Sentence examples for indigenous allies from inspiring English sources

The Spaniards were aided in their victory by thousands of indigenous allies as well as by superior weapons, including steel swords, warhorses, and trained attack dogs.

Yet Morales has alienated environmentalists and many former indigenous allies by promoting mining and a planned jungle highway through an indigenous reserve.

The identification of indigenous allies in the Spanish caravan struck Overholtzer as a telling sign of the complex world into which the invaders marched.

Somehow, the caravan – archaeologists estimate it included 15 Spaniards, 45 soldiers from the colonies, 50 women, 10 children and a large number of indigenous allies – was captured.

The outcome of Vladimir Putin's aggression in the Crimean Peninsula is not yet settled, but one thing is clear: He will have few indigenous allies, should he attempt to occupy and split away Ukraine's Russian-speaking regions.

He said that the U.S. military doctrine of aiding indigenous allies was doomed to fail in Afghanistan because the United States had failed to understand that national Afghan leaders like Karzai must prioritize "internal balancing" of power over any external threats, leading to rampant corruption.

Whatever the excuse, it's unlikely that one dollar of our $30 billion intelligence budget (which includes covert operations) has gone to provide one automatic rifle, one mortar, or one anti-tank rocket to the 70,000 Kurdish fighters who would make up our most dependable indigenous ally in any coalition to overthrow Saddam.

Some seven years later, the U.S. abandoned a far larger and more important indigenous ally, Gen. Vang Pao and his CIA funded "secret army" of Hmong tribesmen fighting the North Vietnamese in the cloud shrouded mountains further north.

Our community welcomes all students who identify as Indigenous and allies, and therefore our organization represents many different nations, bands and communities year-to-year.

The initial shock of the Spanish conquest was followed by decades of heavy exploitation of the indigenous peoples, allies and foes alike.

From across Canada, Indigenous people, allies, and environmentalists have traveled south of the border to join in a largely peaceful protest against a project they believe could have serious consequences.