Relating to the first known peoples of a place, especially groups with lasting cultural, political, and ancestral ties to land affected by later settlement.
Examples
The council protects Indigenous languages from further loss.
Several Indigenous communities helped design the land agreement.
The exhibit was developed with Indigenous artists and historians.
The law recognizes Indigenous rights to traditional territories.
She studies Indigenous knowledge about local weather patterns.
Similar words
native
aboriginal
First Nations
original
ancestral
autochthonous
Native to a place
adjective
nature
neutral
Naturally present in a particular region or environment, rather than brought there from somewhere else.
Examples
These grasses are indigenous to the coastal dunes.
The island has several indigenous bird species.
Farmers are replanting indigenous trees along the river.
The museum garden uses indigenous herbs and flowers.
Biologists compared indigenous fish with introduced species.
Similar words
native
local
endemic
autochthonous
homegrown
naturally occurring
Inborn or inherent
adjective
everyday
formal
Belonging naturally to a person, group, habit, or situation as an inner quality, not added from outside.
Examples
Curiosity seems indigenous to childhood.
The habit was not borrowed, it was indigenous to the community.
A distrust of ceremony was indigenous to his character.
The rhythm feels indigenous to the language itself.
That caution is indigenous to the legal tradition.