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by julianeon 1108 days ago
It took me a while to understand this comment but I think I know what you're saying now - and I think it's wrong. Background: I have a Bio degree, briefly worked in conservation, and for context am also married to a woman with Native ancestry.

The article uses Native in the sense in which you're using it, so I presume you mean that the use of the term 'native seeds' in the URL is misleading. But by long custom, "native plants" is an expression that has been used for many years, which Native peoples don't take exception to.

See for example this link to the California Native Plants Society, one of thousands like it.

https://www.cnps.org/gardening

I'd also like to point out that "native plants" and "Native peoples" are both harkening back to the same definition of "native" - as the first to be there, the original inhabitants in a sense. That is what "native seeds" is referring to, in the context of plants. There is nothing to object to here - both uses are valid.