Indigenous Global State

Abstract In this essay, I offer a vision of Indigenous decolonization as I argue that Indigenous decolonial justice can be neither adequately well-conceived nor achieved as long as Indigeneity cannot transcend their encapsulated, geo-political, settler context. I show this by critiquing the apparently benign case of the rite of Land Acknowledgement as practiced in the settler-West arguing that even in such cases a weakening of Indigeneity is unavoidable due to that geo-political context. I then show that the only plausible way to transcend that geo-political context is for Indigeneity to come together in solidarity as a global agency in the form of an Indigenous global state ( igs ) understood as an internationally recognized dis-contiguous federation of the Indigenous communities and nations of the world and thus be protected in sovereign terms as per international law. I further argue that for an igs to be successful in its decolonial task, there needs to be a normative alignment between its visionary constitution and global governance normatively conceived.