31.   Being in mixed marriages made them possible targets for persecution in their native land.

32.   A half-dozen Native American-owned telephone companies are now in operation on native lands.

33.   Adapting to life in a new country is in some ways more complex now than a century ago, when immigrants typically broke most ties with their native lands.

34.   Admitted only reluctantly into its native land, thrown overboard a few centuries later in favor of a French arriviste, then dismissed as a colonial vulgarism.

35.   After high school, Ms. Aglukark worked for the agency of the Northwest Territorial government that processed native land claims.

36.   But as Colombia descended into a hellish cycle of guerrilla warfare and drug-driven violence, Betancourt longed to return to her native land.

37.   But he is also a playwright who remains passionately devoted to the theatrical tradition of his native land.

38.   But so long away from a native land changes a person, Jasso said.

39.   But they seem to have had an impact on the immigrants, many of whom still feel linked to their native land.

40.   But what she has done has been equally revolutionary in the context of her native land.