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  • Anatole never misses one, because his mind is that quick, and also I think the indigenous names mean more to him.†   (source)
  • Not indigenous.†   (source)
  • At first my role was to provide Web ingenuity to help the colonists do what they do best-destroy truly indigenous life.†   (source)
  • Critics claimed the fair extinguished the Chicago School of architecture, an indigenous vernacular, and replaced it with a renewed devotion to obsolete classical styles.†   (source)
  • Esme could have been a priestess from Tenochtitlan, her face pure and brown, with slight make up that accented her already slanted, indigenous eyes.†   (source)
  • To accommodate the unexpected travelers, the Captain, a giant from Curacao, called on the passengers' indigenous sense of patriotism.†   (source)
  • They were not indigenous to the island, and there is no evidence that early Eskimos who first settled the area brought dogs with them.†   (source)
  • That is, not every peasant practiced the indigenous religion called Voodoo, but virtually everyone, including Catholics and Protestants and Voodooists, believed in the reality of maji, of sorcery.†   (source)
  • "What I am talking about," he continued, "is not a piece of bone touching a piece of metal, or even the overlapping of one culture and another; what I am talking to you about is the brutal clash between what is indigenous and good, and what is foreign and bad.†   (source)
  • Most Liberians speak English, so they had no trouble communicating with indigenous gang members in Clarkston.†   (source)
  • He used to feel a bitter and sado-sort of grudge pleasure, getting even for his life, taking it out on the landscape and the indigenous population.†   (source)
  • From there, we loaded onto three indigenous trucks.†   (source)
  • After a month of supporting this MEDCAP/VETCAP (Medical Civic Action Program / Veterinarian Civic Action Program) mission, winning the hearts and minds of the indigenous population, the task unit was ordered to relocate.†   (source)
  • He even suggested that she export her work to other places, where there was a guaranteed market for indigenous crafts.†   (source)
  • As a Latina, I come from a culture that acknowledges the supernatural and is rooted in indigenous traditions aligned closely with nature.†   (source)
  • "If an African government today did the same thing to their indigenous people, we'd be screaming about it in the United Nations and raising money for the victims, wouldn't we?"†   (source)
  • The journals delight in the beauty and the poisons, he invents "paper" out of indigenous vegetables, he tests local medicines and poisons on dogs and rats.†   (source)
  • The street was quiet, the block an odd mixture of shops and flats indigenous to the center of Paris, bustling with activity during the day, deserted at night.†   (source)
  • The driver had the look of an indigenous South American—a Bolivian, maybe Peruvian.†   (source)
  • Before her, in overly luxuriant rows, was a host, so to speak, of golden pharmaceuticals, plus a few technically less indigenous whatnots.†   (source)
  • But the second week he only blanched, and by the third he worked as though indigenous to this world.†   (source)
  • I can, of course, imagine it being deconstructed nowadays as a paradigm of colonialism, with Kevin figuring as the benign imperialist (or the missionary in the wake of the imperialist), the one who intervenes and appropriates the indigenous life and interferes with its pristine ecology.†   (source)
  • Indigenous in the culture.†   (source)
  • The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.   (source)
  • So he hoped to begin creating some doctors indigenous to Cange.†   (source)
  • I tell them: "Sunflowers are indigenous to the Americas.†   (source)
  • As I have said elsewhere, there was little that was truly original with or indigenous to Gilead: its genius was synthesis.†   (source)
  • Now everyone's pretending to set the record straight: they'll have their hearings, while Mobutu makes a show of changing all European-sounding place names to indigenous ones, to rid us of the sound of foreign domination.†   (source)
  • My gold-draped protagonist was an indigenous suburban princess who drove a pink BMW, her rock-hard, surgically enhanced breasts jutting into the steering wheel, allowing her to drive hands-free, talking on her cell phone and teasing her frosted hair in the rearview mirror as she raced to the tanning salon.†   (source)
  • When dealing with indigenous peoples, says the book in his head — a more modern book this time, late twentieth century, the voice a confident female's — you must attempt to respect their traditions and confine your explanations to simple concepts that can be understood within the contexts of their belief systems.†   (source)
  • For this there were many historical precedents; in fact, no empire imposed by force or otherwise has ever been without this feature: control of the indigenous by members of their own group.†   (source)
  • They already had an indigenous team: a group of young Peruvians trained as community health workers and Jaime to direct them.†   (source)
  • Add the malaria pandemic into the projections, and it seemed obvious that the world faced public health catastrophes on a scale not seen for centuries, since the eras of plague in Europe or the near extinctions of indigenous peoples in the Americas.†   (source)
  • No other country in the world had been subjected to as much "idiotic commentary," he said, and it would have been hard to argue the point, given the fact that, for instance, the name of Haiti's indigenous religion had long since become the synonym for crazy ideas and sheer luridness.†   (source)
  • To the Rwandan elites, writes the scholar Mahmood Mamdani, the distinction between Tutsi lords and subject Hutus had been conceived as an indigenous difference, a difference that existed among a single people, among relatives, as it were.†   (source)
  • No, he wouldn't have been, because he would have been a Native American or possibly an American Indian or a First Person or an Indigenous Person, and they did not have Latin or any other kind of written language then.†   (source)
  • All of which served me well until I became executive director of a cultural arts center promoting Chicano, Latino, and indigenous culture.†   (source)
  • She set up an enormous kiln in her house to fire her creches of monsters, which sold extremely well as examples of indigenous folk art, just as Jean de Satigny had predicted twenty-five years earlier, when he had wanted to export them.†   (source)
  • During a dry season in 1991 and 1992, the Islamic government in Khartoum declared jihad in the Nuba region and launched an offensive to drive indigenous groups from the valleys.†   (source)
  • Even if we have learned to be rightly and deeply fearful of elevating the cultural forms and conservatisms of any nation into normative and exclusivist systems, even if we have terrible proof that pride in an ethnic and religious heritage can quickly degrade into the fascistic, our vigilance on that score should not displace our love and trust in the good of the indigenous per se.†   (source)
  • The Church the Franciscan Fathers planted here was cut off; this is the second growth, and is indigenous.†   (source)
  • 'These trees are indigenous to the South American countries of Brazil, Guiana, and Cayenne.†   (source)
  • He is more indigenous even than the natives.†   (source)
  • Strictly this word is not indigenous to the whale's vocabulary.†   (source)
  • They lay under small hand-parasols instead of beach umbrellas and were obviously less indigenous to the place.†   (source)
  • Most of these houses were larger than Windy Corner, and were filled by people who came, not from the district, but from London, and who mistook the Honeychurches for the remnants of an indigenous aristocracy.†   (source)
  • But practically beginning with the sixteenth century, the malady of architecture is visible; it is no longer the expression of society; it becomes classic art in a miserable manner; from being Gallic, European, indigenous, it becomes Greek and Roman; from being true and modern, it becomes pseudo-classic.†   (source)
  • They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilised nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe.†   (source)
  • "I accord in the opinion," the naturalist calmly replied, complying literally with the opinion of the deriding Esther, by taking his seat, very coolly, by the side of an indigenous shrub; the examination of which he commenced, on the instant, in order that science might not loose any of its just and important dues.†   (source)
  • Although the vast country which we have been describing was inhabited by many indigenous tribes, it may justly be said at the time of its discovery by Europeans to have formed one great desert.†   (source)
  • She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race; but Chloe was a trained and methodical one, who moved in an orderly domestic harness, while Dinah was a self-taught genius, and, like geniuses in general, was positive, opinionated and erratic, to the last degree.†   (source)
  • The government of the Union wishes to transport the broken remnants of the indigenous population of the South to the portion of this country which is nearest to Mexico, and at a great distance from the American settlements.†   (source)
  • They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground—and to one another; it is either winged or it is legged.†   (source)
  • 'It is only in the cold climate of our part of the world that they require this grafting; in many parts of the world, in more southern latitudes than ours, the most luscious fruit trees are indigenous to the soil, and flourish and bear sweet, wholesome fruit, without the slightest care of attention being bestowed upon them; while in England and Germany, and even in France, these same trees require the utmost exertion of horticultural skills to make them bring forth any fruit whatever.†   (source)
  • Here and there, on the bottom, were to be seen the evidences of a hasty and imperfect culture of such indigenous vegetables as were of a quick growth, and which were known to flourish, without the aid of art, in deep and alluvial soils.†   (source)
  • …more, and the tender and luxurious English grains will probably disappear before a myriad of foes, and without the care of man the crow may carry back even the last seed of corn to the great cornfield of the Indian's God in the southwest, whence he is said to have brought it; but the now almost exterminated ground-nut will perhaps revive and flourish in spite of frosts and wildness, prove itself indigenous, and resume its ancient importance and dignity as the diet of the hunter tribe.†   (source)
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