Honest question here: is "native" insulting?

I have always seen it used in the context of native to Earth i.e. someone who can be part of the environment, not just someone who puts up a fence or pulls a trigger or whatever.

Sure in recent history people thought that somehow lessened a person, and even if there still are, isn't that their ignorance? They are the ones missing out, not those they describe.

I mean, I would imagine one having a place in an ecosystem would confer more identity than physical location or a political identity. The glimpses I have gotten in my weekends out in the bush, in an estuary or in the desert are more cherished than the name of the country I was born in. To be born, live and die there must confer an astronomical richness.

For example, the Indigenous people here talk in terms of the land they belong to, not the land that belongs to them. I still don't understand what the Indigenous call 'Dreaming', but every now and again I see it in a kingfisher having a rest after his lunch or a Jill staring into nowhere.

I'd give my left arm to have that connection with the earth, so when I use the word native, it's a title rather than an epithet.

I hope this has not come across as confrontational