit Circumpolar Council
International Labour Organisation
International Indian Treaty Council
*Indigenous Peoples Rights International (2023), A Compilation of UN Treaty Body Jurisprudence, Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council, and the Advice of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Vol IX
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights International
Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee
Indigenous Peoples' Global Partnership on Climate Change and Forests
Indigenous Peoples' Global Partnership on Climate Change and Forests
Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations, Vol. I overview
Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations, Vol. I part1
Indigenous Peacebuilders Network
Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples
Free, prior and informed consent: a human rights-based approach Study of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Center for support of Indigenous Peoples of the North
CENDOC search: subject = permanent
CENDOC collection browse (CL2)
Assempbly of First Nations
Asia Indigenous Peoples' Pact
Information Guide: UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) – 2025 (EN)
Upholding Indigenous Peoples’ Rights – Digest Issue #5, Legislation and Jurisprudence: Global Regional and national Developments,
International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs
International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs
Implementing the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention
The Deatnu Agreement: a contemporary wall of settler colonialism, Settler Colonial Studies
References / Bibliography for UNPFII (Docip) – 2017
GOVERNING THE GLOBAL COMMONS: HOW UNSR ANAYA’S STUDY ON EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES CAN INFORM A NEW GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS REGULATORY REGIME FOR TRANSNATIONAL CONSERVATION NGOS OPERATING ON OR NEAR INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Law
Pitfalls and Pipelines: Indigenous Peoples and Extractive Industries
A Self-Determination Approach to Justifying Indigenous Peoples' Participation in International Law and Policy
State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Guidelines on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues
Peruse website of the FIMI(The International Indigenous Women’s Forum), including the report Mairin Iwanka Raya: Indigenous Women Confront Violence
Good Practices on Indigenous Peoples’ Development, Tebtebba Foundation and Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Universalism and Cultural Relativism in the Context of Indigenous Women's Rights
Case of Kitok v. Sweden, Decision of the Human Rights Committee
Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), General Recommendation XXIII on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
General Recommendation No. XXI, Right to self-determination,
*Case of Lovelace v. Canada, Decision of the Human Rights Committee
Archivaria 7 (Winter 1978–79) – PDF
Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus Statement 2025
Global Indigenous People’s Caucus 2024
Closing Statement of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
Global indigenous people's caucus statement
2025 Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus Statement
2024 Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus Statement
Outcome from the Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus Statement for UNPFII22 (2023)
2019 Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus Statement
Report from the Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus 2018
Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus Statement to the 4th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus Focuses on Setbacks at COP21 as Agreement Moves to Final Negotiations
Joint Intervention on Mohawk Border Issues at UNPFII
Global indigenous people's caucus statement
UNPFII: Statement by the North American Indigenous Peoples Caucus
UNPFII Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus: "Good Governance"
UNPFII 2011: Opening Statement Global Indigenous Caucus
Global Indigenous Caucus
Indigenous Peoples' Statement
Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus 2024
2025 Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus Statement
2025 Global Indigenous Women's Caucus Statement
UNPFII 23rd Session: Global Indigenous Women's Caucus Statement supporting Palestine
Statement from the Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus GIWC 2024
Global Indigenous Women's Caucus Sixteenth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
2017 Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus Statement (GIWC)
UNPFII Statement by the Global Indigenous Women's Caucus
Global Indigenous Women's Caucus Statement on Good Governance and Self-Determination
Follow-up and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
Global Indigenous Women's Caucus (GIWC) Update, Global Indigenous Preparatory Conference, June 2013
Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus Meeting Sets Priorities for UNPFII
Global Indigenous Women's Caucus Statement -WIPO
UN Global Indigenous Women's Caucus - Intervention
Why We Came to Geneva: Indigenous Peoples' First Time to the UN in Geneva
Value Change for Survival
UNPFII 2019 Haudenosaunee Statement: Treaties, Protocol and Relevant Issues
Treaties with Indigenous Peoples in Focus on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (Press release)
To Survive, We Must Transform Our Values
Robert Staffanson Talk at Oren Lyons Birthday Celebration
Press Conference by Oren Lyons | UN Audiovisual Library
Oren Lyons Statement on the Iroquois Nationals Passport/Visa Controversy
Oren Lyons speaks to UN, Change Values so you can Survive ( HQ )
Oren Lyons Presentation – International Seminar on the …
Oren Lyons on the Indigenous View of the World
Oren Lyons | Honoring Nations / Indigenous Governance (Harvard Kennedy School)
Oren Lyons Gives Keynote Address at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions
Oren Lyons (biographical page)
Oren Lyons Address at the UN General Assembly
Oren Lyons-1: Racism, Native American Human Rights and the UN
Oren Lyon's PBS Interview
Keynote Speech: Keeping the Homefires Burning Gathering
Chief Oren Lyons | Ecology, Economy and Ethics
Inspiration: We can't give up — Chief Oren Lyons' hope
Faithkeeper Lyons delivers dire warning of mass extinction
Oren Lyons: Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan (blog post)
Chief Oren Lyons – The Roots of American Democracy (Bioneers)
Oren Lyons Presents at U.N. 5/15/14
Indigenous Peoples speak out at UN Permanent Forum
Conference Room Paper on the Doctrine of Discovery (UNPFII 11th Session)
U.N. declares tribes' rights
The Ice is Melting in the North: Statement to the UN Peace Summit
NAIPC Statement UNPFII Item 6: Interactive Dialogue
UNPFII: Statement by the North American Indigenous Peoples Caucus
UNPFII: North American Indigenous Peoples Caucus statement "Good Governance"
Celest Mckay, North American Indigenous Peoples Caucus
North American Caucus Statement on the Doctrine of Discovery
Making the Declaration
The global implementation of UNDRIP: a thematic review” The International Journal of Human Rights,
“Where appropriate”. Monitoring/Implementing of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights under the Declaration, in Making the Declaration Work
Paper on the adoption of Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
UNPFII Intervention training
UN Handbook 2023-24
U.S. Report to the UN Human Rights Commission on the Universal Periodic Review
Tonya Gonnella Frichner Statement in Response to the US Report
The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving address to the natural world
Statement by the Permanent Observer of the Holy See
References_UNPFII_2017
References_UNPFII_2016_EN
Press Release Ambassador Rice Statement on US Support for the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Preliminary Report on Doctrine of Discovery
Paper on the Adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007
Oral intervention presented by Betty Lyons (Onondaga Nation) in "Regional cases of autonomy in the territories of Indigenous Peoples" at the UN International Expert Group Meeting, 23-25 January 2018.
Nordic Saami Youth Statement 2023
Leaflet on The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Joint Intervention The Haudenosaunee and the American Indian Law Alliance
Joint intervention on Territorial Integrity - UNPFII 13th Session
Joint intervention calling for Indigenous Nations permanent observer status - UNPFII 13th Session
Intervention on USA-Canadian Border Issue
Intervention by Haudenosaunee and AILA at EMRIP 6th Session 2013
Haudenosaunee intervention on Principles of Good Governance - UNPFII 13th Session
Fact Sheet on the UNPFII
Comite Global de Mujeres Indigenas ‚ Espanol
Bibliography_UNPFII_2024_EN
Announcement of US Support for Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
AILA Intervention Mohawk Nation Border Issues - UNPFII 14th Session
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Study on the Extent to which Climate Change Policies and Projects Adhere to the Standards set forth in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
Study on resilience, traditional knowledge and capacity-building for pastoralist communities in Africa
Seventh session report
Report of Bolivia to the UNPFII at its ninth session
Participation of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations
Information received from Governments: Russian Federation: report on the international workshop on perspectives of relationships between indigenous peoples and industrial companies, held in Salekhard, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation
Gender and Indigenous Peoples
Free, Prior and Informed Consent guide of the UNPFII
Final report on the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity.
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women
Convention on Biological Diversity
Central Desert Women, Housing and Health”, a project of the UQ Global Change Institute’s Flagship Fund
Health's role in achieving Australia's Sustainable Development Goal commitments”, The Medical Journal of Australia.
Free, Prior and Informed Consent: a human rights-based approach, Study by the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Report of UNICEF to the 15th session (2016) of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Conservation measures and their impact on indigenous peoples’ rights. Report to the General Assembly by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Conservation measures and their impact on indigenous peoples’ rights. Report to the General Assembly by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Study on the treatment of traditional knowledge in the framework of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the post-2015 development agenda
State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples Vol. II, Indigenous Peoples’ Access to Heath Services
Outcome Document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
AILA Joint Intervention calling for permanent observer status
Haudenosaunee Intervention on "Principles of Good Governance
AILA Joint Intervention on "Territorial Integrity"
Study on the extent of violence against indigenous women and girls in terms of article 22 (2) of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Study on indigenous women’s political participation at the international, national and local levels
Study on how the knowledge, history and contemporary social circumstances of indigenous peoples are embedded in the curricula of education systems
Study on how the knowledge, history and contemporary social circumstances of indigenous peoples are embedded in the curricula of education systems
Consolidated report on extractive industries and their impact on indigenous peoples
Report of the UNPFII at its 10th session
Statement by Ambassador Susan E. Rice on US support of UNDRIP
Announcement of U.S. Support for the UNDRIP
Tonya Gonella Frichner Statement in Response to US Report
US Report Submitted to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
Discussion on the reports Doctrine of Discovery/Boarding Schools
Statement on the Preliminary Study on the Doctrine of Discovery
Intervention on USA-Canadian Border Issues
Intervention on the Issue of Hydrofracking
Preliminary study of the impact on indigenous peoples of the international legal construct known as the Doctrine of Discovery
UNPFII ninth session report
Study on the impact of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures on reindeer herding
Recommendations of the UNPFII to the Plurinational State of Bolivia, report of the UNPFII at its ninth session
Impact on Indigenous Peoples of the International Legal construct known as the Doctrine of Discovery, which has served as the Foundation of the Violation of their Human Rights
UNPFII eighth session report
report to the UN Permanent Forum 2009 on self-determination of Greenland
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Report on the Regional Seminar on Indigenous peoples in isolation, initial contact in the Amazon and Gran Chaco Region
UNPFII International Expert Meeting on free, prior and informed consent
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous peoples on the impact of large-scale development projects on the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples and communities
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous peoples on the impact of large-scale development projects on the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples and communities
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