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Indigenous peoples, almost without exception, have been dispossessed and disregarded by those who 'discovered' them, and their assimilation, or eradication, has been a stated policy of many a government.
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Indigenous peoples, almost without exception, have been dispossessed and disregarded by those who 'discovered' them, and their assimilation, or eradication, has been a stated policy of many a government. Historically, international law has done very little to redress the balance or protect or acknowledge indigenous interests. Even in the current epoch of international law with its focus on human rights, these rights have generally been conceptualised on an individual basis, not fitting easily with the inherent group nature of the indigenous people and their claims to self-determination. One manifestation of this clash of cultures is in the approach to rights over land and natural resources: where the Western system of individual ownership has worked to invalidate and subsume the communal group title of the indigenous, based on ancestry, the good of the whole community and a deep spiritual link to that which sustains them. Recently, however, indigenous communities have found...
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