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indigenous

If a plant, animal, or person is indigenous to a certain area, its ancestors have been there for a very long time. Several indigenous plants went extinct as a result of climate change. Indigenous people for the project to be cancelled. Something that is indigenous is related to the native people of an area. Indigenous traditions have largely died out.

indigenous

(= autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic) originating where it is found the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo autochthonous rocks and people and folktales endemic folkways the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan

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Simple sentences

This plant is indigenous to Canada.
Because of his passion for indigenous Mexican art, he spends his weekends in Tlaxcala or Teotihuacan looking for good specimens of small statues.
Latin Americans know very little about the history of the indigenous peoples who used to live here several centuries ago.
Indigenous Australians have eaten kangaroos for millennia.

Movie subtitles

How can the non-indigenous?
Name three deciduous trees indigenous to the Northwest.
General, is it all right with you if I post an order. to keep these officers from being seen. with indigenous personnel?
Mr Eckland, there are three varieties of serpent indigenous to those islands and all are extremely poisonous.
If we are to save the captain without blatant, forceful interference on this planet, doctor, we must have the assistance of someone indigenous.
None of them were indigenous to Australia, carried their babies in pouches, or ate any of those yummy Eucalyptus leaves.
Business, sir. Local indigenous personnel requesting medical attention.
Well, indigenous personnels again, sir, requesting medical attention.
However. we have to guard against the indigenous populations ever thinking we are in the business of exploitation.
Probability of indigenous dissident group rendering effective assistance, very low.
Allow me to introduce you to Ceti Alpha Five's only remaining indigenous lifeform.
Upon insertion, call in to base camp on Transat. Then proceed to Point Hawk September to rendezvous with the ground contact: indigenous agent Co Bao.
Indigenous agent Co Bao.
No indigenous life.
Name me three deciduous trees indigenous to the Northwest.
However, so called game animals, like the eland or impala, these animals are indigenous to Africa. They don't damage the land because they rotate instinctively.
Stop using words you don't understand. Use words indigenous to you.
Beluga. Indigenous to the Arctic.
The cigarette paper is indigenous to the Ottoman Empire.
Shut up and that goes for you too Q-ball and your indigenous son.
Allow me to introduce you to Ceti Alpha V's. only remaining indigenous life-form.
Then proceed to rendezvous with your ground contact, indigenous agent Co Bao.
I said it was not indigenous.
There was no problem. The problem came from the indigenous overcrowding.
Just as it is done by the indigenous inhabitants of the islands.
Allow me to introduce you to Ceti Alpha V's only remaining indigenous life form.
Then proceed to Point Hawk September to rendezvous with the ground contact: indigenous agent Co Bao.
Ma'am, I already said it was not indigenous.
Humpbacks were indigenous to Earth.
I do carry a select line of unique artifacts and gemstones indigenous to this region.
If I'm not mistaken, Captain, the Federation has rules, and those rules forbid you to interfere with indigenous cultures.

News and current affairs

Is it not time for indigenous development, of countries and leaders alike?
Development as now practiced often fails because it does not build on a country's unique strengths, respect its social traditions, or foster the autonomy necessary to develop indigenous leaders and enterprises.
Likewise, indigenous development played a key role in Japan and Germany after WWII, in South Korea more recently, and the UK long before.
It must be rooted in the indigenous society and bear its characteristics, not be imposed from abroad.
In many of these countries, including the US, the European conquerors and their descendants nearly wiped out the indigenous populations, partly through disease, but also through war, starvation, death marches, and forced labor.
But it is the relative success of ethnic minorities and immigrants that is more upsetting to indigenous populations.
According to this equation the conflict between Jews and Arabs replicates the conflicts between colonial settlers and indigenous peoples.
In a region with a strong indigenous past but a scattered and isolated present, Bolivia is, alongside Guatemala, perhaps the only country in Latin America where indigenous peoples make up a majority of the population.
But the most radical indigenous groups rejected the initiative, and the group organizing the coca growers took advantage of the situation, stirring up nationalist sentiments.
Even during the 20 th century, neither the indigenous populations nor the African-Brazilian slave descendants had much chance in the economic and social order.
Remarkably, indigenous groups also won a hard-fought struggle for land rights in their traditional Amazon homelands.
Without high-speed Internet, foreign investment and indigenous entrepreneurship are almost impossible.
Today, Russian federal forces are trying to separate common people from the bandits by entrusting the powers of self-government and security in Chechen settlements to indigenous Chechens.
In the Hollywood tradition, of course, the American hero fighting an indigenous enemy is innocent and moral, a reluctant warrior bringing democracy, or at least justice, to feral savages.
The indigenous people are an amalgam of echoes from all the great wars of empire that have troubled the recent American conscience.
True, in India the inertia of an indigenous version of Fabian socialism had to be overcome; but this has happened.
The identity of Bolivia's indigenous people, who were historically excluded from political, social, and economic life, is beginning to be seen as a synonym for confrontation, violence, and ethnic aggressiveness.
Open, confident, and cosmopolitan, China connected with the world with ease, adopting new ideas, and projecting its own indigenous creations.
Most of the new dams are planned for the biodiversity-rich southwest, where natural ecosystems and indigenous cultures are increasingly threatened.

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