Synonyms for Indigenous
ɪnˈdɪdʒ ə nəsin·dige·nous

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1. indigenousadjective

   Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.

   Synonyms:
   autochthonous, aboriginal, native

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1. indigenous

   Native denotes that which belongs to one by birth; natal that which pertains to the event of birth; natural denotes that which rests upon inherent qualities of character or being. We speak of one's native country, or of his natal day; of natural ability, native genius. Compare INHERENT; PRIMEVAL; RADICAL.

   Synonyms:
   innate, natal, native, natural, original

   Antonyms:
   acquired, alien, alien, artificial, assumed, foreign, unnatural

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1. autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenousadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   endemical, autochthonous, autochthonic, autochthonal, endemic, indigenous

   Antonyms:
   foreign, strange

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1. indigenousadjective

   Synonyms:
   native, not exotic

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1. List of paraphrases for "indigenous":

   aboriginal, native, indígenas, indígena, aboriginals, original, autochthonous, autochtones, natives, local, origin, autochtone

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1. United States:

   In the United States and Canada, infants from indigenous communities die at higher rates -- 40 % higher than the national average in the United States and 20 to 360 % higher than the rest of Canada.

2. Roberto Mukaro Borrero:

   The tweet by the Washington Redskins rings hollow to me. If the team was really interested in standing in solidarity for racial justice, they would change their name from the dictionary-defined racial slur they continue to use. As an indigenous person, I feel their tweet comes off as tone-deaf, not woke. Violence comes in many forms, some more subtle than others. Indigenous Peoples are not your mascots.

3. Jim Armington:

   Now, I ca n’t say which direction the Japanese government will go with this fighter, and whether it will be totally indigenous Japanese industry only or whether it will be opened up for foreign role and cooperation, we are betting that there will be some opportunity for us to help.

4. Elisabeth Smith:

   We are living in a much more surveilled culture than we were in 1972 and prior, so in a future where abortion rights are limited or there's not a federal right, people will be at risk for exercising their bodily autonomy, the consequences of those decisions are likely to fall hardest on Black, brown, Indigenous people of color.

5. Annita Lucchesi:

   That kind of narrative about Indigenous people just lends itself to more violence so that when this violence does happen, it's not a disruption of the social fabric the way it would be when it happens to somebody else, because we're already perceived as not part of the social fabric, because we're either dead and disappeared. We're less than human. We're so far away on some remote reservation that we're not part of the rest of the community.