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The indigenous people of Africa are those people of Africa whose way of life, attachment or claims to particular lands, and social and political standing in relation to other more dominant groups have resulted in their substantial marginalization within modern African states (namely "politically underprivileged group who have been an ethnic entity in the locality before the present ruling nation took over power").
Although the vast majority of Native Africans can be considered to be "indigenous" in the sense that they have originated from that continent and nowhere else, identity as an "indigenous people" is in modern application more restrictive. Not every African ethnic group claims identification under these terms. Groups and communities who do claim this recognition are those who by a variety of historical and environmental circumstances have been placed outside of the dominant state systems. Their traditional practices and land claims often have come into conflict with the objectives and policies promulgated by governments, companies and surrounding dominant societies.
Marginalization, along with the desire to recognize and protect their collective and human rights, and to maintain the continuity of their individual cultures, has led many to seek identification as indigenous peoples, in the contemporary global sense of the term.
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Answer: Our work supports and empowers indigenous people of the Amazon basin to fulfill their right to self-determination by preserving their lands, culture, and way of life.
We provide administrative support for indigenous groups across the Amazon basin.
We have supported the mapping, titling, and participatory census of Achuar, Shiwiar, Sápara, and Shuar territories, the preliminary step in construction and implementation of a Global Information System, and continue to work on this activity with the Sápara and Kichwa people.
Thanks to this effort, the Achuar, Shiwiar, and Shuar nationalities have secured legal recognition of 865,000 acres of ancestral territories in 2011, for a total of 1.8 million acres to date.
Forests and Climate Change
Ecuador is one of many countries with a UN-REDD National Program. We are helping indigenous groups understand how Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) policies, and the Ecuadorian Government’s negotiations and implementation of these policies, will affect their lands and territories. It is also working to get Ecuador’s government to take collective rights into account in its REDD policy negotiations.
Sustainable Development
We promote an innovative development model based on the recognition of and respect for the collective rights of indigenous people.
Preserving Indigenous Life with Alternative Economic Strategies
Working with our indigenous partners, we promote an innovative development model based on the recognition of and respect for collective rights of indigenous people.
From ecotourism projects to complementary currencies, economic alternatives that reinforce the value of an intact rainforest are of primary importance in the indigenous communities of the western Amazon basin.
Alternatives to Oil Development
We work with our indigenous partners to create a sustainable economic foundation for preserving their way of life, including:
complementary currency systems to support rural development and promote local production, consumption and trade
permaculture and aquaculture projects
ecotourism projects, such as Kapawi Ecolodge, Ti’inkias Lodge, and Naku Lodge
sharing of indigenous knowledge such as healing through dreams and biodiversity knowledge
production of natural foods
finding new partners to support alternative sustainable livelihoods
empowering and strengthening their alliances and networks
supporting self-determination and autonomy
We partnered with and supported the Achuar nation to form, gain ownership and manage two very successful companies:
CEKSA, the company that manages the award-winning Kapawi Ecolodge
Aerotsentsak, an Achuar-owned and managed airline flying to Achuar territory
Both companies demonstrate the potential for generating income and leadership capacities to support the autonomous development of the Achuar and other nationalities.