The collective noun is a tribe of natives.
The use of the collective noun 'tribe' has a negative connotation for some people as a demeaning term. However, a tribe of natives can be natives of any type from anywhere. Most of my family are natives to the area in the US where I live, but there is a group that settled in the state of Wisconsin and a group that settled in California. We are often in touch with them and feel free to refer to each other as the Milwaukee tribe or the California tribe. A branch of our family emigrated from the Isle of Man (UK) by the surname of Christian. There are descendants of Christians from the Isle of Man living all over the world. The 'Christians' from the Isle of Man did not originate there, they were immigrants to the island centuries ago and labeled Christians based on their religion. Most groups of people labeled as 'natives' such as native Americans, Australian aboriginals, or the nomads of Mongolia all originated from another place before history was written. Any of us can be a native of somewhere at a given point in time.
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