The problem with natives

Who is a native or indigenous person and since when and where, or on which territory, is becoming a global debate again. Indeed, throughout the history of mankind, we have had changing criteria for labeling a nation as native, as due to states of war and/or aggression, there has been mass migration and settlement across the entire global surface of planet Earth. 

On European territory, we should at least know the almost disappeared Celts, although we have evidence of the division of European space already in the Stone Age, due to the massive Roman occupation and of course after the Roman occupation and their decline, there was a massive settlement of other peoples. However, the European space is not the only place where indigenous peoples could not actually survive on their territory and the great Roman Empire, which enslaved and exterminated many peoples on both sides of the Mediterranean, also disappeared. 

We know the almost disappeared Mayan culture, the Aztec culture, and most likely almost everyone is also familiar with the mighty Persia. The Ottoman Empire also collapsed and shrank, and we could list peoples from Africa, America, and Asia and so on.

In short, we can say that natives or indigenous peoples disappeared from their territories and new future natives or indigenous peoples settled throughout the history of mankind.

The epilogue of such mass settlements or occupations of foreign territories and the extermination of natives and indigenous peoples was set at least after the bitter experience of genocides not only against the Jews, but against numerous nations, after World War II. The victors of World War II established the United Nations (UN), together with the Security Council, which was supposed to prevent the further disappearance of indigenous or native peoples. In the UN coat of arms, we also find a map with all the current drawn state borders between individual now indigenous or native peoples, which were supposed to be crowned with their own sovereignty after the Holocaust. 

 According to some data, only 6% of the total human population of indigenous peoples remains on planet Earth. According to UN data, there are only two indigenous countries where the majority of the population is still indigenous, namely Greenland and Bolivia. In Guatemala, only 45% of the descendants of the indigenous Mayans remain. All other countries are actually considered modern countries and not indigenous. 

The United Nations (UN) currently has 193 member states and 2 observer states (UN Headquarters). The Holy See (Vatican) and Palestine currently have observer status. Of course, this does not mean that these countries are also native or indigenous, although they have a registered majority population of each country, which actually asserts its entire culture, including its language, as a national culture on its territory and usually protects it or demands protection. 

We must accept that after numerous genocides throughout human history, there are not many indigenous people left. New peoples and nations were emerging with their own territories, striving for the status of native or indigenous people on their territory. The current modern configuration of the state and nation in the sense that in Israel there are Israelis, in Germany there are Germans, in Russia there are Russians and so on across the entire world map, is collapsing under the complexity of the issue of mass migrations for one reason or another and the antagonisms of the required integration of the current nations and peoples on their territory and the rights of immigrants who would like to practice their culture in another or foreign current modern state, which are already somehow enthroned on the UN map.