indigenousness

If other people were to praise blackness, indigenousness and being non-man, it would not suffer, but thrive.

Don't you think talking about indigenousness in today's globalised world is nothing but jingoism?

But to a first approximation, first to settle - or at least being among the first to settle - is the primary basis for determining indigenousness.

Not to discount your comment which I largely agree with, but to the article's credit there is at least passing mention: >Some suggest that the primitive-skills community can run the risk of appropriating indigenousness.

Or what else would you call the Romans banning us from our holy city Jerusalem (and renaming it, just like they renamed the whole region to try to deny our indigenousness, and also bulldozing our temple--you can go see it today, it's underneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque) and selling us as slaves around the empire and subsequent rulers forbidding us to return!?

: > By fusing indigenousness within a universally established religious identity, the Khoisan Rastafarian movement encourages members of the Colored community to discover their roots and to perceive themselves as a part of a global community of Black people who have all experienced oppression through colonialism and/or slavery.

Sometimes I wonder about some of the indigenousness peoples that have been effectively wiped out around the world what if we had a "prime directive" and let them develop on their own?