The indigenous population worldwide is estimated at 476 million people spread across all geographic regions of the world . Indigenous Peoples globally represent a large heterogeneity of people in terms of living conditions and social determinants of health. There is no simple definition of who is indigenous. In this text, we refer to Indigenous Peoples as people self-identified and organised as indigenous, according to the principles of the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs , an international non- governmental organisation  with observer status at the United Nations . Indigenous Peoples are described as 'distinct social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been displaced' . A common experience among Indigenous Peoples are historical traumas related to overseas and/or settler/industrial colonisation.
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