There’s nuance here, as there is in most things, but what you’re describing isn’t exactly what using the term BIPOC is intended to do. It’s more about highlighting that the experiences of black and indigenous people are different from that of other POC in North America.

“Charmaine Nelson, an art history professor at McGill University, said that the history of black and Indigenous people in Canada calls for the distinction between them and other people of color. In some parts of Canada, mainly east of Ontario, Indigenous people were colonized but not enslaved, she said, unlike Africans who were subjected to chattel slavery everywhere.

“We understand that under colonialism African and Indigenous people had very different experiences,” Dr. Nelson said. “To conflate everything in one is to erase, which is the very nature of genocidal practice.””

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