
Today is “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”
It’s currently reckoned that we share our precious world with around 370 million human beings who are ethnologically designated as being ‘indigenous’. That's a lot of people – a number that’s a good 10% more than the population of the United States (which contains its own indigenous population of course), or a little over twice the population of Russia. Unfortunately the sort of bio-social support these diverse minorities deserve is astonishingly deficient, with one of the mo