Cultural or ethnic groups living in an area where their culture developed or where their people have existed for many generations. Most of the world's indigenous peoples live in remote forests, mountains, deserts, or arctic tundra, where...

For well over a century claims have been advanced that Native Americans, and indigenous peoples in general, are about to vanish (Bodley 1990, 1994; Dippie 1982). Apparently, however, indigenous peoples have neither read nor followed these scripts. In...

The term indigenous is used to refer to the original inhabitants in a region. With regard to human populations, this term can be politically ambiguous, but the concept is still helpful in referring to small-scale societies with distinct languages,...

The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition, but can be used about any ethnic group who inhabit the geographic region with which they have the earliest historical connection. However, several widely-accepted formulations,...

I was walking along a beach in Fiji one time, absorbed in the glorious Technicolor spectacle of a South Pacific sunset. Suddenly, from behind a palm tree, a muscular young man carrying a long spear and dressed only in a sulu, the abbreviated Fijian...

Alfred, Taiaiake, Corntassel, Jeff Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 05-12-2003 Few people may realize that we are living in the United Nations' (UN) "International Decade of the World's Indigenous People" (1995 - 2004). The goal stated at the outset of the Indigenous Decade...

Indigenous people are being pushed off their lands to make way for an expansion of biofuel crops around the world, threatening to destroy their cultures by forcing them into big cities, the head of a U.N. panel said Monday.Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, chair of the U.N. Permanent...

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a declaration Thursday affirming the rights of native peoples worldwide over objections from the United States and Canada, ending two decades of deliberations.The declaration, which is not legally binding, affirms the equality of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples and...

Essay discusses the mistreatment of Native Americans by the Canadian government.

This essay deals with the online stereotypes of Aboriginal people.

A summary of Israel's view on the rights of indigenous rights, including land ownership, intellectual property rights, and ecotourism.