More than 50 percent are Amerindians who speak mainly Quechua or Aymara as well as Spanish. |
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The Dance of the Conquest recalls the victory of the Spanish over the Amerindians. |
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The islands were originally inhabited by the Arawaks, Caribs, and other Amerindians. |
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It is a blend of customs of the Amerindians, the Africans, the East Indians and the Europeans. |
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Tribal people like the Aborigines, Amerindians and Bushmen are the heirs to all the richness and diversity of the natural world. |
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In pottery, woodcraft, and basketry, Amerindians produce for the domestic and foreign markets. |
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Portuguese, Chinese, Amerindians, and other Europeans make up the remainder of the population. |
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Its heritage includes the unique mingling of Africans and Amerindians that produced the group known as the Black Caribs. |
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Terrorized, Boerstler and his soldiers wanted to surrender, but not to the Amerindians. |
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Soon a soldier arrived to tell him that the Amerindians had taken the guardhouse and seized the weapons there. |
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The cunning tactician arranged his men in a circle and let the Amerindians attack the following day. |
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In addition, when Amerindians thought they might be defeated, they withdrew rapidly from battle. |
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This was the classic surprise attack of the Amerindians, reinforced by perfect coordination and thoughtful discipline. |
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The Amerindian Act 2006 provides for detailed rights in relation to the Amerindians, especially land rights. |
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The Amerindian Act 2006 seeks to level the playing field by granting additional rights to Amerindians. |
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A few root decoctions of the beardtongues were used for toothache by the Amerindians, but I found no mention of any economic uses for slender beardtongue. |
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If on occasion some Amerindians proved to be recalcitrant or hostile, an expeditionary force was simply sent in to subdue them. |
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The Amerindians preferred to sever the entire heads of vanquished warriors, but cut off only the scalps if they had too much to carry. |
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About 60 participants attended the meeting, including officials from the government, researchers, representatives from Amerindians and breeders. |
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This led his commander, Salvador Fidalgo, to open fire on two canoes of peaceful Amerindians, killing several of them. |
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And so, despite their official protests, the colonial authorities perpetuated this practice, all the while reviling the Amerindians for it. |
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But the goal of the French was not to chase away the Amerindians to replace them with French colonizers, but to control trade through alliances. |
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Impressed by the advanced civilization of these Amerindians, the Spanish deemed it wise not to go ashore, but they did trade goods. |
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Vllebon, with about 100 Frenchmen as well as some allied Amerindians, succeeded in repulsing the attack. |
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In this political formation, the effort was to develop a multi racial alliance of Africans, Indians, Amerindians and all those who were interested in social justice. |
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In the Amazon, native Amerindians wear face paint and traditional tunics. |
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Amerindians surrounded Annapolis Royal, but failed to dislodge the British garrison. |
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First she went to Rigaud, QC, then to Prince George, BC, where she worked with the Amerindians, and the tertiaries of St. Francis. |
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The many skilful subterfuges of the Amerindians enabled them to take most of the forts. |
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When the Americans saw the troops arrive, they almost panicked because of their fear of what the Amerindians might do. |
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While he dithered, the anti-French feelings of the Amerindians mingled with those of the Americans who wanted to settle the Ohio Valley. |
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Therefore, from the available odontological data, it cannot be conclusively determined whether these individuals were more closely related to Inuit than to Amerindians. |
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All of the interior Amerindians originally spoke Carib languages, with the exception of the Wapisiana, whose language is in the Arawak linguistic family. |
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They also suggest that at least some of those people were the ancestors of modern Amerindians. |
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Most Amerindians claim that they have a sacred relationship with land and that it is the foundation of their life and their culture. |
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Gold was known to the early Amerindians, but the metal was not held in high regard in the period covered in this chapter. |
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The entire Act is a special measure discriminating in favour of Amerindians, in compliance with article 1, paragraph 4, of the Convention. |
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She began by studying with herbalists in the United States and with Amerindians. |
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These comments were made in response to a proposal to establish military companies composed of Amerindians. |
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Amerindians are indigenous to and were the first people to have settled in Guyana. |
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Practised by Amerindians for practical purposes, under English influence, this activity became a recreational means of transportation. |
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These Amerindians lived in the south of current California before the arrival of Christophe Colomb. |
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The accidental discovery of a paleohistoric object of Amerindian origin is indicative of the presence of Amerindians in the region. |
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One of the main attractions in these areas is the busy town square Amerindians. |
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In the similar ceremonies between the Celts and the Amerindians, there is that of the search of the visions. |
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No sooner had they reached the beach than they were massacred in just a few moments by approximately 300 Amerindians surging from the woods, under the horrified gaze of their companions who had remained on board the ships. |
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Most of the Amerindians practiced agriculture and the social structure of each indigenous community was different. |
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This victory earned them prestige in the eyes of the Amerindians, who had been indecisive up to that time. Also, they were able, without firing a single shot, to take an essential strategic point. |
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The Government recognizes that concerted efforts must be made to increase the life expectancy of Guyanese in general, and Amerindians in particular. |
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It is as if we are the only people on earth, until there's a sudden movement far below from one of the Amerindians, walking across a clearing in the jungle. |
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Both Trinidad and Tobago were originally settled by Amerindians of South American origin. |
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It was named after the local Miskito Amerindians and was long dominated by British interests. |
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And people need to know, I'm talking about Amerindians, that they have a history, a common history with us that has the right to be taught in the schools. |
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They are shy, and fished a lot by the jungle tribes of Amerindians that rarely get seen by outsiders. |
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The fish is named after Akawaio Amerindians, the people that live in the region. |
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Later, during the colonisation of some Latin American countries the word lenguaraz described the interpreter's function in relations with the Amerindians. |
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In effect, Amerindians had no legal ownership to the land but could treat with the Crown for the extinction of their right of occupancy. |
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Gold was not prized by the Amerindians of Canada and the United States, and the aborigines of Australia seem not to have paid any attention to the precious metal. |
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As a multi-ethnic developing country, Guyana accorded priority to social cohesion and the participation of all its citizens, including Amerindians, in the affairs of the nation. |
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Genetic characterization of an epidemic of Plasmodium falciparum malaria among Yanomami Amerindians. |
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Many Acadians who took refuge in the forest began, with the help of the Amerindians, to use guerilla tactics until the end of the war, which required the British to maintain garrisons in western Nova Scotia. |
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Paradoxically, this initial barbaric act thus engendered ethnic, intellectual and spiritual interactions between Africans, Amerindians and Europeans on a considerable scale. |
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The MSF team will help provide basic health services for some 40,000 people, including about 8,500 Ashaninka Amerindians, one of the most threatened populations of native Indians on the continent. |
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In August 1757, Montcalm left Montreal to lay siege to Fort William Henry with a powerful corps of 6,000 soldiers and militiamen accompanied by 1,600 Amerindians, to place the British on the defensive. |
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Indians later disambiguated as Red Indians, American Indians, Amerindians, or Amerinds. |
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Seeman studies Spanish activities in Florida and particularly Jesuit interactions with Amerindians and their tragic end. |
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From their first military confrontations with Europeans, the Amerindians realized the futility of fighting in tight formation against troops that were better armed and accustomed to discipline from European battlefields. |
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After the Amerindians laid seige to Annapolis in 1722, four of the independent companies in Newfoundland were transferred to Canso, leaving only one in Placentia. |
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In exchange for this privilege, the companies agreed to several obligations to the king, namely to colonize New France, Christianize the Amerindians, govern, and defend the interests of His Majesty. |
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The Dominican Republic has the largest mixed race population, primarily descended from Europeans, West Africans, and Amerindians. |
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December 22: The Royal Navy shells and destroys an Amerindian village near Fort Rupert, British Columbia, to obtain the surrender of three Kwakiutl Amerindians who had killed a Newitty Amerindian. |
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In addition, they were able to locate two specimens of yaws from the only known site of active infection in the Americas: Amerindians living far inside Guyana. |
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The indigenous rights of the Amerindians of French Guyana are therefore unprotected and they are simply living on borrowed time on their ancestral lands. |
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On August 13 General Brock went to Fort Malden with a party of the 41St Regiment, as well as militiamen and Amerindians, to meet the Great Chief Tecumseh. |
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Besides the Acadian problem, the conquerors of Port-Royal faced another major difficulty: the virtually incessant hostility of the Abenaki and Micmac Amerindians, who continually harassed the garrison. |
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The ethnocentricity of that position at first puzzled, and even confused, Amerindians, but it has lately begun to anger them. |
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However, Trinidad in this period was still mostly forest, populated by a few Spaniards with their handful of slaves and a few thousand Amerindians. |
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The taking and displaying of human body parts as trophies by Amerindians. |
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Considering the geographic distance of Amerindians from Devil's Gate Cave, Amerindians are unusually genetically close to the human remains from Devil's Gate Cave. |
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The fleet sailed along the southern coast and entered Dragon's Mouth, anchoring near Soldado Rock where they made contact with a group of native Amerindians in canoes. |
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It was gold seized from Amerindians, or extracted with slave labour, which helped to fund the entradas organized locally after 1508, rather than gold from Spain. |
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