International Day of the World’s Indigenous People is officially observed every year on August 9th in recognition of the first meeting of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations in Geneva in 1982. The United Nations and the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues commemorated the day by celebrating Indigenous film making and screening four short, Indigenous-made films:
Brazil: Marangmotxingo Mïrang (From the Ikpeng Children to the World)