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The word indigenous is an adjective derived from the Latin word indigena, meaning native, belonging to, aboriginal; and has several applications:

• Indigenous peoples, communities and cultures native or indigenous to a territory;
• Indigenous (band), a Native American blues-rock band;
• In biology, indigenous means native to a place or biota, in contrast to any one of several terms meaning not native to a place (nonnative, alien, adventive, introduced) and differentiated from endemic. A species that is endemic is unique to that place, found naturally nowhere else. A species that is indigenous is native, but not unique in the sense that it is also native to other locations as well. Thus, a species that is native to California but found naturally in Oregon and Washington as well (native to the West Coast of the United States) is indigenous to California. A species found only in the British Isles is endemic to those islands.

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