The First Preliminary Meeting for the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) was held in Georgetown, Guyana. It was the first time so many Indigenous peoples from around the world met for political reasons. Delegates came from Indigenous nations across the world including the Secwepemc (Canada), the Maori (New Zealand), the Greenlandic Inuit, the Sioux (USA), the Sámi (Norway), and the Gumbaynggirr (Australia). This meeting helped plan the first official WCIP conference, which took place in 1975 in Port Alberni, Canada.