How do some States define the indigenous peoples groups living in their territories…?
The Mexican Constitution, recently modified in November 2007, states that: “Nation [Mexico] is one and indivisible” but that “has a multicultural composition originally formed by its indigenous peoples, who are the ones that descends from peoples who inhabited the actual territory of the country at the beginning of the colonization, and who preserves own social, economic, cultural and political institutions, or part of it” (Art.2). Moreover it includes the principle of self-identification. In Guyana the definition excludes who has “mixed blood” or women who get married with non-indigenous men. The same occurs with regard to Canadian’s definition of indigenous/aboriginal peoples. In United States there is the division into three groups: recognized “indios”, non-recognized “indios”, and urban “indios”, according to some characteristics like living in the Reserves, belonging to a tribe, having a certain percentage of “Indian” blood… In Chile the descendants and the surnames are recogniz
