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Amerindian

[am-uh-rin-dee-uhn] / ˌæm əˈrɪn di ən /
NOUN
Native American
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The concerns add to existing ones including the unlawful cutting of mangroves, fires, illegal construction and fuel pollution in rivers that the Amerindian women are scanning in the Barima-Mora Passage in northern Guyana.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2023

Basic outlined images, inspired by Washington state landscapes and Amerindian petroglyphs, appear in lithographs, woven baskets and blown-glass vessels.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022

Mixed race and Amerindian peoples largely make up the remainder.

From Reuters ● Aug. 25, 2022

And a Peaceable Kingdom effect is enhanced by the inclusion of what look to be a group of mixed-race neighbors — white, black and Amerindian — having a chat.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2018

Both Amerindian and Aboriginal Australian cultures witnessed frequent armed conflicts.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

“Revelations like this could invigorate native Amerindians in the same way that the Indus Valley Civilization stirred people in India,” Mr. Kean writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

In the absence of demographic data for ancient Greece and Rome, Finch turned to a surprising model for ancient aging: today's Tsimane Amerindians, an Indigenous people of the Bolivian Amazon.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024

Others use nets, breed them in captivity or buy from street market vendors who purchase them from Amerindians who catch the birds in Guyana’s remote interior or people who smuggle them in from neighboring Venezuela.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 23, 2023

He recalled living through Guyana’s growing pains as the South American nation — a melting pot of Indians, Africans, Amerindians, Chinese and Europeans — became a cooperative republic, then a socialist republic.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022

Unlike most colonists, however, who believed that the Africans and Amerindians were “rough, wild people, naked, with no God or religious service,” Maria embraced their customs and lore.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman


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