Tag: indigenous people

Indigenous Peoples are distinct social and cultural groups sharing “collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live,” or “from which they have been displaced.”

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Learn about the Doctrine of Discovery and how it justified colonialism and exploitation of indigenous peoples, and what we can do today to dismantle it.

Indigenous people are better than governments at preventing forests from being cut and should be seen as a solution, not a barrier to protecting them, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People said on Tuesday.