Tandanya - Adelaide Declaration

Abstract

Indigenous peoples represent over 5,000 languages and cultures among over 70 states. These communities have nurtured their distinct cultural, spiritual and social identities within their traditional knowledge models without and outside of the model of public archives. Many Indigenous societies continue to exist as distinct social groups and nations within colonial states. Their relationships to settler authorities remain unreconciled. Indigenous peoples – their philosophies and knowledge models – have prevailed despite enveloping colonial programs of assimilation and genocide. (quoted from Introduction.)