aborigine has definitions from the fields of anthropology,sociology
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[ noun ] (anthropology,sociology) the earliest known inhabitants of a region

Used in print

(John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)

Thus at the same time that William_Henry_Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana_Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe , Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North_American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier .

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primitive

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[ noun ] a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived

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Australian ethnic_group

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