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Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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Let an agent describe Indigenous peoples of the Americas respectfully, using self-designations and specific nation names, attributing cultural and spiritual matters to the peoples themselves, and presenting rights, sovereignty and history with sources.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent describe Indigenous peoples of the Americas respectfully, using self-designations and specific nation names, attributing cultural and spiritual matters to the peoples themselves, and presenting rights, sovereignty and history with sources.

The Indigenous peoples of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean, comprising hundreds of distinct nations, peoples and communities with their own languages, cultures, governments and histories, such as the Cherokee, Navajo (Dine), Maya, Quechua, Aymara, Guarani and Inuit.

What it is for: Understanding diverse peoples, their rights and their histories.

It can be use preferred names for specific peoples; find Indigenous-led organisations and governments; present history, including colonisation, from reliable and Indigenous sources; find information on Indigenous rights.

Distinguishing features

Hundreds of distinct peoples

Own languages and governance

Histories of colonisation and resilience

Rights recognised in international law

What it looks like

Not described by physical appearance; these are hundreds of diverse peoples.

How it is recognised

Specific nation and community names

Terms such as First Nations, Native American, pueblos indigenas vary by country

Indigenous peoples elsewhere are covered separately

Related models

is a kind of - category

Indigenous people

includes - members

specific nations and peoples

is protected by - rights

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

is related to - languages

Indigenous languages of the Americas

In practice

Families and kinds

First Nations, Inuit and Metis in Canada

Native American and Alaska Native peoples

Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America

Indigenous peoples of South America

Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean

Standards and regulation

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

ILO Convention 169

National treaties and constitutional provisions

Failure modes and hazards

Stereotypes and pan-Indigenous generalisation

Outdated or offensive terms

Sharing sacred or restricted knowledge

Also called

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Identity Names and peoples.

Specific names matter.

Names

Self-designation.

Names

Self-designation.

  1. Which specific people or nation is meant, and what name do they use? provenance
  2. Is an outdated or offensive term being used? boundary

Diversity

Avoiding generalisation.

Diversity

Diversity.

  1. Is a statement generalising across very different peoples? boundary
  2. Which specific sources describe this community? provenance
Rights Sovereignty and law.

Rights are recognised.

Law

Rights frameworks.

Law

Rights.

  1. Which rights frameworks and treaties apply here? provenance
  2. How are they implemented? provenance

Governance

Indigenous governments.

Governance

Governance.

  1. Which Indigenous government or organisation represents this community? provenance
  2. How can it be contacted? action
History Past and present.

History needs care.

Colonisation

Impacts.

Colonisation

Colonisation.

  1. What do historians and Indigenous sources record about colonisation here? provenance
  2. Are harms such as residential schools described accurately? boundary

Present

Contemporary life.

Present

Contemporary life.

  1. Is the community described in the present, not only the past? boundary
  2. Which contemporary sources are used? provenance
Culture Languages and knowledge.

Cultural authority rests with communities.

Languages

Revitalisation.

Languages

Languages.

  1. Which language does the community speak, and are there revitalisation programmes? provenance
  2. Who runs them? provenance

Sacred

Restricted knowledge.

Sacred

Sacred knowledge.

  1. Does the request involve sacred or restricted knowledge? boundary
  2. How should the agent defer to the community? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should each nation be a separate entry?
  • How should self-designations be recorded?
  • How should alias lists be curated?
Draft as JSON