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They were Aramaic-speaking and indigenous to the area, mostly belonging to the Syriac Orthodox Church.
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They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
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They were a pair of lost, whipped kids, Morgan thought as he went to bed.
They passed ranches that were framed dark gray against the black hills.
They were tethered, army style, on stable lines.
They bawled questions that were not answered in the uproar.
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They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
They were going to town, and they were both excited.
They were free.
They were in a fight, outweighed in both numbers and money.
They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.
They were considering it gravely, neither seeming to like what he planned.
They were silent for a little while, each looking glum.
They were all good men.
They were headed straight for each other on a collision course.
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They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.
They were engulfed by the weird silence, broken only by the low, angry murmur of the river.
They were already swollen to bursting.
They and Aramaic-speaking
They also note that the first Christian communities may have come into existence in mostly Aramaic-speaking areas now in modern Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, and that the first converts to Christianity were likely members of Aramaic-speaking Jewish synagogues, even when in Greek or Latin-speaking cities.
They and indigenous
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.
They are generally Muslim, with a few Christians and some practising their indigenous beliefs.
They united and coalesced with the indigenous population.
They were mostly used as cheques by indigenous bankers.
They established diplomatic relations and trade with at least two dozen indigenous nations.
They were of mixed African and European ancestry and therefore generally lighter-skinned than the indigenous blacks.
They were primarily farmers who lived in towns, organized into small kingdoms, however, within three decades an estimated Indian population of one million plummeted to a few tens of thousands, as approximately half of the indigenous people in western Nicaragua died of diseases brought by the Spaniards.
They became the Normans – a Norman-speaking mixture of Scandinavians, Hiberno-Norse, Orcadians, Anglo-Danish, and indigenous Franks and Gauls.
They oppose the expropriation of land owned by indigenous people and discrimination by the military regime.
They were actively supported by the missionaries who tried to destroy all signs of indigenous beliefs, notably by razing the ' mahoka ' huts where the local population worshiped their ancestors ' spirits and by ridiculing their rites, dances and other ceremonies.
They also point out that caves inhabited by Aborigines have a low proportion of bones and rock paintings of devils, and suggest that this is an indication that it was not a large part of indigenous lifestyle.
They amongst other self identified native communities such as Coast Veddas and Anuradhapura Veddas are accorded indigenous status.
They paddled to the island by canoe ( piragua ) from Venezuela, ejected by the Caribs — another people indigenous to the area.
They are indigenous to the Americas, southern Asia, and Africa.
They may be purposefully imposed, or arise as unintended consequence of trans-cultural interaction ; and have a measurable effect even where countered by other external influences and actions deemed to be beneficial or which serve to promote indigenous rights and interests within the wider community.
They were of uncertain origin ; they may have been the descendants of the indigenous neolithic peoples.
" They indirectly hinted that foreigners traveling in those areas settled by indigenous people must exercise caution.
They are descendants of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan who were in mainland China during the establishment in 1949.
They have recently gained governmental recognition of their rights to their indigenous homeland in the Ororubo Mountains, though this has brought them into conflict with the local settler population of the region.
They were used for a food source by the indigenous peoples, and were both gathered in the wild and cultivated.
They were a food and fuel source for indigenous Australians and early European settlers.
They invited indigenous people from all over the Americas and the rest of the world, to gather on October 11 – 14, 2007 near Guaymas, Sonora.
They spoke their own, indigenous language, called Afrikaans, and were bound together by a form of Calvinist religion.
They are famous for bright colors, and reverse appliqué techniques, creating designs with strong cultural and spiritual importance within the indigenous culture.
They were followed by other indigenous peoples.
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