Sentence examples for oppressed indigenous from inspiring English sources

The renowned friend of oppressed indigenous peoples and trees accepted, in 2009, a seven-figure sum to visit Uzbekistan and play a festival convened by Gulnara Karimova, daughter and heir of president Islam Karimov.

The renowned friend of oppressed indigenous peoples and trees accepted, in 2009, a seven-figure sum to visit Uzbekistan and play a festival convened by Gulnara Karimova, daughter and heir of president Islam Karimov.

Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and his trial offered Guatemala's oppressed indigenous communities their first chance to be heard, human rights activists said.

In a piece she created in the early 1990s, she asked white men in her audience to apologize for oppressing indigenous people by chomping at a burrito she had attached to her hip.

The fact is, by and large, the media, the legal institutions, the economic and political institutions; they all dehumanize and oppress indigenous people just by their own force and existence.

"The event supports the institutions that oppress the indigenous people," he says.

More then just oppressing the indigenous people - green-furred humanoids who live in symbiosis with their forest home - the Terrans are intent on taming the very planet itself.

The draft charter seeks to empower Bolivia's long-oppressed indigenous majority.

Its take on British imperialism goes something like this: Sure, foreign lands were plundered and indigenous peoples oppressed, but think of the snacks!

James Brooke (NYT) BOLIVIA: INDIAN PARTY FORMED A top Indian leader, Felipe Quispe, has announced establishment of a political party intended to serve the interests of indigenous people "oppressed for 500 years by white people".

And in this new society that oppressed all of Peru's indigenous population, the names of noble families – the "children of the sun" who had once lived as demigods – were gradually erased from history.