Indigenous populations in the Americas are an example of a group that has faced important obstacles to their humane and orderly migration. As a consequence of long historical processes of colonization, decolonization and the creation of new independent States, many of the territories where indigenous people live are located across the bordering regions of more than one country. Given their ancestral connections with these lands, free movement is crucial for their self-identification as indigenous peoples, their self-determination, and their cultural survival as distinct peoples across the world. However, the needs of indigenous peoples have not always been carefully considered in regional and national migration frameworks, limiting their free movement through ancestral and customary territories, and threatening the sustainability of their livelihoods, their lifestyles and their family unities. In the Caribbean, for example, countries, where indigenous populations are present, have specific government bodies for their protection