Sentences with phrase «aboriginal culture of the region»

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Indigenous or aboriginal peoples are so - called because they were living on their lands before settlers came from elsewhere; they are the descendants — according to one definition — of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived, the new arrivals later becoming dominant through conquest, occupation, settlement or other means... (I) ndigenous peoples have retained social, cultural, economic and political characteristics which are clearly distinct from those of the other segments of the national populations.