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Why are "Chagossians" considered indigenous to Chagos Islands despite having spent less than 200 years there?

According to Wikipedia, the ancestors of the Chagossians first arrived on the islands in 1793 as slaves for French coconut plantations. Their descendants were expelled in 1965, meaning their total ...
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