There is no definitive list of indigenous peoples. What the poster below means, is that the UN has produced a list of Indigenous Tribes, and another of Ethnic Groups (in the latter list are the British, the Welsh, the Scottish AND the English – go figure). But the two lists are not mutually exclusive, nor are they comprehensive. They are just a guide. The 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) defines IPs only by the condition in which they find themselves - a short definition would be, in my own words, “under threat from, inter alia, settlement or colonisation by other races” (the inter alia is important, as a combination of things of which settlement is a part can threaten native peoples). Various bodies, including the UN, have produced their own fuller definitions, but the Declaration itself rules, at the end at Article 45, that: “Nothing in this Declaration may be construed as diminishing or extinguishing the rights indigenous peoples have now or may acquire in the future.” So the primary Authority in Law, dictates that the definition has to be fluid, now and for all time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:54:05 +0000
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