Sentence examples for aborigines held from inspiring English sources
Before contact with Christian missionaries during both the Dutch and Qing periods, Taiwanese aborigines held a variety of beliefs in spirits, gods, sacred symbols and myths that helped their societies find meaning and order.
John Ah Kit is a minister in the Northern Territory's government, one of only two Aborigines to hold such high office.
Aborigines have the world's oldest continuing artistic tradition.
For thousands of years, Australian Aborigines have relied on wattleseed.
Reported occurrences of HD in the Aborigines have a European origin.
Australian Aborigines have long been cast as a people apart.
Most scholars believe Taiwanese "aborigines" retain more of the original Austronesian features.
Because the Dutch were traders, the Aborigines, who had no trade goods, held little interest for them.
The findings, by the anthropologist and architect Dr Paul Memmot, of the University of Queensland, discredits a commonly held view in Australia that Aborigines were completely nomadic before the arrival of Europeans 200 years ago.
Mr. Hawke's announcement followed controversy over a visit by an Australian aborigine, a lawyer, to a "revolutionary" conference held by the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, in Tripoli last month.
In some states it was part of a policy to "breed out the color," in the words of Cecil Cook, who held the title of chief protector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory in the 1930s.
