Sentences with phrase «indigenous island people»

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For local Indian recipes created with ingredients indigenous to the island and its Indian peoples

The cuisine of Jamaica is one of the more unique and celebrated styles of food because its flavors, spices and cooking techniques are influenced not only by the indigenous people of the island, but also by its Spanish, British, African, Indian and Chinese inhabitants.

By Kathryn Jones T he cuisine of Jamaica is one of the more unique and celebrated styles of food because its flavors, spices and cooking techniques are influenced not only by the indigenous people of the island, but also by its Spanish, British, African, Indian and Chinese inhabitants.

Moroccans generally being Berber or Arab, Surinam being a country in South America (where the population is mixed between Indigenous people 2 %, East Indians 37 %, Chinese 8 %, people of African descent 10 %, Javanese 15 %, White 5 %, Creole 31 %) and the population of Aruba (as an example of the most populous Dutch Carribbean Island) having a population which is 80 % mixed white / Arawak.

The study, led by Eske Willerslev, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Copenhagen, compared the genomes of three ancient skeletons — a 24,000 - year - old child found in central Siberia, a 12,600 - year - old Montana child known as Anzick - 1 and a 4,000 - year - old Saqqaq Eskimo from Greenland — to the genomes of 31 indigenous people currently living in Asia, North and South America, and the Pacific islands.

The island's indigenous people, the Chamorros, were heavily affected.

Related sites Anna Gislén's Web page Underwater eyes in animals UNESCO Surin Islands Project: Indigenous Peoples and Parks When underwater, Moken children can see grids more than three times finer than this one.

The island was named after a 19th century Russian explorer who inferred its existence by observing seasonal bird migrations and listening to stories from indigenous people in northeastern Siberia.

Here the «other» is the «First Peoples of Turtle Island» — indigenous Americans» description of themselves and their continent.

But when Jaume Bertranpetit at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and his colleagues analysed the genomes of living Indigenous Australians, Papuans, people from the Andaman Islands near India, and from mainland India, they found sections of DNA that did not match any previously identified hominin species.

«Genetic methods for sex determination shed some light on remains of Canary Islands» indigenous peoples.»

The Okinawa diet is a weight - loss diet based on the eating habits of the indigenous people of the Ryukyu Islands.

John C. Reilly shows up, improvising wildly, as a World War II pilot who's been stranded on the island since 1944 and has made friends with the indigenous people — a tribe of chill, peace - loving villagers who worship Kong because he protects them against the island's other, less hospitable residents.

In Pacific, author Simon Winchester closes with the image of the vessel Hokule'a, which he views as a symbol of hope for the people of the Pacific Islands and a physical manifestation of a return of respect for indigenous traditions.

Titi, descendent of Tahitian royalty, worker, and eventual inheritor of the resort, must fashion a vision of the island's future that includes its indigenous people, while her partner, Cooked, is torn between anarchy and lust.

Visit Home Island, where a small, unique indigenous population of about 450 Cocos Malay people live.

Comprising Melville, Bathurst and 9 smaller uninhabited islands, the indigenous people have occupied the Tiwis for almost 7,000 years.

Rene Vellanoweth, an archaeologist, believes that inbreeding depression can be managed by mixing the different island fox subspecies populations much as the indigenous peoples did, by moving them from island to island, creating a higher genetic diversity and assisting them in recovery.

Author Scott O'Dell wrote about the indigenous peoples living on the island in his novel Island of the Blue Dolisland in his novel Island of the Blue DolIsland of the Blue Dolphins.

The various waterways that surround the San Juan Islands are frequently referred to as the Salish Sea after the indigenous peoples who originally inhabited the area.

Highlights of the region include Wallaman Falls - the highest single drop waterfall in Australia, Mungalla Station where you can meet with local Aboriginal people and learn ancient Indigenous cultural traditions, Lees Hotel - the original pub with no beer and Hinchinbrook Island Australia's largest National Park island that abounds in flora, fauna, palm - fringed beaches, mangrove waterways and rugged granite Island Australia's largest National Park island that abounds in flora, fauna, palm - fringed beaches, mangrove waterways and rugged granite island that abounds in flora, fauna, palm - fringed beaches, mangrove waterways and rugged granite crags.

A tribe of Austral indigenous people on the Mornington Island have been communicating with wild dolphins for millennia.

Further north is Coron Island, designated as the «ancestral domain» of the indigenous Tagbanwa people, and famous for its granite cliffs, cave systems and the wrecks of Japanese ships from the Second World War that lie a few kilometres off the coast.

The contemporary visual arts and craft centre, open daily, contains a wide range of work that tells the stories of the indigenous people who have lived on the island for thousands of years.

Coron Island is the ancestral domain of the Tagbanua indigenous people who are managing the island in a sustainablIsland is the ancestral domain of the Tagbanua indigenous people who are managing the island in a sustainablisland in a sustainable way.

Enjoy stunning views over the Whitsunday Islands and Conway Ranges and be entertained by unique commentary on the local history, flora, fauna and indigenous people.

The menu uses as much local produce as possible, blending in «bush tucker» (foods used by Fraser Island's indigenous Butchulla people), and all the herbs and garnishes are grown in the resort's kitchen garden.

The unique culture of the indigenous people and the natural beauty of the island.

Though the Turks and Caicos Islands were orignally inhabited by Taino and Lycayan people, by the 1500s the indigenous people had disappeared.

Back at that time, Fraser Island was called «K'gari» by the indigenous people, a name that signified paradise in their language.

It's also part of the traditional sea country of the Kuku Yalangi Indigenous people, who continue to fish around the island to this day.

You and a young child are the only survivors of a plane crash on a heavily forested island filled with hostile indigenous people that just aren't normal.

The Ainu are an indigenous group of peoples from the Hokkaido region of Japan and the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands of Russia.

The island life allows her to finish upcoming projects, including a film called A Love Letter to My People, also a documentary on Gerald Vizenor, and a book called Violence No More (Arp Press), as well as an anthology of Indigenous curatorial writing and more.

Harnett juxtaposes the material that resulted from this travel with his recent film Hopes for unity, self articulation and sustainability of a group (2018), which derives from his previous experience of staying with the Agta, an indigenous people who live in isolated mountainous parts of the island of Luzon, the Philippines, along with saltwater aquariums inhabited by North Sea anemones.

The DMA's Island Southeast Asia collection is an exemplary one based on artistic excellence and drawn from indigenous peoples who created these items during the apogee of their traditional cultures.

This region, within the traditional territories of the Nuu - chah - nulth Nations on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, was one of the earliest sites of sustained contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest.

People all over the world are feeling the impacts, from island nations that are going underwater, to indigenous land being exploited for fossil fuel extraction.

Aisa Mijeno, an engineering professor who worked for years with Greenpeace Philippines, noticed during her work there that many indigenous people in the over - 7,000 islands that make up the country were using kerosene lamps exclusively for lighting.

Father Edwin Gariguez was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2012 for leading a grassroots movement against a large - scale nickel mine to protect Mindoro Island's (a major island in the northwestern Philippines) biodiversity and indigenous pIsland's (a major island in the northwestern Philippines) biodiversity and indigenous pisland in the northwestern Philippines) biodiversity and indigenous people.

During the 1.5 - hour workshop, blankets are laid out to represent Turtle Island — what we now call North America — and the participants play the role of indigenous people, going through the process of colonization from first contact to present day.

Despite these strengths, many Australians would be hard pushed to locate the region on a map, and the Torres Strait Islands and its Indigenous peoples are often overlooked in policy, research and Indigenous» affairs discourse in Australia.

Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand make up 632,900 or 14 % of the total population spread across the North and South Islands of the nation.

In some areas the effects of climate change are already being experienced by Indigenous peoples in Australia, particularly on island communities, in the Torres Strait and other islands and communities along the coastline of Australia, and also those Indigenous groups whose lives, and maintenance of culture, depends on the Murray Darling River.17

Additionally, Indigenous peoples from our neighbouring Pacific Islands may also be forced to migrate to Australia as a result of climate change, particularly in the event of sudden climatic events.

In order to invoke the imagination, I have also included two case studies which explore first hand the potential impacts of climate change on a number of human rights of the Indigenous peoples, particularly those living on the Torres Strait Islands and the Indigenous nations of the Murray - Darling Basin.

[62] It had been taken from indigenous people in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea under the pretence of testing for diabetes.

The extent to which the common law recognises the system of laws on which Indigenous peoples» relationship to their land is built, will be determined by the High Court this year in the Miriuwung Gagerrong and Croker Island appeals.

Gold Cards have also finally been promised to Indigenous people present at or near Maralinga, Emu Fields or the Monte Bello Islands at the time of the British nuclear tests in the 1950s or 1960s.

The extinguishment of native title in the Torres Strait Islands where the Crown has undertaken capital works is a recent example - the Islanders had assumed that the state would protect Indigenous peoples» rights and interests, and not seek their extinguishment.