摘要：Indigenous disadvantage and poverty have persisted and are set to continue into the future. Although a largeamount of work describes the extent and nature of indigenous disadvantage and poverty, there is little evidence-based systemsunderstanding of the mechanisms that keep many indigenous people in their current dire state. In such a vacuum, policy makersare left to make assumptions about the causal mechanisms. The persistence of inequality and poverty suffered by indigenouspeople is broadly consistent with the existence of dynamical traps as described in both the resilience and development literature.We reviewed and synthesized these bodies of literature on traps and found that although they give a good lead to a systemic andparsimonious way of exploring traps, the mechanisms suggested need significant rethinking for the indigenous context.Specifically, we recommend extending the concept of traps to encompass the possibility that they are highly resilient butundesirable states, in contrast to current notions of traps as low resilience states. We also highlight the need for close scrutinyof the boundaries of indigenous systems because of the historically public nature of indigenous lives as well as the possibleconjoint existence and causal linkage between poverty- and rigidity-traps in the indigenous context
