adjective

Inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists; indigenous.

Around the world, 70 percent of uranium deposits are located on aboriginal land.

indigenous,native

noun

An aboriginal inhabitant of a place.

Using the aboriginals’ own oral histories, the developer proved that the site had been designated sacred only within the past 10 years.

native,indigene,aborigine,local,original inhabitant