Indigenous is defined as "originating or occurring naturally in a particular place." Indigenous can be used to define species of plants and animals that originated in a particular place. It is also used more broadly to refer to native people, those who were here first. Indigenous methodologies tend to approach cultural protocols, values and behaviors as an integral part of methodology. Over the past few decades, scholars involved in research on, with and about indigenous peoples have been discussing a great variety of issues relating to indigenous research, which may be viewed from an indigenous perspective, or from an outside perspective, or from the perspective of a collaboration between a particular indigenous people and outside experts.