The phrase "indigenous resistance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the actions or movements of indigenous peoples opposing colonization, oppression, or cultural assimilation.
Example: "The documentary highlighted the history of indigenous resistance against land dispossession and cultural erasure."
Alternatives: "native opposition" or "aboriginal defiance".
Equally, a recognition of Indigenous resistance has obvious implications.
Change came at last with Mr Morales's indigenous resistance movement.
Explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado followed in 1540, quickly and brutally pacifying all indigenous resistance.
With the end of indigenous resistance came rapid settlement and in 1816 statehood.
He points out that indigenous resistance is often directed at projects executed by the organisations' funding partners, who are also often perpetrators of environmental degradation.
Christopher Columbus day has become indigenous resistance day, and the country is now officially the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela, in honour of independence hero Simon Bolivar.
Sufism is an entirely indigenous Islamic resistance movement to fundamentalism, with its deep roots in South Asian soil.
Sufism is an entirely indigenous, deeply rooted resistance movement against violent Islamic radicalism.
Scientists believe Yasuni is the most biodiverse place on Earth and large swaths of the park remain in pristine condition thanks partly to the ferocity of the indigenous people's resistance to intruders.
Meanwhile, the only monument to Indigenous frontier war resistance in Canberra stands inside the National Gallery of Australia in the form of 200 hollow log coffins – beautiful art to some, but for many Indigenous Australians it's a revered piece of spiritually significant commemorative architecture.
People investigated included Alberto Acosta, the former oil minister who, with others, had proposed the idea of leaving the Yasuni oil in the ground in 2006, following the Chevron Texaco pollution disasters in the northern Amazon and indigenous peoples' successful resistance to oil extraction in the Amazonian community of Sarayaku in the late 1990s.
