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International Indian Treaty Council is formed to build global Indigenous power and stop forced sterilizations.

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The council argues that: "The United Nations Convention on Genocide states that imposing measures intended to prevent births within a group of people...are acts of genocide... Sterilization must continue as a birth-control choice for women, but for Native people it should be seen in the context of national identity. If an Indian woman is a member of a 3,000-member nation, sterilization has serious consequences for the survival of [her] people as a whole" (Johansen, 1998).