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  • The ainu comparison is poor, but calling them aboriginal is apt.

    Su Says Yes to Yasukuni » Japundit Blog 2005

  • Valsts pārvaldes galvenais nākotnes uzdevums ir veidot sadarbības mehānismus starp dažādām sabiedrības grupām, vairot iedzīvotāju uzticēšanos, būt proaktīvai, neslēpt, bet rādīt patieso ainu un iesaistīt sabiedrību valsts dzīvē

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  • The “native” Taiwanese aren’t in anyway akin to the ainu.

    Su Says Yes to Yasukuni » Japundit Blog 2005

  • * This cuflom of a celebrity in the neighbourhood of. the chnrch, on the days of particular (ainu, was introduced into England firom the continentt and muft have been familiar equally to the Britons and Saxons; being obferved among the churches of Afia in the fixth centnry, and by thofe of Weft-Europe in the ieventh.

    The Monthly Review 1776

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  • An aboriginal ethnic group of Japan, indigenous to Hokkaid�?, the Kuril Islands, and much of Sakhalin. The Ainu were a society of hunter-gatherers derived from the Okhotsk and Satsumon cultures from the mainland to the east, who lived mainly off fish and plants. The people followed a religion based around the phenomenon of nature, including the worship and sacrifice of bears through an elaborate group of rituals documented in the early part of the 20th century. Early Ainu carved bears are beautiful pieces of folk art prized by collectors.

    September 24, 2009