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1 Mar 2014

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Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission

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The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission hereby recommends that the Navajo Nation Council oppose the use of disparaging references to Native Peoples in professional sports franchises as "redskin", "redskins", "chiefs", etc...[It] further hereby recommends that the Navajo Nation government use the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples when addressing the rights of the Navajo people domesticlly, nationall, and internationally...