indigenous people

Also known as aboriginal peoples, traditional peoples, native peoples, first nations, first peoples, aborigines, indigenous peoples

first inhabitants of an area and their descendants

AI overview

Indigenous people are the original inhabitants of a region and their descendants who have maintained a continuous presence there over generations. Understanding who they are matters because they have deep historical, cultural, and often legal claims to their ancestral lands and the knowledge systems they've developed over centuries.

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Research

43,680 papers

Indigenous people's experiences of primary health care in Canada: a qualitative systematic review.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2024Barbo G, Alam SDOI: 10.24095/hpcdp.44.4.01
Misracialization of Indigenous people in population health and mortality studies: a scoping review to establish promising practices.Epidemiologic reviews · 2023Gartner DR, Maples C, Nash M et al.DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxad001
Work and health challenges of Indigenous people in Canada.ReviewThe Lancet. Global health · 2022Durand-Moreau Q, Lafontaine J, Ward JDOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00203-0
Psychology and Indigenous People.Annual review of psychology · 2022González R, Carvacho H, Jiménez-Moya GDOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-012921-045304
Preventative health assessments and indigenous people of Australia: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2023Usher K, Jackson D, Kabir H et al.DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1168568
COVID-19 outbreaks among isolated Amazonian indigenous people, Ecuador.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2021Henriquez-Trujillo AR, Ortiz-Prado E, Rivera-Olivero IA et al.DOI: 10.2471/BLT.20.283028
There is no health without Cultural Safety: why Cultural Safety matters.Contemporary nurse · 2022McGough S, Wynaden D, Gower S et al.DOI: 10.1080/10376178.2022.2027254
Ticking the box of 'cultural safety' is not enough: why trauma-informed practice is critical to Indigenous healing.Rural and remote health · 2021Tujague NA, Ryan KLDOI: 10.22605/RRH6411

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Encyclopedic overview

A Kaqchikel family in the hamlet of Patzutzun, Sololá, Guatemala (1993)

There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “indigenous people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.