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Fifteen years after the first development indicators, faced with continuing inequalities in the world and increasing demand for recognition of social, political, and cultural specificities, “indicators with identity” for indigenous peoples have been drawn up in Mexico. The production of these indicators invites us to examine the technicization of public policies through the use of expert knowledge. The dual purpose of this article is to explore the use of expert knowledge as a means of legitimizing public policies, which, in turn, contributes to technicizing the indigenous issue; it additionally serves as a way of imposing the representation of the latter, thus separating and dismissing political arguments from the indigenous issue.