I wonder what P. Dey's definition of ‘indigenous' is (The Weekend Sun, January 25)?

David Round, a Canterbury law lecturer, writes: 'The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that someone or something indigenous is 'born or produced naturally in a land or region; native to that soil, region. According to the dictionaries, those are the only two things this English word can mean; being born somewhere, or, having ancestors who have been there forever.”

Therefore in the former sense, all New Zealanders born here are indigenous, not just Maoris.

And in the latter sense, even Dey admits in the letter that Maoris arrived here from somewhere else around 1250AD.

Hence, ‘so-called indigenous' seems to be the correct terminology to me?

G Parker, Whangarei.