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The National Geographic's Encyclopedia says that indigenous refers to people or objects that are native to a certain region or environment.

Whether they grow there, live there, or produce there,

or occur naturally there.

When it comes to flora and fauna, they are considered indigenous to an ecosystem when they

haven't been introduced through human intervention or manipulated by human cultivation.

For millions of years, these living things have become well suited to their habitats,

carefully adapted to the region's soil, climate, and food web.

However, when it comes to people, there can be some confusion about what it means to be

indigenous, especially when it comes to questions of land rights, autonomy, and

reparations. Most people understand that Native American nations and Aboriginal Australians

are indigenous, but some might then ask, well, if indigenous means originating from a place,

then aren't all home sapapians indigenous to Africa?

Why should one group's claim of indigionity take precedence over any other?

This would be asked in more or less good faith.

And so others may ask the question, well, if a group occupies a region for several generations,

does that then make them indigenous?

Are white Americans, indigenous of their family has been there since the founding of the United States?

Are French people indigenous to France?

And if so, does that somehow justify their xenophobia toward refugees in some weird reactionary

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