Introduction: Indigeneity, Redux
Introduction: Indigeneity, Redux

Summary/Abstract: Despite the damage—both physical and representational—inflicted on Indigenous communities across the world by colonial powers over centuries, recent decades have seen a resurgence in approaches to Indigeneity across a variety of fields, from History and Anthropology to Literature and Global Indigenous Studies. Terms such as “Natives,” “Aboriginal,” “Indigenous,” or “First Nations” reflect the variety of contexts in which Indigeneity operates geographically, politically, philosophically, and literarily. In a contemporary climate of reconciliation between settler colonial nations and colonized Indigenous peoples, Indigenous writers and critics are at the forefront of the conversation. Mohawk anthropologist Audra Simpson asks a question which frames our understanding of contemporary Indigeneity and the stakes of its representation: “How can reconciliation succeed if the wrongs against Indigenous people continue to go on?”1

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