Sentence examples for indigenous ancestry from inspiring English sources

Independent senator Jacqui Lambie also claims Indigenous ancestry.

He was the country's first democratically elected president of indigenous ancestry.

As a light-skinned Creole who claims indigenous ancestry from Suriname's American Indians, he has bridged ethnic divisions here.

In a country where half of the population is female and a similar percentage has African or indigenous ancestry, Temer named an all-white, all-male Cabinet.

In Arizona, as elsewhere, "Mexican" became synonymous with the racial identity known as mestizo, mixed — a mixture, most often, of European and indigenous ancestry.

Each participant, whose inner cheek was swabbed for the samples, had at least three generations of indigenous ancestry at the site.

About three weeks ago, long-held skepticism within the indigenous community over Mr. Boyden's claims of native ancestry became a topic of broad public debate after an investigative report by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

Under apartheid, South Africans were categorised into one of four socially defined race or ethnic groups: African/Black (descent primarily from one of a number of Black language groups in Southern Africa), Coloured (general grouping, including a mixture of Black, Malay, European and indigenous Khoisan ancestry), White (mainly European ancestry) and Asian (Indian sub-continent ancestry).

It has a hereditary basis and is common among people of European or indigenous Australian ancestry.

I have reclaimed my indigenous Black ancestry.

This division prescribed to non-white people - people of African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Indigenous, Mixed ancestry - unwholesome aesthetic, behavioral, and moral characteristics.