indigenous

Examples of indigenous in the following topics:

• Indigenous Efforts Against Colonialism

• Disease in the New World

  • European exploration and invasion of the Americas brought with them many foreign diseases, causing widespread depopulation among indigenous cultures.
  • Soon after, observers noted that immense numbers of indigenous Americans began to die from these diseases.
  • After the epidemics had already killed massive numbers of indigenous Americans, many newer European immigrants assumed that there had always been relatively few indigenous peoples.
  • The population of the indigenous peoples in Mexico declined by an estimated 90% (reduced to 1-2.5 million people) by the early 17th century.
  • In Peru, the indigenous pre-contact population of approximately 6.5 million declined to 1 million by the early 17th century.

• Race Relations in Mexico: The Color Hierarchy

  • In Mexico, indigenous groups are formally defined as people that speak one of 62 officially recognized indigenous languages.
  • Indigenous groups are formally defined in Mexico as groups that speak one of sixty-two officially recognized indigenous languages; while indigeneity is associated with Native American biological descent, it is defined culturally rather than genetically.
  • As a classifier, indigenous identity was constructed by the dominant European and Mestizo majority and imposed upon indigenous people as a pejorative.
  • The category of "indigena" (indigenous) can be defined according to linguistic criteria as people who speak one of Mexico's 62 indigenous languages.
  • Conversely, indigenous identity can also be defined broadly to include all persons who self-identify as having an indigenous cultural background, whether or not they speak an indigenous language.

• The New World

  • Indigenous visual arts traditions in the Americas span thousands of years, representing cultures from Mesoamerica to the Arctic.
  • There are almost as many terms for indigenous people in the Americas as there are geographic regions.
  • At least a thousand different indigenous languages are spoken in the Americas.
  • Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas comprise a major category in world art history.
  • To gain an appreciation for the breadth and diversity of indigenous peoples and cultures of the Americas.

• Miscellaneous tips

  • Encourage the planting of trees or other indigenous foliage outside the office building.

• South America

  • South American art has a long and rich history, from indigenous roots and European colonization to the arrival of new immigrants from Asia.
  • Tensions between indigenous peoples and European colonizers shaped South America from the 16th through the 19th centuries.
  • During the Late Intermediate period (1000 - 1476 CE), the regions were populated by a number of indigenous nations.
  • During this period, most art focused on religious subjects, as the Spanish sought to convert the indigenous people to Christianity.
  • Quick to purge any indigenous cultural practices that hindered their missionary intentions, many native artworks that were considered pagan were destroyed by Spanish explorers.

• Spanish Art in the Americas

  • Art in the Americas during the 18th century is characterized by a synthesis of European and Indigenous styles.
  • Artistic production in the Americas during the 1700s and early 1800s reflects the influence of Spanish colonization on Indigenous cultures that was in effect at the time.
  • Indigenous artists were taught European techniques but retained styles that were representative of their local sensibilities.
  • The work of this period represents a long process of mixed-heritage blending of indigenous people and Europeans, culturally and genetically.
  • Examples of this again include the combination of European, Latin American, and Indigenous features, local flora and fauna and landscape.

• Pacific Coast Culture

  • The term "Northwest Coast", or "North West Coast", is used to refer to the groups of indigenous people residing along the coasts of British Columbia, Washington State, parts of Alaska, Oregon, and northern California.
  • The Pacific Northwest Coast at one time had the most densely populated areas of indigenous people.
  • Although music varied in function and expression among indigenous tribes, there were cultural similarities.
  • Art provided indigenous people with a tie to the land and was a constant reminder of their birth places, lineages, and nations.
  • Tribal art included plank houses and totem poles that served as constant reminders of indigenous peoples' birth places, lineages, and nations.

• Civil Rights of Native Americans

  • Native Americans are people of indigenous American descent, including indigenous peoples within the boundaries of the present-day United States.
  • Prior to the 15th century, groups that were indigenous to the Americas lived in isolation from the rest of the world.
  • Indigenous societies ranged widely in terms of geographic location, culture, and social structure, with distinct languages and governing systems.
  • On the one hand, settlers objected to large portions of land being given to indigenous populations, and on the other, Native Americans objected to having their movement restricted and their territory reduced.

• Aboriginal Australian Art

  • The influence of Aboriginal artwork in Australia carries over to the 19th and 20th centuries in the works of William Barak, who recorded traditional aboriginal ways for the education of Westerners; Margaret Preston, a non-indigenous painter incorporating Aboriginal influences in her works; Albert Namatjira, an Arrernte artists whose landscapes inspired the Hermannsburg School of art; and Elizabeth Durack, notable for her fusion of Western and indigenous influences.