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- noun Plural form of
indigene .
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“Well, and this syllable, INDI, which was first the root of the INDIANS, and second the root of the word indigenes?”
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"Well, and this syllable, indi, which was first the root of the Indians, and second the root of the word indigenes?"
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People here are either classified as indigenes or settlers.
BBC News - Home 2010
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People here are either classified as indigenes or settlers.
BBC News - Home 2010
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But as the Obama Conspiracy blog details, no direct equivalent to "natural born citizen" appears in Vattel's original French, and the phrase shows up only in English translations of the book issued after the Constitution was written; translations from 1760 and 1787 use Vattel's untranslated word "indigenes," a word that much is more directly descriptive of an indigenous population such as Native Americans than a "natural born citizen."
Terry Krepel: WorldNetDaily's Natural Born Misleaders Terry Krepel 2011
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Sima Qian named the indigenes around southern and western Sichuan, northern and western Guizhou, as well as Yunnan, Southwestern Barbarians (xi'nanyi).
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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These pit the original Jos residents, known as indigenes, against settlers who've lived in Nigeria's Plateau State capital for many, many years.
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For generations, a mosaic of religious and ethnic communities, known as indigenes and settlers, lived here side-by-side in peace until trouble erupted 10 years ago.
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Christians from the Berom ethnic group are typically referred to as the indigenes in the region, while Hausa-Fulani Muslims are seen as the more recent arrivals.
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Or perhaps it is acceptable for "indigenes" to exploit the poor people of the Niger Delta.
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