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Indigenous Knowledge Systems

2019

Author(s): NWU North-West University

This video talks about the indigenous knowledge systems in Africa. It includes the study of the nature of the African precolonial science,astronomy, the phases of the moon and the African starlore.

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Why Indigenous Languages Matter and What We Can Do to Save Them

2019

Author(s): Morcom L

In this talk Dr. Lindsay Morcom (Algonquin Métis, Bear Clan) an interdisciplinary researcher shars her experience in education, Aboriginal languages, language revitalization, and linguistics.

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Indigenous Climate Action: Community-based Solutions Rooted in Decolonization

2019

Author(s): Climate Atlas of Cananda

Eriel, an Environmentalist, explains that these grassroots actions, will support the transition to renewable energy while also ensuring social and environmental justice by maintaining and strengthening Indigenous peoples’ connections to language, land and culture.

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Architectural Principles from an Indigenous Perspective

2018

Author(s): Cardinal D

If we incorporate these Indigenous architectural principles into our built environments, those environments then have the potential to nurture our societies. Why not create environments which teach us to respect one-another in this way? This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

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Honoring Indigenous Cultures and Histories

2018

Author(s): Fish J

In this powerful account, psychology PhD candidate Ms Jill Fish tells her story growing up as a Tuscarora woman in a world that fails to accurately acknowledge indigenous peoples’ cultures and histories.

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Spiritual and Cultural Value of Seed

2018

Author(s): African Centre for Biodiversity

This video, Spiritual and Cultural Value of Seed in South Africa, from a discussion group at the National Seed Dialogue and Celebration, hosted by the African Centre for Biodiversity at Constitution Hill in December 2017, explores some of these links in contemporary South Africa.

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In this video Ms Denise Hagan speaks on the multi-generational poverty and disadvantage faced by a remote Aboriginal community in Cape York, Australia.

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Indigenous Communities are on the Front Lines of Climate Change

2018

Author(s): Hot Mess

As the world figures out how to live with a rapidly changing climate, traditional knowledge from indigenous cultures could help us understand just how things are transforming.

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Introduction Indigenous in Plain Sight

2018

Author(s): Deal G

Mr Gregg Deal talks about the use of history as a tool while he navigates the restrictions thrusts upon his work as a contemporary artist while challenging those who hear his words to take responsibility for their knowledge, and create room for this nation’s First Peoples.

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What can indigenous Traditional Knowledge teach us?

2018

Author(s): Aljazeera

This episode of The Stream, featured conversation with Mr Jonathan Waterhouse, Indigenous Peoples Scholar, Portland State University, Mr Tero Mustonen, Researcher in Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change and Ms Samantha Chisholm-Hatfield, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Northwest Climate Science Adaptation Center.