`    The problem with this page, IMHO, is that it doesn't deal with INDIGENOUS people at all, but rather (for lack of a better word) PRIMITIVE people. As has been pointed out, there are many groups of people which are indigenous (whatever that means) to the areas in which they live but are not indigenous people in the sense the article is written (e.g. most of the inhabitants of the Old World!).  I don't care how PC or relativist you are, there clearly is a difference between those cultures and societies which embrace and accept change from the outside and have joined the ``global mainstream``, and those which have not. As for those so-called ``indigenous people`` who have adopted modern ways, I'd make the argument that they're simply then no longer indigenous peoples (in the sense this article and the US uses the term, as misleading as it is).   05:52 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)`