In the past, it was practiced by humans in Europe, South America, among Iroquoian peoples in North America, Maori in New Zealand, the Solomon Islands, parts of West Africa and Central Africa, some of the islands of Polynesia, New Guinea, Sumatra, and Fiji.

Then Hittites are said to be among the " strange women " that Solomon loved, along with " the daughter of the pharaoh " and women from the other peoples in the region.

Culturally, the Solomon Islands are a part of Melanesia, and the indigenous peoples are Melanesians.

* 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

Neighboring peoples in the Marshall Islands and Samoa saw these stars as a fish.

Most of the Eskimo peoples from the Aleutian Islands eastward to Greenland relied on the kayak for hunting a variety of prey — primarily seals, though whales and caribou were important in some areas.

During its years of colonial rule, Japan moved more than 1, 000 Japanese to the Marshall Islands although they never outnumbered the indigenous peoples as they did in the Mariana Islands and Palau.

The people of the Marshall Islands are of Micronesian origin, which is traced to a combination of peoples who emigrated from Southeast Asia in the remote past.

Both islands, were major bases used by the Kalinago from the South to raid the Eastern Taino peoples of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, and were critically important for the Kalinago trade routes to the North.

The highest civilization and culture, apart from the ancient Hindus and Egyptians, are found exclusively among the white races ; and even with many dark peoples, the ruling caste or race is fairer in colour than the rest and has, therefore, evidently immigrated, for example, the Brahmans, the Incas, and the rulers of the South Sea Islands.

* November 19 – A force of 500 Māori people invade and enslave the peoples of the Chatham Islands.

The San Juan Islands were part of the traditional area of various peoples of the Coast Salish ethnolinguistic group.

Eugene condemned the enslavement of the peoples of the newly-colonized Canary Islands and, under pain of excommunication, ordered all such slaves to be immediately set free.

The latter have in fact lived in the forests of the Sunda Islands before the arrival of Austronesians and are there considered to be the aboriginal peoples.

At the time of the European discovery of most of the islands of the Caribbean, three major Amerindian indigenous peoples lived on the islands: the Taíno in the Greater Antilles, The Bahamas and the Leeward Islands ; the Island Caribs and Galibi in the Windward Islands ; and the Ciboney in western Cuba.

Rates are high among the peoples of the Pacific Islands and the Māori of New Zealand, but rare in Australian aborigines, despite a higher mean concentration of serum uric acid in the latter group.

Given the rapidity with which its last population was eliminated, it is likely that aboriginal hunting caused its extinction over the rest of its original range ( aboriginal peoples apparently never inhabited the Commander Islands ).

The highest civilisation and culture, apart from the ancient Indians and Egyptians, are found exclusively among the white races ; and even with many dark peoples, the ruling caste or race is fairer in colour than the rest and has, therefore, evidently immigrated, for example, the Brahmins, the Incas, and the rulers of the South Sea Islands.

Due to the presence of the Camp Pendleton U. S. Marine Corps Base in the neighboring city of Oceanside, Vista has one of the largest mainland U. S. communities of Pacific Islanders primarily Micronesian peoples ( i. e. Guam and Northern Mariana Islands ) and Samoan Americans ; and even 2. 5 percent of Vista's population are American Indians mostly originated from the Southwest and Western interior.

The are the indigenous peoples of the Ryukyu Islands between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan.

about the peoples in the Sakishima Islands reported that a part of the peoples in Miyako Island and Ishigaki Island also show the marks of YAP + ( 53 % and 26 % respectively ), being clearly different from Taiwanese aborigines.

Kara-Tur's cultures and peoples are fantasy analogues of medieval China, Korea, Japan, the Ryukyu Islands, Tibet, and other regions of East Asia.

The highest civilization and culture, apart from the ancient Hindus and Egyptians, are found exclusively among the white races ; and even with many dark peoples, the ruling caste, or race, is fairer in colour than the rest, and has, therefore, evidently immigrated, for example, the Brahmins, the Inca, and the rulers of the South Sea Islands.

Under Arab rule Mesopotamia as a whole underwent a process of Arabisation and Islamification, and the region saw a large influx of non indigenous Arabs, Kurds, and later Turkic peoples.

From the mid-1940s the country was subject to Soviet economic control and saw considerable Russification of its peoples, but Latvian culture and infrastructures survived such that, during the period of Soviet liberalisation under Mikhail Gorbachev, Latvia once again took a path towards independence which eventually succeeded in August 1991 and was recognised by Russia the following month.

As with the anarchists, they too saw the Bolshevik take-over of the soviets ( like that of the trade unions ) as subverting the revolution and beginning the restoration of domination and exploitation ... Over the years this emphasis on working class autonomy has resulted in a reinterpretation of Marxist theory that has brought out the two-sided character of the class struggle and shifted the focus from capital ( the preoccupation of orthodox Marxism ) to the workers ... As a result, not only has there been a recognition that capitalism seeks to subordinate everyone's life ( from the traditional factory proletariat to peasants, housewives and students ) but that all those peoples ' struggles involve both the resistance to this subordination and the effort to construct alternative ways of being.

It was this period that saw the large-scale movement of peoples establishing new colonies all over western Europe, the events of this time saw the development of many of the modern day nations of Europe, the Franks in France and Germany and the Anglo-Saxons in England.

The collapse of the Akkadian Empire in 2154 BC saw the arrival of peoples using Khirbet Kerak Ware pottery, coming originally from the Zagros Mountains ( in modern Iran ) east of the Tigris.

And since the traditional Fon, as most traditional African peoples, saw the visible world as only a part of a larger reality that included the unseen and spirit world, ' messengers ' would be sent to the ' council of the dead kings ,' and other ancestors to determine whether these important powers were in concurrence with the policies and justice meted out.

Over the next few centuries Mesopotamia saw an influx of Arabs, Kurds and later Turkic peoples, and people retaining native ethnicity, culture, customs and language gradually became a minority.

Chávez came from a poor family and became a boxer for money, he stated: " I saw my mom working ironing and washing peoples clothes, and I promised her I would give her a house someday and she would never have that job again.

Bolivian music: The 1950s saw an increase in nationalist identity surrounding the Quechua and Aymara peoples, and a number of intellectuals began associating themselves with folk music, clothing, cuisine and other elements.

The differences they saw between themselves and the other peoples and cultures around them around them is now known as the Hua-Yi distinction.

During the 1920s she devoted a great amount of effort to promoting a pan-Indian movement that would unite all of America's tribes in the cause of lobbying for citizenship rights and in 1924 saw the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act which granted citizenship rights to many though not all indigenous peoples.

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.

This was a period when the growing British Empire was very aware of what it saw as its manifest destiny, to rule the native peoples of the world.

In 1518, Juan de Grijalva came to the area with his crew and named the river “ Río de las Banderas ” because they saw indigenous peoples communicating across the river with flags.

It is for this reason that our people and so many other peoples in Asia, Africa and elsewhere saw in Lumumba the eloquent and true representative of the progressive force of dynamic African nationalism which, despite temporary set backs, is forging ahead with a strong Africa united by the common heritage of its people and sustained by its determination to ensure for itself and its descendants a life of freedom and dignity, to which they have fervently aspired and which has been denied to them for so long.

Alexander Walker, an ensign on the fur trade ship Captain Cook reported that the indigenous peoples used an elbow adze, which they valued over new tools brought by the Europeans, such as the saw or the axe, going so far as to modify traded tools back into an adze.

Stalin was determined to punish those peoples he saw as collaborating with Germany during the war and to deal with the problem of nationalism, which would tend to pull the Soviet Union apart.

He waged continuous warfare against the liquor trade with aboriginal peoples and interfered constantly in other matters whenever he saw questions of morality and religion being trampled.

All Miwok peoples believed in animal and human spirits, and saw the animal spirits as their ancestors.

Indigenous peoples saw the program as a part of an effort by the Java-based Indonesian Government to extend greater economic and political control over other regions, by moving in people with closer ties to Java and loyalty to the Indonesian state.

Upon returning to Wales he tried to revive what he saw as the religion of the ancient druids, the priests of the " Celtic " Iron Age peoples of western Europe.

Almost all of these Central American nations saw continuing political strife throughout this period ( and into the 20th century ), as struggles continued between indigenous peoples and elites, and among factions of the elites.