Reading Room Document

UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Groups

The Constitution would not bar the federal government from establishing the kind of govemment-to-govemment relationship it presently maintains with federally recognized Indian tribes with other appropriately constituted indigenous communities within the jurisdiction of the United States. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/19921/download.

November 1, 1996