indigenous
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Part of the commitment will also go toward supporting small and midsized businesses, expanding indigenous economic participation in major projects, and investing in workforce development and artificial intelligence literacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
All land that tourist development happens on belongs, in some way, to someone: the state, indigenous people, or individuals.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Father Damien is so compelled in the 1880s to tend to a Hawaiian flock of lepers—among whom he lives and whose indigenous language he learns—that he ultimately contracts the disease from them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
He said there had been a particular rise in the number of indigenous productions – that is, productions written, directed and produced in Northern Ireland.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Contemporary research suggests that indigenous peoples in New England were not technologically inferior to the British—or, rather, that terms like "superior” and "inferior” do not readily apply to the relationship between Indian and European technology.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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