User talk:2605:A601:A724:AD00:D04E:DFCD:DB17:7F85

June 2023
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 * All peoples have "migrated somewhere", the only difference is when, so this assertion is not particularly meaningful. Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 07:38, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
 * The page on indigneous peoples indicates that it is not clearly defined, and sometimes refers to the first people who inhabited an area. That strikes me as not particularly meaningful, or at the very least a misnomer. Is there some dispute as to what "native" means? 2605:A601:A724:AD00:D04E:DFCD:DB17:7F85 (talk) 07:42, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
 * "Indigenous" and "native" are two terms with some subtle differences. "Indigenous" (in the typically used definition) suggests that a people was the first to inhabit a certain area. Native is a broader term, but "native" can sometimes be used in place of "indigenous". Generally, any indigenous people could be called the "native people", but it doesn't necessarily work the other way. Mako001 (C) (T)  🇺🇦 11:12, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Note that in the case of flora and fauna "native" has a very specific and arguably much more useful meaning, it has nothing to do with when the species arose since some are much older than others, and it is clearly distinguished from introduced and naturalized species.
 * The page on Moriori origins discusses the arrival of Maori in the Chatham islands in the sixteenth century and how the distinct Moriori culture arose after that. How is that different from, say, the arrival of Europeans in North America who, after a few decades or a century, had become a distinct cultural entity? Because someone else was there first? If I were to describe the early colonists as "native" to the eastern seaboard of what is now the continental United States, it would I image that it would be flagged as "not constructive" also, but for precisesly the opposite reason. 2605:A601:A724:AD00:CB7:F849:2402:8F5B (talk) 16:51, 18 June 2023 (UTC)