Self Determination of Indigenous People

SELF DETERMINATION
OF INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Indigenous people...................................................................................................................1
Self determination..................................................................................................................3
Right for self determination....................................................................................................4
Self determination for the indigenous people.........................................................................5
Kosovo’s independence recognised in 2011 by the UN.........................................................7
Kosovo war.............................................................................................................................8
Post war..................................................................................................................................8
Minorities and their self determination..................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Indigenous people are those people which have their unique and own culture, tradition,
language, ethics etc. They are native or aboriginal to the area they live in and are culturally
distinct communities and societies. The report induces the right of self determination of
indigenous people where they have right to determine the own social, economic and cultural
development. The report also consist the Kosovo independence where minority people are
Serbs and they should have given the right of self determination.
Indigenous people
It is being estimated that in the 70 countries, there are more than 370 million people
are indigenous in all over the world. These are the people which practice unique tradition and
retain cultural, economical, social and political features and that are different from those
societies they live. They are spread across the whole world from the Arctic to the south
pacific. Mostly these people live in the remote areas of the globe. These are divided into more
than 5000 people who rang from the forest people of the Amazon to the tribal people of the
India and from the American Indian of the Arctic to the native Australian in Australia. They
are not necessarily claim to be only the native people of the countries but they are native or
aboriginal to the area they live in, being posterity of those individual that inhabited a district
prior to colonisation of the present state. These people are those who have their own culture,
values, religion, ethics, language, political and social institution that are distinct from those
people that live in the mainstream society (Wright and Jack, 2016). There are very important
dis-similarities in their identity and rights, while they feel same experience of the
marginalisation and determination as to the other ethnic minorities. They are culturally
distinct communities and societies.
The resources they use and the land at which they survive are according to their
culture, identity, physical, spiritual well being and livelihood. They are 5% of the global
people out of which 15% are externally poor. They use occupy, own and use one third land of
the world and safeguard 80 % of the world's biodiversity (Sanchez and Rosa, 2016). Some of
them are biologically crucial waters and lands are intact as a result of Indigenous Peoples’
position. They have vital inheritable expertise and knowledge to that how to move, adopt and
decrease the risk for the natural disaster and climate change. Thus, only a portion of these
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areas are formally acknowledged by states, whether they are area where theose Peoples
traditionally possessed under customary title.
Access to the good resource governance, capacity building and tenure to the other
intervention will enhance their situation. This will need, sustainable economic livelihood and
growth, culturally appropriate conservation and development as well as techniques to address
the multiple factors of disadvantage which is taken into view for the special need of the
development. While consideration of the diversity of the indigenous people, indigenous is
defined as people which is not adopted by any system or body (Sushames and Gebel, 2016).
The modern understanding of this term is based on the different aspect, that are as follows:
 The self identification of the indigenous people at the individual level is approved by
the community and their member.
 They have strong connection to the different surroundings and territories natural
resources
 They follow different social political and cultural system.
 They have different language beliefs and culture.
 They form non dominant group of society
 The resolve reproduce and maintain the natural environment and system as the
distinctive communities and peoples.
According to the UK, the most fruitful approach to find the indigenous people is to
identify them rather than define them (Pilger, 2016). Which is connected to the fundamental
creation of the self-identification which is underline in the numbers of the human rights
documents.
The term indigenous is being obtain as the generic term from the many years. They
have been given with the other preference names that are first people or nation, tribes, ethnic
group and janajati. Other geographical and occupation names are peasant, hunters, hill people
and gatherers etc. And in the practical term they are called as indigenous people. They are
classifies on the basis of two categories, that are as follows:
Knowledge and culture:
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