ABSTRACT
VERY OFTEN IN MY WRITINGS AND LECTURES, I HAVE IDENTIFIED MYSELF AS BEING “indigenist” in outlook. By this, I mean that I am one who not only takes the rights of indigenous peoples as the highest priority of my political life, but who draws upon the traditions-the bodies of knowledge and corresponding codes of value-evolved over many thousands of years by native peoples the world over. This is the basis upon which I not only advance critiques of, but conceptualize alternatives to the present social, political, economic, and philosophical status quo. In turn, this gives shape not only to the sorts of goals and objectives I pursue, but the kinds of strategy and tactics I advocate, the variety of struggles I tend to support, the nature of the alliances I’m inclined to enter into, and so on.
