indigenous people

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“From protecting the environment and tackling inequality to ensuring peace and security, the Sustainable Development Goals won’t be achieved without Indigenous peoples. The United Nations General Assembly has asked countries to emphasize their rights when implementing the 2030 Agenda.” The United Nations

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indigenous

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“Not a single student or teacher at this school will ever discover that I come from a poor, indigenous family.”
From “The Queen of Water” by Laura Resau

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ideology

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“There are many different kinds of ideologies, including political, social, epistemological, and ethical. Recent analysis tends to posit that ideology is a ‘coherent system of ideas’ that rely on a few basic assumptions about reality that may or may not have any factual basis.” – wikipedia

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dreams speak

Reader Response / American Sentence

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