Distinct groups of people who satisfy any of the more commonly accepted definitions^* of Indigenous Peoples, which consider (among other factors) whether the collective:

• has pursued its own concept and way of human development in a given socioeconomic, political, and historical context;

• has tried to maintain its distinct group identity, languages, traditional beliefs, customs, laws and institutions, worldviews, and ways of life;

• has at one time exercised control and management of the lands, natural resources, and territories that it has historically used and occupied, with which it has a special connection, and upon which its physical and cultural survival typically depends;

• self-identifies as Indigenous Peoples; and/or

• descends from populations whose existence pre-dates the colonisation of the lands within which it was originally found or of which it was then dispossessed.

When considering the factors above, no single one shall be determinative. Indigenous Peoples are defined as such regardless of the local, national, and regional terms that may be applied to them, such as ‘tribal people,’ ‘first peoples,’ ‘secluded tribes,’ ‘hill people,’ or others.

^{* Commonly accepted definitions generally include, but are not limited to, those provided for in the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention 1989 (ILO Convention No. 169), the UN Commission on Human Rights study on the problem of discrimination against indigenous populations, and the UN Working Paper on the Concept of ‘Indigenous People’ prepared by the Working Group on Indigenous Populations}