transindigenous

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adjective

Moving between, or shared between, multiple indigenous peoples or cultures.

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Meanings

adjectivetransindigenous (not comparable)
  1. not comparableMoving between, or shared between, multiple indigenous peoples or cultures.

    In Silko’s text, the Messiah’s Mother is granted a prominent role while the Ghost Dance, localized in the Southwest, is largely a feminine gathering. It is also transindigenous, drawing together different tribes in a shared practice.

    2018, Lori Merish, “Mapping the Transnational in Contemporary Native American Fiction: Silko and Welch”, in Journal of Transnational American Studies, volume 9, number 1, →DOI, page 346
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    Such 'interindigenous' and 'transindigenous' efforts have led to the establishment and the contemporary workings of the International Labour Organization's Indigenous and Tribal People's Convention (ILO 69), the United Nations Permament Forum on Indigenous Issues, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to mention just some of the major achievements.

    2016, Bjørn Ola Tafjord, “Scales, Translations, and Siding Effects: Uses of indigena and religión in Talamanca and Beyond”, in Christopher Hartney, Daniel Tower, editors, Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous, Brill, page 157

    This project posits the concept of transindigenous materialities as the shared though distinct ways that Mexicana and Chicana performances tactically use material items, which have indigenous markers, in ways that strengthen female agency.

    2016, Yvette Martínez-Vu, Transindigenous Affinities: Gender, Indigeneity, and Objects in Mexicana and Chicana Performance, Doctoral thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, page ii

Origin

From trans- + indigenous.

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APA

transindigenous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transindigenous

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Chicago

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