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Here first, here still, no boat required.
means Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place, especially peoples and cultures predating colonial arrival.
from From Latin indigena, native, built from indu (within) and gignere (to beget) — literally begotten within the land itself.
Not interchangeableIndigenous predates colonizers; native just means born there.
Global countRoughly 476 million Indigenous people across 90 countries.
Plant usageBotanists call native flora indigenous too, no controversy.