Fire-stick farming is a term coined by Australian archaeologist Rhys Jones in 1969 to describe the practice of Indigenous Australians where fire was used regularly to burn vegetation to facilitate hunting and to change the composition of plant and animal species in an area.

When used with a grammatical qualifier, the adjective American can mean " of or relating to the Americas ", as in Latin American or Indigenous American.

Designed by the Indigenous People ’ s Technology and Education Center ( I-TEC ) of Florida, a Christian ministry, the 1100-pound ' Maverick ' vehicle is powered by a engine that can also drive a five-bladed pusher propeller.

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.

The idea that Europeans " discovered " America can lead to misunderstanding the true nature of the encounter between two distinct and independent civilizations, namely European and Indigenous American.

The Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico can be traced back to the Indigenous Pagan cultures.

Indigenous soil inoculants ( e. g., Zaccaria bi color ) can optionally be used to increase survival rates in hardy environments.

Indigenous animals that can be found in the valley floor are kit foxes, coyotes, bobcats, and roadrunners.

A significant contemporary account of the experiences of Indigenous Australia can be found in Sally Morgan's My Place.

The diversity in musical expressions found in Colombia can be seen as the result of a mixture of African, native Indigenous, European ( especially Spanish ) influences, as well as more modern American and Caribbean musical forms, Cuban, and Jamaican.

Too young to fend for himself, Robert is adopted by a local group of Indigenous Australians, who teach him the skills he needs to survive in this harsh new environment ; they name him Robert Foster, partly due to him being fostered by them and also because of the discovery of an empty can of Foster's Lager, an Australian beer, found near the crash site.

The diversity in musical expressions found in Venezuela can be seen as the result of a mixture of African, native Indigenous, European ( especially Spanish ) influences, as well as more modern American and Caribbean musical forms, such as Trinidadian and Cuban.

These glycosides can be removed by prolonged leaching, a practice used by some Indigenous Australian people for these species, as well.

In the Salon of Indigenous Culture, visitors can see the “ carpets ” made of colored sawdust and flower petals used during the festival of Corpus Christi in June.

Indigenous wildlife in its natural habitat makes for an ideal situation as this helps in providing an environment where growth in numbers at a natural rate can occur.

Port Hedland is known by the Indigenous Kariyarra and Nyamal people as Marapikurrinya, which either means " place of good water " ( as told by a Nyamal language speaker ) and makes reference to the three reliable fresh water soaks that can still be seen in and around the town, or as the town council's website says " refers to the hand like formation of the tidal creeks coming off the harbour ( marra-hand, pikurri-pointing straight and nya-a place name marker )".

Native title can co-exist with non-Indigenous proprietary rights and in some cases different Indigenous groups can exercise their native title over the same land.

However, this right can only be recognised over certain parts of Australia, such as unallocated or vacant Crown land and some areas already held by, or for, Indigenous Australians.

One of Berger ’ s intellectual contributions is the idea that Canada ’ s relationship with Indigenous people can serve to strengthen the country instead of weakening it.

A significant contemporary account of the experiences of Indigenous Australia can be found in Sally Morgan's My Place.

Unlike many other root vegetables domesticated by the Indigenous Peoples of the Andes ( ulluco, oca ) and mashua, yacón is not photoperiod sensitive, and can produce a commercial yield also in the subtropics.

This can be attributed, in part, to both a slowing up of health gains being made by Indigenous peoples and the rapid health gains made by the non-Indigenous population in recent decades.

For example, any given society may be more or less complex than any other given society in one or more aspects ( for example, western society can be characterised as extremely simple from the perspective of kinship structures when compared to, for instance, Indigenous Australian societies ).

The first clause of the agreement states that "… the purpose of this agreement is to cede temporary use rights of the SEAM property called Finca 470, in the District of Ygatimi, Department of Canindeyú, to INDI with the ultimate intention that the Aché Indigenous Community of Kuetuvy can continue their customary subsistence activities, in agreement with principles of nature conservation.

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.

" The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has indicated that no military activities may be carry out within indigenous territories without first undertaking an " effective consultation " with indigenous representatives and authorities from the communities involved.

Indigenous societies may be either settled in a given locale / region or exhibit a nomadic lifestyle across a large territory, but are generally historically associated with a specific territory on which they are dependent.

Before European settlement, the area in which Canberra would eventually be constructed was seasonally inhabited by Indigenous Australians.

: Indigenous peoples have the collective and individual right not to be subjected to ethnocide and cultural genocide, including prevention of and redress for:

However, the number could be much higher if the urban Indigenous populations are counted in all the Brazilian cities today.

Farinha de mandioca and tapioca are the most important caloric staples of the Indigenous peoples of Brazil which already practiced agriculture when Europeans colonized the country, so for Brazilians manioc would be included in its equivalent of the North American three sister crops or the Mesoamerican milpa.

Bennelong was the first Australian Indigenous person to be honoured in the name of an electoral division.

Traditional Indigenous music is best characterised by the didgeridoo, the best-known instrument, which is considered by some to be the world's oldest.

It would be Yothu Yindi that would bring Indigenous music to the mainstream, with their 1991 song " Treaty ", from the album Tribal Voice, becoming a hit.

Spicers Gap is believed to be a traditional pathway for Indigenous Australians travelling between the inland and the coast.

For his military services there he will be given an encomienda, an estate that included the services of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas living on it.

* 1537-Pope Paul III orders that the Indigenous peoples of the Americas of the New World be brought to Christ " by the preaching of the divine word, and with the example of the good life.

Indigenous men of Mexico, who shaved their heads and wore their sideburns long, as well as Colombians, who wear their sideburns long and typically do not have any other facial hair, are said to be wearing " balcarrotas ", rarely seen in modern times, but prized in the sixteenth century, as a mark of virile vanity and banned by the colonial authorities in New Spain, occasioning rioting in 1692.

" Mulattos may also be an admixture of Native American, South American native and African Americans according to Henings Statutes of Virginia 1705, which reads as follows: " And for clearing all manner of doubts which hereafter may happen to arise upon the construction of this act, or any other act, who shall be accounted a mulatto, Be it enacted and declared, and it is hereby enacted and declared, That the child of an Indigenous and the child, grand child, or great grand child, of a negro shall be deemed, accounted, held and taken to be a mulatto.

He is also notable for being the first Northern Territory Indigenous Australian to be freed from the restrictions of legislation that made Aborigines wards of the State.

Indigenous Cuban dances did not use the closed hold with couples dancing independently until the danzón later in the century, though the guaracha might be an earlier example.