Members

The Centre of Global Indigenous Futures is led by Indigenous peoples and their allies. Membership is categorised under ‘Indigenous’ or ‘Ally’.

Indigenous

We use the term ‘Indigenous’ but recognise it can also be a contested term.

The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures understands that some commonly used terms bear a troubling legacy of colonialism. Other terms have existed from time immemorial. While ‘Indigenous’ has different values in different contexts, it also provides a basis for participation in global networks and institutions, such as the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. There is, arguably, a sense of solidarity among Indigenous peoples globally, particularly when the history of colonisation and marginalisation is similar and terms such as Indigenous provide a way to speak to a global collective.

Ally

The Centre of Global Indigenous Futures includes non-Indigenous allies. Ally membership is by invitation only.

From the perspective of the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, being an ally is not just about symbolically supporting the plight or fight of Indigenous peoples—what’s often called ‘performative allyship’. It demands much more than that. It requires a “dangerous understanding” (Tuck and Yang 2012) of the very structures of social, political and economic life, and a commitment to transforming them—even if it comes at the expense of one’s own power and privilege (Carlson and Frazer 2021).