Treatment of Indigenous People in Latin American

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According to Shah, indigenous people are those who have historical belonging to a particular region or country before its colonization or transformation into a nation state. Indigenous people may have different cultural, linguistic, traditional and other characteristics to those of the dominant culture of that region or state. There are approximately 40,000,000 people in Latin America that belong to almost 600 different indigenous groups. According to World Bank figures, 12.76% of the entire American population and approximately 40% of the rural population is indigenous. However, “Indigenous peoples around the world have sought recognition of their identities, their ways of life and their right to traditional lands, territories and natural resources; yet throughout history, their rights have been violated. Indigenous peoples are arguably among the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups of people in the world today. The international community now recognizes that special measures are required to protect the rights of the world’s indigenous peoples” (UNPFII).
Moreover, generalizing the treatment of indigenous people in Latin America the continuation of bad treatment and the type of lifestyle indigenous people live is still evident in different regions in the Latin America. However, the fact that the indigenous people are still urbanized or depend on their livelihood and livestock to survive still exist. Also, the extraction of resources by the government and government authorized officials still threatens the land right of the indigenous people. Moreover, the government and other NGO’s still lack in the implementation of the indigenous rights. Which also leads to the indigenous people to have minimum participation in political...

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...edy, violent, and cruel men who put unarmed and harmless Indians to the sword and rob them with extraordinary avarice?(120) When they see Christians venting their rage against them with so many massacres, so much bloodshed without any just cause…”(119).

Works Cited

"Bartoleme De Las Casas." Oregon State University, n.d. Web. 2 May 2014. .
About UNPFII/History, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNFPII), accessed October 16, 2006
De Las Casas, Bartolome. IN DEFENSE OF THE INDIANS. 1970. PDF file. .
Shah, Anup. "Rights of Indigenous People." Global Issues. N.p., 16 Oct. 2010. Web. 3 May 2014. .

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