Tag: advocacy

Nigetakiya—Native American Cultural Awareness Association (NACAA) (M3-4)

http://nigetakiya.com/

This resource, subtitled the Native Student Newspaper, offers links, videos, postings, and notice of lectures related to culture, colonization, rights and change.  Based out of the University of Wisconsin, Nigetakiya serves also as a centre point of contact for the NACAA at the school.  The goal of Nigetakiya is to give an authentic voice to 21st century native students, and provide and outlet for decolonization of all native students.

From the home page, one can navigate to explore videos, lectures, blog entries, press releases, environmental issues and a student voices section.  Below is a video that describes the clothing drive that is currently taking place through the NACAA—the students are collecting clothing for the Menominee people in north eastern Wisconsin.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbYHiCDgETE[/youtube]

In addition to providing information pertinent to the UW student body, Nigetakiya also links to the First Nations Network blog.

Research interests might include post-secondary native studies, decolonization in post-secondary education, and the use of digital technology to create a common ground, which, in this case, is made for native students in Wisconsin and world-wide.

Survival International (M3-3)

http://www.survivalinternational.org/

A non-profit organization founded in the U.K. in 1969, Survival International claims to be the only international organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide.  Through education, advocacy, and campaigning, Survival International supports tribal groups by assisting them in finding and broadcasting their voice.  Different from other similar organizations, Survival International refuses to accept sponsorship from governmental bodies, and depends on the public for operation funding.  They are also the recipients of many awards worldwide for their work in protecting the rights of tribal peoples.

Through the website, one can obtain basic information on the most endangered tribes in the world, download and/or purchase resources for further information and research, donate to the organization, and subscribe to their newsletter.  Below is an approximately 6 minute video that Survival International has produced as part of its “Uncontacted Tribes” campaign (all campaign videos are available in full-length on the Survival International website).

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w4hm3lM2eE[/youtube]

This sit might be of interest in research of outside efforts to aid in the decolonization process.  Survival International was founded by members of a colonizing nation but are using media to advocate for indigenous rights—particularly those tribe at highest risk of obliteration.

Beyond Intellectual Property (M3, #5)

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-9327-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

This website pertains to the book entitled Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities by Darrell A. Posey and Graham Dutfield.

If a stranger entered your community, and started asking questions about its people, its resources, and its history, what would you do?

The above question must be considered from the perspective of the world’s Indigenous peoples who are tired of being ignored while outsiders profit from their intellectual property and traditional resource rights. Dutfield and Posey provide sound and insightful advice on how Indigenous people can deal with this and many other issues.

Beyond Intellectual Property “provides an invaluable and eye-opening look into one of the most provocative and explosive issues of this century and likely the next: the patenting of life”.

This book can be read online, downloaded or ordered from the website. It is also available in French and Spanish. The excerpts I’ve read are fascinating – I look forward to having the time to delve deeper in the near future!


Module 1: weblog #1 (Chantal Drolet)

Open Anthropology: Internet Indigeneity & Anthropological Advocacy

Resources available:

Open Anthropology Video Collection 

On YouTube:

Also on YouTube:

Links to other sites:

Usefulness for research on Indigenous knowledge, media, and community reality:

This site offers an impressive bibliography, some with detailed abstracts, including:

  • Barnard, Alan. (2006). Kalahari revisionism, Vienna and the ‘Indigenous Peoples’ debate. Social Anthropology 14(1): 1-16.
  • Beteille, Andre. (1998). The idea of indigenous people. Current Anthropology 39(2) April: 187-191.
  • Biolsi, Thomas, and Larry J. Zimmerman, eds. (1997). Indians and anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr., and the critique of anthropology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Furthermore, there is a wide variety of links to projects related to Indigenous issues and perspectives, such as:

Address:

http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/internet-indigeneity-anthropological-advocacy-text-of-a-presentation-at-the-university-of-south-florida-march-19-2008/

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