Indigeneity, Whiteness, and Ethnic Dislocation

What do we really mean today when we use the word "indigenous"?

This question — what do we mean by “indigenous”? — begins with myself.

For those who do not know, I am American-Iranian. My father is a native Iranian; my mother a native American. The confusion already begins: by “native American”, I mean that she is a white-skinned woman of European descent who was born in North America, and not Native-American/America…