The Survival International Announcement said "Indigenous peoples around the world are today celebrating the UN General Assembly's approval of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. " I wonder of course if anyone saw any indigenous people actually CELEBRATING. My guess is that they have stopped celebrating about such things long ago, fed up with the weasel words of the international community. And their victories are usually moral, and posthumous...The vote was far from unanimous, it would take a unanimous vote to at least psychologically, begin to ameliorate centuries of injustice. As expected countries built through the usurpation of indigenous lands, would oppose any move to recognise rights over vast, resource-rich territories...And we are not talking about any poor, underdeveloped nations, but some who claim to enjoy the highest standards of living, human development indices and the like, of course only as far as their non-indigenous population is concerned. Thus, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States voted against the declaration, while 143 countries voted for (and 11 abstained.)