In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Nixiwaka yawanawa from Yawanaka tribe explained how nature is so important and interconnected for indigenous people especially tribespeople,but also for everyone in this world.

Dan is an Indigenous Educator from Washington on the Colville Indian Reservation. Through his work,Dan hopes to encourage schools to offer “more accurate Native American culture into their curriculum." Dan's deep connection to his stories and performance will move us all to think about the native land we now call our home.

The Centre for International Governance Innovation’s (CIGI’s) International Law Research Program has launched a new project supported by a Traditional Knowledge Expert Group called the Intellectual Property and the Governance of Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources and Traditional Cultural Expressions: Fostering Innovation and Improving Lives.

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.

In this video the speaker Ms Sheree who has spent her adult life working in remote Australia, deep in sacred Aboriginal country, where the sky is blue and the earth burnt-orange. She has a deep respect for the Aboriginal communities who live within that landscape, and her current research hopes to answer some profoundly human questions – How do we define success? What makes us happy? And what can we learn from our ancient brothers and sisters.

In this fascinating and necessary Talk, Ms Odilia Romero shares why the Latino narrative is oppressive for Indigenous communities.

In this talk, Ms Stephanie Pangowish, shares how the Indigenous community uses humor to survive colonization and continues to use it as a tool for healing.

As an urban Indigenous person growing up in Toronto, Mr Robinson Eddy shares his narrative and process of self-actualization to becoming the person he is today, through the spaces created by unexpected allies.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

Ms Tai Simpson works in anti-racism education and community organizing. She calls on her non-native audience to embody “old ways” when voting, teaching, and living in the world.