Wake Up the Indian Inside of You by Catherine Joy
Limcaco/PoorNewsNetwork Thursday Sep 11th, 2008 1:35 PM The 1st
anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Declaration on
Indigenous Peoples is celebrated in San Francisco In 1992, the
American Indian community wanted the United Nations to proclaim
the year to be the International Year of Indigenous People.
Spain, on the other hand, was against this idea--not because
they were against the recognition for indigenous people, but
wanted the glory for themselves. Spain wanted to take the year
to celebrate Columbus' discovery of the so-called "new world."
With conflict arising, the United Nations denied the proposals
of both Spain and the American Indian people and declared the
year 1992 as the International Year of Science. The United
Nations declared 1993 to be International Year of Indigenous
People. It may sound like a wish come true but it proved to be a
bust. To their satisfaction, the American Indians argued that a
decade was proper to honor the indige