Amerindian
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The program targets young women in Amerindian villages because “they’re usually the ones who leave school and start a family at an early age and don’t really have employment opportunities,” Singh said.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2023
Michael Mc Garrell, an Amerindian activist, said in a telephone interview that his 15-year-old twin great-nieces were among the fire victims.
From New York Times ● May 22, 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
Both Amerindian and Aboriginal Australian cultures witnessed frequent armed conflicts.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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
“We show that all Native Americans, including the major sub-groups of Amerindians and Athabascans, descend from the same migration wave into the Americas.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2015
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
