I found this in a Reuters report which appeared in the Jakarta Post this morning:

Amnesty said 300 million indigenous people worldwide, including Australia's Aboriginal people and Europe's Gypsies or Roma, faced racial discrimination, impoverishment and marginalisation.

For the full report, see http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010725/80/bzd09.html .

Has indigenous changed its meaning while I wasn't looking? I was always under the impression it meant the people who'd always lived in a place as far back as anybody knew. Gypsies arrived in Europe from India (in the 14th or 15th century AD,if I remember correctly), so how can they be described as an indigenous people?



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