> Last indigenous people of Europe
Only if you essentially consider the definition of "indigenous" to be "noble savage".
Most Europeans are indigenous to Europe.
Only if you essentially consider the definition of "indigenous" to be "noble savage".
Most Europeans are indigenous to Europe.
Perhaps it means someone who was there before another group arrives, meaning that the definition is relative, it means 'earlier'. There's also an implication that the latter group has transformed the place somehow.
A similar word in aboriginal. Some meanings include "present from the beginning ... inhabiting or existing in a land from earliest times"; "Inhabiting or occupying a country before the arrival of European colonists"; "the earliest known inhabitants of a land"; etc.
> adjective
> originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native: the indigenous peoples of Siberia | coriander is indigenous to southern Europe.
You raised the issue! But that's always an answer, to dismiss everything. Clearly there are differences between those examples. Oh well. Have a good one!
Secondly, if you want to segment the world into mutually exclusive "indigenous" areas (I find this kind of offensive to be honest), you should make sure you're actually right. Germanic peoples were present in all of Scandinavia before the Sami migrated there, not just the south. But like I said, I have no problem saying the Sami are indigenous to Northern Scandinavia because being indigenous to an area is not an exclusionary label.
I think that's taking the conversation to an extreme, and then finding offense in the extreme you created.
> I find this kind of offensive to be honest
How does it offend you?
Long story short: If an ethnic group is a majority, it's not going to be recognized as indigenous. EWe can argue about the definition as much as we like, and you're absolutely right re. the Germanic peoples having lived in the Nordics for longer than the Finnic ones have, but for all practical intents and purposes, governments, and international organizations will consider the Sami indigenous.