Indigenous peoples

Indigenous people are the original people who lived in a region before settlers. Indigenous people are also called aborigines, Native people, First People, First Nations, and Autochthonous. 

The United Nations prefers to use the phrase Indigenous people because other phrases may be pejorative and give a bad image.

Many indigenous people were oppressed during colonialism. They were treated very poorly. Colonial settlers often robbed the indigenous treasures and took their lands. Some indigenous people were made slaves or killed by colonial settlers.

Colonialism often encourages indigenous people to believe the propaganda that they are of a lower social class than the new settlers. As a result, indigenous people can grow up to believe that they are of a lower social class or less important. Indigenous people sometimes have to fight for their own land, their own history, human rights and equality.

Related pages
 Human rights
 Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
 Native Americans
 Indigenous Australians

Other websites
Institutions
 UNEP Indigenous Knowledge Study 
 Survival International 
 Cultural Survival 
 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) 
 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) 
 Development Gateway Indigenous Issues Topic Page 
 Human Rights Internet- Indigenous issues 
 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 
 IPS Inter Press Service  News on indigenous peoples from around the world

Indigenous studies
 UNEP Indigenous Knowledge Study 
 University of Burgundy (France) Indigenous Studies (Formation Peuples Autochtones) 
 WWW Virtual Library- Indigenous studies resources 
 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

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