indigenous
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In practice, its ability to impose its will is circumscribed by deference to provincial and indigenous prerogatives, often enforced by courts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The holiday coincides with Orange Shirt Day - an indigenous grassroots-led day of remembrance to honour children who were missing or died in residential schools.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
A Swedish truth commission on Wednesday urged the state to apologise for injustices committed against its indigenous Sami people, including assimilation programmes, and provide compensation and redress.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
In December 2025, a Finnish a truth and reconciliation commission called on Finland to rectify injustices committed against the indigenous Sami people.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
These two examples will also demonstrate in detail a fact critical to history: that indigenous crops from different parts of the globe were not equally productive.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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