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Wed May 9, 2012 12:18 pm MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: I'm Michel Martin,
and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. Coming up, as a child,
did you ever build a rocket? Well, how about one that can take
two raw eggs 800 feet up and bring them back safely again?
That's exactly what students from Memphis' Wooddale High School
managed to do, and now they're competing in a national
competition this weekend. We'll hear their inspiring story in
just a few minutes. But, first, we want to turn to a new report
that turns an international spotlight on how America's
indigenous people live. Native Americans, Hawaiians and Alaskan
natives are the subject of a new United Nations Human Rights
Commission report that examines, for the first time, the living
conditions of native people against the standard set by the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. That
declaration establishes minimum, basic rig