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"vr.tr.indigenous-peoples-of-mexico", "name": "indigenous peoples of Mexico", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to distinguish the Indigenous peoples of Mexico, assess evidence about their circumstances, and identify appropriate engagement without conflating distinct peoples or assuming authority to act for them.", "definition": "Indigenous peoples of Mexico are distinct peoples with historical continuity from societies predating colonization in the territory now comprising Mexico, whose collective identities, institutions, cultures and relationships to territory persist in diverse and changing forms.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the collective category registered as vr.tr.indigenous-peoples-of-mexico in SOC / SOC.PER and the distinctions needed to describe its constituent peoples and communities, their relationships to Mexico, and their self-defined identities, territories, languages, institutions, and priorities.", "in_scope": [ "Collective identities, self-designations, and distinctions among peoples, communities, and statistical populations", "Relationships to ancestral territories, present settlements, urban locations, and cross-border communities", "Languages, cultural continuity, and community-defined conditions for documenting knowledge", "Community institutions, representation, and context-specific engagement procedures", "Evidence about collective circumstances, priorities, and changes over time" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Individual identity profiles or inference of Indigenous identity from appearance, surname, residence, or genetics", "Complete linguistic descriptions of individual Indigenous languages", "Detailed histories and archaeological descriptions of particular civilizations", "Land-title adjudication and authoritative legal determinations", "Operational models of government agencies, advocacy organizations, or individual development projects" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent encompasses multiple distinct peoples associated with Mexico; it must not be represented as one homogeneous people.", "A description distinguishes a named people from a local community, a language grouping, and a census category rather than treating those units as interchangeable.", "Self-identification, community membership, language use, and administrative classification are recorded as separate grounds of identification.", "Relationships to Mexico are specified through territory, residence, history, or jurisdiction rather than reduced to citizenship.", "Descriptions address contemporary collective life and change rather than treating Indigenous peoples solely as historical populations." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Self-designation and attributed names", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Name linked to language, referring community, source, date, and preferred or contested use", "why_it_matters": "Allows recognition across naming systems without replacing community preferences with external labels." }, { "name": "Unit being 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identification, use domains, and transmission evidence", "why_it_matters": "Avoids using language competence as a universal test of Indigenous identity." }, { "name": "Representation mandate", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Documented for a specified issue and constituency; disputed; expired; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from assuming that one contact can speak for every community or purpose." }, { "name": "Population estimate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, with reference year, geographic coverage, identification criterion, method, and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison only when the populations and methods are compatible." }, { "name": "Knowledge-sharing conditions", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Publicly shareable; permission required; restricted; conditions unresolved, with scope and source", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes access to information from permission to reproduce, translate, or reuse it." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve names across community sources and Mexican institutional records while retaining contested mappings.", "Compare population or service-access evidence using explicit identification criteria, dates, and geographic units.", "Locate relevant community institutions and verify their mandate for a proposed engagement.", "Assess whether a proposed activity requires further investigation of territorial relationships, consultation procedures, or knowledge permissions.", "Record community-defined priorities and disagreements without assigning a single position to all Indigenous peoples of Mexico." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe Indigenous peoples of Mexico using their own names and sources from the communities.", "Report on rights and legal recognition from official sources." ], "must_not": [ "Use stereotypes or folklore to represent living peoples.", "Use Indigenous designs, knowledge or sacred practices commercially without consent.", "Assist in dispossessing land or resources.", "Reveal sacred or restricted knowledge." ], "requires_human": [ "Using traditional knowledge or cultural material." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Indigenous peoples have rights to land, culture and self-determination.", "Cultural appropriation harms communities." ], "affected_parties": [ "Indigenous communities", "Their members" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Each people and its own institutions.", "master_systems": [ "National Indigenous population records" ] }, "standards_and_regulation": [ "United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, United Nations.", "Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169), International Labour Organization." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "The term is used in discussions of collective rights, languages, cultural continuity and relationships to territory in Mexico.", "It also appears in public policy, historical research and community engagement, where the identities and institutions of particular peoples must be distinguished." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Treating distinct peoples as a single homogeneous population can erase differences in language, governance and priorities.", "Inferring Indigenous identity from appearance, clothing or location can produce discriminatory misclassification.", "Disclosing sensitive community knowledge or territorial information without appropriate authorization can expose communities to exploitation.", "Treating an outside account as community consent can undermine self-determination and legitimate representation." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "Membership in an Indigenous people cannot be reliably established from visual appearance, clothing or other perceptual cues." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q3314452: indigenous peoples of Mexico", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3314452", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Indigenous peoples of Mexico", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Mexico", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "peoples-identities-and-boundaries", "name": "Peoples, identities, and boundaries", "description": "Distinguishes the registry's collective referent from the particular peoples, communities, and classifications described within it.", "rationale": "The entry has no recorded definition, so its collective scope must be established without inventing a uniform Indigenous identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-collective-referents", "name": "Names and collective referents", "description": "Connects self-designations and external names to the precise collectives they identify.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-to-people-mapping", "name": "Name-to-people mapping", "description": "Record who uses each name and whether its referent is a people, community, language grouping, or broader category.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which self-designations do the relevant communities use, in which languages, and how do these relate to names used in Mexican institutional records?", "kind": "definition", "id": "name-to-people-mapping-q01" }, { "text": "Does a proposed name mapping combine distinct peoples or split a collective that identifies itself as one?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "name-to-people-mapping-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership-and-enumeration", "name": "Membership and enumeration", "description": "Separates collective belonging from the criteria used to count populations.", "findings": [ { "id": "identification-criteria", "name": "Identification criteria", "description": "Keep self-identification, community membership, language use, and administrative inclusion distinct.", "questions": [ { "text": "What identification criteria does each Mexican census, survey, registry, or community account use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identification-criteria-q01" }, { "text": "How do population estimates change with the identification criterion, reference year, age coverage, and geographic coverage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "identification-criteria-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "territories-mobility-and-place", "name": "Territories, mobility, and place", "description": "Describes relationships between peoples and places without reducing them to fixed settlement polygons.", "rationale": "An account organized only by Mexican administrative boundaries may obscure community territories, mobility, and relationships extending beyond those boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "territorial-relationships", "name": "Terrorial relationships", "description": "Differentiates territorial attachment, occupation, use, and tenure claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "territory-and-tenure-distinction", "name": "Territory and tenure distinction", "description": "Record community descriptions of territory separately from administrative boundaries and documented land-tenure arrangements.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does the community describe its territory, and what evidence identifies the places and relationships included?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "territory-and-tenure-distinction-q01" }, { "text": "Where do these relationships intersect with municipal boundaries, agrarian communities, ejidos, or other tenure arrangements, and which correspondences remain unverified?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "territory-and-tenure-distinction-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mobility-and-distributed-communities", "name": "Mobility and distributed communities", "description": "Tracks continuity and change across rural, urban, migrant, and cross-border settings.", "findings": [ { "id": "belonging-across-locations", "name": "Belonging across locations", "description": "Assess how migration and residence relate to collective participation without treating departure from a territory as loss of identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which urban, migrant, or cross-border communities identify a continuing relationship with the people being described?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "belonging-across-locations-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence describes how mobility affects language use, community participation, territorial access, or representation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "belonging-across-locations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "languages-knowledge-and-continuity", "name": "Languages, knowledge, and continuity", "description": "Records linguistic relationships and community-defined conditions for maintaining and sharing cultural knowledge.", "rationale": "Language classifications and publicly available cultural material cannot by themselves establish collective identity or permission for reuse.", "layers": [ { "id": "languages-and-transmission", "name": "Languages and transmission", "description": "Relates community language names and practices to documented classifications and transmission evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-language-relationships", "name": "Community language relationships", "description": "Distinguish a people's identity from the languages and varieties its members identify with or use.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do community language names relate to INALI classifications, and where are the mappings contested or incomplete?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "community-language-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "What dated evidence describes intergenerational transmission and use in homes, schools, public services, and community institutions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "community-language-relationships-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "knowledge-custodianship", "name": "Knowledge custodianship", "description": "Identifies who can authorize particular uses of community knowledge and cultural expressions.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditions-for-documentation-and-reuse", "name": "Conditions for documentation and reuse", "description": "Record context-specific permissions for recording, translation, publication, and computational reuse.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which community sources identify custodians or decision processes for the particular knowledge, expression, or site concerned?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "conditions-for-documentation-and-reuse-q01" }, { "text": "What conditions apply before an agent records, translates, publishes, or uses this material in an AI system?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditions-for-documentation-and-reuse-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-rights-and-engagement", "name": "Institutions, rights, and engagement", "description": "Connects community institutions and representation to the particular decision, jurisdiction, and engagement at issue.", "rationale": "An agent needs evidence of relevant authority and procedure before treating an organization, official, or individual as a collective representative.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-institutions-and-mandates", "name": "Community institutions and mandates", "description": "Describes how a community makes decisions and authorizes representation for specific matters.", "findings": [ { "id": "issue-specific-representation", "name": "Issue-specific representation", "description": "Verify the constituency, subject matter, duration, and limits of a representative's mandate.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which community institution or process authorizes representation for this issue, and what source documents that mandate?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "issue-specific-representation-q01" }, { "text": "Does the mandate cover one community, several communities, or a wider people, and are there documented disagreements about its reach?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "issue-specific-representation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "jurisdiction-and-engagement-procedures", "name": "Jurisdiction and engagement procedures", "description": "Identifies applicable legal sources and community procedures without presuming that one procedure applies everywhere in Mexico.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-engagement-requirements", "name": "Applicable engagement requirements", "description": "Establish the current requirements and community expectations relevant to a concrete proposed activity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current federal, state, international, and community sources govern or inform the proposed activity in this location?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-engagement-requirements-q01" }, { "text": "What consultation, consent, language-access, or decision procedures must be established before the activity can proceed?", "kind": "action", "id": "applicable-engagement-requirements-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "collective-circumstances-and-priorities", "name": "Collective circumstances and priorities", "description": "Assesses community-defined priorities alongside qualified evidence about material conditions and change.", "rationale": "National aggregates and externally chosen 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"priorities-and-accountability", "name": "Priorities and accountability", "description": "Connects proposed actions to expressed priorities and locally meaningful assessments of results.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-defined-outcomes", "name": "Community-defined outcomes", "description": "Record who articulated a priority, how it was established, and how affected communities would judge the resulting action.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which community process established the stated priorities, and whose perspectives or disagreements are absent from the available record?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "community-defined-outcomes-q01" }, { "text": "What outcomes, review arrangements, and opportunities to revise or stop an activity do the affected communities specify?", "kind": "action", "id": "community-defined-outcomes-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This is recall-based; no sources were consulted. Current legal wording and implementation require verification.", "The listed peoples are examples, not an exhaustive classification; several umbrella names encompass distinct self-designated peoples and communities.", "Any population figure must specify its date and criterion, such as self-identification, language use or household classification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of indigenous peoples of Mexico this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Nahua peoples", "Maya peoples", "Zapotec peoples", "Mixtec peoples", "Wixárika people", "Rarámuri people" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of indigenous peoples of Mexico this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "INALI Catalogue of National Indigenous Languages", "value_or_pattern": "Language family, linguistic grouping and linguistic variant", "note": "Issued by Mexico's National Institute of Indigenous Languages; classifies languages rather than providing a one-to-one identifier for peoples." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of indigenous peoples of Mexico this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, Article 2: constitutional framework concerning Indigenous peoples and communities.", "International Labour Organization Convention No. 169: Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention.", "United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by the UN General Assembly.", "Mexico's General Law on the Linguistic Rights of Indigenous Peoples, enacted by the federal legislature." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of indigenous peoples of Mexico this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Collective identification and representation in community governance and public institutions.", "Recognition and exercise of collective rights concerning territory, culture and self-determination.", "Design of intercultural education, language services and culturally appropriate healthcare.", "Census and survey analysis using explicitly distinguished criteria such as self-identification and Indigenous-language use.", "Consultation concerning policies and projects affecting particular peoples and communities." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of indigenous peoples of Mexico this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating all Indigenous peoples of Mexico as a single homogeneous ethnicity.", "Using Indigenous-language ability as the sole test of identity and excluding people affected by language shift.", "Confusing a people, a language grouping, an individual community and a municipality.", "Assuming identity requires rural residence, particular clothing or an unchanged traditional lifestyle.", "Publishing sensitive community knowledge or territorial information without appropriate community participation and consent." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of indigenous peoples of Mexico this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Peoples, languages, territorial relationships and governance institutions vary substantially across northern, central and southern Mexico.", "Indigenous communities also exist in cities and migrant destinations; residence outside an ancestral territory does not by itself erase identity.", "Some peoples and their historical territories extend across Mexico's international borders." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of indigenous peoples of Mexico this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Indigenous-language speakers in Mexico", "difference": "A population defined by language ability or use; it overlaps with but does not exhaust Indigenous identification or membership." }, { "name": "Indigenous communities of Mexico", "difference": "Specific local or organized collectivities; 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