A/HRC/21/47/Add.1 35. Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center: Native American and Alaska Native women are often denied due process within courts and health care services following a sexual assault; denial of health services based on race; need for improved standard of care for sexual assault victims, including the collection of forensic evidence to assist with the prosecution process. 36. Bryce in the Woods: Historical overview of Lakota economic system and secretarial orders regarding Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe lands. 37. Chief Arvol Looking Horse and Indigenous Elders and Medicine Peoples: Call for United States Government to acknowledge indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination, respect their religious and cultural practices, and include indigenous peoples in consultation and decision-making processes. 38. International Indian Treaty Council: Failure of the United States Government to fully accept the rights to self-determination and free, prior and informed consent of indigenous peoples; importance of implementation of Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination concluding observations regarding the Western Shoshone indigenous peoples and nuclear testing, toxic and dangerous waste storage and other activities carried out in areas of spiritual or cultural significance to indigenous peoples; the United Nations Declaration as a framework for a “new jurisdiction” for redress of treaty violations; proposed language to strengthen and recognize treaty rights within the proposed American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 39. President of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe: Non-consultation by state and federal authorities regarding the development of the Keystone XL Pipeline Project; treaty breach of the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty; loss of lands due to the General Allotment Act 1887; call for improved implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 40. Rosebud Sioux Tribe member: Concerns regarding Indian health-care services, home energy costs, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and the Keystone XL Pipeline Project. 41. Owe Aku (Bring Back the Way): Environmental degradation caused by uranium, oil and gas development; lack of free, prior and informed consent; treaty violations by the United States Government; genocide by the Government in Lakota homelands. 42. Oglala Sioux Tribe: Infringement on treaty lands by construction and operation of Keystone XL Pipeline Project; negative environmental consequences if the pipeline is constructed and operated; provided several resolutions from native nations and organizations opposing the Keystone XL Pipeline Project. 43. Chief Iron Eagle, Nakota Sioux Fire: Working to address issues related to treaty rights for the Nakota people. 44. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe: • Resolution opposing the original route of the development of the Keystone XL Pipeline Project through the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe aboriginal homelands and the new proposed route through the Lakota Homelands. • Obstruction of the right to education; need to improve intellectual development of Lakota children. 45. Sicangu Lakota Nation: Complex federal and state laws and regulations negatively affect tribal sovereignty and hinder economic development of indigenous peoples. 39