The English word indigenous has been applied to peoples since at least the 16th century. By the 17th century it was applied to the peoples of the Americas. It wouldn’t be until the middle of the 20th century, however, that it became an identity. In the 1960s and 1970s activists connected the struggles of various colonized peoples across the Americas and in Oceania. Eventually Indigenous identity began being taken up by peoples in Asia and Africa.
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