Find out how you can help!Indigenous Peoples Days 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009 (All day) - Monday, October 12, 2009 (All day)
- Various Locations, Nevada City [Map It]
Bringing together native and non-native peoples to honor indigenous history and culture
Four days of events celebrating indigenous peoples:
- Friday: Opening Ceremony
- Saturday: Calling Back the Salmon
- Sunday: All Day Celebration
- Monday: Indigenous Peoples Day
See all of the details online at www.indigenouspeoplesdays.org
The term indigenous peoples
The term indigenous peoples can be used to describe any ethnic group of people who inhabit 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.[1] However, several widely accepted formulations, which define the term indigenous peoples in stricter terms, have been put forward by prominent and internationally recognized organizations, work at home, such as the United Nations, the International Labour Organization and the World Bank. Indigenous peoples in this article is used in such a narrower sense.
Other related terms for indigenous peoples include aborigines ( æbəˈrɪdʒɪni (help·info)), aboriginal people, native people, first people, and autochthonous (this last term is derived from Greek, meaning "sprung from the earth"). Indigenous peoples may often be used in preference to these or other terms as a neutral replacement, where such terms may have taken on negative or pejorative connotations by their prior association and use. It is the preferred term in use by the United Nations and its subsidiary organizations.