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EU ponders biopiracy law to protect Indigenous Peoples

The European Parliament is debating a draft biopiracy law requiring industry to compensate indigenous people if it makes commercial... Read More

Biocultural Community Protocols: Articulating and Asserting Stewardship

Protocols developed by Indigenous peoples or mobile or local communities (“community protocols”) are gaining recognition as a useful means... Read More

Lower Elwha Klallam Celebrate Cultural and Ecological Renewal in the Wake of Dam Deconstruction

The Lower Elwa Klallam, a federally recognized Indigenous Nation located on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, have had... Read More

IKP and the Barabaig: A Heart to Heart Partnership

The goal of Indigenous Knowledge Project (IKP) is to empower indigenous communities in documenting and protecting their traditional knowledge,... Read More

Interview with Barabaig about Current Food Crisis

In this two-part video, the Indigenous Knowledge Project speak with the Barabaig about the food crisis they now face.... Read More

Survival, Sovereignty and Sustainability at ‘Ground Zero’ for Climate Change and Globalization

As a result of lack of land title, insensitive state intervention and climate change, members of the Barabaig tribe... Read More

Winnemem Wintu Tribe closes McCloud River during war dance

“On the final day, the Angry People made their presence known with a thundering powerboat armada, smashing the tranquility... Read More

Tribal leaders challenge Forest Service to protect native women’s rights

“Since 1941 most of our ceremonial sites have been buried beneath the still waters of Lake Shasta,” said Sisk.... Read More

IR6: The Connections

Indigenous Resistance (IR), the revolutionary musical collective that brought us Dancing on John Wayne’s Head, has produced a follow... Read More

People of a Feather

People of a Feather is an award winning documentary film about a unique Inuit culture that relies on birds... Read More

Can Traditional Knowledge Survive in the Modern World?

In this 30-minute lecture, Anishinabek activist, scholar and writer Dr. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson answers the question: “Can Aboriginal Traditional... Read More

Song on the Water

“Song on the Water” takes viewers along with 50 indigenous canoes, their crews, and communities on a modern-day voyage... Read More

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Not to mention the fact that Indigenous Peoples have specific needs that settler populations generally do not posses, like requiring access to specific land areas to maintain culture, language, the...
It's true in a sense--we're all indigenous to somewhere--however, there are fundamental differences between populations who identify as "indigenous" and those who no longer follow a traditional way of life....
There is a need to recognize that all people are indigenous to this planet. We are one human race beholden to the mother that nurtures us. We must unite under...
Well, I think, unfortunately, passive complaints of PM Harper selling our land & water for basically nothing, are getting nowhere. Time to move up the ladder of complaining. Watch your...
It is instructive to see how mental, spiritual and physical health coincide in the indigenous philosophy, while the progressive view remains trapped in a treatment rather than preventive mode. It...
Kia ora, I would like to say unless they, ( those who say no more Full- Blooded Maori), know the whakapapa of every single Maori in Aotearoa, they should just...
Mohawk??I stand and prepared to back my people at any and all cost...
I have worked with, lived with, and been around Copala Triquis for the past 12 years, and have researched extensively the political oppression in teh region - ever since the...

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