This paper explores the concept of indigeneity, its origins and mobilization for displacement as well as resistance. What role does the concept of indigeneity and its assignation play in the unmaking and remaking of place and peoples’ relation to it? How does indigeneity as a concept conform to the state’s parameters of belonging and imagined history and landscape? Does this concept have a role to play in discursive forms of resistance? This paper takes a two-fold approach to indigeneity and mobility: (im)mobility is at once part of a de-indigenziation of Palestinians and the indigenization of Israeli Jews. Initially, Palestinians were cast as mobile, that is as nomadic, to justify their lack of attachment to place and to enable their removal. On one hand, coerced mobility was thus initially cast as acceptable if not indeed normative for an imputed nomadic and/or migratory group. On the other hand, those to be newly indigenized enjoy unencumbered mobility that allowed them to claim the resources of those rendered (im)mobilized. I explore the discursive construction of the category of the indigenous, its relations to territory and the state, and tie together mobilities, territory, indigeneity, and resistance as a lens through which to grapple with the policy of closure and a state bent on territorial expansion, displacement, and replacement. In a critical vein, however, it must be asked: what are the implications of including Palestinians in the category of the indigenous? How flexible is the concept, what are its boundaries of belonging, and what are the promises and pitfalls of placing Palestinians in this category? Is its invocation a means of forging alliances with other groups? As Zionists claim indigeneity, and attempt to forge links with Native American groups, has the concept of indigeneity become a contested discursive and politically strategic device?