This roundtable brings together Indigenous scholars to consider autochthonous notions of landscape, solidarity, and the future. Rooted in different forms of indigeneity across Africa and the Americas, our theoretical consideration of Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies serves a political objective: forging solidarity among ways of being in the world not anchored in white settler colonial modernity. Together, we elaborate how Indigenous conceptions constitute fluid means to think across communities to escape colonial logics of teleological futures.
Across the world, Indigenous peoples fight for ancestral land restoration based on spiritual connection across generations. Time is cyclical, contrary to settler linear time which implies futures antagonistic to Indigenous peoples. At the core of Indigenous solidarity is contesting "colonial unknowing"—the naturalization of settler colonialism. As Glen Coulthard asserts, Indigenous peoples must reinforce cultural resurgence to reject liberal politics of recognition that foreclose land restoration and futures framed on Indigenous terms.