INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
The term of indigenous people is described any ethnic group of people who inhibit a geographic region with which they have earliest known historical connection alongside more recent immigrates who have populated the region and may be greater in number.
For some people indigenous people have been victims of biopiracy when they are subjected in unauthorized use of their biological resources, of their traditional knowledge on these biological resources, of unequal share of benefits between them and a pattern holder.
Characteristic coomon across many indigenous group include present or historical reliance upon subsistence-based production and a predominantly non-urbanized society. Indigenous societies maybe either settled in a given locate/region or exhibit a nometic lifestyle across a large teritory.
