INTRODUCTION

In this second edition of Being Indigenous, 24 Indigenous scholars share their knowledge and perspectives on issues that pertain to activism, culture, language, and identity, the fabric of “Being Indigenous.” While the number of literary works by Indigenous writers has steadily grown, this present work represents a rare instance where Indigenous academics, professionals, and scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Russia, and the United States have written about issues that pertain to culture, language, and identity from their own Indigenous worldview perspectives. This book presents a significant change to a standard set of books written in the 19th and 20th centuries about Indigenous peoples, and, to a degree, continue to be written by people who are not Indigenous.