Indigenous culture

a mixed-media collage of Black figures wearing historic European gowns and ruffs

A Multifaceted Book and Exhibition, ‘Black Earth Rising’ Contends with Colonialism, Land, and Climate

Between 450 B.C.E. and 950 C.E., a particularly fertile soil known by researchers as terra preta, literally “black earth” in Portuguese, was cultivated by Indigenous…

a detail of an abstract, geometric thread composition on a wood panel

Tia Keobounpheng’s Vibrating Textile Geometries Merge Modernism and Sámi Lineage

Tia Keobounpheng learned to weave in Oulu, Finland, when she was 18 years old. Seated beside two older Finnish women in a community weaving center,…

a still from the short documentary film 'I Am the Nature' featuring an orange-and-black butterfly on a flower with subtitle text that reads

Deep in the Amazon Rainforest, ‘I Am the Nature’ Celebrates Indigenous Cultural Philosophy

Directed by Taliesin Black-Brown and narrated by Ramiro Vargas Chumpí Washikiat, “I Am the Nature” poetically plumbs the human interconnection with nature through the eyes…