indigenous community
Original peoples' settlement
An indigenous community is a group of people who are the original inhabitants of a region, maintaining distinct cultural, social, and often linguistic traditions that predate colonization or settlement by other populations.
The term emphasizes collective identity and shared heritage rather than individual ancestry.
Indigenous communities typically have historical ties to specific territories and may hold special legal status regarding land rights and self-governance.
The indigenous community fought to protect their ancestral fishing grounds.
- tribal councilIndigenous community's ruling body
- oral traditionCulture passed by speech
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- sacred sitesReligiously significant locations
- medicine wheelCeremonial stone circle arrangement
sweat lodge · barter system · kinship ties · treaty rights · land back · ceremonial dance · spirit animal · land reclamation · traditional territory · reservation land · water rights · ancestral knowledge · collective identity · clan system · native language · fishing rights · sustainable agriculture · elder wisdom
- ethnic communitiesethnic enclave, minority group, Chinatown, Little Italy, Little Tokyo
- Indian StatusIndian Act, non-status, band membership, registration number, band
indigenous communityimmigrant community
Settlement of relocated foreigners
colonial settlers · newcomers · expatriate community · refugee community
indigenous communitycolonial administration
Governance of conquered territories
indigenous communitydominant culture
Society's prevailing belief system
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