Chief Oren Lyons's 10 December 1992 address
to the United Nations General Assembly
concerning "The International Year of the Indigenous Peoples" (1993)
with the following theme: "Indigenous Peoples, a New Partnership."
The basic elements of this social ethical analysis are:
Interpretive themes are those basic themes by which human social existence is interpreted or understood.
Populations are specified by space, time, ethnic identity, and other socio-historical and anthropological specifications.
Descriptions are historical and sociological accounts of past and presently continuing circumstances.
Predictions are projections of future circumstances derived from considering the influences of past and present trends.
Visions include predictions plus visions of an alternative more favorable or ideal future.
Prescriptions are social ethical imperatives and public policy recommendations for doing-being differently so as to contribute to a favorably different future.
Each of these distinct yet overlapping aspects include value judgements about what is significant, important, worthy of attention, and good or bad.
Here, in accordance with these basic elements,
we classify selected content from Chief Oren Lyons's
10 December 1992 address to the United Nations General Assembly
concerning "The International Year of the Indigenous Peoples" (1993) with the following theme: "Indigenous Peoples, a New Partnership."