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

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