Many colonized peoples reject being labeled under the umbrella term “Indigenous”
Tatz 1 Colin Tatz Macquarie University , From Welfare to Treaty: reviewing fifty years of Aboriginal policy and practice, In ‘The Power of Knowledge, the Resonance of Tradition’. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.363.7264&rep=rep1&type=pdf
In my writing, I studiously avoid the word ‘indigenous’ or ‘Indigenous’. I understand very well why some (rightly) talk about indigenous rights in reference to land, sea beds, fishing and hunting rights: these are moral, human and legal rights arising out of prior occupation as a people who had forms of governance and a reign of law. But such rights, indigenous rights, must not be confused with the names by which peoples call themselves and wish to be known. ‘Indigenous’ is plainly not the name that these peoples call themselves. Nor do they wish to be subsumed into a commonality of history, culture, language, and geography that they hardly share.