Indigenism

Indigenism can refer to several different ideologies associated with indigenous peoples, is used differently by various scholars and activists, and can be used purely descriptively or carry political connotations.

As pan-indigenous political or cultural solidarity

As used by ethnic studies scholar Ward Churchill b. 1947; author of From a Native Son and Mexican scholar Guillermo Bonfil Batalla 1935-1991, the term mentioned to the common civilization of which, they argue, all New World indigenous peoples are a part, and to their common "spirit of resistance" to settler colonialism.