Historically, merchants, traders, and governments have colonized and homogenized Indigenous peoples in order to weaken or eradicate their traditions, customs, and identities. Colonialism deprived Indigenous peoples of access to and collective control of their original lands' natural resources while also undermining their distinctive cultures, languages, and religions. Post-colonial governments exacerbated these consequences by promoting and supporting non-Indigenous interests above those of their indigenous peoples. Exclusion from all economic activity, in particular, has made surviving in a globalizing world hard for such aboriginal groups. Even the most remote and isolated Indigenous communities are endangered by the enormous rise in global demand and competition for oil, gas, minerals, forests, water, and arable lands as globalization's reach are enhanced by new and developing technology.