Without that, it serves no useful purpose to humanity, only a purpose for a minority exclusive group of western professionals possibly at the expense of the unity and survival of indigenous communities struggling to remain intact after a legacy of lies, deceit and oppression. The HGDP should be questioned on their methodology for obtaining consent. In Third World countries, will the HGDP still make the same distinction between 'community' and 'State'. As far as the IAMD is concerned, there are more questions to be asked than answers provided. Greely confirmed that the HGDP will be seeking funds from States.
Many States actively oppress indigenous communities.
If the HGDP relies on government funding, it almost guarantees a bias towards sponsoring governments objectives which historically are counter-productive to indigenous objectives. Current HGDP literature confirms that both collections and information will be made available for scientific research through open-access agreements. It seems there are too many unknowns for anyone to feel confident about the future use of materials and information. This contribution is being copied to a number of organisations who support the Mataatua Declaration in order for them to lend support to this paper, and to expand further on issues. I am sending by mail, three additional papers written by me, which discuss the issues of human genetic research and the broader issues of indigenous knowledge in more detail.