discussion Are you indigenous?

[GraceRandolph]

Do you have indigenous ancestry?

Edited September 6 by GraceRandolph

[flower moon]

indigenous to EARTH 💜

[Mikeymoonshine]

Not that I'm aware of, there isn't an indigenous group in Britain as far as I know. 

[duybeeGAshantiGA]

Yes I am an Aboriginal.

[punisher]

yes i'm palestinian 

[Great808]

Mexican descent with predominantly Indigenous heritage yes ma'am! We are NATIVE 

[ChooseyLover]

Nah. I mean, I'm pretty sure I must have North African roots if that counts for something...

 

But Aaliyah, Selena Quintanilla, Sky Ferreira and JoJo have Native American roots. Whew the talent exhibited.

Edited September 6 by ChooseyLover

[PrettyHurts]

I took a DNA test and have %3 indigenous to the Dominican Republic and Central America, but it's probably more. I was proud to know I have ancestors from the Americas before colonization and the slave trade 

[TaggedGalaxy]

Some native Taino ancestry 

[єѕℓαм]

Yes actually from both my North African half and my Arabian half as well

[heckinglovato]

21 minutes ago, punisher said:

yes i'm palestinian 

same  not everyone currently living on our land can say that 

[Badgalbriel]

Yes! My family is a big mixture! 

Great-grandfather is black, son of an ex-slave. Married my great-grandmother, who was indigenous, from an actual tribe, in 1942.

 

They had my grandmother, who's half black, half indigenous. And my grandma married my grandpa, who was Portuguese descent. 

 

My mom is mixed raced and married my dad, who's also portugueses descent. 

 

Edited September 6 by Badgalbriel

[GuyNextDoor]

Shouldn't Native American include all of the natives of the American continent? 

[Badgalbriel]

24 minutes ago, GuyNextDoor said:

Shouldn't Native American include all of the natives of the American continent? 

It should, but US-ians took over the terms "America" and "Americans" and now we have to keep differentiating between North and South Americans all the time. 

[playboi]

Yes amazigh 

[Dolce Vita]

im mixed polynesian (samoan/fijian/rotuman) so yes

[Pendulum]

What are Sami and Coptic doing in the poll? Both Swedes/Norwegians and Sami are native to the Scandinavian peninsula. Sami people have been historically discriminated by Sweden and Norway (and they still kinda are) but calling them the only indigenous population of Scandinavia is not true, considering they inhabit only the Northern part and the fact that their ancestral origin is in what is today's Russia's Ural Mountains.  And the Copts are just Christian Egyptians. Are the Muslim Egyptians not indigenous to Egypt? The situation with the Sami and Copts are different than the other poll options because there is internal migration involved.

 

OT: Indigenous to the Balkans I guess. I'd consider myself a descendant of the Thracians who got Slavicised. 

 

[constantinople]

Yes, I am

my grandparents from my father's side were indigenous and my grandfather from my mom's side had indigenous ancestry

[constantinople]

42 minutes ago, Pendulum said:

Sami people have been historically discriminated by Sweden and Norway (and they still kinda are) but calling them the only indigenous population of Scandinavia is not true, considering they inhabit only the Northern part and the fact that their ancestral origin is in what is today's Russia's Ural Mountains

https://www.iwgia.org/en/sapmi.html

 

Indigenous peoples in Sápmi

The Sámi people are the indigenous people of the northern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula and large parts of the Kola Peninsula and live in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. They number between 50,000 and 100,000.

 

Sápmi is the Sámi people's own name for their traditional territory. The Sámi people are the Indigenous people of the northern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula and large parts of the Kola Peninsula and they live in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. There is no reliable information on the population of the Sámi people; they are, however, estimated to number between 50,000-100,000.

 

A report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, concluded that Sweden, Norway and Finland do not fulfil their stated objectives of guaranteeing the human rights of the Sami people.

 

https://nordics.info/show/artikel/scandinavian-apologies-and-compensation-to-indigenous-peoples

Scandinavian Apologies and Compensation to Indigenous Peoples

Summary: Official apologies for human rights violations perpetrated by colonising countries often attract much media attention. However, the actual meaning of an official apology and the concrete consequences emanating from it are usually highly ambiguous, particularly as indigenous communities may well be advocating for some other type of remedy. Examples from each Scandinavian country suggest that the path from apology to compensation is rarely straightforward, and the popular fixation on the official apology can even obfuscate important steps towards justice for indigenous communities, such as the Inuit and the Sámi. 

 

Indigenous Peoples and Scandinavia

All three Scandinavian countries have connections to indigenous peoples. The Sápmi territory of the Sámi spans across Norway and Sweden, amongst other countries, and with Kalaallit Nunaat being part of the Unity of the Danish Realm, the Inuit still share a connection with Denmark. The United Nations has declared the Sámi and Inuit as indigenous peoples, which grants them certain internationally valid rights, in addition to the general rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from 1948. The 2006 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples specifies the human and legal rights of peoples such as the Sámi and Inuit and provides international standards for how these should be upheld and reclaimed if breached.

[Danny789]

53% indigenous to the americas 

[Zeferino]

Yep, from a great grandmother  

[Virtuesque]

Yes, I am Navajo. 

[Devin]

im mixed with puerto rican, indian, creole so yea.

[Pendulum]

53 minutes ago, constantinople said:

https://www.iwgia.org/en/sapmi.html

 

Indigenous peoples in Sápmi

The Sámi people are the indigenous people of the northern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula and large parts of the Kola Peninsula and live in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. They number between 50,000 and 100,000.

 

Sápmi is the Sámi people's own name for their traditional territory. The Sámi people are the Indigenous people of the northern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula and large parts of the Kola Peninsula and they live in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. There is no reliable information on the population of the Sámi people; they are, however, estimated to number between 50,000-100,000.

 

A report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, concluded that Sweden, Norway and Finland do not fulfil their stated objectives of guaranteeing the human rights of the Sami people.

 

https://nordics.info/show/artikel/scandinavian-apologies-and-compensation-to-indigenous-peoples

Scandinavian Apologies and Compensation to Indigenous Peoples

Summary: Official apologies for human rights violations perpetrated by colonising countries often attract much media attention. However, the actual meaning of an official apology and the concrete consequences emanating from it are usually highly ambiguous, particularly as indigenous communities may well be advocating for some other type of remedy. Examples from each Scandinavian country suggest that the path from apology to compensation is rarely straightforward, and the popular fixation on the official apology can even obfuscate important steps towards justice for indigenous communities, such as the Inuit and the Sámi. 

 

Indigenous Peoples and Scandinavia

All three Scandinavian countries have connections to indigenous peoples. The Sápmi territory of the Sámi spans across Norway and Sweden, amongst other countries, and with Kalaallit Nunaat being part of the Unity of the Danish Realm, the Inuit still share a connection with Denmark. The United Nations has declared the Sámi and Inuit as indigenous peoples, which grants them certain internationally valid rights, in addition to the general rights stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from 1948. The 2006 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples specifies the human and legal rights of peoples such as the Sámi and Inuit and provides international standards for how these should be upheld and reclaimed if breached.

Where did I dispute their indigenousness? I literally mentioned that the Sami have been subjugated to inhumane treatment by Sweden and Norway. There's a really good movie I'd recommend you to watch - Sameblod. It's just that the language used is what irks me. The Sami are indigenous but only to Sápmi, aka the Northern parts of Scandinavia they inhabit. Referring to the Sami as the only indigenous people of Scandinavia makes it seem as if Swedes, Norwegians and Danes just spawned out of nowhere when they are also indigenous to the Southern part of the peninsula. 

 

And the Sami emigrated from Siberia to the Scandinavian peninsula long time ago. But so did the Swedes. 

 

 

[Luckitty]

Yes i am indigenous mixed with indigenous people from neighboring regions, no colonizer blood in my dna