Summary Of Renee Sylvain's Land, Water And Truth

In Renee Sylvain’s "Land, Water, and Truth": San Identity and Global Indigenism, she talked about how the United Nations’ definition of indigenous people brought about a huge impact on the lives of many people especially to the San communities which are currently dispersed in the different regions of South Africa. According to the United Nations’ special rapporteur Jose Martinez Cobo:, indigenous groups, peoples and nations are those which, having an authentic coherence with pre-invasion and pre-colonial social orders that created on their regions, view themselves as unmistakable from different divisions of the social orders now winning on those domains, or parts of them. They shape at present non-predominant segments of society and are resolved to safeguard, create and transmit to future eras their genealogical domains, and their ethnic personality, as the premise of their proceeded with presence as people groups, as per their own
Also, narrowing the indigenous culture’s meaning to a specific relationship to the area blocks any part for political economy in the authentic arrangement of social characters or social practices.

Generally speaking, provided that the United Nations had given a new meaning to the term indigenous people has caused a couple of problems to arise and further challenge the life of these communities specifically the San people of South Africa. Getting to know the way of life of those indigenous people rather than judging them is one of the ways on how we could address this issue. Similarly, having the privilege to study and apprehend the history of why these indigenous people are who they are now, we must be able to understand them and not make them feel inferior of