In recent years, several groups have preferred to call themselves "original peoples" to emphasise that they have lived on this continent since time immemorial and that Europeans did not arrive until the end of the 15th century. What is important is not so much the name, which can be considered a simple label, but the substance and the meaning of these minority presences, often deprived of visibility, unprotected, marginalised and opposed, in the globalised world.