Indigeneous People’s Day is a good time to post this link to Manvir Singh’s 2023 New Yorker article arguing that our concept of indigeneity is not only fundamentally confused but also a relic of European colonialism. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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It’s Time to Rethink the Idea of the “Indigenous”
Many groups who identify as Indigenous don’t claim to be first peoples; many who did come first don’t claim to be Indigenous. Can the concept escape its colonial past?
