This kind of language points to an aspect of the concept of indigeneity that is often tacitly overlooked in the Native American context: its irrationalism. Here is another instance where the ideology of settler colonialism takes a progressive route to a reactionary conclusion. The idea that different peoples have incommensurable ways of being and knowing, rooted in their relationship to a particular landscape, comes out of German Romantic nationalism. Originating in the early nineteenth century in the work of philosophers like Fichte and Herder, it eventually degenerated into the
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