Local officials wield enormous power all over Nigeria, often determining who can get college graduation diplomas, business forms and, most contentiously, papers indicating who is an "indigenous citizen" in a particular area.
He is the first indigenous citizen to wield power in Bolivia, a country traditionally ruled by members of its minority mestizo or white population, who are descended from European settlers.
"Maybe they could apologise to our Indigenous citizens".
With just 3.4m residents, only a third of them indigenous citizens, the emirate sits on a claimed 8% of the world's petroleum reserves.
And it wasn't simply Moree – all across the country, colour bars were in place to contain the freedoms of its Indigenous citizens.
But Christians in the Middle East, the region's "indigenous citizens", are well-placed to invite Judaism and Islam to embrace a healthy secularism.
It's hard not to suspect that racism and greed are at the root of Brazil's failure to defend its indigenous citizens' lives," he said.
Its indigenous citizens, amounting to less than a third of the overall population, are used to government largesse: as a generous provider of services and benefits, they have generally been happy to forgo political rights.
He is the one symbol that all Jordanians, rich and poor, secular and religious, Palestinian refugees and indigenous citizens, have in common.Yet Jordan will lose its king, and probably sooner rather than later.
Over the course of two weeks and many thousands of miles, they exposed and protested the racial segregation and appalling living conditions of the Indigenous citizens in towns like Moree, Walgett and Bowraville.
America's treatment of its minorities and indigenous citizens does not escape censure, although -- probably since the artists are from elsewhere -- there is little of the black-white heat one would expect in an American-based show.
