This book described itself as a chronicle of early indigenous peoples of the Americas, portraying them as believing Israelites, who had a belief in Christ many hundred years before his birth.

Christopher Columbus followed directly in this tradition in his belief that he had found the Garden of Eden when, towards the end of the 15th century, he first encountered the New World and its indigenous inhabitants.

The belief in a mythical messianic figure named John Frum was the basis for an indigenous cargo cult ( a movement attempting to obtain industrial goods through magic ) promising Melanesian deliverance.

The indigenous pre-Christian belief system of the Anglo-Saxons was a form of Germanic paganism and therefore closely related to the Old Norse religion, as well as other Germanic pre-Christian cultures.

Therefore, their children, the Métis, were exposed to both the Catholic and indigenous belief systems, thus creating a new distinct aboriginal people in North America.

According to conventional historical belief, Puerto Ricans have mainly Spanish ethnic origins, with some African ancestry, and distant and less significant indigenous ancestry.

Scholarly theories debate whether these attestations point to an indigenous belief among the Anglo-Saxons shared with the Norse, or if they were a result of later Norse influence ( see section below ).

The name " One Nation " was chosen to signify belief in national unity, in contrast to a perceived increasing division in Australian society allegedly caused by government policies favouring immigrants and indigenous Australians.

The modern history of cargo cults seems to have begun before historical records in the countries of Melanesia, where an indigenous tradition of exchange of goods and objects of wealth was tied to a belief that the ancestors and deities had an influence over these things and would return at some time laden with these objects for the members of the tribes.

Since the multiregional evolution hypothesis ( MREH ) revolved around a belief that regional modern human populations evolved in situ in various regions ( Europe: Neandertals to Europeans, Asia: Homo erectus to East Asians, Australia: Sumatran erectines to indigenous Australians ), these results demonstrated that a pure MREH hypothesis could not explain one important genetic marker.

Kaplan concludes that, in Oaxaca, the belief in Naguals as evil shape shifting witches is common in both indigenous and mestizo populations.

According to Kaplan, the belief in animal spirit companions is exclusively indigenous.

Although a large number of the indigenous Guaraní people have largely been assimilated into modern society and their belief system altered or replaced by Christianity ( due in large part to the work of Jesuit missionaries in the 16th century ), several of the core beliefs are still active in many rural areas in the Guaraní region.

Although it has largely been supplanted by Christianity, the indigenous belief system remains in strong effect among the rural and village populations of the Igbo, where it has at times influenced the colonial religions.

Although a semi-pantheon exists in the belief system, as it does in many indigenous African and Eastern religions, the lesser deities prevalent in Odinani expressly serve as elements of Chukwu the central deity.

Although semi – pantheon exists in the belief system, as it does in many indigenous African and Eastern religions.

The question of God is largely irrelevant in Buddhism, though some sects ( notably Tibetan Buddhism ) do venerate a number of gods drawn in from local indigenous belief systems yet this practice has taken on different meanings and has become a skillful mean within the Tibetan Buddhist practice.

Basing his view on research done among indigenous peoples in Australia and Melanesia, Frazer saw the origin of totemism as an interpretation of the conception and birth of children, a belief he called " conceptionalism.

It is a common belief among indigenous people of the tropical lowlands of South America that waters at the edge of the world-disc are encircled by a snake, often an anaconda, biting its own tail.

It is often alleged that their employment in Australia was a form of slavery, due to the belief that many people were recruited by " blackbirding ", as the enslavement of Pacific Islanders and indigenous Australians was known at the time.

Japan's indigenous religion, Shinto is based in animism, with a belief that supernatural beings dwell in nature.

" The Jesuits also reached out to the Iroquois, many of whom converted to or added Catholicism to indigenous belief.

The Nauruan indigenous religion is a monotheistic system of belief that includes a female deity called Eijebong and an island of spirits called Buitani.

It can also be asserted that this whole legal system was ideologically founded on the indigenous postulate which adhered to the shamanistic religio-political belief in polytheistic gods and which was called kami and later developed into Shintoism. Masaji Chiba, " Japan " Poh-Ling Tan, ( ed ), Asian Legal Systems, Butterworths, London, 1997 at 91.

Kante created N ’ Ko in response to what he felt were beliefs that Africans were a " cultureless people " since prior to this time there had been no indigenous African writing system for his language.

the ubiquitous Indian ( Arabic ) system used world-wide and two indigenous systems.

The more familiar indigenous system are Chinese characters that correspond to numerals in the spoken language.

The other indigenous system is the Suzhou numerals, or huama, a positional system.

Beginning with the 1967 election, the indigenous population abandoned its traditional policy of shunning the official political system and participated actively.

Computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and its expansion Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire are set on the planet Chiron in the Alpha Centauri system where all indigenous life appears to behave in accordance with the Gaia philosophy.

Hong Kong makes strenuous law enforcement efforts, but faces serious challenges in controlling transit of heroin and methamphetamine to regional and world markets ; modern banking system provides a conduit for money laundering ; rising indigenous use of synthetic drugs, especially among young people.

* Rejection of terra nullius: The decision recognised that the indigenous population had a pre-existing system of law, which, along with all rights subsisting thereunder, would remain in force under the new sovereign except where specifically modified or extinguished by legislative or executive action.

Other languages had an indigenous system but borrowed a second set of numerals anyway.

Historically, the Afaan Oromo speaking people used the indigenous Gadaa system of governance.

The founders, however, considered that imperial honours had a cachet that the newly independent state would not be able to confer with a purely indigenous honours system – the Monarchy was thus maintained.

According to 19th century British historians, it was these " Aryans " who " invaded " India and established the caste system, an elitist act of social organization that ( according to the British ) separated the " light-skinned " Indo-Aryan conquerors from the " conquered dark-skinned " indigenous Dravidian tribes through enforcement of " racial endogamy ".

The rivalry between these powers exacerbated the indigenous factions that were struggling to preserve their ancient political system.

These involved the three colonial powers battling for control of Samoa-America, Germany and Britain-and the indigenous factions struggling to preserve their ancient political system.

By the 1st century BC, the use of hieroglyphs gave way to a Meroitic script that adapted the Egyptian writing system to an indigenous, Nubian-related language spoken by the region's people.

The Jomon had a clan-based tribal system developed similar to much of the worlds indigenous people.

Indigenous peoples primarily refers to ethnic groups that have historical ties to groups that existed in a territory prior to colonization or formation of a nation state, and which normally preserve a degree of cultural and political separation from the mainstream culture and political system of the nation state within the border of which the indigenous group is located.

The traditional Cheyenne government system is a politically unified North American indigenous nation.

This system was later combined with kicking and striking techniques of indigenous and contemporary arts such as taekkyeon and tang soo do.

Toledo mentions the reintegration of the indigenous populations into the Peruvian social and political system as a key to sustainability and economic growth.

Investments made in their own indigenous air defence system, Iron Dome, has provided competition to Centurion.