Definition of Indigenous

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Definition of Indigenous
	Indigenous Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported. Native; inherent; innate. Related Definitions: Climate, Country, Exotic, Growing, Imported, In, Inherent, Innate, Living, Native, Naturally, Not, Or, Produced

Indigenous Quotations

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
Robert Mugabe

There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.
Jessica Hagedorn

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
Barbara Jordan

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.
Edward James Olmos

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
Bianca Jagger

Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.
Sarah Zettel

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.
Sarah Zettel

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.
Terri Windling

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.
Edward James Olmos

Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.
Malcolm Fraser

Indigenous Translations

indigenous in Italian is unigenito
indigenous in Swedish is inhemsk

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