Indigenous Identity and Language: Some

• Main Authors: Itesh Sachdev, Denise Y. Arnold, Juan De Dios Yapita
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Aymara; Canada; Indian; First Nations
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.531.1541; http://www.bisal.bbk.ac.uk/publications/volume1/pdf/Itesh_sachdev_pdf_1/

The focus of this paper is on indigenous identity and language in Bolivia and Canada. In both these contexts there is great reluctance to treating indigenous peoples as those with internationally recognised juridical rights. The original inhabitants of North and South America have been referred to b...