Whilst resilience can be a dynamic concept, there is much to be said and contested concerning the remit of its meaning and its usefulness as a framework and as an analytical tool. Even though ‘resilience’ can be a fruitful ecological concept, how a concept is wielded in political and juridical spaces leaves much to be critiqued. In this chapter, we dissect the concept of resilience in the backdrop of Indigenous peoples’ epistemic engagement with the concept. To this end, we examine instances from Australia and Sápmi where the conceptual deployment of resilience is at odds—insofar as the end goals are concerned—within settler polity, neoliberal economies, and Indigenous discourses. We critically engage with the strategic use of resilience and its political deployment in climate change policies to understand how different stakeholders benefit from or are disadvantaged by the absence of nuances in resilience.