Jazz musician Wynton Marsalis is a native of New Orleans.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Sibylle Schellman, a native of Germany, runs a small restaurant overlooking the ocean in the coastal town of Calheta on Santiago's northeast coast.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

Most of the buildings in Santa Fe are low and earth colored, a mixture of Spanish and native styles.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

In nineteen seventy-six the economist Muhammad Yunus helped develop a research project in his native country of Bangladesh.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

The native of Puerto Rico is a founder of one of New York City's oldest poetry centers -- The Nuyorican Poets Caf.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

In the ancient forests of the Lapland area of Finland, many people in the Sami native group make a living raising reindeer.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

All but one of the Great Lakes has a name from Native American languages: Michigan,Huron,Erie and Ontario.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

They wore on their coats a copper penny showing the head of a Native American Indian.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Most were members of a tribe of Native Americans called the Miwok.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

This Louisiana native is a nominee for Female Vocalist of the Year.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

One recent visitor said the Ellis Island immigration hall feels alive with the stories of people who left their native lands long ago to start a new life in a new country.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

What you will see a lot of times on a native reservation is there are some folks who are living well, but there are a lot places on reservations that are living in complete and abject poverty."

VOA: special.2010.11.29

President Obama says the honor is particularly meaningful for the first native of the former East Germany to lead a unified Germany.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

The Paralympic medals have a native symbol of a raven that represents overcoming obstacles.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

North Dakota is a land of broad, open prairie known for its Native American heritage, the travels of explorers Lewis and Clark and record snow and cold.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

ICANN says about half the Internet users around the world don't use a Latin-based script as their native language, adding the change will affect billions of potential users.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Francisco Ayala was born in Madrid in 1934, a few years before the Spanish Civil War that deeply divided his native country and prompted an exodus of the Spanish elite.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

A woman named Liseth, who has just arrived at the house carrying her two-year-old daughter, is one of a group of three women who say they crossed Guatemala from their native Honduras.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

He says increased demand for the fish could solve two problems - getting paid to fish a nuisance out of the river, and returning the populations of native fish to normal levels not seen in several decades.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19