INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

The term Indigenous Peoples can be used to describe any ethnic group of people who inhabits a geographic region with which they have the earliest known historical connection,alongside more recent immigrants who have populated the region and may be greater in number.Other related terms for indigenous people include aborigines,native people,first people,first nations and autochthonous (terms from Greek,means "Sprung from the earth.The adjective indigenous has the common meaning of "from" or of the original origin.The international Day of the worlds indigenous people falls on August 9 as this was the date of the first meeting in 1982 of the United Nations working Group of Indigenous Population.