Today or yesterday (depending on your time zone) was or will be the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

And the best way to remember the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is to remember that there’s no such thing. 9 times out of 1, indigenous or indigeneity is a myth. Any people who survived long enough probably did so by displacing multiple other peoples who came before them.

England, with the invasions of the Angles, the Saxons, the Normans and then the Pakistanis, is just typical. Who are England’s indigenous people? The Beaker people? Raise a glass to them.

The ‘indigenous’ Hawaiians aren’t native to Hawaii. They’re Polynesian colonists who enslaved, cannibalized and sacrificed the people who lived there before them.

The Japanese have the Ainu.

The ‘Native Americans’? They may have been native to Siberia before their ancestors crossed the Bering land bridge.

Much as identity politics activists may protest, once scientists embraced the theory of a common origin of man, displacing any notion of the separate emergence of races taking place in different parts of the world, the notion of an indigenous people became absurd (and it was absurd before that as well.)

Human tribes aggressively expanded, warred, colonized and settled areas to create different groups. It’s hard to know to what extent any original group of settlers anywhere survive to this day from truly primitive eras. For the most part they were likely colonized and either wiped out or integrated into other groups. The only people who refrained from such behaviors to a degree were exactly those civilized cultures, ‘westerners’ most likely to be accused of being genocidal colonists and settlers. Whereas the Indian tribes misleadingly described as ‘indigenous’ had very little hesitation in attacking, wiping out and integrating any survivors, into their tribe.

So for the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, remember that the notion of ‘indigenous’ is a Marxist myth used to browbeat civilized peoples into feeling like they have no right to exist because tribes of settlers and colonists who sacrificed children on pyramids and cut the noses off women are considered to be ‘indigenous’ because they did their settling and colonizing a thousand years earlier.