Seattle is one of the most recent, with its city council voting this year to adopt the indigenous version of the holiday.
Grown in the jungle by the indigenous Kichwa, guayusa (gwhy-you-sa) is a sacred leaf used in ceremonial rituals.
The vine and the ceremony are deeply entwined with South American indigenous religions of the Amazon.
Paris, it would appear, had been liberated solely by indigenous Frenchmen: citizens, irregulars, and soldiers.
The Social Realism and Muralist Movements from artists like Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco worked with indigenous crafts.
The offspring of pride, and lust, and avarice, it is indigenous to the world.
Grandeur, however, like sentiment, is not indigenous to the hearth.
Tobacco is indigenous in Mexico, and derives its name from Tabaco in Yucatan.
There is not the slightest doubt that the Cotton plant is indigenous to Peru.
There are no indigenous breeds of either cattle or sheep in this country.
1640s, from Late Latin indigenus "born in a country, native," from Latin indigena "sprung from the land," as a noun, "a native," literally "in-born," or "born in (a place)," from Old Latin indu "in, within" (earlier endo) + *gene-, root of gignere (perf. genui) "beget," from PIE *gen- "produce" (see genus).
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indigenous Native to a particular region or environment but occurring naturally in other places as well. The American black bear is indigenous to many different parts of North America. Compare alien, endemic. |
