“…"Once a source of shame for some", Mulcock notes, Indigenous ancestry " … is now a source of pride for many of those who can claim it, a sign of resilience and embeddedness, a sign of deep belonging, desired more than discouraged, proclaimed more than disguised" (2007,63). Her ethnographic research with settler Australians, along with Muir's (2011), suggests that many long to be part of the 60,000year Indigenous history of Australia. This yearning is exacerbated by the tendency of their interviewees, who could be described as holistic or "eco-spiritualists" (Jacobs 1994), to see Indigenous people through a Rousseauian lens: as representatives of the pan-human, pre-industrial societies presumed to exist before people became alienated from nature (Deloria 1998;Kehoe 1990;Torgovnick 1997).…”