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with additional funding to courts and law enforcement. In that regard, she also urges
the Government to seriously consider mandating sexual assault protocols.
Health impacts of energy development
91.
The federal Government should continue to support indigenous peoples in
developing their capacity to address the health impacts of energy projects and provide
them with additional services for the treatment of mental health, alcoholism and drug
addiction, including drug rehabilitation services and hospitals.
Education
92.
The federal Government should continue to support tribal colleges with
adequate tax incentives, education grants and financial resources to empower
indigenous peoples to realize their self-determined economic development goals in line
with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Criminalization of indigenous dissent
93.
The federal Government should develop and provide anti-oppression and antiracism training to federal and state law enforcement agents; collect disaggregated
data to reflect the rate of incarceration of indigenous peoples at both the federal and
state levels; mandate the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the
excessive use of force and militarized response to the water protectors at the Standing
Rock Sioux Reservation, including the use of non-lethal weapons; consider granting
clemency to Leonard Peltier.
94.
The state Governments should prohibit state taxation of lands held in trust for
the benefit of indigenous peoples. Where states impose taxes on Indian lands, such tax
revenues should be re-invested into tribal lands to provide infrastructure and services.
95.
Indigenous peoples should continue to develop policies to take control of
renewable and non-renewable energy development and guidelines for doing business
to facilitate tribal development. They should work with other indigenous peoples in
other parts of the world on issues of common concern; go beyond formal engagements
with members of the federal Government and develop personal relationships with
them; and negotiate agreements for energy development on their own terms.
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