Yep. The colonialist thing here is the notion of making sweeping proclamations about all indigenous nations as some uniform thing, as if they didn't have any in

Yep. The colonialist thing here is the notion of making sweeping proclamations about all indigenous nations as some uniform thing, as if they didn't have any individual political and cultural history. The closest indigenous nations to me, that I'm most familar with, those of the NW Coast, certainly had sophisticated property rights, both physical (ie. hunting grounds) and intellectual (particular rights to use songs, stories and figures in art).