indigenous

Examples of indigenous in the following topics:

• Race Relations in Mexico: The Color Hierarchy

  • In Mexico, indigenous groups are formally defined as people that speak one of 62 officially recognized indigenous languages.
  • Indigenous groups are formally defined in Mexico as groups that speak one of sixty-two officially recognized indigenous languages; while indigeneity is associated with Native American biological descent, it is defined culturally rather than genetically.
  • As a classifier, indigenous identity was constructed by the dominant European and Mestizo majority and imposed upon indigenous people as a pejorative.
  • The category of "indigena" (indigenous) can be defined according to linguistic criteria as people who speak one of Mexico's 62 indigenous languages.
  • Conversely, indigenous identity can also be defined broadly to include all persons who self-identify as having an indigenous cultural background, whether or not they speak an indigenous language.

• Colonialism and the Spread of Diseases

  • Trade routes and new world conquests devastated indigenous populations, while being exposed to new pathogens and newly domesticated animals.
  • Historically, this has often involved killing or subjugating the indigenous population.
  • Trade routes and New World conquests devastated indigenous populations, as they were exposed to new pathogens and newly domesticated animals.

• Education and the Global Perspective

  • Indigenous education refers to the inclusion of indigenous knowledge, models, methods, and content within formal and non-formal educational systems.
  • Often in a post-colonial context, the growing recognition and use of indigenous education methods has been a response to the erosion and loss of indigenous knowledge and language through earlier processes of colonialism.
  • It has also enabled indigenous communities to strengthen links to their traditional languages and cultures, a process that has also been linked to increased academic success.
  • Discuss recent worldwide trends in education, including mass schooling, the emergence of secondary education in the U.S., indigenous education, higher education, and online learning

• Language

  • An example of how language can define a group of people and act as the basis for identity is Mexico's 1900s census policy of counting indigenous groups as groups of people who speak one of a set of official indigenous languages.

• Colonialism and Neocolonialism

  • Colonialism is a set of unequal relationships between the metropole and the colony, and between the colonists and the indigenous, or native, population .
  • According to some Marxist historians, in all of the colonial countries ruled by Western European countries, indigenous people were robbed of health and opportunities.

• Social Class

  • For example, in Mexico, society is stratified into classes determined by European or indigenous lineage as well as wealth.

• Mechanisms of Cultural Change

  • Acculturation has different meanings, but in this context it refers to replacement of the traits of one culture with those of another, such has happened to certain Native American tribes and to many indigenous peoples across the globe during the process of colonization.

• Ethnic Groups

  • For example, various ethnic, "national," or linguistic groups from Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Latin America, and Indigenous America have long been combined together as racial minority groups (currently designated as African American, Asian, Latino and Native American or American Indian, respectively).

• Minorities

  • Many indigenous peoples, such as First Nations of Canada, Native Americans of the US, Taiwanese aborigines, and Australian Aborigines have mostly lost their traditional culture (most evidently language) and replaced it with the dominant new culture.

• Culture and Society

  • Popular and indigenous music were not considered part of culture.
  • Someone who uses culture in this sense might argue that classical music is more refined than music by working-class people, such as jazz or the indigenous music traditions of aboriginal peoples.