peoples

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The dinosaur's name honors the traditions of the Aonikenk people, the southernmost group of the Indigenous Tehuelche peoples of Patagonia.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

Totalling around 1,200 people, these include the Nicobarese as well as the Shompen, hunter-gatherers who shun contact with outsiders, who Survival describes as "one of the most isolated peoples on Earth."

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

It follows ancient trade routes Indigenous nations had been using for thousands of years, from the Osage Trace in Missouri to the paths of the Pueblo peoples in New Mexico and the Mojave in California.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

"The wheels of justice turn so slowly and that affects peoples lives and that's what we wanted to show."

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

The multicultural perspective tends to cast Indigenous peoples in general as an oppressed racial group without considering important political differences between the Native nations and other oppressed populations.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz