How to Use indigenous in a Sentence

indigenous

adjective
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  • There are several indigenous groups that still live in the area.
  • The Day of the Dead has roots in indigenous Aztec culture.
    — Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 25 July 2022
  • The path had been cut by the indigenous Beothuk people.
    — Longreads, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The fall armyworms, which are indigenous to the U.S., are the larval stage of the fall armyworm moth.
    — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The subject of indigenous peoples is near and dear to her heart.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • How has the indigenous fashion sector changed over the years?
    — Chloe Sachdev, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021
  • But the lands where those trees grow were taken from an indigenous group known as the Mapuche.
    — Eduardo Thomson, Bloomberg.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • It's named for the indigenous Caddo people, who settled in the area in the early 1800s.
    — Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Take a tour to learn about the indigenous people who first occupied the area.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2021
  • That drink is tejate, an indigenous name that means nectar of the gods.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Marzio Emilio Villa is a black-indigenous artist born in Brazil in 1987 and who lives and works in Milan.
    — Vogue, 27 Oct. 2022
  • There’s also a sense of connection to the earth that is one of the hallmarks of indigenous people of that time.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 31 May 2021
  • The trees are indigenous to the Houston area and promise to be hardy and low-maintenance.
    — Jennifer Michelle Greenberg, Houston Chronicle, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Kente is indigenous to the Asante kingdom, in what is now Ghana.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 9 June 2020
  • The indigenous people of the region had been at it for countless centuries.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 17 June 2020
  • Instead, an indigenous design will be on the bank note.
    — Town & Country, 6 Feb. 2023
  • This limit doesn't apply to African cobras or vipers that aren't indigenous to the state.
    — Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 7 July 2021
  • But for most of Picard’s new allies, the demons are indigenous to their inner selves.
    — Laurence Scott, Wired, 28 Mar. 2020
  • The Australia team posed with a flag of Australia's indigenous people.
    — Graham Dunbar, Star Tribune, 22 July 2021
  • And more than a few indigenous scholars and activists have been asking just that.
    — Jeff Yang, CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Pereira is also well known in the region for his efforts to protect the lives of indigenous tribes in the rainforest.
    — Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 7 June 2022
  • Instead, the indigenous Mexicans were told to grow hemp for rope.
    — Angela Chen, The Verge, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The indigenous peoples were successful, and the test was cancelled.
    — David Vetter, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Even some indigenous thinkers aren't keen on the idea, arguing that these new laws could infringe their treaty rights.
    — Clive Thompson, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
  • One of the most effective ways to protect the Amazon is to secure and expand the land rights of indigenous peoples.
    — Gen Cleary, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Some who speak indigenous languages said there aren't any staff members who can speak with them.
    — CBS News, 28 June 2019
  • You are supposed to clone and fuse yourself in order to conceal your Black or indigenous side.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
  • My sin is being indigenous, a union leader and a coca farmer.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The relics are a dark reminder of how the body parts of indigenous people were swapped and sold in a grisly, exploitative trade, not just in Germany, but around the world.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 14 June 2023
  • The series follows two indigenous Australian hunters who battle the last colony of vampires in the South Australian desert.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Jan. 2023

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