Sentence examples for native societies from inspiring English sources

Apparently, for thousands of years native societies of the Western Hemisphere utilized plants containing psychedelic substances.

Two-spirit people were respected by native societies not only due to religious attitudes, but also because of practical concerns.

Many of his passions — land nationalization, radical equality, even the belief in a spirit world — were built into the native societies he had encountered on his travels.

He hopes that it will lead to a wider appreciation of the rarely mentioned native societies and their even more rarely mentioned geometric earthworks.

The collapse in economic value of hunting has debilitated native societies across the Arctic, according to Aqqaluk Lynge, president of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, an international group that represents 150,000 Inuit in Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Russia.

In France, the belief that immigrants should give up all the cultural characteristics of their native societies has been slow to die; assimilation, rather than integration, has been the traditional aim.

There was, after all, a native society before there was ever a Native Society.

More interestingly, the author maintains that much of what we see today as a racial divide in Sudan has its roots in colonial history, when Britain "broke up native society into different ethnicities, and 'tribalized' each ethnicity by bringing it under the absolute authority of one or more British-sanctioned 'native authorities,' " balancing "the whole by playing one off against the others".

A partnership between an immigrant and a native is called "intermarriage" and is used in the sense of "marriage into the native society".

The power of this movement was rendered possible by the existence of strong preferences for the just treatment of migrants also among large segments of the native society.

For example, the Southeast Asian Chinese community is not "transplanted" from the native society, but rather historically reconstructed in the local social context (Ma, 2000).The production and localization of Chinese culture, to a certain extent, strengthens the cultural identity of the native country, Southeast Asia and the transnational cultural sphere.