Indigenous ___ Day (October celebration)

Usage examples of peoples.

In his many voyages he had seen many peoples of strange aspect, but these were surely the most striking of all.

A most open and eager coition between the two peoples had been encouraged, and the pop-u lation had begun to grow.

But she was also his window into the soul of the native peoples, and always wast eaching him as much as he taught her.

Toolakha had hinted that her people were part of a great circle of peoples, but he had presumed that she simply meant mankind on this continent.

Mungo had traveled in that riverine empire, plagues had raged, and peoples had fled and perished.

What was not of this ground, we would trade for with other peoples who came here by the rivers.

But half the way to its source in the mountains, there is a Falling Water, a sacred place to those peoples, and a place where they catch many of the fish they eat.

Your Highness, the admiration that you had for these native peoples in our earliest years in larghal, before this war with the Chiroki clouded our vision with dark smoke.

Once, the ancestors of those peoples had been as numerous as the leaves on a great tree in summer.

Creator made the fish come there, more dian anyone can count, and our peoples have not had to be hungry, even if the hunting was unlucky and the gardens were bad, because we could go to the Falling Water Place and take fish.

I ask you today, all who sit here listening to my words: Do you believe our Creator gave that Alengwyneh chief the fishing place that has always been for our peoples since the Beginning?

The giant King of the Alengwyneh seemed to think that he owned this whole river, that he could kill tribal elders, steal women, ruin burial grounds, and forbid the original peoples from hunting and fishing near the Falling Water Place.

For nearly two hundred years these hairy-faces and half-bloods had troubled the peoples and disturbed the Spirits of the Ancient Ones in this sacred Falling Water Place.

He had gone there by canoe to see it because it was where the Ancestors of the Pale Ones of the People had been massacred by the forest peoples, more than ten generations ago.

Squash Blossom had heard that far downstream to the south and east there were so many peoples living that they were often in wars with each other.