Summary
UN Special Rapporteur whose 1986 definition of indigenous peoples, The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People records, “has de facto been adopted” in the absence of an agreed definition, and against which the Naqab Bedouin are measured and found to meet the criteria of Indigeneity (The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, PDF p.2-3, 7 / printed p.82-83, 87).
Details
- The definition as quoted: indigenous communities, peoples and nations are those with historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies, distinct from the sectors now prevailing, non-dominant, and determined to preserve and transmit their ancestral territories and ethnic identity in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal systems (PDF p.3 / printed p.83, citing UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/1986/7/Add.4, pp.378-380, notes 4 and 25).
- Glossed in the article: indigenous people constitute a nation that lived in a territory invaded and subsequently controlled by a colonial state, with language, culture, land, identity and historical continuity in common, playing a marginal role in contemporary society (PDF p.3).
Related pages
The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People, Indigeneity, Naqab