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Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS)
A community of indigenous studies activists and scholars who are advancing the rights of indigenous peoples worldwide. Their work includes drafting laws & regulations, mentoring students, digitizing tribal documents, preventing & treating Diabetes Type 2, and consulting with tribal governments. The site includes the Chief George Manuel Memorial Indigenous Library.
Indigenous Climate Hub
The Indigenous Climate Hub is a unique online community of Indigenous climate change leaders that have come together to share their stories and climate change adaptation experiences. The website is the result of the recommendations brought forward by Indigenous peoples at the Indigenous Climate Change Adaptation Gathering in 2018.
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
Established in 1990 within the United States, IEN was formed by grassroots Indigenous peoples and individuals to address environmental and economic justice issues (EJ). IEN’s activities include building the capacity of Indigenous communities and tribal governments to develop mechanisms to protect our sacred sites, land, water, air, natural resources, health of both our people and all living things, and to build economically sustainable communities.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples
Native people are at a disproportionate risk of experiencing violence, murder, or going missing and make up a significant portion of the missing and murdered cases. The legal movement works to bring attention to these cases and fix inadequate investigations.
Native American Rights Fund
At any given time, NARF staff are working with tribes on dozens of legal issues across Indian Country
The Native American Water Rights Settlement Project (NAWRS)
a collection of documents that formalize recognition of Native American water rights in the United States.

Podcasts

Listen as you learn! Check out these podcasts discussing Indigenity.

Videos

PBS Video Collection

A collection of more than 1,200 streaming video documentaries and series from PBS covering science, history, art, business, economics and more. Via Alexander Street.

Covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.

COUSIN Collective

"Cousin is a collective supporting Indigenous artists expanding the form of film. We are building an Indigenous-led film movement. We create work that is personal, proudly provocative and driven by strong, artistic voices. Founded in 2018, COUSIN was created to provide support for Indigenous artists expanding traditional definitions and understandings of the moving image by experimenting with form and genre."

Indigenous Cinema - National Film Board of Canada

Launched in 2018, this large collection of freely available films ranging from 1968 to 2018 are all made by indigenous filmmakers.

Tribesourcing Southwest Film

This project tribesources films from the American Indian Film Gallery about Native peoples of the U.S. Southwest by recording Native narrations and contextual information for film content from the Native communities they represent.

American Indian Film Gallery

The American Indian Film Gallery (AIFG) is an online collection of more than 450 historic films by and about Native peoples of the Americas, compiled and digitized by historian J. Fred MacDonald over many years. These films range in date from 1925-2010. Most date to the so-called Golden Age of educational filmmaking, from 1945 to the rise of consumer-grade video equipment in the 1970s. Many of the films from that period were sponsored by industry or governmental agencies. Others were made by independent educational filmmakers.

Indigenous Rights

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