"This book combines international relations and anthropology to argue that indigeneity is a political and relational concept that is co-constitutive of the state in political modernity, fundamental to how the state was constituted and how it continues to operate today. By tracing indigeneity from European philosophers conceptualizing sovereignty during the Enlightenment to Indigeous President Evo Morales in Bolivia, this book offers new analytical tools to explore indigeneity in contemporary world politics"--