- "Indigenous peoples are the first inhabitants of an area and their descendants." - "The term Indigenous was first used by Europeans, who used it to differentiate the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the European settlers of the Americas, as well as from the sub-Saharan Africans the settlers enslaved and brought to the Americas by force."
Examines the intersection between settler colonialism and Indigenous cultures and identities.
Indigenous Peoples: Introduction to the concept of Indigenous Peoples, their history, culture, and traditions.
Colonialism: Understanding the historical and contemporary impacts of colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and their land.
Land Rights: Examining the concept of Indigenous land rights, including the land claims process and legal challenges.
Activism: Learning about Indigenous-led social justice movements, resistance, and activism.
Sovereignty: Understanding Indigenous sovereignty, including self-determination and the role of Indigenous governance.
Language: Examining the importance of indigenous languages and revitalization efforts.
Treaty Rights: Understanding Indigenous treaty rights and their legal significance.
Racism: Understanding the impacts of racism, prejudice, and discrimination on Indigenous Peoples.
Traditional knowledge: Learning about traditional knowledge, including Indigenous ecological knowledge, medicine, and spirituality.
Identity: Examining the intersectionality of identity, including gender, sexuality, and cultural identity.
Indigenous Knowledge: This field studies the knowledge systems and practices of Indigenous peoples, including traditional ecological knowledge, healing practices, and spiritual beliefs.
Indigenous Literature: This field explores the literary traditions of Indigenous peoples, including oral storytelling, poetry, and fiction.
Indigenous Art: This field studies the visual arts of Indigenous peoples, including painting, sculpture, and traditional crafts.
Indigenous History: This field studies the history of Indigenous peoples, including their experiences of colonization, resistance, and sovereignty.
Indigenous Politics: This field studies the political systems and struggles of Indigenous peoples, including activism and resistance movements.
Indigenous Education: This field studies the educational systems and practices of Indigenous peoples, including language revitalization and decolonization efforts.
Indigenous Health: This field studies the health disparities and challenges faced by Indigenous peoples, including colonial legacies and cultural barriers.
Indigenous Law: This field studies the legal systems and principles of Indigenous peoples, including treaty rights and self-determination.
Indigenous Ecology: This field studies the relationships between Indigenous peoples and the natural environment, including traditional land management practices and conservation efforts.
Indigenous Language: This field studies the languages of Indigenous peoples, including language revitalization efforts and the preservation of linguistic diversity.
- "Peoples are usually described as 'Indigenous' when they maintain traditions or other aspects of an early culture that is associated with the first inhabitants of a given region."
- "Not all Indigenous peoples share this characteristic, as many have adopted substantial elements of a colonizing culture, such as dress, religion or language."
- "Indigenous peoples may be settled in a given region (sedentary), exhibit a nomadic lifestyle across a large territory, or be resettled."
- "There are approximately five thousand Indigenous nations throughout the world."
- "Indigenous peoples' homelands have historically been colonized by larger ethnic groups, who justified colonization with beliefs of racial and religious superiority, land use or economic opportunity."
- "Indigenous peoples continue to face threats to their sovereignty, economic well-being, languages, ways of knowing, and access to the resources on which their cultures depend."
- "Indigenous rights have been set forth in international law by the United Nations, the International Labour Organization, and the World Bank." - "In 2007, the UN issued a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) to guide member-state national policies to the collective rights of Indigenous peoples."
- "Estimates of the total global population of Indigenous peoples usually range from 250 million to 600 million."
- "Official designations and terminology of who is considered Indigenous vary between countries, ethnic groups and other factors." - "In the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, Indigenous status is often applied unproblematically to groups descended from the peoples who lived there prior to European settlement." - "In Asia and Africa, definitions of Indigenous status have been either rejected by certain peoples or applied to minorities and/or oppressed peoples, who may not be considered 'Indigenous' in other contexts."
- "The concept of indigenous peoples is rarely used in Europe, where very few indigenous groups are recognized, with the exception of groups such as the Sámi."