I'm going to anger some people but here I go anyway. I don't like being called indigenous just call me native american.

Indigenous makes me sound primitive. I am NOT primitive. But hey aren't you mixed? Yes I'm only half native and the rest of me mexican but still I am not primitive. Making me sound like I'm some lesser type of human and what not.

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Neoerectus · M

It does not mean primitive. Native has been corrupted, but just means someone who there first. A not uncommon term used in differet parts of the world is 'first or original people.'

Indigenous means similar thing...

"originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.

"coriander is indigenous to southern Europe"

synonyms: native, endemic, local, domestic
(of people) inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists"

Still, you use what you want. It is your life.

NativePortlander1970 ·

@Neoerectus What's your hetitage, hmmm?

Neoerectus · M

@NativePortlander1970 Welsh Celtic, Irish Celtic, old tribes in (Germanic areas ) Tulingi, Varni, and old Franco tribes - ambiani?. Rough guess based on known history of where ancestors hailed from. Like most humans... I'm Heinz 57.