Sentence examples for indigenous roots from inspiring English sources

Fears over discrimination saw children forced to abandon their indigenous roots, including their native tongue Quechua.

It is from the indigenous roots of Indian games that many modern team sports have blossomed.

Seeking to reconnect the population with its indigenous roots, leaders also give talks to schoolchildren.

Roman drama had its indigenous roots in the Etruscan mimetic dances.

But they are at least understandable in countries where Nazism had indigenous roots.

According to Bolivia's foreign minister, David Choquehuanca, the horological initiative is intended to help Bolivians rediscover their indigenous roots.

The majority of Latinos in the United States share an indigenous root and legacy, many more than one.

Our indigenous radical tradition has deep roots: roots that stretch back through the suffragettes and the Chartists; back through John Wilkes and Thomas Paine; back, arguably, even through the Levellers to the Lollards.

Like Dia de los Muertos sugar skull tradition, Halloween masks originally had indigenous cultural roots.

And then, to add to the silencing, when universities set up commissions to study the history in question -- as Rutgers is doing in terms of its indigenous campus roots, Princeton is doing with regard to the relevance of Woodrow Wilson's past record to today, and Yale did in relinquishing the title of "Master" for resident faculty in university houses -- the approach is labelled as "giving in".

Nicholas D. Kristof's May 12 column, "A Rite of Torture for Girls," does not adequately reflect the diversity of the anti-female-genital-mutilation movement spearheaded by indigenous grass-roots groups across Africa, many of whom are both radical and resourceful in their approach to ending the practice.