2.  Population  Languages  Extreme poverty  Education  Labor

3.  People, communities and nation who are native to a particular area  370 million indigenous people in 90 countries  Peru, Mexico, Bolivia and Guatemala from 4.6 to 8.4 million people  Chile 500,000 and one million  Nicaragua or El Salvador less than half a million

4.  A thousand different indigenous languages. Such as  Quechua  Avmara  Guarani  Nahuatl  Mayan  7,000 languages disappear

5.  5 % of the world's population  15 % poor  1994-2004  Bolivia and Guatemala half  Ecuador 87 % reaches 96 % in rural highlands  Mexico. in 2002 was 4.5 times higher than non- indigenous  2008 – Peru 39.3%

7.  Peru 94.4 % of children between the ages of 6 and 11 are enrolled in school  Gender or poverty level  Rural areas enrollment higher by three-tenths  Guatemala 69%  Organizations is partnering with Guatemalan  175 community radio stations  news, educational programming, health information, traditional music reinforcing Mayan heritage

8.  1.3 million people in Latin America.  Wage advances and other manipulations  Debt  Long hours  Trapping  Peru for illegal logging, in Bolivia for nut collection, in cattle farms and sugar plantations, and in Paraguay’s traditional cattle farms of the Chaco region.

11.  World Wildlife Fund named 200 places with the highest biodiversity  95 % Indigenous territories  Raided  Minerals  Timber  Farmland  Oil

12.  Land linked to their identity and spiritual meaning.

13.  2007 the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.  Right  live on and use their traditional territories  self-determination  informed consent before any outside project is undertaken on their land  keep their languages  cultural practices  full government services  treated as peoples http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ndcxOeUq8