INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

The adjective indigenous means is “from” or of the original origin.Therefore in purely adjective sense any given people ,etnic,group or community may be describe as being indigenous in reference to some particular region or locotion.In the other hand,the specific term of indigenous people has more restrictive interpretation when we used it in the more formalized,legalistic and academic sense,associate with the collective right of human population.We can looks up into their common characteristic among them .Historical reliance upon subsistence-based production (based on pastoral,horticultural and hunting and gathering for their life.They also a predominant non-urbanized society.They also live in the climate zone and nomadic lifestyle.Their knowledge and culture usually based on environmental.Beside that the ritual for their ceremony always use the sounds of environment such as they used a bamboo,rotan,and other instruments.They also love in arts,nowdays we can know the arts that their make has appreciate in all of the view in the worlds.Has many indigenous people in Malaysia, ethnic is called Mah Meri.The area of this group is on Pulau Carey or Carey Island located in Banting Selangor.The Mah Meri are particularly known for their votive sculpture,fashioned from a kind of swamp hardwood known as”NYIREH BATU”.While the Mah Meri language is called Besisi.They also believe in anamisme and has among of them also believe in god such as Christian,Islam,Buddha and other .The conclusion is the indigeneous people is a unique ethnic they have a lot of kind of weird lifestyle and they still follow their footprint of their parent from generation to the generation.