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indigenous governance  

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  • Indigenous peoples are the original inhabitants of a geographic space that was subsequently taken from them by outside peoples either by conquest, occupation, settlement, or some combination of all three. Indigenous peoples most commonly refers to those peoples subjugated since the late fifteenth century by European powers and their colonies. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; Indigenous Governance]

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