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Translations:Information Booklet/60/en (view source)
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Spread across the world from the Arctic to the South Pacific, indigenous people are the descendants - according to a common 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 became dominant through conquest, occupation, settlement or other means<ref name=":24">[https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/5session_factsheet1.pdf UN Forum on Indigenous Issues]</ref>.