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Many territories continue to be so invaded.
The book also calls them indigenous, a term widely accepted by the peoples themselves, and now adopted by the United Nations. The word for religion does not exist in many cultures, as it is so closely integrated into life itself. Myths that explain the origins of the world remind people of their place in the universe and of their connection with the past. Some are humorously ironic, others complex and esoteric. Some, notably Aboriginal Dreamtime, speak of the creation of the hills, rocks, hollows, and rivers formed by powerful ancestral spirits in the distant past.