And who is native if not us? The islands were uninhabited and there were no indigenous people there. Many seafaring nations had a go at settling the islands. We were the only ones who made a success of it. The Argie argument about colonialism is so tangled up in hypocrisy that it cannot be taken seriously. After the Argies failed to accept international law and diplomacy, the matter of sovereignty was settled militarily, and yet they still beat their chest over it.