peoples
Example Sentences
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The author of “The Sea-King and the Sorceress” on the lives and stories of the Nordic peoples who swept through Europe in the Middle Ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Savoonga - a village of around 800 residents, located on St Lawrence Island off Alaska's coast - is primarily inhabited by Siberian Yupik peoples.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
While Mr. Marquis acknowledges that the Dutch were “aggressive mercantilists with a nose for profit,” he contrasts their trade-driven but fair-minded approach toward Native American peoples with the “bellicose and imperialistic English, French, and Spanish.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The researchers also compared Indigenous Peruvians with the Maya, an Indigenous population in Mexico that shares evolutionary history with Andean peoples but does not have a tradition of potato farming.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
The link between peoples of the North and the South can be seen in the diffusion of corn from Mesoamerica along routes created by the people and used for millennia.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
