This book deals with the two key concepts of indigeneity and nation of the indigenous people from across the world. It looks at issues and ideas of indigeneity, nationhood, nationality, State, identity, selfhood, constitutionalism, and citizenship in Africa, North America, New Zealand, Pacific Islands and Oceania, India, and Southeast Asia.

G. N. Devy is Honorary Professor, Centre for Multidisciplinary Development Research, Dharwad, India, and Chairman, People's Linguistic Survey of India. An award-winning writer and cultural activist, he is known for his 50-volume language survey. He is Founder Director of the Adivasi Academy at Tejgadh in Gujarat, India, and was formerly Professor of English at M. S. University of Baroda. He is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Linguapax Prize, Prince Claus Award and Padma Shri. With several books in English, Marathi and Gujarati, he has co-edited (with Geoffrey V. Davis and K. K. Chakravarty) Narrating Nomadism: Tales of Recovery and Resistance (2012); Knowing Differently: The Challenge of the Indigenous (2013); Performing Identities: Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts (2014); and The Language Loss of the Indigenous (2016), published by Routledge.

Geoffrey V. Davis was Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Aachen, Germany. He was international chair of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) and chair of the European branch (EACLALS). He coedited Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English and the African studies series Matatu. His publications include Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice (2006) and African Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources (2013).

Introduction G. N. Devy 1. Indigeneity in Southern Africa Brendon Nicholls 2. Oceanic Nations: New Zealand and the Pacific Islands Region Paloma Fresno-Calleja 3. Storied Nationhood: Literature, Constitutionalism, and Citizenship in Indigenous North America Katja Sarkowsky 4. Finding Nation: The Nation and the State in F. Sionil Jose's Mass and Edwin Thumboo's A Third Map Lily Rose Tope 5. Indigenous Peoples and Nation Interface in India Virginius Xaxa and Roluah Puia 6. African Indigeneity: The Southern African Challenge Yvette Hutchison 7. Two Poets of the Pacific: Hone Tuwhare and Haunani-Kay Trask Robert Sullivan