Solastalgia has been defined by the philosopher Glenn Albrecht as a form of psychological distress caused by environmental degradation experienced in one's home environment. Yet the ways in which the literature on solastalgia engages with Indigenous worldviews, epistemologies, and lived experiences remain underexplored. This paper offers a new approach to solastalgia by transposing the concept from psychology into the field of Indigenous Geographies. Drawing on a literature review that examines how solastalgia has been addressed in Indigenous contexts and how it is expressed through place-based narratives, poetry, songs, and visual and material cultures, we propose the concept of Indigenous solastalgia. We demonstrate that (1) solastalgia can be understood as a collective, placerooted emotion anchored in shared memories of past environmental trauma experienced by Indigenous groups, rather than being analyzed through an individual mental and emotional well-being lens; (2) solastalgia can be experienced across multiple spatial scales, extending beyond one's immediate home environment, depending on the spatial practices, representations, and mobility of certain Indigenous groups; and (3) solastalgia is intertwined with agency, manifested in the ways Indigenous Peoples maintain emotional and cultural bonds to places following environmental disruptions.

Solastalgia has been defined by the philosopher Glenn Albrecht as a form of psychological distress caused by environmental degradation experienced in one's home environment. Yet the ways in which the literature on solastalgia engages with Indigenous worldviews, epistemologies, and lived experiences remain underexplored. This paper offers a new approach to solastalgia by transposing the concept from psychology into the field of Indigenous Geographies. Drawing on a literature review that examines how solastalgia has been addressed in Indigenous contexts and how it is expressed through place-based narratives, poetry, songs, and visual and material cultures, we propose the concept of Indigenous solastalgia. We demonstrate that (1) solastalgia can be understood as a collective, placerooted emotion anchored in shared memories of past environmental trauma experienced by Indigenous groups, rather than being analyzed through an individual mental and emotional well-being lens; (2) solastalgia can be experienced across multiple spatial scales, extending beyond one's immediate home environment, depending on the spatial practices, representations, and mobility of certain Indigenous groups; and (3) solastalgia is intertwined with agency, manifested in the ways Indigenous Peoples maintain emotional and cultural bonds to places following environmental disruptions.