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Indigenous peoples
More than 476 million people belong to Indigenous peoples, in thousands of distinct nations with their own languages, governments and histories. Understanding who they are starts with names, numbers and the long effects of colonisation, and with listening to how Indigenous people describe themselves.
In this topic
- Who are Indigenous peoples?
- Names matter
- Counting, carefully
- Worked example: reading a census table
- Minorities in their own lands
- Who belongs?
- Worked example: a blood quantum rule
- Twentieth-century upheavals
- Oral history as evidence
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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