Summary: Indigenous people across the world experience more health related problems as compared to the population at large. So, this review article is broadly an attempt to highlight the important factors for indigenous peoples’ health problems, and to recommend some suggestions to improve their health status. Standard database for instance, Pubmed, Medline, Google scholar, and Google book sear...

Higher rates of anxiety, depression, and attempted suicide are reported among First Nations, Inuit, Métis people compared with non-Indigenous in Canada. This systematic review summarises the key components mental health interventions Indigenous Peoples We searched MEDLINE, PubMed, PsycINFO, Web Science between January 1,1970, August 30, 2019. Studies needed to be an intervention addressing suic...

Abstract Climate change affects Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) around the world, including ethnic minorities in China who experience impacts on their agricultural, animal husbandry, hunting gathering practices: main source of livelihood. At same time, IPLCs have rich traditional knowledge related to climate its disasters. This chapter presents an exploration role for livelihoo...

In addition to the aim of mapping and sequencing one human's genome, the Human Genome Project also intends to characterise the genetic diversity of the world's peoples. The Human Genome Diversity Project raises political, economic and ethical issues. These intersect clearly when the genomes under study are those of indigenous peoples who are already subject to serious economic, legal and/or soc...

INDIGENOUSNESS IS AN IDENTITY CONSTRUCTED, SHAPED AND LIVED in the politicized context of contemporary colonialism. The communities, clans, nations and tribes we call Indigenous peoples are just that: Indigenous to the lands they inhabit, in contrast to and in contention with the colonial societies and states that have spread out from Europe and other centres of empire. It is this oppositional,...