Supporting indigenous communities actively working to preserve traditional knowledge. Building authentic relationships that inform and enrich our understanding of the past.
This project exists not just to document the past, but to support the living cultures that are its direct inheritors. Indigenous communities worldwide face unprecedented challenges in maintaining traditional knowledge, languages, and practices.
By connecting our audience with these communities, we aim to:
Organizations and communities actively preserving traditional knowledge
Supporting efforts to teach Quechua to new generations, develop Quechua-language media, and document elder knowledge before it's lost.
The Maori language revival is a model for endangered language recovery worldwide. Kohanga Reo ("language nests") immerse children in te reo from infancy.
From near-extinction to revival: Hawaiian language and navigation traditions have experienced remarkable resurgence through community-led efforts.
Over 100 Aboriginal languages are critically endangered. Language centers across Australia work to document, teach, and revitalize these ancient tongues.
Living Maya communities maintain calendar traditions, agricultural knowledge, and ceremonial practices that connect directly to their ancestors.
The Dogon preserve astronomical knowledge, masked ceremonies, and architectural traditions that have drawn global interest. Community-controlled documentation.
Community Control: Indigenous communities decide what knowledge to share, how it's presented, and who benefits.
Direct Benefit: Resources and attention should flow to communities, not just to outside researchers or platforms.
No Exploitation: We do not sensationalize, exoticize, or misrepresent indigenous cultures for engagement.
Long-term Relationships: We seek ongoing partnerships, not one-time content extraction.
When you share videos from our Indigenous Voices collection, you help amplify authentic perspectives and drive engagement to community-created content.
Apps like Drops (Hawaiian, Maori) and community courses help keep languages alive. Even learning a few words shows respect and interest.
Support indigenous writers, filmmakers, and content creators directly. Seek out indigenous-owned publishers and media companies.
Donate to indigenous-led museums, language centers, and cultural preservation organizations in communities you care about.
A family of web-based tools and services designed to support indigenous peoples around the world engaged in language archiving, language teaching and culture revitalization. Community-owned digital archives.
A collaborative online platform for sharing knowledge and resources for endangered languages. Features community-contributed content and research tools.
An indigenous-led organization advocating for indigenous peoples' rights and supporting indigenous community-based projects worldwide since 1972.
Provides training and support for indigenous language revitalization programs, helping communities develop effective language teaching strategies.