The Representation Of Indigenous People

The authority and right of a group of people over a land becomes questionable through the passage of time; individuals and nations that have established a relation with a land and country long ago may not always be understood by the recent settlers. This fact is a reason why indigenous people have to represent their heritage and history and resist struggles and challenges.
Indigenous people may not be entitled to a precise definition, as the term covers many cases and situations. However, the universal understanding would speak of the people who have oldest ties with a land, prior to the settling of people of other continents. Instead of deteriorating, the issues of indigenous people have grown to be common. This is not only due to the lessening population of the said nation, but also because people belonging to countries all over the world, are immigrating to the country where there may be an indigenous nation. Rather than valuing the history of the natives, the focus has become to reform a country with new laws. This view is praiseworthy if it granted equal attention to the people who had ancestors living on the land before the concept of government and laws was applied. Nonetheless, this reality is the facilitating factor of indigenous people’s representation and resistance.

The resistance is often in matters which are deemed unreasonable in the eyes of others (including the government) but, is crucial to the belief and ideologies of the group.
A particular group of indigenous people are known as First Nations, in Canada. The following articles are an example of both representation and resistance.
The first link, speaks of the opposition and noncompliance with the ‘transparency law’. Although a great number of tribes have agreed with the bill, others consider it to be an ‘unjust