From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Indigenous people
are the original people who lived in a region, before
immigrants
. Indigenous people are also called
aborigines
,
native people
,
first people
,
first nations
, and
autochthonous
.
The
United Nations
likes to use the phrase
Indigenous peoples
because other phrases may sound bad (this is called a
pejorative
).
Many indigenous people were oppressed in
colonial times
. They were treated very poorly.
Colonial
settlers often robbed the indigenous treasures and took their lands. Sometimes indigenous people were made
slaves
, or killed by colonial settlers.
Colonialism
often wanted indigenous people to believe that they were lower
social class
than the new settlers. That is
propaganda
. Indigenous people can grow up believing that they are lower
social class
, or less important. Indigenous people sometimes have to fight for their own land, their own history,
human rights
and
equality
.
