Sentence examples for indigenous identity from inspiring English sources

She had a certain moral authority on the basis of her indigenous identity.

There are many, however, who feel the company needs to counter its internationalism with a stronger, more indigenous identity.

Much of church doctrine taught to the students was aimed at separating them from their indigenous identity.

Colombia's interior ministry has said it must take a census of the Yukpa to certify their indigenous identity.

"While living in a remote community I came to understand that 'connection' to land is a fundamental part of the Indigenous identity," the sign said.

Their music approaches the ideal of African musicians: it sells internationally while retaining enough of an indigenous identity to appeal to African audiences.

Festival activity, which has always been a significant part of Pacific culture, has provided a vehicle for expressing contemporary indigenous identities.

In 21st-century Australia, the "dispersal" that began with European invasion continues through the gentrification of city suburbs where Indigenous identities persist.

In 2007 she accepted an Assistant Professor position at Oregon State where she is currently working on a book on the invention of cartographic discourse among the colonial Maya of Yucatan and how the resulting maps allowed for the perseverance of indigenous identities amid the turmoil of colonization.

Feminist theory remains integral to the process of decolonization for Hawaiian and other indigenous women because colonialism takes place through gendered and sexualized forms that reconstitute both individual and communal indigenous identities in stigmatized and disempowering ways.

The author synthesizes ethnographic field research, museum and archival research, and participation in cultural-revival and rights-based organizing to show how women craft Ainu and indigenous identities through clothwork and how they also fashion lived connections to ancestral values and lifestyles.