indigenous

Example Sentences

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As U.S. expansion displaced indigenous nations, Native peoples entered wage labor, in ways that often extended traditional work.

From The Wall Street Journal

Members of Zootopia’s elite plan to expand their territory by displacing certain indigenous animals from an area they want to claim for themselves.

From Los Angeles Times

An award-winning Canadian-American author whose career was tied to his apparent indigenous ancestry has recently learned that he has no Cherokee roots.

From BBC

"We mobilized civil society, academia, the private sector, indigenous peoples, and social movements, making COP30 the COP with the second-highest participation in history."

From Barron's

It also would have declared Chile a "plurinational state", recognising the rights of Chile's indigenous groups - which make up about 13% of the population - to their lands and resources.

From BBC