From The UN: Mother of political correctness by Gerald Vouga :
For the tenth year in succession culture cultists around the globe celebrated their big day on August 9th. This was the International Day of the World?s Indigenous Peoples, one of those politically engineered excitements sponsored by the United Nations. Once upon a time the older English word for a place?s original inhabitants, native, might have been part of the title, but this came to be considered pejorative: it has long been replaced in UN-speak by a word of French origin, and ?indigenous? is now the approved term.But there?s no pleasing everyone. In Spanish ind?gena is acceptable. Yet in French, because indig?ne is politically incorrect in that country, it has been replaced by autochthon, a word that comes from Greek. Perhaps it might be a good idea if we all used the Greek word, since autochthon sounds in English even grander than indigenous.