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"Indigenous" means "native to." Indigenous peoples, for example, are the people who were origninally in a locaation, before explorers came. In the Western Hemisphere, indigenous peoples both Eskimos and Native Americans are considered to be indigenoud peoples.

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The word 'indigenous' means a person which is naturally living, growing, or occurring in a region or country. It also means a person that is born without strange body parts.

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" Indigenous' is another word for "Native" or original "so the Indigenous people means that these were the original native people that belong to the land where they are living.

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Indian/Native

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