Ca✩ Forum on Anthropology in Public
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On Human Rights Day 1992, the United Nations proclaimed an International Year of the World’s Indigenous People. A Decade for Indigenous Peoples was subsequently launched, to run from 1995 to 2004, and a Forum of Indigenous Peoples established. The inaugural meeting of the Forum, held in Geneva in 1996, was unfortunately disrupted by gate-crashers. A self-styled delegation of South African Boers turned up and demanded to be allowed to participate on the grounds that they too were indigenous people. Moreover, they claimed that their traditional culture was under threat from the new African National Congress government. They were unceremoniously ejected, and no doubt their motives were far from pure, but the drama might usefully have drawn attention to the difficulty of defining and identifying “indigenous people.” The loaded terms “native” and “indigenous” are the subject of much debate in activist circles. “Native” still has a colonial ring in many parts of the world, though it has become an acceptable label in North America. It is now always capitalized (Native), perhaps in order to suggest that it refers to a nation of some sort, and in fact the term “First Nations” is often used as an alternative designation in Canada and the U.S.A. In international discourse, however, the term “indigenous” is usually preferred. This has a slightly foreign ring to English ears,
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