POL201Y1 Lecture 4: Lecture 4
Document Summary
An estimated 370 million indigenous peoples live in some 90 different countries around the world. They represent more than 4,000 of the nearly 7,000 languages, which are still spoken in the world today. Indigenous peoples continue to experience great challenges at the hands of governments, corporations, and non-governmental organizations. Displacement and the loss of access to natural resources is a frequent occurrence and they are being dragged to extinction in many parts of the world. They are struggling to reclaim their lands; develop sustainable economies; protect their languages, identities and cultural resources. Despite the diversity of indigenous peoples, the un has developed a modern understanding of this term based on the following: They are native to the countries they inhabit and that they claim they were there first and have rights of prior occupancy to their lands (you are the first to be there) Latin americans conquered by the spanish and portuguese.
