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Indigenous communities around the world are engaging in resurgence. As they do so, the dynamic of engaging and resisting nonlocal corporations has changed. It is unclear under what conditions these communities use their increased autonomy to disrupt the surrounding institutional fields by re-negotiating more favourable terms of partnerships or rejecting these partnerships all tougher. It is therefore important to better understand the factors underpinning these dynamics and how they are connected to field fragmentation. As part of doing so, we argue that it is pertinent to better understand Indigenous worldviews and how they effect their engagement with firms over time. We theorize and demonstrate the impact of cultural identity and the use of traditional languages for cultural alignment and convergence to integrate Indigenous and Western perspectives, as well as the impact of recognized claims to meaningful …