Astudiaethau Celtaidd ayb.

I do think Wales and the other Celtic nations could/should engage with Indigenous peoples around the world more. I've seen some people from Celtic nations describe themselves as Indigenous peoples (as well as other Indigenous peoples call us Indigenous too), and I think maybe we could call ourselves that?? (Especially I have been thinking about it in terms of Ireland and the Irish people in the north being described as Indigenous people in territory occupied by British settlers) But I also think that maybe we need to engage with the wider global Indigenous community more and acknowledge our own complicity in colonialism better before we can call ourselves that. I think some people can't grapple with our status as colonised and coloniser (e.g. Wales and y Wladfa, Scotland and Gaelic-speaking parts of Canada, etc). And it's not like there aren't other Indigenous peoples across the world who have been complicit in colonialism, genocide, etc. (e.g. the Māori and the Moriori genocide, Sámi being encouraged to settle North America, etc.) But I think they have a sense of being in a wider, global Indigenous community/sense of identity that we (Celtic peoples) don't. I don't think a lot of us were brought up to consider ourselves Indigenous/Native (I certainly wasn't).

Also it's not uncommon for white supremacists to be obsessed with our 'indigeneity' or whatever and to use the term to weaponise our marginalisation against immigrant/non-white members of our nations, so I think we definitely have to be careful with applying the term Indigenous with a capital I to ourselves. Of course 'indigenous' with a lower case i is frequently used to describe our languages and peoples and cultural practices from pre-Anglicisation/-Francisation.