In Canada,for example, indigenous -- or First Nation people live on average seven fewer years than Canadians of European ancestry.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

For example,many indigenous children in Canada were taken from their families and sent to live at schools.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Indigenous and aboriginal groups are often less healthy than the people whose ancestors settled in their lands.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

There are almost four hundred million indigenous people in the world.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

"To me it's too artificial and it's also the same story that you've seen before with indigenous groups and the white colonial forces coming to destroy them or something like that."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

"In simple terms, things such as type two diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases of a variety of types, and lung diseases and so on, are all found at higher than the comparison rates within the country, in many of these countries with indigenous populations."

VOA: special.2009.07.20

"I don't think this is going to have that big an effect on either side, whether it's the states who want to maintain their territorial integrity against the aspirations of some of their own indigenous people or, for that matter, movements that want to seek their own independence and freedom."

VOA: special.2010.07.24

Redmond says indigenous people throughout the region are under constant pressure from illegal armed groups, many involved in the drug trade.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

"The government's own figures, according to demographers at Oxford University,show that the indigenous British the people who've been here."

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

And those territories are substantial. The constitution set aside up to one-eighth of the country for indigenous peoples.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

They belong to 80 different groups and make up one of the world's most diverse indigenous heritages.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

"what do you mean by whiteness,indigenous" "Why are you against mixed marriage" "Wait wait,if you all attack on different fronts we'll get nowhere."

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Indigenous Peruvians brought their New Year rituals to the nation's capital, in the Fair of the Wishes.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

The legal opinion, released at the climate talks in Copenhagen, says indigenous peoples have the rights to the carbon credits under Brazil's constitution.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

The couple runs the Indigenous Cultures Institute, a Texas-based nonprofit that works to preserve native traditions.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

But in the 1800s, Spain stopped counting indigenous people in the census of its colonies.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

So Tekina-eir Maynard was excited to learn about questions added to the 2010 census that will allow them to declare their indigenous heritage on paper.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

The indigenous tribes of the Amazon Basin have been protecting that land for free.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

There are credible reports of abuses that need to be investigated including the murder of an indigenous woman and the rape of another two in one community."

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

That's where Puerto Ricans can identify themselves as 'Tainos.' Rocha says her group's census campaign has also resonated with Latinos of other indigenous backgrounds across the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

The nation, a former Australian colony, has a rich culture, where more than 850 indigenous languages are spoken, more than 10 percent of the world's total languages.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The opinion is not legally binding. Borges says there could be opposition from those who say granting so much territory to indigenous peoples is inhibiting the country's development.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

He says playing the aretos brings him closer to his indigenous heritage.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

"We're trying to educate these people that even if they identify as Hispanic, they still come from a very rich heritage and cultural background which is their indigenous part."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

"There are at least 27 different indigenous groups in Colombia that are considered to be at risk of extinction largely as a result of armed conflict and forced displacement.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

The company says its goal is to generate electricity from natural,non-edible, renewable and sustainable resources indigenous to West Africa with projects that focus on reducing the emission of greenhouse gases.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

There are about one million indigenous people in Colombia.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22