people whose ancestors inhabited a place or country when persons from another culture or ethnic background arrived on the scene and dominated them through conquest, settlement, or other means and who today live more in conformity with their own social, economic, and cultural customs and traditions than with those of the country of which they now form a part.
The people who first lived in North America. Europeans called them 'Indians' at first because they had darker skin and because the Europeans thought that they had reached India.
People who are original or natural inhabitants of a country. Native Americans, for example, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.
The original, native peoples that have lived in the same area for thousands of years. Native Americans such as the Hopi and Cherokee are the indigenous peoples of the United States.
the term 'indigenous' means people who were originally in a place, people who have a long history of being in a particular place and who retain their identity within a larger entity, state or empire. or example; the various North American native cultures, Australian Aborigines or the San of southern Africa.
The original inhabitants of particular territories; often descendants of tribespeople who live on as culturally distinct colonized peoples, many of whom aspire to autonomy.
people who belong to a locality or country by birth
Indigenous peoples (also called Indians, Native Americas, American Indians, Amerindians, First peoples, First nations, aboriginal peoples, etc.) were the original inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the European colonists.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia
The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition, but can be used about any ethnic group who inhabit the geographic region with which they have the earliest historical connection. However several widely-accepted formulations, which define the term "Indigenous peoples" in stricter terms, have been put forward by important internationally-recognised organizations, such as the United Nations, the International Labour Organization and the World Bank.