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Running head: INDIGENOUS EDUCATION AND PERSPECTIVESIndigenous Education and PerspectivesName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note

1INDIGENOUS EDUCATION AND PERSPECTIVESIntroductionIt has been seen that currently there are more than 300 millions of indigenous peopleresiding across the world and they exist in every corner of the globe. It has been seen that in mostof the countries indigenous population are deprived of the basic needs and the rights which theydeserve and that is why a strong uproar of them has been observed in various parts of the world.The global indigenous population includes the Torres islanders and aboriginal people ofAustralia, Kwei and San people of Africa, Dalits of India who reside in the southern hilly regionsof India, and thousands of tribal people in Amazonian lands, Mexico and in central and southAmerica. It has been observed that there are a range of diversities among numerouscommunities of indigenous people across the world and those aspects include culture, history,language, traditions, beliefs and values which are very important to each sub-group of theindigenous people (Rubin et al. 2016). However the indigenous people who are scattered innumerous areas across the globe have a shared grudge and that has been generated by thereluctance of the governments of those respective countries. For an example, it has been seenthat the federal government of Australia’s reluctance in providing facilities like education andeven medical treatments for the indigenous population have enraged the indigenous populationof that particular country (Johnston 2014). The purpose of this essay is to highlight how does theglobal indigeneity movement remove indigenous groups’ reliance on political processes at thenational level and whether strategic gains to be made by leapfrogging national governments?Discussion To highlight the level of deprivation the indigenous population have to bear it can be saidthat the indigenous population of Australia have been dealing with a serious issue and that is the

2INDIGENOUS EDUCATION AND PERSPECTIVESfederal government’s reluctance in providing necessary benefits to the Torres islanders and theaboriginal people of Australia which falls under their basic rights. In today’s world in like mostof the developed countries, the people of Australia enjoy free medical care, education andvarious other benefits and it has been seen that in most cases the aboriginal people are deprivedof these benefits or rights as the citizens of Australia (Maldonado, Colombi and Pandya 2016). Itis also a matter of facts that it is very rare when the indigenous people of Australia are regardedas Australian citizen which is a direct breach of law implemented by the constitution of Australia(Tidwell and Zellen 2015). It has been seen that when Rudd, the prime minister of Australia had launched a strategynamed ‘Closing the Gap’ in order to highlight the disparities between the indigenous and non-indigenous population of Australia, regarding children care, medical care, life expectancy andeducation along with employment, a major disparity was revealed which brought in a turbulenttime and numerous protests among the indigenous populations that resulted to numerousindigeneity movement that has raised the awareness of the indigenous population of Australiaand effectively lowered their reliance on the government (McCalman et al. 2016). The years ofoppressions agitated the indigenous population and that enhanced their distrust in thegovernment. In this regard, it is worthwhile to mention that there is a global permanent forum for thebest interests of the indigenous population and where the indigenous people speaks for theirrights and their disregard for the government’s oppression and reluctance towards them(Johnston 2014). The representative of the Asian indigenous population stated in a seminararranged by this forum that in Asia the situation is devastated as the indigenous people are losingtheir lands in a concerning rate and due to lack of development the indigenous population of Asia

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