HISTORIC ARTICLE

Aug 9, 1994 CE: International Day for the World’s Indigenous Peoples

On August 9, 1994, the United Nations first recognized the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

Grades

5 - 8

Subjects

Anthropology, Social Studies, World History

‌

‌
‌
‌

‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌
‌

Loading ...

Selected text level

On August 9, 1994, the United Nations first recognized the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous people are cultures that were the first settlers of an area that was later colonized by people from a different, sometimes remote, region. There are indigenous people on every continent except Antarctica—from the Sami (in Scandinavia) to the Bambuti (in Central Africa); from the Hmong (in Southeast Asia) to the Maori (in New Zealand); from the Yanomami (in the Amazon rain forest) to the Yupik (in the Arctic). The International Day of Indigenous Peoples supports indigenous rights. Indigenous rights include respect and preservation for the land, land use choices, and cultures of indigenous people.

Credits

Media Credits

The audio, illustrations, photos, and videos are credited beneath the media asset, except for promotional images, which generally link to another page that contains the media credit. The Rights Holder for media is the person or group credited.

Writer

National Geographic Society

Producer

National Geographic Society

other

Last Updated

October 19, 2023

User Permissions

For information on user permissions, please read our Terms of Service. If you have questions about how to cite anything on our website in your project or classroom presentation, please contact your teacher. They will best know the preferred format. When you reach out to them, you will need the page title, URL, and the date you accessed the resource.

Media

If a media asset is downloadable, a download button appears in the corner of the media viewer. If no button appears, you cannot download or save the media.

Text

Text on this page is printable and can be used according to our Terms of Service.

Interactives

Any interactives on this page can only be played while you are visiting our website. You cannot download interactives.