Indigenous Peoples are communities that trace their ancestry to the earliest known inhabitants of a particular region and have maintained distinct social, cultural, economic, and political traditions over generations. They are identified not merely by historical priority over territory but by a continuing relationship with their ancestral lands, natural resources, languages, belief systems, and customary institutions. Internationally, there is no single rigid definition, but common elements include self-identification as indigenous, historical continuity with pre-colonial societies, cultural distinctiveness, and a non-dominant status within the wider society. Indigenous Peoples often organize their lives around collective identities, communal land ownership, traditional knowledge systems, and close ecological relationships, which distinguish them from mainstream populations shaped largely by modern state structures. Despite growing international