Colonialism
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Colonialism is the practice of extending and maintaining political, social, economic, and cultural domination over a territory and its people by another people in pursuit of interests defined in an of
A 1665 illustration of a Dutch East India Company factory in Hugli-Chuchura, depicting various elements of colonialism, including its hierarchies and impact on the colonized and their lands
The East Offering its Riches to Britannia, painted by Spiridione Roma for the boardroom of the British East India Company
Dutch family in Java, 1927
Harbour Street, Kingston, Jamaica, c. 1820
Indigenous peoples
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There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special rel
A Kaqchikel family in the hamlet of Patzutzun, Sololá, Guatemala (1993)
Colorized photograph of an Amis couple in traditional clothing. Taken in pre–World War II Japanese-ruled Taiwan.
Guatemalan girls in their traditional clothing from the town of Santa Catarina Palopó on Lake Atitlán
Alonso Fernández de Lugo presenting the captured Guanche kings of Tenerife to Ferdinand and Isabella