It is probable that these indigenous practices were used within forests of Eucalyptus regnans.
It is one of the few areas where indigenous practices are conserved and promoted rather than depreciated or eliminated.
Also, radical democracy challenges consensus decision-making processes which are essential to many indigenous governing practices.
The colonial church did not insist on excessive Catholicization of existing indigenous practices, so long as there was no clear conflict between the two.
European Canadians established governments, police forces, and courts of law with different foundations than indigenous practices.
The remainder of the population follows traditional indigenous or animist religious practices.
With the exception of those following indigenous practices, religious communities are not heavily concentrated in any particular region.
As an indigenous practice, it varies by island and by family.
Other early observers took this scarring as an indigenous cultural practice.
These three religions have undergone religious mixing, along with some indigenous shamanistic practices.