ABSTRACT
Indigenous peoples have long histories of encounter and occupation of their territories by colonising states and people. The violence of forced displacement, loss and spoliation of lands, and compelled acculturation have been central features of Indigenous peoples' experiences of colonisation. In Latin America, for instance, revaluing and acknowledging these Indigenous ontologies, made invisible by the imposition of modernity and coloniality, has become central. As Marisol de la Cadena argues, relational ontologies are at the root of many Indigenous movements, resistances, and the transformation of states and legal systems. Colonial and post colonial expansion or neo-colonial expansion has deeply influenced Indigenous peoples' relations with territory, land, and home. Subjugating and marginalising Indigenous territories and knowledges, these past and present practices continue to involve dispossession, erasure, genocide, co-optation, and, more recently, the language of management. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
