The Native AMERICAN cultures on this CONTINENT, most of them, were matrilineal, and some WOMEN were the chiefs. Societies were about BALANCE.

As an NBA executive, I'm always LOOKING for untapped potential. As a PROUD native of NIGERIA, I believe that Africa is one of the WORLD's greatest resources in that area.

Hawaii - the Aloha STATE - is built on the strength of its MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY, from our indigenous Native Hawaiian people to the MANY immigrants that followed.

Dissent is the NATIVE activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a GOOD deal of trouble in the last YEARS. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I DOUBT WHETHER it will be a man.

From the newest arrivals to our NATIVE AMERICAN BROTHERS and SISTERS, we are one AMERICA.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the NATIVE SOIL, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, DIFFERENT subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

For CENTURIES, native Eskimos CUT blocks of oil-soaked tundra from natural seeps to use as fuel. In the 1920s, explorers arrived and began poking holes. In 1968, they DISCOVERED Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the largest oil field in North America and one of the largest in the world, and a year LATER the adjacent Kuparuk field, the second-largest.

I always understood my ancestry, LIKE that of so many OTHERS in the Gulf COAST, to be a tangle of African slaves, FREE men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, BRITISH colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?

I'm ACTUALLY forced to write about MICHIGAN because as a native of that STATE it's the PLACE I know best.

In my own view, the LIFE expectancy of Native Americans in the United STATES is one of the REALLY great moral crises that we FACE.

I REALLY feel now LIKE a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.

Robin is one of the most NATIVE and DEMOCRATIC of our BIRDS; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to US than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred WAYS.

I profess accurately to describe NATIVE Africa - Africa in those PLACES where it has not RECEIVED the slightest IMPULSE, whether for GOOD or evil, from European civilisation.

My father SERVED as an Army DOCTOR in West Germany in the LATE '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and my mother - both native southerners - were acutely AWARE of what had HAPPENED during the Holocaust.

The whole point is to take from our NATIVE CULTURE and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these TWO MUSICAL IDENTITIES creates a third musical identity.