Occupation of ancestral lands, or at least of part of them

Common ancestry with the original occupants of these lands

Culture in general, or in specific manifestations (such as religion, living under a tribal system, membership in an Indigenous community, dress, means of livelihood, lifestyle, etc.)

Language (whether used as the only language, as mother-tongue, as the habitual means of communication at home or in the family, or as the main, preferred, habitual, general or normal language)

Residence in certain parts of the country, or in certain regions of the world

Other relevant factors.

On an individual basis, an Indigenous person is one who belongs to these Indigenous populations through self-identification as Indigenous (group consciousness) and is recognized and accepted by these populations as one of its members (acceptance by the group). This preserves for these communities the sovereign right and power to decide who belongs to them, without external interference.

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Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations are those which have a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, and may consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories, or parts of them. They form at present non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories, and their ethnic identity, as the basis of their continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal system.[14]


This historical continuity may consist of the continuation, for an extended period reaching into the present of one or more of the following factors:

: Kenya[16][17]

Abagusii

(Hadzabe): Tanzania, Singida region: southeast, south and northwest of Lake Eyashi.

Hadza

: Tanzania[18][19]

Iraqw

: Kenya[20][21]

Kalenjin

: Kenya[22][23]

Kikuyu

: Kenya[24][25]

Luhya

: Kenya, Tanzania[26][27][28]

Maasai

: Kenya[29][30]

Rendille

: Kenya, Tanzania[20][31]

Samburu

: Tanzania, Dodoma region: Kondoa district, between Bubu and Mponde rivers, Singida region.

Sandawe

Pygmy peoples

Twa

Afroasiatic

Semitic peoples

(Badawī) of the interior deserts of Arabia and Syria.

Bedouin

(Al-Muwaḥḥidūn/Al-Muwaḥḥidīn/Ahl al-Tawḥīd): of Jabal al-Druze, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel. The faith of the Druze is a blend of Islam's Ismailism, Judaism, Christianity, Neoplatonism, Pythagoreanism, Gnosticism and Greek philosophy. The foundational text of the faith is the Epistles of Wisdom. Even though they have been a minority for their entire history, they have played a significant role in shaping the history of the Levant. Although the faith originally developed out of Ismaili Islam, Druze are usually not considered Muslims. The oldest and most densely-populated Druze communities exist in Mount Lebanon and in the south of Syria around Jabal al-Druze (literally the "Mountain of the Druze").

Druze

Mandaeans

/Marsh Arabs (Ma'dan/ʻArab al-Ahwār): An Arabic-speaking people living in the marshes of southern Iraq or on the Iranian side of the Shatt al-Arab.[74]

Marsh Dwellers

Northwest Semitic

Arameans

Adivasis

Dravidian peoples

: Hunza and Chitral districts, Gilgit-Baltistan, Northern Pakistan

Burusho

Lolo-Burmese

(Wanniyala-Aetto): Sri Lanka

Vedda

: Maldives

Dhivehi

Turkic peoples

Äynu

peoples

Tibetan

Mongolic peoples

Oirats

Austroasiatic

Aslian

Austronesian peoples

Malayo-Polynesian

Hmong-Mien

Hmong

Montagnards

Austroasiatic

Negrito

Mani

Karenic

Tai peoples

Southwestern Tai

of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia[112]

Sámi

of northern Russia[113]

Samoyedic peoples

Indigenous peoples in North America

Aboriginal peoples in Canada

by native cultural regions

Indigenous peoples in North America

Aboriginal Australians include of people, defined by various overlapping characteristics such as language, culture and geography, which may include sub-groups. The Indigenous peoples of the island state of Tasmania and the Tiwi people (of the Tiwi Islands off the Northern Territory) are also Aboriginal peoples, who are genetically and culturally distinct from Torres Strait Islander peoples.

hundreds of groupings

Torres Strait Islander peoples are culturally and linguistically -Austronesian, and the various peoples of the islands are of predominantly Melanesian descent. The Torres Strait Islands are part of the state of Queensland.

Papuo

Chukotko-Kamchatkan

Eskimo–Aleut

Aleut

Turkic

Dolgans

Ugrians

Khanty

(Sámi/Saami/Lapp), formerly known by the exonym Lapps: Northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Kola Peninsula in Russia

Sami

Samoyedic peoples

West Siberia

(Odul/Vadul/Detkil'): Far Northern East Siberia, Russia

Yukaghirs

Circumpolar peoples is an umbrella term for the various Indigenous peoples of the Arctic.


List of peoples by ethnolinguistic grouping:

Center for World Indigenous Studies

Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous peoples

Indigenous archaeology

Indigenous Dialogues

Indigenous (ecology)

Indigenous intellectual property

Indigenous knowledge

Indigenous language

Indigenous medicine

Indigenous music

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs

United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

World Council of Indigenous Peoples

Working Group on Indigenous Populations

List of contemporary ethnic groups

Lists of people by nationality

List of indigenous rights organizations

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