### especially endangered today:

Indigenous people
* All indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination.
* Indigenous Peoples continue to claim recognition of their prior ownership of ancestral territories
* Many Indigenous people rely on biodiversity as a means of survival and a source of future capital.
* Many indigenous people continue to live in thatch roofed houses built entirely of forest products
  - eat far more fish than the average
  - survive directly off of the resources found in the rainforests
* Many indigenous peoples believe implicitly in witches and ghosts, even today
  - have problems accessing health centres and hospitals because of racism
  - view themselves as the world's most experienced environmentalists
* Most indigenous people live along the coast or on river banks.
* Some indigenous people utilize saponins to poison and capture fish
  - peoples depend upon killed animals to survive.
  * 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'
* are Australia's poorest, least healthy and most jailed section of society
  - especially endangered today
  - human beings just as other peoples are
  - more spiritual but less capable in advancing civilisation
  - one source of leadership
  - peoples who are born in and naturally inhabit a region
  - responsible for most of the world's cultural and biological diversity
  - rich in resources and wisdom, but they have been dispossessed
* are the most disadvantaged group in Australian society
  - original inhabitants of many countries
  - true custodians of the forest
  - to utilize the land according to their practices and traditions
  - very often the first victims of nuclear developments
* become ethnic nations when they mobilize to seek independence or autonomy
  - their slaves from their births into their graves
* believe in individual freedom, but it is exercised in the context of the group.
* belong to the poorest and most vulnerable on earth.
* die with their forests and grasslands.
* discuss morals, families, community life, spiritual values and ceremonies.
* do have business aspirations and business acumen.
* experience numerous forms of oppression.
* have a land-based culture
  - legacy of sustainable earth stewardship
  - number of concerns with current intellectual property laws
  - range of interests in the management of forested areas
  - relationship to the land and are sovereign in ownership of it
  - vital role to play in helping to reverse and prevent forest degradation
  - and continue to be objectified through processes of colonization
  - differing philosophies regarding ownership of land
  - inalienable rights over their traditional lands and resources
  - little access to modern medicine
* have the right to non-discriminatory employment
  - self-government
  - their culture, their land and their traditional way of life
* know who they are and where they come from.
* learn early in life to respect everything's place in life.
* live in all the countries of Latin America except Uruguay
  - small groups or tribes
* offer a direct link between the present and the ancient past.
* recognise that personal power, learning and thinking are expressed through doing.
* remain at the fringes of the national society
  - exceedingly diverse
* represent many peoples, many cultures, and also different ways of thinking.
* retain a strong sense of responsibility for managing and protecting their land.
* see all of life as holy, the sacred and the mundane as one
  - the whole cosmos as one integrated whole
* speak Fijian dialects
  - about the land they love and the life that is rapidly changing
* use it as a fertility agent and for sexual function in both men and women.
* value their elder wisdom traditions and their oral transmissions.
* view the world in which they live as an integrated whole.