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b'In the past fifty years, a movement has formed to unite native and aboriginal peoples around the world under one umbrella term: Indigenous. But \\u201cindigeneity\\u201d is a slippery concept. Some groups qualify because they were the first people in their nation; some qualify even though they weren\\u2019t. Some have lost sovereignty over their land; some have regained it. As tribes face a variety of political crises, does this diverse global coalition create solidarity, or does it flatten complex problems? Manvir Singh, a writer and anthropology research fellow, raises these questions in an essay in this week\\u2019s New Yorker, \\u201cIt\\u2019s Time to Rethink the Idea of the \\u2018Indigenous.\\u2019 \\u201d He joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss the trade-offs of embracing a complex identity label.'