The term ‘Indigenous,’ in its current use, might be doing us all a disservice
with pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories,” and who consider themselves distinct from the “societies now prevailing on those territories.”
Still, the word is problematic. For one, it implies that some of us are, and others are not, indigenous to the planet, which is both incorrect and the wrong message to send to our children. Nurturing a spirit of place, displaying fidelity to land and water, and embracing with conviction the obligations of stewardship, ought surely to be aspirational imperatives for all people and all human societies.
The cultures of the world are not anonymous, as if lost in a fog of indigeneity. Every culture is a unique and ever-changing constellation of ideas and intuitions, myths, memories, insights and innovations, all coming together to inspire an original vision of life itself.
Though embedded in the province of British Columbia, the unceded territory of the Tahltan First Nation encompasses more of the Earth’s surface than any one of some 85 countries permanently represented in the General Assembly of the United Nations, among them Israel, Austria, Panama, Switzerland and Kuwait.
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