Home › Words › I › indigenistindigenistindigenist means supporting indigenous people or beliefs.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, indigenist ranks #28,000 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom indigenous + -ist.adjSupporting indigenous people or beliefs.e.g.“The nationalist and indigenist positions often overlap, and both nationalists and indigenists tend to see themselves as apart from and in opposition to the cosmopolitans” — 2000, Thomas Claviez, Maria Moss, Mirror Writing: (re-)constructions of Native American Identity, Galda & Wilch, →ISBN, page 213:nounA person who supports indigenous people or beliefs.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).