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aborigines

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1. aborigines - Noun

3. Aborigines - Proper noun

Meaning

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

The original fauna and flora of a geographical area

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Above all, what is oddest to the outsider is that Aborigines just aren't there. Bill Bryson

His nation of liberty was founded on the backs of Negro slaves and at the cost of exterminating the aborigines. As far as I can tell, the Yankee's idea of freedom is his right to carry a pistol with which he may shoot strangers in the street. Kage Baker

This country stands out like a sore thumb trying to impose its European values in Asia as if the good old days when people can shoot aborigines without caring about human rights. Mahathir bin Mohamad

Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines. Dennis Prager

They rounded the Aborigines up and ... committed wholesale murder and genocide to a whole group of people and they destroyed their culture. Apisai Tora

The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines. American Proverb

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