indigenous history
First peoples' story
Indigenous history refers to the past of native or original peoples of a region, particularly their experiences, cultures, and perspectives before and after colonization.
The phrase often emphasizes narratives told by indigenous peoples themselves rather than by colonizers or outsiders: The museum's new wing focuses on indigenous history.
It may also describe academic fields or courses centered on these topics. (Capitalized Indigenous History may refer to a specific course or academic discipline.)
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- treaty rightsPact-secured legal entitlements
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- resistance movementsOrganized opposition to authority
ancestral wisdom · tribal governance · repatriation · land back · cosmology · medicine wheel · forced migration · land reclamation · language preservation · native tongue · cultural genocide · intergenerational trauma · residential schools · reparations · broken promises · burial grounds · boarding schools · treaties
- historieschronicle, annals, historiography, biography, autobiography
- Latin American historyindependence movements, encomienda, independence movement, dictatorships, banana republics
- Southwest historySanta Fe Trail, frontier, Old West, Wild West, statehood
- TaiwanTaiwan, Taipei, Taichung, Formosa, Republic of China
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- Southeast AsiaVietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia