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Example sentences for: ancestry

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Fur-trading coureurs de bois settled down with Indian wives, and today more than a few Québécois proudly trace their ancestry back to native peoples with a tell-tale birthmark on the hip, high cheekbones, or long sleek black hair.
The affiliation with Aztlán also reaffirms the Chicanos’ identity as mestizos (people of mixed ancestry), as members of the indigenous population of the New World.
Many apartheid-era blacks claimed mixed ancestry in order to avoid more severe restrictions, often changing family names and falsifying birth records.
This culture-nature split corresponds, in Walcott's personal mythology, with a split in himself: his European education and Caribbean childhood; his two homes, in Boston and St. Lucia; the two races, white and black, of his ancestry; and "the two languages I know--one so rich/ in its imperial intimacies, its echo of privilege,/ the other like the orange words of a hillside in drought--/ but my love of both wide as the Atlantic is large."
Both are Americans, from Hawaii, of Polynesian and Samoan ancestry.