Indigenous peoples

Indigenous people are the original people who lived in a region, before immigrants. Indigenous people are also called aborigines, native people, first people, first nations, and autochthonous.

The United Nations likes to use the phrase Indigenous peoples because other phrases may sound bad (this is called a pejorative).

Many indigenous people were oppressed in colonial times. They were treated very poorly. Colonial settlers often robbed the indigenous treasures and took their lands. Sometimes indigenous people were made slaves, or killed by colonial settlers.

Colonialism often wanted indigenous people to believe that they were lower social class than the new settlers. That is propaganda. Indigenous people can grow up believing that they are lower social class, or less important. Indigenous people sometimes have to fight for their own land, their own history, human rights and equality.

Indigenous Peoples Media

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  A Kaqchikel family in the hamlet of Patzutzun, Guatemala, 1993

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  Colorized photograph of an Amis couple in traditional clothing. Taken in pre–World War II Japanese-ruled Taiwan.

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  Guatemalan girls in their traditional clothing from the town of Santa Catarina Palopó on Lake Atitlán

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  Alonso Fernández de Lugo presenting the captured Guanche kings of Tenerife to Ferdinand and Isabella

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  Depiction of a Spaniard entering Chalco with three Tlaxcalan soldiers and an Indigenous porter in the Lienzo de Tlaxcala (pre-1585)

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  A map of uncontacted peoples, around the start of the 21st century

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  African Pygmies in Congo

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  Inuit on a traditional qamutik (dog sled) in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada

Related pages

• Human rights
• Colonialism
• Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization

Institutions

• UNEP Indigenous Knowledge Study Archived 2007-08-15 at the Library of Congress Web Archives
• Survival International Archived 2009-09-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Cultural Survival Archived 2005-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
• Rural poverty and indigenous peoples on Rural Poverty Portal, powered by IFAD
• IFAD and indigenous peoples (International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD)
• UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UN PFII)
• Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP) Archived 2005-11-23 at the Wayback Machine
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)- Indigenous peoples
• UNESCO Actions in favour of Indigenous Peoples
• International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
• Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network (APIYN) Archived 2007-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
• Development Gateway Indigenous Issues Topic Page Archived 2007-12-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Human Rights Internet- Indigenous issues Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
• Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
• European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights (ENIAR)
• Indigenous Peoples' Center for Documentation, Research and Information (docip)
• Diplomacy Monitor - Indigenous Peoples Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine
• IPS Inter Press Service Archived 2006-08-10 at the Wayback Machine News on indigenous peoples from around the world

Indigenous studies

• UNEP Indigenous Knowledge Study Archived 2007-08-15 at the Library of Congress Web Archives
• University of Burgundy (France) Indigenous Studies (Formation Peuples Autochtones) Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
• WWW Virtual Library- Indigenous studies resources Archived 2010-01-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS)
• African Pygmies studies Anthropological fieldwork about Pygmies
• A History of Aboriginal Treaties and Relations in Canada This site includes contextual materials, links to digitized primary sources and summaries of primary source documents.
• Articles on Theory of Property Rights and the Environment