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.
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
"The wildlife and indigenous people who call the forest their home deserve better than this."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
