"native customs" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to the customs or traditional practices of a particular group of people, whether it be a country, culture, or even something like an organization or a business. For example: "The company held a ceremony to recognize the native customs of its employees."
The Primer nueva corónica is a laboriously told history that includes lore and descriptions of native customs and practices.
Popé believed that he was commanded by tribal ancestral spirits (kachinas) to restore traditional native customs, and other villages enthusiastically responded to news of the planned uprising.
Continuing debate pondered the relative merits of "assimilation" as against "multiculturalism"—i.e., minimizing or encouraging the migrants' retention of their native customs.
Like the Normans in England learning to eat swine and speak a little Anglo-Saxon, the new masters have incorporated a few of the native customs and institutions.
The golden age of totem poles is considered to be the nineteenth century, after Europeans introduced improved iron tools and before whites repressed native customs.
They say they work hard to maintain native customs: the language, the care and respect for elders, the refusal to waste food like salmon.
Prior to Islāmic influence Adat Temenggong consisted of a mixture of Hindu law and native custom.
These are minor headaches compared with the most recent native custom I discovered: deforestation, on the most local of levels.
Remaining more true to native custom — and viewing the assimilated natives as "bafu," or traitors — are Ester's uncle (Harold Surratt) and her cousin Tamba (Warner Joseph Miller), who nevertheless must work in the mines to pay newly imposed local taxes.
SQUAW: No, in order to appease the rain gods, you must dance in front of the whole tribe while we point and laugh at you, as is our native custom.
Published in 1958, it's one of those pop masterpieces — like Tom Wolfe's "Radical Chic and Gore Vidall's "Myra Breckinridge" — which show readers what American vernacular writing can do, especially when it's used to describe the native custom of shifting identities.
