Unfortunately she did not know very much about the indigenous aborigines. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
The word aborigines is usually associated with primitive people now, but it really just means "original". From Wordnik.com. [orrologion] Reference
By the end of 1642 they felt that the company must protect the northern aborigines from the "brutal" Chinese. From Wordnik.com. [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference
Yet even as aboriginal prosperity decreased over the 1640s, the company managed to retain aborigines 'cooperation. From Wordnik.com. [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference
Beyond any one of these in importance as a source of mementos illustrating the life and art of the aborigines is the burial-place. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
These are Taiwan's "aborigines," altogether about 200,000 people in. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
The "aborigines" have not been crowded out of sight, or into a special "quarter.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Griffin also used the occasion to label white people the "aborigines" of Britain, but denied he was racist or a Nazi. From Wordnik.com. [Epolitix News] Reference
"aborigines," "abyss," and others that admitted of being presented under some mental image. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development] Reference
That's about as far up the economic ladder as most aborigines go. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Side Of Taiwan] Reference
After the victorious aborigines had returned from their pursuit of. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
Rand, in his newly acquired jargon, explained to the aborigines that the. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
"When I first became a star, I very rarely saw other aborigines," she says. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Side Of Taiwan] Reference
But, he acknowledges, most Taiwanese are at least aware of the aborigines 'plight. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Side Of Taiwan] Reference
"Suppose it is without the consent of the aborigines," she said, attempting to laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
The case of Jemmy Davis is by no means a singular one in the aborigines of Australia. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
In the era of colonial life; in the cruel wars with the aborigines; in the struggle of the. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
But they have not exterminated the aborigines, nor have they assimilated them to any degree. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
"They gave it to her because they wanted to show that Taiwanese aborigines were under their rule.". From Wordnik.com. [Back In The Spotlight] Reference
This plant is native to America, was greatly prized by the aborigines, and even worshipped by some of them. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
As an opposition party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) encouraged aborigines to fight for their rights. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Side Of Taiwan] Reference
"There are a few aborigines, like A-mei, who have become successful," says Takisugan Bion, an aboriginal pastor. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Side Of Taiwan] Reference
"I expect that the strange happenings have puzzled and frightened the aborigines," suggested Professor Henderson. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
Perhaps no peoples in all the South Sea Islands have suffered more keenly from contact with Europeans than these aborigines. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The aborigines held them in great respect, took them for large dogs (bull-dogs of course), and had a wholesome fear of their bite. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Our lives are much more important than were the lives of the aborigines of this country, and our "demands of Nature" are more exigent. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
The condition of a people who originally held such mystic and crude ideas is seen to-day in types of aborigines and uncivilised races. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
Though counted among the least refined of aborigines, their taste in this matter was as pure as that of the fashionable world of the East. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
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