I'm not *that* concerned about offending Mormons

I considered them, and I'm not *that* concerned about offending Mormons...but it's really just an article of faith particular to their religion. At least the Roman head or the cocaine mummies have a scientific basis, even if they're completely flawed and probably wrong.

Right, but "indigenous" here has a particular meaning that goes somewhat beyond its dictionary definition. I suppose that, yes, that sentence does border on tautology - I think it avoids that when you incorporate the more anthropological definition, but I do get what you're saying - but it's as much a corrective to…

End of the day, "indigenous" has a dictionary definition and a particular meaning that is used in anthropological and political contexts. Yes, by the dictionary definitions, nobody is truly indigenous. But the groups that reach a place first - and often many thousand of years before any other distinct ethnic groups -…

@TheOmbudsman: Technically, perhaps, but the simple answer is that, for all mainstream anthropological and political purposes, the group to arrive in an area first is indigenous. This can sometimes be rather obvious - there's a fairly clear distinction between the groups that arrived in the Americas thousands of years…