Week 1 Reading

In the reading I thought a few points were very interesting. One in particular jumped out at me; the four nations who opposed the declaration of indigenous peoples.  It's ironic that the U.S. says its a free country, and is the super power of the world, yet there are these injustices going on. If the U.S. is not developed enough to recognize it's mistakes,  how is everything going to pan out? What I mean by this is, if we're not able to look back on our history and correct mistakes how are we going to move forward?