We finally reach the moment of the actual Fourth World declaration.

Students are introduced the the surprising intersections between discourses of Indigeneity and nationalism in Taiwan and Egypt.

Indigeneity in the white settler states.

Beginning in the 1680s, Indigenous people began coming together to form military and political coalitions that sought to include all Indigneous people in a common front against European invasion.

Bantu speakers and others in sub-Saharan Africa. 

History of Polynesian peoples up to the present day.

The Arctic and Indigeneity: from the Sami and Inuit conquests to the Frobisher expedition.

Indigeneity does not work the same way at all times and place. Here is a talk on how it worked when it got going.

For as long as there has been ethnography, there has been the trope of ancient, primitive, noble savages who have some kind of connection with the natural world that civilized people have supposedly lost. 

The first episode describes the idea of the Fourth World, that global community of nations and peoples that remain colonized.