indigenous
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Residents of the area said some 50 people, most of them members of the Quillacinga indigenous group, regularly worked in the mine near Policarpa, in southern Nariño province.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
At the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva last year, Doley urged governments and businesses to protect indigenous communities from the costs of development.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
After the English took control of the colony in 1664, Dutch influence endured in the upper Hudson Valley, reflected in the colonists’ attitudes toward the region’s indigenous population.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“We, as indigenous people, have a long history of being guaranteed things…and then them taking it away,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Stated so baldly, this notion—that the indigenous peoples of the Americas floated changelessly through the millennia until 1492—may seem ludicrous.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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