Indeed, some boomerangs were not thrown at all, but were used in hand to hand combat by Indigenous Australians.

During his time in Canada, Sapir also acted as an advocate for Indigenous rights, arguing publicly for introduction of better medical care for Indigenous communities, and assisting the Six Nation Iroquois in trying to recover eleven wampum belts that had been stolen from the reservation and were on display in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania, the belts were only returned to the Iroquois in 1988.

* The Maverick Flying Dune Buggy was designed by the Indigenous People's Technology and Education Center as an off-road vehicle that could unfurl an advanced parachute and then travel by air over impassable terrain when roadways were no longer usable.

The ancestors of today's American Indigenous peoples are Paleo-Indians ; they were hunter-gatherers who migrated into North America.

Indigenous people were educated in Japanese schools, and studied Japanese language and Japanese culture.

Indigenous peoples living in the northeastern part of North America were the first groups known to have produced maple syrup and maple sugar.

In the earliest days of Mormonism, founder Joseph Smith Jr. taught that the Indigenous peoples of the Americas were members of some of the Lost Tribes of Israel.

The Indigenous Australians were hunter-gatherer tribes and did not farm or cultivate crops, and in keeping with these cultural features, they also never developed pottery.

First Nations ( Indigenous / Native people ) were also prohibited from using the same facilities in transportation – rail cars, accommodations on steamships are two examples.

Indigenous Australians in most jurisdictions were " protected ", effectively being wards of the State.

Nationally we can conclude with confidence that between one in three and one in ten Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families and communities in the period from approximately 1910 until 1970.

Indigenous peasants were the main victims of the Shining Path during the Peru's internal conflict.

These Indigenous Australians were well established throughout Western Australia by the time European explorers began to arrive in the early seventeenth century.

There were 58, 496 Indigenous Australians in Western Australia in 2001, forming 3. 1 % of the population.

In July 2006 the Center for World Indigenous Studies reported that government sanctioned killings were taking place in the southeastern city of Onitsha, because of a shoot-to-kill policy directed toward Biafran loyalists, particularly members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra ( MASSOB ).

In 2003, Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti pygmies, told the UN's Indigenous People's Forum that during the Congo Civil War, his people were hunted down and eaten as though they were game animals.

Norsemen ( often referred to as Vikings ) attempted to colonize the new land ; they were driven out by the local climate and harassment by the Indigenous populace.

Indigenous uprisings aimed at Spanish subjugation plagued the territory at this time, and they were re-interpreted by the Republicans to serve their purpose and show popular support for independence.

According to the Indigenous Missionary Council about 450 indigenous people were murdered between 2003 and 2010.

Nuu-chah-nulth mythology is the historical oral history of the Nuu-chah-nulth, an Indigenous nation living on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.

According to Indigenous Australian oral tradition this species was rare even before the arrival of Europeans on the continent and was in a serious decline even as it first came to scientific notice in the middle years of the 19th century.

Indigenous Australia's oral tradition and religious values are based upon reverence for the land and a belief in this Dreamtime.

Based on the Native Theatre School model, the Centre opened the new Indigenous Theatre School, the first full-time, 3-year theatre training program in North America with a curriculum that integrates training in acting, voice, movement and traditional aboriginal cultural classes in dance, song and oral history.

Indigenous Australian oral tradition suggests that this species may have possibly survived into the 1960s.

Indigenous Australia's oral tradition and religious values are based upon reverence for the land and a belief in this Dreamtime.

Indigenous peoples have an oral tradition of story telling.

The History Wars also relates to broader themes concerning national identity, as well as methodological questions concerning the historian and the craft of researching and writing history, including issues such as the value and reliability of written records ( of the authorities and settlers ) and the oral tradition ( of the Indigenous Australians ), along with the political or similar ideological biases of those who interpret them.

They include the Indigenous Australians, the Melanesians ( now divided into Austronesian-speaking populations and Papuans, and including the great genetic diversity of New Guinea ), the Semang people of the Malay peninsula, and indigenous first nation Fijians.

For three centuries Mexico was just another kingdom ( the New Spain ) of the Spanish Empire, during which time its indigenous population fell by more than half and was partially replaced by Spaniards and the now predominant Mestizos or mixture of Indigenous and Spanish populations.

An example from the pre-historic era would be the examination of remains submerged in ancient wells or cenotes, or of Indigenous sites now lying underwater yet well away from the sea or inland waters.

From the 1830s, colonial governments established the now controversial offices of the Protector of Aborigines in an effort to avoid mistreatment of Indigenous peoples and conduct government policy towards them.

It is believed by the Kulin and other Indigenous peoples that, in the Dreamtime, Bunjil took shelter in a cave located in what is now the Black Range Scenic Reserve in Victoria.

The land now occupied by Wyrrabalong National Park was first inhabited by the Darkinjung people and the Awabakal people, the Indigenous Australians.

The Five Civilized Tribes were Indigenous peoples of the Americas who lived in the Southeastern United States, and most were descendants of what we now call the Mississippian culture, an agrarian culture that grew crops of corn and beans, with hereditary religious and political elites, that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from 800 to 1500 C. E.

Prior to the arrival of European settlers, what is now called Ipswich was home to multiple tribal lands, including the Warpai tribe, Yuggera and Ugarapul Indigenous Australian groups.

Towner also inaugurated a number of initiatives, including research centers in the fields of history of cartography, American Indian history ( now American Indian and Indigenous studies ), family and community history ( now American History and Culture ), and Renaissance studies.

The Neville Bonner Memorial Scholarship was established by the federal government in 2000 and is now considered Australia's most prestigious scholarship for Indigenous Australians to study Honours in Political Science or related subjects at any recognised Australian university.

The area around Port Phillip and the Yarra valley, on which the city of Melbourne now stands, was the home of the Kulin people, an alliance of several language groups of Indigenous Australians, whose ancestors had lived in the area for an estimated 31, 000 to 40, 000 years.

* Indigenous ethnic religions, formerly found on every continent, now marginalized by the major organized faiths, but persisting as undercurrents of folk religion.

Indigenous card games existed in the 19th century but are now lost.

Indigenous Australians first inhabited the area that is now Albert Park around 40, 000 years ago.

At the 2002 General Assembly in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Canada, the Chair passed from Greenland, where it had been held for the previous seven years by Aqqaluk Lynge, now a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, to Canada, where Sheila Watt-Cloutier, formerly the President of ICC Canada, took the position.

The policy and coordination role is now the responsibility of the Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination in the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs from 27 January 2006 ( previously with the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs ).

Indigenous tourism ventures incorporating the controlled use of homelands are now showing signs of success for a select number of Yolngu.

Before European settlement, Hamersley was part of a larger area of land that was occupied by the Mooro people, an Indigenous Australian people who traversed the lakes and wetlands running parallel to the coast between what is now Perth and Yanchep.

Tupiniquim ( also Tupinã-ki, Topinaquis, Tupinaquis, Tupinanquins, Tupiniquins ) are an indigenous peoples of Brazil, who now live in three Indigenous Territories ( Terras Indígenas in Portuguese ).

Among the officials selected from each assembly, there are now commissioners for health and education, as well as a representative to a Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee ( CCRI ).