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Sylvanie Burton is the first female and indigenous president of Dominica.
She comes from the Kalinago tribe which constitutes four percent of the Dominica population.
She was born in 1956 and has two kids.
Dominica is a small island country of about 70.000 people, often considered an eco-tourism Caribbean paradise.
WORDS
indigenous: of those people who originally lived in a place.
to constitute: to form or make something.
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