ABSTRACT
Indigenous sovereignties in First World locations are not grounded in the logic of capital despite attempts to rationalise them as such. In this chapter, I argue that the continuing disavowal of Indigenous sovereignty operates through the racial logics of state sovereignty’s incommensurable ontology. I demonstrate how Indigenous sovereignties challenge the philosophical premises of state sovereignty as these different forms do not share the same ontology. My disclaimer is I have restricted my discussion to a particular sovereignty that originated in the Kingdom of England and later manifested as the spread of the Kingdom of Britain’s Empire enabled the formation of nation states such as Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
