At UN conference, Indigenous peoples say little has changed after promises made a decade ago

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At UN conference, Indigenous peoples say little has changed after promises made a decade ago

This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online, and APTN. In December, Catherine Muruparanga-Ikenn used a power tool to erase the words on a museum display of the Treaty of Waitangi, an 1840 document that asserted British sovereignty over Aotearoa, also known as New Zealand.  For years, many Māori, like Muruparanga-Ikenn, h…