What is the World Council of Indigenous Peoples?

What will be an ideal response?


It is a nongovernmental group founded in 1975 that presents cases of indigenous peoples before the world community.

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What role do the arts play as collective expressions of cultural identities? Is art conservative or liberal? Does art promote change or inhibit it?

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DNA provides the instruction for the thousands of proteins that keep us healthy every day.?

A. True B. False

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In __________ society, all females are married from birth to death

a. Ojibwe b. Ju/’hoansi c. Tiwi d. Ainu

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What is so significant about the recent fossil finds of an H. erectus and an H. habilis from Ileret, Kenya, east of Lake Turkana?

A. They prove that sexual dimorphism was finally absent as a trend in human evolution by 2 m.y.a. B. They prove that H. erectus and H. habilis coexisted in the same ecological niche and eventually interbred to result in a single species. C. They negate the conventional view held since 1960 that habilis and erectus evolved one after the other. Instead, they lived side by side in eastern Africa for perhaps half a million years. D. They confirm that H. habilis evolved from H. erectus. E. They prove that functional differentiation in toolmaking preceded the advent of Homo.

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