The Wichi, an indigenous people in Argentina, have experienced degrading environmental conditions and a refusal of the Argentinian government to grant them land rights. They have reacted by pursuing political recognition.
Indigenous communities have successfully been fighting for the restitution of their cultural properties, both on the physical level and on the intellectual level.
The find of a mummy burial in old Incan lands led to an international discussion of the rights of indigenous communities to the remains of their ancestors.