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unusual facts about indigenous people



Comox Valley

There were three groups of indigenous people, the Comox, the Pentlach (who were then nearly extinct), and the Lekwiltok, in the valley when the European settlers arrived.

History of the Northern Territory

The victory was also notable for the support it achieved from indigenous people in pastoral and remote electorates.

Huli people

The Huli are an indigenous people who live in the Southern Highlands districts of Tari, Koroba, Margaraima and Komo, of Papua New Guinea.

Pazeh people

The Pazeh (or Pazih; 巴則海 or 巴宰) people, including the Kaxabu, are the descendants of the Tsouic Pazeh speaking indigenous people from the central Taiwanese areas of Taichung and Miaoli.

Pimicikamak Cree Nation

Pimicikamak is an indigenous people whose origins lie in pre-history; the Cross Lake Band of Indians is a pseudo-corporate legal entity created by the Indian Act.

Potatuck

Many of the remnant Potatuck amalgamated with survivors of the Weantinock, Mohegan and other indigenous people, after losses due to epidemics and warfare from European colonization pressures.

Storyeum

One version gives the guest a vantage point of looking at a ship while it is coming into harbour in a first contact type scenario between Europeans and the indigenous people.

The Sirian Experiments

She sets in motion a series of bio-sociological and genetic experiments where large numbers of primitive indigenous people from Sirian colonised planets are space-lifted to Rohanda and adapted there for work elsewhere in the Empire.

Tsimané people

The Tsimané (Chimané) are an indigenous people of lowland Bolivia, living in the municipalities of San Borja, San Ignacio de Moxos, Rurrenabaque, and Santa Ana de Yacuma of Beni Department.


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Anthelme Thozet

Thozet established the second hotel in Rockhampton, the Alliance, but driven by a never failing professional interest in botany he commenced researching native Australian plants used by indigenous people of Northern Queensland, Australia including the Darumbal clans around Rockhampton.

Badaga

The Badaga people, an indigenous people inhabiting the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu, India

Battle of Acajutla

The Battle of Acajutla was a battle on June 8, 1524, between the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado and an army of Pipils, an indigenous people, in the neighborhood of present day Acajutla, near the coast of western El Salvador.

Biddy Rockman Napaljarri

'Napaljarri' (in Warlpiri) or 'Napaltjarri' (in Western Desert dialects) is a skin name, one of sixteen used to denote the subsections or subgroups in the kinship system of central Australian Indigenous people.

Bruce Greatbatch

He oversaw the forced removal of the indigenous people of the Chagos Archipelago and ordered the gassing of the islander's pet dog population of 1,000.

Caribe

Carib, a group of indigenous people in the Central American Atlantic coast

Chamorro

Chamorro people, the indigenous people of the Marianas Islands in the Western Pacific

Haisla

Haisla people, an indigenous people living in Kitamaat, British Columbia, Canada.

Haisla people

The Haisla (also Xa’islak’ala, X̄a’islakʼala, X̌àʼislakʼala, X̣aʼislak’ala, Xai:sla) are an indigenous people living at Kitamaat in the North Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

History of slavery in Alaska

Whereas the continental United States mostly saw enslavement of Africans brought across the Atlantic Ocean, in Alaska indigenous people, and some whites, enslaved indigenous people from other tribes.

Huetamo

During this period of time, Andalusian Spaniards, African slaves and indigenous people populated the region.

Indigenous people of Oaxaca

The Trique are an indigenous people of the western part of Oaxaca, centered in the municipalities of Juxtlahuaca, Tlaxiaco and Putla.

Indigenous peoples in Bangladesh

The Tanchangya (তঞ্চংগ্যা) people are an indigenous people in southeastern Bangladesh.

Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage project

Moriori, the Indigenous people of Rekohu (Chatham Islands, New Zealand) have developed a multi-layer database to integrate research on Moriori identity, cultural heritage protection, land use, and resource management in culturally sensitive ways.

Jon Charles Altman

In 1990, Jon Altman established the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University as a multidisciplinary centre to enhance Australia’s capacity to undertake social sciences research about the economic situation of Indigenous people.

Juchitán de Zaragoza

On September 5, 1866, during the French invasion of Mexico, the indigenous people of Juchitán, Unión Hidalgo, San Blas Atempa, and Ixtaltepec defeated the Royal French Army stationed in Tehuantepec.

Kavalan

the Kavalan people, an indigenous people of Taiwan, part of the larger Taiwanese aborigine ethnic group

Lani people

The Lani are an indigenous people in Western New Guinea, usually labelled 'Western Dani' by foreign missionaries, or grouped—inaccurately—with the Dani people who inhabit the Baliem Valley to the east.

Lokoja

According to European historical records, the current city of Lokoja was founded by William Balfour Baikie, although indigenous people have been living in the area for thousands of years.

Machigonne

Portland, Maine, which was formerly known as Machigonne to the indigenous people of the region

Mahakam River

The Dayaks are the indigenous people inhabiting Kalimantan beside the Kutais and the Banjars.

Mbengwi

The indigenous people are Meta people, to whom a few settlers from neighboring tribes like Ngie and Oshie have been added.

Mexica Movement

This nation will comprise North and Central America (Anahuac) and South America (Tawantinsuyo), fused into a single federation, under the collectively-democratic control of Indigenous people.

The Mexica Movement asserts that the entire continent of North America, which they refer to as "Anahuac", belongs collectively to the indigenous people of the Americas: Latin Americans of Amerindian descent, Native Americans, and Canadian First Nations.

Mona Rockman Napaljarri

Napaljarri (in Warlpiri) or Napaltjarri (in Western Desert dialects) is a skin name, one of sixteen used to denote the subsections or subgroups in the kinship system of central Australian Indigenous people.

Native ground

Native ground is the land belonging to a native (particular) area, tribe (as in Native American or other indigenous people), etc.

Ngunnawal

The Ngunnawal people, the indigenous people of the Canberra region of Australia.

Orang Asal

Orang Asal is an overarching term, encompassing all indigenous people on both Peninsula and East Malaysia.

Pintupi dialect

Pintupi is the name commonly used to refer to a variety of the Western Desert Language spoken by indigenous people whose traditional lands are in the area between Lake MacDonald and Lake Mackay, stretching from Mount Liebig in the Northern Territory to Jupiter Well (west of Pollock Hills) in Western Australia.

Potlatch Ban

Blenkinsop was a government agent commissioned to survey the lifestyle of the indigenous people in Barkley Sound.

Quitupan

Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza then visited the area, under his appointment by King Charles I of Spain to pacify the various indigenous people of New Spain and to unify the territory, which was partially divided among competing conquistadors.

Sajama

Sajama Lines, straight paths etched into the ground by the indigenous people living near Nevado Sajama

Sillero

In his work "Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man", anthropologist Michael Taussig describes the practice of using silleros to cross the Andes as part of the colonial tendency to see and treat the indigenous people as subhuman wild creatures.

Simon Grunau

Traditions of the Old Prussians, the indigenous people of the region prior to the Prussian Crusade and influx of German colonists, were used in an attempt to find a common ground.

Slavery in contemporary Africa

Today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the indigenous people are usually victims of their Bantu neighbors, who have replaced the positions once held by Europeans.

Sourabhee Debbarma

Sourbhee Debbarma was born to a couple of Tipra (indigenous people of Tripura known as Borok living there since from the decade ruled by Twipra Maharajas) descent.

Tepechitlán

In the early 17th century, the town was under the jurisdiccion of neighboring Tlaltenango and was primarily inhabited by indigenous people, though a few Spanish families had begun to settle in the area with the end of the Chichimeca War.

Vincente de Valverde

He halted for a brief stay on Puná Island, near Guayaquil, in Ecuador, where he was captured and put to death by the local indigenous people on 31 October 1541.

Xinca

Xinca people — an indigenous people in southern Guatemala

Yolŋu languages

Yolŋu Matha is a cover term for the languages of the Yolngu (Yolŋu), the Indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia.