indigenous people

• Why is there a need for definition?
• The International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs three primary rationales
• Aetas in Pampanga, they are refered to as baluga or black people
• Sama people being called siyamal or dirty
• The word indigenous comes from the Latin word indigenous which means native or original inhabitant.
• Indigenous - original inhabitants of the land
• The term indigenous used continuously, whether as a form of collective name for categorization or as representatiin to the legal issues
• Canada - first/people or nations
• Australia - aboriginals
• Nepal - janajati
• India - adivasi
• Orang asli - tribal people
• Bumiputera - son of soil
• Two primary similarities in existing definitions of IPG
• Article 1 Section 2 of ILO Conveniention Number 169 - magnitude of the right to self identification of tribal or IP groups
• Self Identification - fundamental criterion for whether a person considers himself as tribal or indigenous
• Preservation, Development, and Transmission - the basis of their existence as people who are in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal systems.
• The Martinez Cobo's Report to the UN