page_title: List of indigenous peoples
section_title: South America
hierarchical_section_title: List of indigenous peoples / Americas / South America
caption_attribution_description: English: Urarina Shaman photographed by Bartholomew Dean, 1988
context_page_description: This is a partial list of the world's indigenous / aboriginal / native people. Indigenous people are "those ethnic groups that were indigenous to a territory prior to being incorporated into a national state, and who are politically and culturally separate from the majority ethnic identity of the state that they are a part of". There are internationally recognized definitions of indigenous peoples, such as those of the United Nations, the International Labour Organization and the World Bank.
  This list is grouped by region, and sub-region. Note that a particular group may warrant listing under more than one region, either because the group is distributed in more than one region in North America and eastern Russia, or there may be some overlap of the regions themselves.
context_section_description: South America generally includes all of the continent and islands south of the Isthmus of Panama.
  Indigenous peoples in South America by Country:
  Indigenous peoples in Argentina
  List of indigenous peoples in Brazil
  Indigenous peoples in Chile
  Indigenous peoples in Colombia
  Indigenous peoples in Ecuador
  Indigenous peoples in Peru
  Indigenous peoples in South America by native cultural regions
caption: Urarina shaman, 1988
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