President Obama stated that the US now “supports” the United Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. US support is no trivial change in policy, since the US was the last of the original four countries to not endorse it when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration in September 2007.
But when you read the fine print, that support has some important caveats. So what does it mean for Indigenous communities affected by mining?
See http://earthblog.org/content/us-supports-un-declaration-rights-indigenous-peoples-what-does-mean-mining.