Refers to the original peoples of a place, and their descendants, who maintain distinct cultural, social, and political identities tied to ancestral land, knowledge, and traditions.

Indigenous presence resists colonial erasure and asserts ways of knowing, creating, and connecting that centre land-based knowledge, relationality, and survivance.

"What we understand as Indigenous is the transgenerational and originary relationship a people holds with their particular ancestral territory and the place-based knowledge that emerges from these places of origin." — Marcelo Garzo Montalvo