Indigenous in a sentence as an adjective

Sweden has its own indigenous people called Samer that live in the north, which have their own language.

They are indigenous species and should be protected in the interest of science if nothing else.

I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but I have to ask: do you really think there were no indigenous peoples in Canada when the French and English came to settle there?

I suspect a closer analogy would be to the relations between French settlers and indigenous Muslims in Algeria.

I don't think Singapore has ever had legal slavery, massacred its indigenous population, or used weapons of mass destruction on foreign cities.

Summary: in many cases it's more effective to promote the spread of existing indigenous innovation than to try to introduce innovation from outside.

We've paid a pittance and reminded the small local indigenous community who actually own the land that they don't have any political, economic or social power.

Small indigenous companies who dont receive much support, run by small families who never really grow to become large companies EU or worldwide, ask anyone outside of Ireland to name an Irish company beside Ryanair!

Indigenous definitions

adjective

originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan"

See also: autochthonal autochthonic autochthonous endemic