Amerindian
Americannoun
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Amerindians
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adjective
noun
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See Indian.
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“It is me giving back to the environment,” said Shakira Yipsam, 19, who leads the drone team and lives in the Amerindian village of Aruka Mouth, located near a river that drains into the Atlantic.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2023
Basic outlined images, inspired by Washington state landscapes and Amerindian petroglyphs, appear in lithographs, woven baskets and blown-glass vessels.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022
It’s a strange serendipity that Cecilia’s Basque surname should echo the Quechua wik’uña so closely and link her European and Amerindian lines by way of sonic correspondence.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
Mixed race and Amerindian peoples largely make up the remainder.
From Reuters ● Aug. 25, 2022
Both Amerindian and Aboriginal Australian cultures witnessed frequent armed conflicts.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
In the absence of demographic data for ancient Greece and Rome, Finch turned to a surprising model for ancient aging: today's Tsimane Amerindians, an Indigenous people of the Bolivian Amazon.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 2024
Others use nets, breed them in captivity or buy from street market vendors who purchase them from Amerindians who catch the birds in Guyana’s remote interior or people who smuggle them in from neighboring Venezuela.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
He recalled living through Guyana’s growing pains as the South American nation — a melting pot of Indians, Africans, Amerindians, Chinese and Europeans — became a cooperative republic, then a socialist republic.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
“We show that all Native Americans, including the major sub-groups of Amerindians and Athabascans, descend from the same migration wave into the Americas.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2015
Unlike most colonists, however, who believed that the Africans and Amerindians were “rough, wild people, naked, with no God or religious service,” Maria embraced their customs and lore.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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