| Term | Definition |
| marginalized, distinct culture, prior occupancy | 3 distinctive characteristics of indigenous peoples |
| are sperated some way politically and economically from the dominant society | marginalized |
| conquered or dominated, non-state political systems, extensive subsistence patterns, communal land ownership, kin-based social organization, egalitarian | 6 basic characteristics of indigenous peoples |
| destruction of a group's ecoologoical habitat that is necessary for their way of life | ecocide |
| policies and practices that force them to change or to force them to assimilate to the dominate culture | ethnocide |
| the killing of an ethnic group | genocide |
| frontier situation, military intervention, extension of government control, land policies, cultural modification policies, eduacation, economic development | seven phases of ecocide, ethnocide and genocide |