Sentence examples for claim native from inspiring English sources
Between 1776 and 1833, the Spanish built 21 Catholic missions in California to claim Native lands and convert Native souls.
Others claim Native heritage so they can speak for us.
That judgment went further than a High Court ruling of 1992, known as the Mabo case, which established that aborigines had the right to claim native title to traditional lands, something never recognised before.
Other Seattle writers who happen to claim Native heritage include popular novelist Garth Stein (The Art of Racing in the Rain) and gutsy memoirist Elissa Washuta (My Body is a Book of Rules).
She, like many people on a continent taken from First Peoples, can claim Native American ancestry.
The use of DNA tests to claim "Native American" genes or blood trivializes history.
The third player in the set is Richard, an older man who claims Native American heritage.
And prominent whaling captains had become leaders in business especially in the land-claims native corporation, the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation.
She has, naturally, been abused by the horror show that is Trump: because she claims Native American heritage, he calls her "Pocahontas".
Brown has blasted Warren for months, charging that she claimed Native American heritage to take advantage of university affirmative action employment policies.
The call has been backed by the Northern Basin Aboriginal Nations (NBAN), which claims native title holders have been left out of important decision-making about the Darling River.
