Article: Indigenous People and Culture

Created: Jan 06, 2007
Updated: Feb 22, 2008

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Indigenous People and Culture

Indigenous culture encompasses the knowledge, arts, traditions, medicines, values, habits, lands, economic, political and social systems of indigenous communities. Indigenous people can be subject to discrimination, inequality, and threats to their culture, and are working to preserve their culture and fully realize their human rights.

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Keywords

culture, arts, traditional knowledge, protection, conservation, oral history, skills, tradition, family life, community, stability, cultural heritage, tribe, tribal, aborigines, native peoples, first peoples, autochthonous, education, minority, racism, cultural diversity, cultural freedom, population, traditions, healing, ethnobotany, human rights, discrimination, autonomy, social exclusion, earth medicine, herbal medicines, ethnobiology

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Featured Organization

Asian Indigenous Women's Network
Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education) is an indigenous peoples' organization born out of the need for heightened advocacy to have the rights of indigenous peoples recognized, respected and protected worldwide.

Links and Resources

First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and Their Futures , book published din May 2005

Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy by Rachel Sieder

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