A/HRC/21/47/Add.1 133. Native Village of Paimiut, Yupiaq: Alaska Natives Commission: Final Report, Volume I, Anchorage, Alaska (May 1994). 134. Occupy Bearing Sea: Commercial fishing is having damaging effects on native fishing practices; North Pacific Fisheries Management Council needs to enact policies to protect native fishing. 135. Yup’ik Eskimo Dillingham community member: Pebble Mine Project will have devastating consequences on the Bristol Bay cultural landscape and salmon stocks used for subsistence harvest. 136. Atmautluak Traditional Council: Call to the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples to review the denial of the right to self-determination regarding the situation of Alaska and Hawaii. 137. Native Village of Unalakleet community member: Off-shore oil and gas development threatens indigenous communities that rely on marine mammals and fish as primary sources of food; flooding and erosion related to climate change; lack of education; high suicide rates; and lack of self-government. 138. Alaska Federation of Natives: Need for food security is a basic human right and a vital part of Alaska indigenous cultures; provided information regarding way to empower indigenous people to have an active and meaningful role in issues that affect them. 139. Chickaloon Village Traditional Council; Chickaloon Native Village: Proposed Usibelli coal mine threatens indigenous lands and culture. 140. Chickaloon Village community members: • Negative effects of Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act on indigenous families and culture. • Education at the Ya Ne Dah Ah school includes traditional Athabascan culture, history, language in addition to math, reading, and writing while creating relationships between elders and young people of the village. • Importance of language in Athabascan culture, tradition and spirituality. • Indigenous lands and watersheds that support salmon habitat should be protected from the negative effects of coal mining and related activities. • Concern regarding environmental degradation and mental health issues related to the proposed coal mine. • Mental health of village residents is not being adequately considered under the Rapid Health Impact Assessment of the Wishbone Hill Coal Mining Project. • Importance of several rivers and creeks in area to indigenous peoples including Moose Creek, Buffalo Creek, Eska Creek, Chickaloon and King rivers. • Federal Indian law and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act have undermined efforts of Alaskan tribes to realize self-determination, to promote native education, and to assert tribal sovereignty. 141. Second International Indigenous Women’s Symposium on Environmental and Reproductive Health: • Gwich’in Arctic Village; Venetie Tribal Government, Alaska; Resistance of Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands (REDOIL): Tribal challenges to oil and mining industries; right to a healthy environment; need to protect environment and traditional food resources, particularly caribou. 47