The scope of this indigenous peoples of the Americas article encompasses the definitions of indigenous peoples and the Americas as established in their respective articles. ...
The indigenouspeoples (aboriginal peoples) of South America are found from the Isthmus of Panama to Tierra del Fuego.
Since the Spanish conquest indigenouspeoples have been used as laborers, poorly paid and lacking political representation; these conditions of semiservitude are changing slowly.
Sadly, the indigenouspeoples of South America continue to be assimilated into white-dominated national cultures as their traditional ways of life and homelands are being destroyed by over-population growth and industrial development.
For indigenouspeoples, consultation, participation and consensus are of the greatest importance in relation to decision-making - in order that the decision of the majority will prevail as a democratic principle.
After nearly two centuries in which indigenouspeoples were either excluded or marginalized from national politics, new types of indigenous social movements emerged in the 1970s and 1980s.
Demographic and socio-economic data related to the size of indigenous populations, their locations within countries, the number of people who speak native languages, the names of the tribes and communities, poverty levels and human development indicators, and other relevant information.
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