Indigenous populations are composed of the existing descendants of the peoples who inhabited the present territory of a country wholly or partially at the time when persons of a different culture or ethnic origin arrived there from other parts of the world, overcame them, by conquest, settlement or other means and reduced them to anon-dominant or colonial condition; who today live more in conformity with their particular social, economic and cultural customs and traditions than with the institutions of the country of which they now form part, under a state structure which incorporates mainly national, social and cultural characteristics of other segments of the population which are predominant.

Sandberg McGuinne, J. (24 November 2014). Official definitions of indigeneity. [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://johansandbergmcguinne.wordpress.com/official-definitions-of-indigeneity/.