Opinions/Videos
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Radical & Successful Approach to Working with Indigenous Communities
2018
Author(s): Hagan D
In this video Ms Denise Hagan speaks on the multi-generational poverty and disadvantage faced by a remote Aboriginal community in Cape York, Australia.
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.
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.
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.



