[El Gato]

So I think a translation of “the native, or indigenous person” is vastly superior to “the native, or natural born citizen” - and certainly reject the idea that NBC is the definitive translation, for legal purposes, of a document that makes one reference to “Indigenes”.

Of course you do. But the 1793/97 translator did not agree with you.

Nor did whomever translated the July 27, 1781 pages of the Journals of the Continental Congress, where "naturels" is translated as "natural born" modifying sujets (subjects). (the agreement was with the French who had a King at the time)

[Mr Rogers]

“Nor did whomever translated the July 27, 1781 pages of the Journals of the Continental Congress, where “naturels” is translated as “natural born” modifying sujets (subjects). (the agreement was with the French who had a King at the time”

Natural subject has a different meaning than natural by itself. Thus by itself it was translated native.