SOCIALLY BENEFICIAL FOREST MANAGEMENT IN DUNHUA COUNTY: SUPPLEMENT John Studley London Sunday, September 20, 2009
Dunhua Forest Bureau Area In the DFB area there are only the following "minorities" 324 Koreans, 34 Hui and 76 Man and an estimated1 7000+ Han Chinese. There were very few minorities living in the villages close to the forest farms or in the workers villages Indigenous People It is generally understood, although not always explicitly stated, that indigenous people are a subordinate ethnic group and have a different ethnic identity to the nation in power. Although this is inferred (by the use of words such as “distinct” and “non-dominant”) in the following definition (I used in the background paper)
“Indigenous communities, peoples and nations are those which, having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories, or parts of them. They form at present non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories, and their ethnic identity, as the basis of their continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal system” http://www.iwgia.org/sw641.asp
there are other definitions that are more explicit Indigenous refers to a politically subdominant and underprivileged group who share a distinct ethnic identity and geographical concentration from the nation in power, and who have been an ethnic entity from old-age times before the present ruling nation took over power (Greller 1997 ILO Convention 107 of 19572) 1
Because I was collecting data on minority peoples I was not given the Han information http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/documents/presentation/wcms_099176.pdf accessed 20th Sept 09 2