The phrase "a native practitioner" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who is a local expert or skilled individual in a particular field or practice, often in relation to cultural or traditional practices.
Example: "In order to understand the local customs better, we decided to consult a native practitioner who has been part of the community for generations."
Alternatives: "local expert" or "indigenous practitioner".
Its chief native practitioner was the New York cabinetmaker Duncan Phyfe, who in the first decade of the century produced furniture for the wealthy of his city.
According to the British government, a quarter of the world's population speak English with some level of competence, whereas French, with its 80m native practitioners, is ranked the 11th most spoken language in the world and the ninth most popular as a second language with 180 million speakers.
As usual, the traces of the cautery and escharotics of the native practitioners were seen upon it; and the patient stated that it had been lanced, and the hemorrhage in consequence was arrested with difficulty.
Behind "Country medicine" were the local "native" practitioners and informants on whose knowledge the surgeons were dependent both for procuring the suitable ingredients and for their preparation and application.
For close to twenty years, I've been a Native American/Native Mexican spiritual practitioner.
Mr. Kouakou, who formed Daara Dance in 2003, is a native of Ivory Coast and a practitioner of contemporary American dance; he performs with and is clearly influenced by one of this country's most talented choreographers, Reggie Wilson.
Ms. Dupeux, an artist and a native of France, and her husband, Andre Malby, an alternative-medicine practitioner, were already living in southern Spain when Mr. Malby convinced his wife that they should look for a cave house.
Just as the flower of the nation's youth died in the trenches, so a "native line" of poetry associated with Thomas perished with the arrival of modernism, whose chief practitioners came from Europe and America.
A native of Spartanburg, South Carolina.
