My book project, Insurgent Veins, examines the decolonial ideological bridge between the indigenista literary tradition and indigenous literature. Traditionally, indigenous and indigenista studies have been treated as separate fields of inquiry. However, my project challenges this dichotomy by exploring the thematic and political commonalities between the two subfields. I argue that indigenous and indigenista studies are not mutually exclusive, but rather they overlap in a number of ways. For instance, they both critique capitalist modernity, incorporate race as a struggle framework, and engage with decolonization. My manuscript has nine chapters organized into two parts. Part I re-evaluates the crucial essays of the founding intellectuals of Indigenismo such as José Vasconcelos, José Carlos Mariátegui, Luis E. Valcárcel, Manuel Gamio, and Alcides Arguedas. Part II explores the indigenous literary production of Zapatista writings, Quechua-Aymara writer Fausto Reinaga, Mapuche poet Elicura Chihuailaf, and Quechua writer Ch’aska Anka Ninawaman. I reframe Latin American literary studies by highlighting Amerindian knowledge, reevaluating the scope and influence of indigenista tradition, and expanding the corpus of indigenous literature. My book adopts a decolonial approach to move away from the perspectives that separately constrain indigenous and indigenista studies. When examined together, these perspectives reveal in their commonalities the formation of key concepts for current Latin American cultural studies (transmodernity, Buen Vivir, etc.).