• The World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) was a formal international body dedicated to having concepts of aboriginal rights accepted on a worldwide...
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    linguistically distinct Indigenous peoples of the Arctic regions of the Americas, including the Aleuts, Inuit, or Yupik peoples. These peoples entered the continent...
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  • distinct Indigenous peoples spread across every inhabited climate zone and continent of the world except Antarctica. Most Indigenous peoples are in a...
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    Indigenous Peoples' Day is a holiday in the United States that celebrates and honors Indigenous American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures...
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  • Climate change disproportionately impacts indigenous peoples around the world when compared to non-indigenous peoples. These impacts are particularly felt...
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    world's indigenous peoples. There are more than 370 million indigenous people (also known as native, original, aboriginal and first peoples) in some 70 countries...
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  • genocide of indigenous peoples, colonial genocide, or settler genocide is the elimination of indigenous peoples as a part of the process of colonialism...
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    The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP or DOTROIP) is a legally non-binding resolution passed by the United Nations in 2007. It delineates...
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    The Indigenous peoples in Brazil are the peoples who lived in Brazil before European contact around 1500 and their descendants. Indigenous peoples once...
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  • International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples is observed on 9 August each year to raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population...
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    Uncontacted peoples are groups of Indigenous peoples living without sustained contact with neighbouring communities and the world community. Groups who...
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    Indigenous peoples of Mexico (Spanish: gente indígena de México, pueblos indígenas de México), Native Mexicans (Spanish: nativos mexicanos) or Mexican...
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  • The genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil began with the Portuguese colonization of the Americas, when Pedro Álvares Cabral made landfall in what is...
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    The Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 (IPRA), officially designated as Republic Act No. 8371, is a Philippine law that recognizes and promotes the...
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    Indigenous peoples in Canada (also known as Aboriginals) are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada. They comprise the First Nations, Inuit...
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    Indigenous peoples in Chile or Native Chileans (Spanish: Chilenos Nativos) form about 13% of the total population of Chile. According to the 2017 census...
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    The Indigenous peoples in Bolivia or Native Bolivians (Spanish: Bolivianos Nativos) are Bolivians who have predominantly or total Amerindian ancestry....
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    Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as Formosans, Native Taiwanese or Austronesian Taiwanese, and formerly as Taiwanese aborigines, Takasago people or Gaoshan...
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    distinct Indigenous peoples spread across every inhabited climate zone and continent of the world except Antarctica. Most Indigenous peoples are in a...
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  • Esther Tailfeathers (category University of North Dakota alumni)
    the University of Lethbridge, before marrying Bjarne Store-Jakobsen, whom she had met at the 1981 World Council of Indigenous Peoples assembly in Australia...
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  • George Manuel (category Indigenous leaders in British Columbia)
    president of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples, serving in this position until 1981. He had begun to think deeply about the effects of successive...
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  • Indigenous peoples in Quebec (Quebec French: peuples autochtones du Québec) total eleven distinct ethnic groups. The one Inuit community and ten First...
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  • the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities, Indigenous Peoples' Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN) and the Ainu Peoples Council. Most governments in...
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  • The Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism (IPCB) is a non-profit organization based in Nixon, Nevada for the purpose of political activism against...
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  • Mick Miller (Aboriginal statesman) (category Australian indigenous rights activists)
    within the Department of Education regarding his political activities and attendance at a World Council of Indigenous Peoples in Samiland (Sweden). In...
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  • Indigenous Australians are people with familial heritage from, and/or recognised membership of, the various ethnic groups living within the territory of...
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  • of first contact between Europe and the Americas, the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean included the Taíno of the northern Lesser Antilles, most of...
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    The Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast are composed of many nations and tribal affiliations, each with distinctive cultural and political...
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    1982. The MNC was a member of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP).[citation needed] In 1997 the Métis National Council was granted NGO Consultative...
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  • Indigenous peoples of Arizona are the Native American people who currently live or have historically lived in what is now the state of Arizona. There are...
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