Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World

enforced schooling is the most powerful weapon used by governments and missionaries to instil in tribal children values which are different, often contradictory, to those held by their own societies.

a group which has had ultimate control of their lands taken by later arrivals: they are subject to the domination of others. Used in this sense, descent is less important than political perception.

Why does the government think they are more important than the people?

Indigenous peoples are the descendants of those who were there before others who now constitute the mainstream and dominant society. They are defined partly by descent, partly by the particular features that indicate their distinctiveness from those who arrived later, and partly by their own view of themselves.

prehistory,

Real culture is not a dead mask. It is alive,

have no concept whatsoever of homelessness, paid work or prison.

presumed betterment that comes with ‘civilization’.

‘a people’ meaning an identifiable society.