http://www.indigenouspeople.net/

“A people who have a past, a history, and culture.

A culture with history will never die.

Conquered? Maybe.

Forgotten… Never!”

This website introduces arts, music, and poetry by the Native People. It also introduces literature by/about different indegenous cultures as each indegenous culture is unique in its own way.

What interested me the most about this website is the Stereotypes & Racism section. The section contains an archive of 42 YouTube videos related to racism against indegenous peoples in the historical context. Not only the history of stereotypes and racism occured in North America, it also introduces racism against the Native people in Mexico as well as those in South America.

The following YouTube is one of the video clips from the archive.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv1hWRqf0ko[/youtube]

“Each indigenous culture is distinct and unique. While many peoples may express similar worldviews and a common indigenous identity, their cultures are nonetheless based on different histories, environments, and creative spirits”.

http://cwis.org/

“We are dedicated to a wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indegenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indegenous nations”.

CWIS is an independent, non-profit indegenous research and education organization in the United States. The center pays a lot of attention to the publication and distribution of literature written by leading indegenous contributors from Fourth World Nations. Its purpose is to establish connections among nations and between nations and the States.

The CWIS website provides information on education programs for the First Nations in the States, including certificate programs and special institutes for the Indegenous People.

It has an archive for the Fourth World Journal. The FWJ contains events and activities among the nations and discusses environmental, political, historical, economical, and social issues/changes as well as arts and traditional knowledge.

It also has a book store where you can purchase books about indegenous peoples.

The BC Government website has a page devoted to First Nations traditions and knowledge regarding water use where the BC governments commitments to protecting First Nations’ values around water commitments are given. Protecting water access for social and cultural practices,  the sharing and use of TEK in decision making, and ensuring that all First Nations groups in BC have a plentiful supply of clean water is described.

http://www.livingwatersmart.ca/watersmart/firstnations.html

Modern forest management practices are reliant on the analysis of information in computers. The anecdotal nature of TEK is difficult to represent in computers. Dr. Alan J. Thompson inititated a project on the elicitation, representation, and use of TEK in relation to resource management by using modern Artificial Intelligence methods to create a knowledge base containing literature background, interview questions, responses, and inferences for use in in further discussions regarding TEK in resource management. The database and background information regarding the project are available on the website:

http://forestry-dev.org/programs/tek/index_e.html

The Australian Human Rights Commission has a website  that outlines the economic, social and cultural rights in Australia.

This website is an excellent resource for all Australians. It details everything from Human Rights awards, the commission’s workplan, social media policy, community languages to human rights laws in Australia.

The Law Faculty at the University of Alberta has a website devoted to the research on Aboriginal cultural heritage in Canada:http://www.law.ualberta.ca/research/aboriginalculturalheritage/

This website details the project undertaken, “this project is the result of a collaboration between an international team of scholars in law and anthropology and First Nation partners in the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. It has four main objectives:

1.) to disseminate information about the existing legal regime; 

2.) to facilitate respect for, and understanding of, First Nations concepts of property and law; 

3.) to assist First Nation community partners to collect and develop archival and educational resources; and

4.) to critically analyse domestic federal and provincial legislation to provide recommendations for reform.”

What’s really interesting about this, is that academics are working with First Nation’s groups (or so they claim) to carry out this project.