autocthonous

“It was inconceivable that America should produce an autocthonous art.”

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions

“We may, however, venture the assertion that the Eskimo is of autocthonic origin in Asia, but is not autocthonous in America.”

The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants