Indigenous
(in-DIJ-in-us)

Growing naturally in a place, rather than coming or being brought from the outside. It can be used, not just for people, but for plants and animals, too.

Indigenous people means the first people who lived in a place, not people who moved there later.

Abby learned that her Penobscot ancestors were indigenous to Maine.

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