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3. Indigenous people have the right to recognition
and respect for all their ways of life, cosmovisions,
spirituality, uses, customs, norms, traditions, forms
of social, economic, and political organization;
forms of transmission of knowledge, institutions,
practices, beliefs, values, dress, and languages,
recognizing their inter-relationship as established in
this Declaration.
▼Article XIV.
Systems of knowledge, language, and communication
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to preserve, use,
develop, revitalize, and transmit to future generations
their own histories, languages, oral traditions,
philosophies, systems of knowledge, writing, and
literature, and to designate and retain their own
names for their communities, individuals, and places.
2. States shall adopt adequate and effective measures
to protect the exercise of this right with the full and
effective participation of indigenous peoples.