Indigenous peoples

Indigenous people are the original people who lived in a region before settlers. Indigenous people are also called aborigines, Native people, First People, First Nations, and Autochthonous.

The United Nations prefers to use the phrase Indigenous people because other phrases may be pejorative and give a bad image..

Many indigenous people were oppressed during colonialism. They were treated very poorly. Colonial settlers often robbed the indigenous treasures and took their lands. Some indigenous people were made slaves or killed by colonial settlers.

Colonialism often portays indigenous people to believe propaganda that they are of a lower social class than the new settlers. Indigenous people can grow up to believe that they are of a lower social class or less important. Indigenous people sometimes have to fight for their own land, their own history, human rights and equality.