Indigenous Peoples

• Main Authors: Nagel, Joane, Johnson, Jay T., Hall, Thomas D.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: First Nations; Sámi; tlingit
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118663202.wberen072; http://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2F9781118663202.wberen072; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118663202.wberen072

“Indigenous peoples” is a modern concept used mainly by scholars and international organizations to describe culturally diverse groups with varied histories currently living in many states and regions around the world. Most contemporary indigenous peoples share a history of colonization in which their territory was appropriated and their language and culture were subordinated. Indigenous groups typically live in, or maintain attachments to, geographically distinct territories and many maintain distinctive cultural, social, economic, and political institutions within their communities or territories. Indigenous groups identify themselves as different from the national societies in which they reside and frequently seek a degree of home rule or independence from those national units. Labels used by indigenous communities or assigned to them by others include “tribes,” “Natives,” “First Nations,” and “aboriginals” as well as specific names of particular groups, such as “Bushmen,” “Diné,” “Māori,” “Ainu,” “Sámi,” “Miskito,” “Quechuas,” “Uyghur,” and “Tlingit.”