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Indignous communities, peoples and nations are those which, having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the socieites now prevailing in 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 and their ancestral territories, and their ethnic identity, as basis of their continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal systems.
Go to UNESCO's Special Focus on Indigenous Peoples
They form at present non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations and their ancestral territories, and their ethnic identity, as basis of their continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal systems.
Go to UNESCO's Special Focus on Indigenous Peoples
