The indigenous terms for this ritual varied: the Cheyenne phrase may be translated as "New Life Lodge"; the Atsina term means "Sacrifice Lodge".
It is through NGOs that work with MSM that many people encounter and embrace the purportedly "indigenous" term koti.
Whereas Diabetes Mellitus conveys little about the signs and symptoms of the disease to participants, the two indigenous terms are grounded in the experience of the person afflicted – the experience of illness – and also suggest crucial things about the underlying mechanisms of illness and its origin.
The animal is mainly found in the northeastern Brazil in the caatinga (an indigenous term for white – or desert – forest) and cerrado tropical savannas.
The initial result of those labors, which continue, is a photographic essay called "The Liquid Serpent," referring to an indigenous term for the river that flows through the heart of the Amazon, the world's largest tropical forest.
Although historic research is needed to verify this claim, the facts that an indigenous term (gemo) is associated with the behaviors, the belief is integrated into the religious system (jok), and the protocol is common knowledge to children who do not learn it in school suggest that many rules existed in pre-Colonial times.
Nathan Sivin (1995, 3n1) points out that there is no indigenous term for "nature" in China before the nineteenth century.
Along "cancer alley," an indigenous term for a stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans where chemical companies line the shores, the river has long since become a vast science project for environmentalists and polluters alike.
Describing a towering tree in the yard of her farm with few branches around its trunk, making it daunting to climb, Ms. Fischer, the descendant of Nueva Germania's pioneers, called it simply "ka'i kyhyjeha," an indigenous term roughly translating as "monkey's fear".
No participants were able to describe any specific Indigenous term or phrase.
