While having proven a powerful strategy for achieving rights and recognition, the discourse of ‘indigeneity’ obviously comes at a price, not least because this discourse emanates from Western European philosophy and colonial mindsets – indigenous peoples remain stuck in the position of civilisation’s Other – whether in a negative sense as primitive brutes or in a positive image as a kind of corrective. In both cases indigenous peoples are defined as different….Contesting these types of dichotomous and essentialised identities is part of a current International trend.

Kirsten Thisted – Blubber Politics: Emotional Economies and Post-Postcolonial Identities in Contemporary Greenlandic Literature and Art, Sami Art and Aesthetics, Aarhus University Press, 2017