Sentence examples for indigenous societies from inspiring English sources

The training of spiritual people in many indigenous societies involves learning how to leave one's body.

Environmental groups have accused Newmont of contaminating water, destroying indigenous societies and using cyanide in its mines.

They carried a message of equality that was deeply appealing to indigenous societies torn by caste and poverty.

They carried a message of equality that was deeply appealing to indigenous societies riven by caste and poverty.

The MIT study explores 14 cases in which the land claims of indigenous societies on six continents are being contested.

The value of functional and biologically diverse landscapes to indigenous societies is increasingly recognised in public debates about development pathways but rarely rigorously assessed in development decisions.

He calls for a zero-growth economy and a new appreciation of how indigenous societies around the world have interacted with nature.

Unlike Ecuador, and indigenous societies throughout the world, they want to extract every drop of hydrocarbons from the ground with all possible speed.

In many ways these indigenous emigrants Cherokees, Choctaws, Wyandots, among others—straddled the spheres of "settler" and "indigenous" societies, often maintaining close relations with both.

Many believe this statement to be true and suggest that indigenous societies are similar to other human societies in their relationships and impacts on the environment.

In most traditional and indigenous societies, land is generally regarded as a totemic symbol of the spiritual ethos of the people.