5. Encourage the state to fulfil wider rights

There is a human right to education, and a human right to an adequate standard of living – and there is also a right to development: the right to be included in development processes which affect you. The right to development includes the fulfilment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights and freedoms.

Religious sight

Judaism and indigenous people

Judaism teaches that everyone is equal in the eyes of God and that everyone should be treated well.

The Jews have experienced times in their history of being the 'stranger' or 'outsider' without a homeland. Jewish scripture reflects this experience:

When alien lives with you in your land, do not ill-treat him. The alien living with you must be treated as one of your native-born. Love him as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt. I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus 19:33-34)

They also believe that everyone is descended from Adam and Eve and so should be given equal respect:

Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. (Genesis 3:20)

So, discrimination and forcing and oppressing native peoples is a causeless and groundless thing through Judaism.

Christian opinion on indigenous peoples

In Christianity also we have the same perspective about indigenous and minority groups and tribes in society. there is no racism tribalism or any discrimination in Christ Jesus.

All human beings are descendants of Adam.

When God destroyed humanity because of their wickedness by flood (Gen 6-9), He saved Noah. Entire Cain generation was destroyed in the flood. Noah is of the lineage of Seth.

From the children of Noah (Ham, Shem, Japheth) the earth was populated. Every human being on earth today is a descendant of Noah, a descendant of Seth – Jesus came through the lineage of Seth.

Jesus commands us to love one another as He loves us (John 13:34). If God is impartial and loves us with impartiality, then we need to love others with that same high standard. Jesus teaches in Matthew 25 that whatever we do to the least of His brothers, we do to Him. If we treat a person with contempt, we are mistreating a person created in God’s image; we are hurting somebody whom God loves and for whom Jesus died.

According to these paragraphs, it is clear that we don’t have any prove or document forcing native peoples and individuals to accept an opinion or change their beliefs.