Ponting

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Pontings Definition of Indigenous Peoples

• Indigenous peoples are those who exhibit most of
  the following characteristics
• Non-state form of political organizatn
• Colonization (limited or massive settlement)
  appropriation of lands
• Enduring relations of subordination and
  marginalization
• Holistic, non-capitalistic worldview which
  emphasize integration of the people with the land
  and water form basis of sense of solidarity
• Collective self-definition as Indigenous
• Engagement in a struggle to maintain or regain
  their culture self-determn

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Martinez-Cobos Definition of Indigenous Peoples
(Coates, p. 6)

• Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations are
  those which
• have historical continuity with pre-invasion
  pre-colonial societies that developed on their
  territories and
• consider themselves distinct from other sectors
  of societies now prevailing in those territories
  (or parts of them).
• They form, at present, non-dominant sectors of
  society and
• are determined to preserve, develop, and transmit
  to future generations their ancestral territories
  and their ethnic identity, as the basis of their
  continued existence as peoples, in accordance
  with their own cultural patterns, social
  institns, and legal systems.