Talk:Native

"aboriginal inhabitant of a region colonized by English-speaking people"
Why specifically English-speaking people? I'm sure the term was used (when it was considered acceptible to use) to describe the indiginous peoples of all colonized territories, not just those by English-speakers). Wardog (talk) 13:13, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Capitalized, I think it's mainly for English-speaking areas. Lower case  is more general.  If there are quotations showing otherwise, add them. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:29, 24 January 2021 (UTC)


 * My impression, from edits people have made to various entries and comments people have made on various talk pages and WT:FB over the years, is that not everyone realizes that Wiktionary is case-sensitive, and in a situation like this where we have entries at both native and Native with similar definitions, I think we should try to prominently crosslink the entries, whether that's with qualifiers like I just tentatively added or just the usage note. But even then, Wardog has a point, one does sometimes find Natives of South America also referred to as such, and Alaska Natives even of areas Russia colonized, so I weakened the claim about English-speakers to an "especially". (No objection to moving the qualifiers I added into the usage note, if someone prefers...) - -sche (discuss) 19:12, 24 January 2021 (UTC).