Examine the multi-pronged Issues related to the rights of the indigenous communities.
Indigenous people are the descendants of the native dwellers who have been living in a particular territory before the people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived from other parts to capture that particular territory. The United Nations defines an indigenous population as comprising the descendants of people who inhabited the present territory of a country at the time when persons of a different culture or ethnic origin arrived there from other parts of the world and overcame them. Indigenous people are illiterate and poor. They do not know how to protect their rights. The land is only the source of their income. Thus, the loss of land also means the loss of an economic resource base. Following are the two threats to the survival of indigenous people:Poverty is an important threat to indigenous people. They entirely depend on the resources and its continuous shortage of natural resources of indigenous people is another threat to their life.
