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Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere, a Traditional Maori Elder, Leader Creation, and a Tohuna, addresses the Spotlight on Indigenous Peoples plenary at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 19th.
14 min
The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting deprived societies in hidden corners of the world.
110 min
From Fire in the Belly Productions, 100 Years documents the David vs. Goliath story of Elouise Cobell's courageous fight for justice for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans who were cheated out of billions of dollars by the United States Government.
3 min
Where is the clear image of a decolonized society we are to emulate? There isn’t one. Yet if we are to free ourselves, we need practical steps.
Steven Newcomb
Since the mid-1980s, Mexico has been a poster child for globalization. Through free trade treaties and structural adjustment policies imposed by international financial institutions, the country has been “liberalized” – opened up to unfettered corporate investment and...
Alex Jensen
Until recently, historians have failed to uncover the truth behind the war of 1862 in Minnesota. In this movie, filmmaker Sheldon Wolfchild portrays his grandfather, Medicine Bottle. He tells a Dakota oral history of the 1862 war, the hangings of the Dakota 38 Plus 2, and the...
8 min
A Pilgrimage for the healing of the Heart of the Earth.
With love and gratitude, the film is dedicated to Mother Earth, Father Sun and the ancestors
The PACHAKÚTEC signifies in the prophecies of the Inca a time of major, fundamental changes that will lead us into a new era...
88 min
Leaders at Covington diocese and Catholics in general are likely unfamiliar with the church’s brutal history in connection with Native peoples; numerous news reports on the incident have failed to acknowledge it.
Mary Annette Pember
150 years ago, the architects of Canadian confederation dreamed of a Canada united from coast to coast. They dreamed, also, of unfettered access to Indigenous lands, of the elimination of the “Indian problem” standing in the way of a white settler future.
3 min
Democracy Now: As we continue to look at the video that has gone viral showing a group of Catholic high school students apparently mocking an indigenous tribal elder near the Lincoln Memorial, we speak to Chase Iron Eyes, an activist and lead attorney for the Lakota People’s...
10 min
Everyone’s talking about that incident on the Lincoln Memorial — But here’s what the Indigenous People’s March actually wanted the public to know. CGTN's Lisa Chiu talked to Chase Iron Eyes, an attorney with the Lakota People's Law Project about land rights, and the U.S...
5 min
Abundant Land is a one-hour documentary about a Hawaiian community on Moloka’i opposing the biotech industry’s use of the island to test genetically engineered seeds. Agrochemical biotech corporations, including Monsanto and Mycogen Seeds, are depleting Moloka’i’s topsoil and...
62 min
George Monbiot on the true and bloody legacy of Christopher Columbus
6 min
INTRODUCTION TO JUST TRANSITION“Indigenous prophecy meets scientific prediction. What we have known and believed, you also now know: The Earth is out of balance. The plants are disappearing, the animals are dying, and the very weather – rain, wind, fire itself – reacts...
Indigenous Environmental Network
Thanksgiving is an important time, when schools teach the story of who we are and where we come from as a nation.
Sarah B Shear
The Wholeness of Life
Kanyini is best expressed in English as the combination of the two words ‘Responsibility’ and ‘Unconditional Love’, but it is actually a relationship; it is an enormous caring with no limit – it has no timeframe: it is eternal. – Uncle Bob...
Anneloes Smitsman
Columbus’s treatment of the Taíno people meets the UN definition of genocide. But there has also been a curricular genocide — erasing the memory of the Taíno from our nation’s classrooms
Bill Bigelow
I wanted to meet the people that many want to punch in the face without having met them. The conversation with 2 guys from Stormfront Action Radio was cut short when we arrived at the final destination. I left the group to get a wide shot with my camera and cops would not let...
4 min
During the winter months of 2005-2006, several handfuls of people from numerous places throughout North America came together at two different locations to create The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship (Bemidji Statement). While much has been written in the...
Indigenous Environmental Network
Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states that’s suffered most in the drug wars of the last decade. Armed men and women — not police, but members of an autonomous militia — guard every entrance to the town, looking...
6 min
Protecting Country is an independently produced film bringing the voices of the contemporary Adnyamathanha, Gurindji, Tanganekald, Yankunytjatjara Anunga, Mirning, Narunnga Aboriginal Australian people forward who are united in their stand AGAINST the present and planned...
40 min
The Circle of Courage is based in four universal growth needs of all children: belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity.
Reclaiming Youth At Risk
Alaska's indigenous people have fought against colonization, assimilation and exploitation — this is their story.
9 min
Most films about Native Americans concentrate on European perspective or indigenous experience in North America, but there are Natives abroad, and our film shares the lives and daily experience of being “loved in the wrong way” in “Indian crazy” Germany. There are many forms...
2 min
In this film, we meet Jim Enote, a traditional Zuni elder, farmer, and director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico. Enote is working with Zuni artists to provide an alternative way to understand and create maps which offer an indigenous voice...
10 min
"You think you know what ‘feminine’ is, but you don’t. And you think you know what ‘masculine’ is, but you don’t. All you really know is how the ‘masculine’ behaves when it is plugged into a power-over paradigm. And all you know is how the ‘feminine’ behaves when it is...
Pat McCabe
In late 2017, more than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issued a dramatic “warning to humanity” over biodiversity loss due to overconsumption of resources. They agreed that if we continue “business as usual,” we'll shortly approach a point where it will be too late to...
True tribalism is a societal balance point
Lothar
The Sustainable Food Trust’s Future of UK Farming conference at Fir Farm this April will feature a pilgrimage from the source of the River Dickler to Hill Barn, hosted by Guy Hayward and Will Parsons of the British Pilgrimage Trust (BPT). Ahead of the conference I decided to j
Bonnie Welch
Daniel Quinn is an observer of the failure of modern civilization and an advocate of a return to tribal values. He explores this in his book Beyond Civilization: Humanity Next Great Adventure.
Alice Linsley
While a White Nationalist claims that doing non-white things is tainting the race, the social justice activist claims that doing non-white things is theft. The end result is the same: a pure, untainted, culturally-distinct white race. White Nationalism and Woke Nationalism...
Rhyd Wildermuth
The social network has done more for bolstering the modern Indigenous rights agenda than perhaps any other platform of our time.
Jenni Monet
(at least, the part that's already happened)
David Graeber and David Wengrow
Arkan Lushwala has allowed himself to be photographed for the first time ever, so that he could make the video you see here. His message is critical for us, human creatures of the Earth. Powerful and intelligent as we are, we sometimes consider ourselves the rulers of all...
4 min
“Can you imagine? Can you imagine our society if we placed the children’s fire at the center of all institutions of power in our government, in our corporations, in our religions, in all institutions of power, if we rekindled the children’s fire and the chiefs of those...
14 min
What is the true purpose of government? Critics would rightly say it's to control and dominate because that's the nature of every government we've known. Every government since the days of feudalism has been corrupted in some form, "captured" in other words, by monied, elite...
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.” ~ Dakota proverb
If you are supportive of institutions over individuals, then you better not read this. If you disregard The Native American Rule of Seven Generations, then maybe this article is not for you. If the phrase...
Ethan Indigo Smith
Powerful words from Indigenous Elder, Miliwanga Wurrben, on the only true way to overcome obstacles and fighting in the world.
3 min
Tawai is a word in the language of the Penan people of Borneo. It has to do with the connection they feel to their landscape. “When you first go to the old forest during the fruit season, it’s like when I’m with my mother, I know I can rely on her to breastfeed me. That’s why...
1 min
In 2017, murders of social leaders, union organizers and indigenous activists in Colombia hit a new high since the historic peace agreement. In the past three years, more than 3,000 unionists have been murdered in a disturbing new trend which threatens all social progress.
19 min
Black Snake Killaz chronicles the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline from April 2016 through March 2017. The film highlights actions taken by water protectors to stop the construction of the oil pipeline and investigates actions taken by law enforcement, military, and...
120 min
A group of global visionaries and leaders gathered in Portugal this summer. They're publishing a manifesto laying out the possible foundation for a global alliance to defend the sacred everywhere.
Ten tiny houses are about to go head-to-head with a giant proposed oil pipeline. In what some area already dubbing the next 'Standing Rock', Kanahus Manuel, an activist of the Secwepemc Nation is spearheading a team of builders and volunteers from all over North America to...
11 min
25 years ago, U.S.-born Louis Sarno travelled to the Central African rainforest—and never came back. Now a full member of this community of hunters and gatherers, Louis returns with his son Samedi to New York City—a different jungle made of concrete, glass and asphalt—and...
96 min
For the past 150 years, the relationship between Tuhoe and the New Zealand government has been defined by longstanding grievances over severe colonization experiences such as illegal land confiscations and the devastating consequences of scorched earth policies. Then, in 2014...
90 min
The North America gallery at the British Museum – which is filled with Indigenous artefacts – is sponsored by JP Morgan, one of the main funders of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Yes, that’s the same pipeline that is being forced through Indigenous people’s lands in North...
2 min
A group of people with physical and visual disabilities in the Est Region in Burkina Faso (West Africa) come together in a participatory video process to produce a film where they make their voices heard on their lived experiences, what development is for them and how they...
38 min
Flooding and landslides in northwest Vietnam have caused widespread devastation since the start of August. The disaster crippled the provinces of Son La, Dien Bien, Yen Bai and Lai Chau, situated within one of the most disadvantaged regions of the country.
Just another clicktivist petition pushed by corporate NGOs with no connection to grassroots struggle? Not this time – West Papuans are risking beatings, arrest, and even death to sign a petition for their right to self-determination, coordinated with international support...
Connor Woodman
"Patricio's candidacy and radical vision for Mexico challenges conventional politics and marks a new phase for the Zapatista and indigenous struggle in the country."
Benjamin Dangl
“What does a world that respects Indigenous peoples look like, that’s working towards ending racism, colonialism, and other intersecting oppression on a global scale?”
4 min
A rich tale of a young indigenous scientist's struggle for truth between science and tradition as he enters an industry that many feel is threatening his homeland. His complex journey through the inner workings of GMO chemical companies and traditional Hawaiian elders reveals...
61 min
There are few roads in Lesotho. There are even fewer mountain bikers. Here the horse is supreme and the myriad horse trails that have been carved through its steep and rugged mountains are its lifeblood. Horsemen ply these trails, just as they have for generations, riding...
19 min
Google is attempting to bring the cultural and spiritual dimensions of Uluru to its Street View platform. To do this, they have created an interactive, audiovisual guided tour, narrated by traditional owner Sammy Wilson and with song and music by Anangu elder Reggie Uluru.
3 min
Roughly 30 per cent of Mongolians live nomadically or semi-nomadically, and the region’s history of nomadism has left an indelible mark on the country’s culture. Easily portable traditional huts known as gers (more commonly referred to by their Russian name, yurts) are still...
2 min
RE-LEARNING HOPE is the story of Unitierra, an autonomous university in Oaxaca, Mexico that is immersed in, and has emerged from, the social and indigenous movements of the region. The film tells the story of this emergence of Unitierra and its powerful critique of...
70 min
In May 2017, a group of Pacific Islanders travelled half way across the world to visit the Canadian tar sands.
11 min
“In Wildness is the preservation of the World.” Thoreau says it in “Walking,” and Jack Turner, in his exquisite collection of essays, The Abstract Wild, questions how many of us have any idea what it means. Pe
Carol Black
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.[1]
We live on the Earth as part...
Paul Kivel
"What if our response to the crisis is part of the crisis?"- Bayo Akomolafe
Bayo Akomolafe is globally recognized for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive take on global crisis, civic action and social change. He is the Coordinating Curator for The Emergence Network...
108 min
Smoke That Travels is a personal documentary by Kayla Briët that explores preservation and loss of culture and her own identity as Prairie Band Potawatomi.
13 min
This guided meditation is offered as a way of connecting to our deeper purpose as a unique expression of the Universal Wisdom to support the co-creation for a new planetary story, emerging from the heart of our humanity.
Meditation: Facilitated by Anneloes Smitsman of...
12 min
After Trump's revival of the Keystone XL pipeline project, some communities along its route are getting ready to fight back. Others see a promise kept by the US president to 'make America great again'. The Guardian drove along the proposed route of the pipeline, through three...
23 min
All that is sacred in this world has become threatened by a pathological cultural system of wealth extraction and hoarding... Awaken and take a stand for life on Earth.
Joe Brewer
We live in a world dominated by the principle of private property. Once indigenous people were dispossessed of their lands, the land was surveyed, subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. From high above, continents now appear as an endless property patchwork of green and...
Julian Brave Noisecat
The Power of Humility, Forgiveness, Gratitude and Love
Jacob Devaney
In May of 2016, six American Veterans with PTSD went to the Amazon in search of healing. What they found was another war...for the soul of humanity.
65 min
Bogota, Colombia – At the end of last year, the world celebrated what seemed to be the end one of history's longest standing internal wars. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who had brokered a peace deal with the guerrillas of the FARC-Ep received the Nobel Peace Prize...
Behind the headlines of the protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline, a pure and singular spiritual camp was committing itself in prayer to save the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s only water supply.
5 min
Poverty as we know it is not and has never been the fate of humanity.
Jim Tull
Adapted from the feature documentary Not Without Us, Kandi Mossett from the Indigenous Environmental Network talks about the health, environmental and social impacts of extractive industries on indigenous communities.
4 min
Belo Monte: After the Flood is a new film directed by award-winning environmental documentarian Todd Southgate, and produced with International Rivers, Amazon Watch and Cultures of Resistance.
52 min
'They cannot extinguish the fire that Standing Rock started,' Dallas Goldtooth declared
Lauren McCauley
Martin Luther King's words are as relevant as ever, highlighting the many parallels between the civil rights movement of the 60’s and the NoDAPL movement of the present.
#NoDAPL
3 min
This short film tells the story of the recent indigenous mobilization at Saramurillo in the Northern Peruvian Amazon and shares the voices of indigenous peoples who united in this ongoing struggle for their rights, and for the protection of the water, land and life itself...
9 min
In mid-November of 2016, I was a Water Protector at Standing Rock. At first my goal was to play investigative journalist; documenting then writing about every detail for my article readers and online followers. However, by the time I actually got there, all my goals had changed.
Excerpt from MLK Jr.'s last sermon, "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution". Delivered at The National Cathedral on March 31, 1968 (4 days prior to his assassination)
3 min
Indigenous battles to defend nature have taken to the streets, leading to powerful mobilizations like the gathering at Standing Rock. They have also taken to the courts, through the development of innovative legal ways of protecting nature. In Ecuador, Bolivia and New...
Kiana Herold
Solidarity and strength has brought victory at Standing Rock, but the water protectors know the struggle to protect their sacred lands is far from over.
Eryn Wise with Frank Barat and Vidal Cuervo
With films like Pocahontas, Apocalypto, Peter Pan and The Green Inferno, it's safe to say that Hollywood has a deplorable track record when it comes to its portrayal of Indigenous Peoples. Perhaps it's to be expected given that films tend to be produced through a Euroce
John Ahni Schertow
We’ve been pitted against each other for too long. Now is the time to come together to fix our corrupt political systems.
David Korten
Kenya: a forest people #fightback as they are illegally evicted, beaten & imprisoned - paid for by the World Bank.
57 min
Taking a lesson from Standing Rock, we must be careful with language while working toward progress in the Trump years.
Arun Gupta
I am told by Native American friends active at Standing Rock that the elders are counseling the Water Protectors to undertake each action prayerfully and to stay off the warpath.
Charles Eisenstein
Activist Sky Roosevelt-Morris is of the Shawnee and White Mountain Apache Nations. She is a member of the Leadership Council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado. In this excerpt, from the forthcoming documentary END OF THE LINE: THE WOMEN OF STANDING ROCK, Sky...
2 min
The Australian Government just released this advert about the proposed Carmichael Coal Mine and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
2 min
'For the first time in Native American history, they heard our voices.'
Nika Knight
Why is the Ecuadorian government proposing to extract oil in an area frequently classified by ecologists as one of the most bio-diverse rainforest regions left intact on earth? Featuring music and narration from Daddy G of Massive Attack this documentary film tells the story...
60 min
December 1st marks West Papua’s original independence day, when the Morning Star flag was first raised in 1961 before the country was invaded by Indonesia. The flag is recognised as the national flag of West Papua and continues to be the defining symbol for a Free West Papua...
3 min
Music video for "The Virus" by A Tribe Called Red, featuring Saul Williams and Chippewa Travellers.
5 min
Even if you can’t show up at the wintry encampments, you can join water protectors in other ways: from calling the North Dakota governor to breaking up with your bank.
Sarah van Gelder
In the name of humaneness, we express our gratitude to the courageous water and land protectors at Standing Rock. This camp of Sioux and many other First Nation people, accompanied by activists from across all camps is a true light of hope in a world that has lost any...
Part 1 - Unlicensed #DAPL Guards Attacked Water Protectors with Dogs & Pepper Spray
55 min
How five large trees in remote Oregon ended up as winter housing for water protectors, including their first newborn baby.
Jane Braxton Little
6 Native American girls school us on the REAL history of Thanksgiving.
2 min
We feature a surprise address by Senator Bernie Sanders outside the White House on Tuesday during a global day of action against the Dakota Access pipeline that included demonstrations in over 300 cities. "Today we are saying it is time for a new approach to the Native...
6 min
Mni Wiconi is Lakota for “Water is Life” - this short film features water protectors from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and allies trying to stop the 1,100-mile Dakota Access Pipeline - DAPL. Interviews in the film include Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Chairman Dave Archambault...
8 min
We spoke with Dallas Goldtooth, of Sioux Dakota Nation and an organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network, about the protest against the Dakota Access pipeline. He called the protest a "movement out of love."
3 min
I think the world deserves to see the truth about #NoDAPL
6 min
For many years, I’ve seen more and more of my rural and tribal neighbors pack their children off to school. Now, every morning between 8:00 and 9:00 am in this upwardly-mobile-yet-backward district, the country roads are full of children commuting to school, hoisting bags...
Suprabha Seshan