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Author: Henry Minde (ed.) At a Norwegian state delegation, indigenous questions were separated from minority issues.  As a result from the conference, these were to treated separately in the UN system in studies as well as policy. The results would set current precedence for the international indigenous movement.

Google Search for Indigenous vs. Indigeneity.  Produced Google Books finding. No eBook available.  Published in 2007-2008 in Norway, after U.N. adopted the declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

excerpt p.80-81
  Indigenous communities, peoples and nations are (1) those which, having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, (2) consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing in those territories, or part of them. (3) They form at present non-dominant sectors of society and (4) are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories and their ethnic identity, as the basis with their own cultural pattern, social institutions and legal systems[...]

  This version is more is more general and flexible than the 1972 version regarding the claims for historical continuity (point 1), colonisation (point 2) and distinctness (point 3).  But still the same historical factors as before  were added. What is new in this version is the weight put on the subjective intentions of indigenous groups, their intentions to be in existence as peoples with regard to culture, social institutions and legal systems,and especially with regard to the right to their ancestral territories (point 4).  At last we can see that what is no longer to be defined is "population," but "communities, peoples and nations."  This includes the right of indigenous peoples to decide freely who is to be included in an indigenous community.  This right was spelled out in the following paragraph in the report:

  On an individual basis, an indigenous person is one who belongs to these indigenous populations through self-identification as indigenous (group consciousness) and is recognized and accepted by these populations as one of its members (acceptance by group).

  This preserves for thise communities the sovereign right and power to decide who belongs to them, without external interference. 

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