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an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
the art of the natives of the northwest coast
the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students
How To Use indigene In A Sentence
- First, that the agent of abasement shifts from George the indigene sovereign to the "Sons of Belial. The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire
- This is not the place to detail the history of the wars and battles that occurred as the settlers usurped the ancient territories of the indigenes.
- The cobaltic folk may be indigenes, but I think they come from still a third place, and are strangers on these shores as well. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
- Can we go to the region and say we've turned a new leaf but, by the way, we never got to a proper basis of reconciliation with our indigenes?
- The persuasive powers of montage and myth worked together to isolate the ‘aggression’ of American indigenes from any historical or political context.
- In a weird duplication of manifest destiny, the white folks (plus assimilates without a culture of their own) are now going to educate, civilize, interbreed with, and take control of the indigenes. Mind Meld Make-Up Test with Geoff Ryman
- The French, by contrast, sought to ‘Frenchify’ their indigenes, and frequently went native themselves.
- The previous inhabitants, Taino indigenes, were destroyed by diseases, weapons, and enslavement brought by the Spanish.
- Within this new legal framework, Spaniards could in good conscience punish the bodies of indigenes as harshly and theatrically as former conquistadors.
- Mexico is a country of mestizos, criollos, and indigenes