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Indigenous peoples inhabit large
areas of the earth's surface. Spread across the world from the
Arctic to the South Pacific, they number, at a rough estimate, some
300 million. Indigenous or aboriginal peoples are so-called because
they were living on their lands before settlers came from elsewhere;
they are the descendants - according to one definition - of those
who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when
people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived, the new
arrivals later becoming dominant through conquest, occupation,
settlement or other means.
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