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  • noun Plural form of aboriginal.

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Examples

  • So if we could pretend to all agree, for a moment, that if residential schooling perpetrated by the previous generation upon aboriginals is a cross that we must all bear in seeking to acknowledge our historical injustices, that a story about women being executed in Switzerland hundreds of years ago would yield identical culpability to modern Swiss citizens?

    2008 June 12 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • So if we could pretend to all agree, for a moment, that if residential schooling perpetrated by the previous generation upon aboriginals is a cross that we must all bear in seeking to acknowledge our historical injustices, that a story about women being executed in Switzerland hundreds of years ago would yield identical culpability to modern Swiss citizens?

    An Unlikely Comparison To Native Apology « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • The aboriginals are a good deal more sophisticated than previously supposed.

    Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

  • It is curious that Flinders called the aboriginals whom he saw in Port Phillip

    Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia Ernest Scott 1903

  • Another Hernando de Soto was a lesser-known conquistador who went road-tripping around the southeastern U. S in an unsuccessful gold hunt. de Soto y vatos wasted umpteen "aboriginals" while stomping around Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

    Daimnation!: An unfortunate choice of words 2003

  • Society is already segregated for certain groups who have been granted their own schools and social services, such as aboriginals and francophones, they point out.

    Archive 2005-10-09 Steve Sailer 2005

  • Society is already segregated for certain groups who have been granted their own schools and social services, such as aboriginals and francophones, they point out.

    Race in Canada Steve Sailer 2005

  • Actually, the people being discussed are no more "aboriginals" or Native Americans than Indians.

    Political Grind Network 2009

  • Other priority groups include pregnant women; children aged six months to five years; and those - such as aboriginals - in isolated or remote communities, the Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday.

    Ottawa Sun 2009

  • "... experts say the data will be virtually useless because some groups -- such as aboriginals and low-income Canadians -- will be less likely to respond to a voluntary survey" Are they trying to say that aboriginals and low-income Canadians only respond to a threat of jail time?

    CTV BritishColumbiaHome 2010

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