The emergence of “Video Indígena”, a media project designed to train indigenous people in the fundamentals of video production is created in the early 1990’s as a way to broadcast their cause to the world and to other indigenous communities and to invigorate the integrity of their community. This essay explores how video makers create meanings of their work and how this aligns with the development of the indigenous autonomy movement in Mexico. “These stories are combined to show how specific regional and local expressions of indigenous autonomy were also key areas through which video Indígena developed” (Wortham, 2004).
This is a great source to understand the strategic appropriation of media by Indigenous communities for a cooperative transnational indigenous media making.
https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/stable/pdf/3566972.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A26c32bead364004c98bcb3c29bdd6c55