“other indigenous communities” means communities in independent countries who are regarded as indigenous on account of their descent from the populations which inhabited the country, or a geographical region to which the country belongs, at the time of conquest or colonisation or the establishment of present State boundaries and who, irrespective of their legal status, retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political institutions;’.
Is é is brí le ‘pobail dhúchasacha eile’ pobail i dtíortha neamhspleácha a mheastar a bheith dúchasach toisc gur shíolraigh siad ó na pobail a raibh cónaí orthu sa tír, nó i réigiún geografach ar leis an tír, tráth na gabhála nó an choilínithe nó tráth ar bunaíodh teorainneacha an Stáit mar atá faoi láthair agus, beag beann ar a stádas dlíthiúil, a choimeádann roinnt nó gach ceann dá n-institiúidí sóisialta, eacnamaíocha agus polaitiúla;”.