Rethinking indigeneity
When a word doesn’t mean what you think it means
For as long as I can remember, I’ve thought of indigenous as meaning native or original to a given area, whether talking about people or about flora and fauna. Turns out that for as long as I can remember, I’ve been wrong.
I started contemplating the nature of indigeneity while in New Zealand last month. The Mao…
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