Pan-American Cultural Survival Act of 1991

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Pan-American Cultural Survival Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of State, together with the Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID), to report to specified congressional comittees on: (1) the numbers of indigenous peoples in each of the Western Hemisphere's republics; (2) the extent to which indigenous peoples are represented within the Western Hemisphere's democratic institutions; (3) current U.S. Government initiatives to promote the well-being of native peoples and to safeguard their property, cultures, and languages; (4) the extent to which such initiatives have sought to promote environmental preservation by safeguarding the rights of such peoples; (5) actions which may be taken to empower indigenous peoples politically as well as to safeguard their property, cultures, languages, and physical well-being; (6) the solicitation of nongovernmental organizations in drawing up strategies for achieving these goals; and (7) the laws and covenants concerning the status of native peoples, on a nation-by-nation basis. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to include in a specified human rights report the treatment and status of indigenous peoples in the Western Hemisphere. Requires the AID Administrator to establish the position of cultural survival officer in the AID mission in any country in which the indigenous peoples: (1) are underrepresented in the country's political life; or (2) could benefit from the development of measures to preserve areas of ecological or environmental significance. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President, in determining whether to conduct an activity of environmental protection assistance for a Latin American country, to consider the value of such activity in promoting cultural survival of indigenous peoples.

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  summary · EN · 21 March 1991

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