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Do not add Nation onto a name for a group of people, unless that term is part of their official title, for instance, the Cherokee Nation. See US Native tribes (Lower 48) and Alaska Native tribes. For ethnic group articles, the standard is to use their common name or their common name plus people, such as Cowlitz people.
A country demonym denotes the people or the inhabitants of or from there; for example, "Germans" are people of or from Germany. Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular forms simply remove the final s or, in the case of -ese endings, are the same as the plural forms. The ending -men has feminine equivalent -women (e.g. Irishman, Scotswoman).
Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.
"Indigenous" is not a name, and in particular not a name for any specific group of people. It is just a word, not a name, meaning the long-term inhabitants of a place. The fact that it is a word that refers to certain types of people is not a reason to capitalize it, any more than we capitalize Men or Women or Babies or Redheads.
Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS". Sometimes, a minor word such as a preposition is not capitalized within the acronym, such as "WoW" for "World of Warcraft". In some British English style guides, only the initial letter of an acronym is capitalized if the acronym is read as a word, e.g., "Nasa" or ...
It is a simple of matter of fact that people do capitalize titles when they stand in the place of names, just as other people do not. People do capitalize every instance of a title, just as other people put nearly everyone in lower case. This a question of style. As such, it should reflect best practices and actual usage.
Alternatively, it could be possible that Trump simply doesn't know the conventions of English capitalization, which generally dictate that only proper nouns and the first word of a sentence get ...
Capitalize names of regions if they have attained proper-name status, including informal conventional names (Southern California; the Western Desert), and derived terms for people (e.g., a Southerner as someone from the Southern United States).