The year 1993 was declared an International Year of the Indigenous People by the United Nations. This Declaration enumerated a wide range of rights and fundamental freedom the indigenous peoples ought to enjoy, their security and protection, besides their inalienable right to belong to an indigenous community and continue practicing their tradition, customs as matter of their individual choice, including land rights. The Declaration strongly adhered to prevention of discrimination and protection of minority rights by giving ample scope for these people to control any development over their land, resources and to maintain and strengthen their institutions, culture and tradition. Furthermore, these people are guaranteed the right to be free from any adverse discrimination.
@Minaketan Bag This is a huge question as the impact may imply to a variety of prosesses and action, such as 1) recognition of their rights 2) recognition of the lacking action in respect to their rights and 3) measures related to the recognition.
The main impact is the focus on structures of power and being conscious of the colonial legacy. Scholarship today tends to be aware of the legacy of scholarship that romanticized other cultures and took the position of Western superiority. You may gain some insight from reading Orientalism by Edward Said.
I would like to add that despite colonial hegemony, it highlights apathy on the part of modern polity, after looting their culture, language, lands, food and other means of production what rights can be offered, just submission to the new nation state in the name of citizenship
Indigenous matters are not just determined by the policy and right recognition, there s also an indigenous global consciousness moving through different social and cultural movements, you can explore that through different practices that move from indigenous worlds to western worlds that beyond romanticism are switching many paradigms in the western minds...
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