Indigenous vs. Indigent

Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.

Innate, inborn.

Of or relating to the native inhabitants of a land.

Of or relating to a language, culture, or ethnic group that has not spread by colonization, or that has been on the receiving end of colonization.

Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported.

Example: ‘Negroes were all transported from Africa and are not indigenous or proper natives of America.’; ‘In America, cotton, being indigenous, is cheap.’;

Native; inherent; innate.

Example: ‘Joy and hope are emotions indigenous to the human mind.’;

originating where it is found;

Example: ‘the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo’; ‘autochthonous rocks and people and folktales’; ‘endemic folkways’; ‘the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan’;

originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native

Example: ‘the indigenous peoples of Siberia’; ‘coriander is indigenous to southern Europe’;

Poor; destitute; in need.

(archaic) Utterly lacking or in need of something specified.

A person in need, or in poverty.

Wanting; void; free; destitute; - used with of.

Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.

Example: ‘Indigent faint souls past corporal toil.’; ‘Charity consists in relieving the indigent.’;

poor enough to need help from others