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Wilma Mankiller: What it Means to be an Indigenous Person in the 21st Century: A Cherokee Woman’s Perspective

Wilma Mankiller: What it Means to be an Indigenous Person in the 21st Century: A Cherokee Woman’s Perspective
Wilma Mankiller: What it Means to be an Indigenous Person in the 21st Century: A Cherokee Woman's Perspective
Former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Wilma Mankiller discusses the common misperceptions that people have about Indigenous people in the 21st century, and the efforts of Indigenous peoples to maintain their identity, cultures, values, and ways of life.
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Wilma Mankiller: Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People

Wilma Mankiller: Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People
Wilma Mankiller: Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People
Recorded on October 2, 2008 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Wilma Mankiller, former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and internationally known Native rights activist talks about “Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People.” Mankiller talks of the diversity and uniqueness of the over 300...
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Greg Cajete: Indigenous Paradigm: Building Sustainable Communities

Greg Cajete: Indigenous Paradigm: Building Sustainable Communities
Greg Cajete: Indigenous Paradigm: Building Sustainable Communities
Greg Cajete, Director of Native American Studies at the University of Mexico, shares his more than three decades of work and research on Indigenous epistemologies for human and ecological sustainability, and discusses the need for scholars, academic institutions and others to fully embrace these...
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Honoring Nations: Jeanette Clark Cassa: San Carlos Apache's Elders Cultural Advisory Council

Honoring Nations: Jeanette Clark Cassa: San Carlos Apache's Elders Cultural Advisory Council
Honoring Nations: Jeanette Clark Cassa: San Carlos Apache Elders Cultural Advisory Council
Jeanette Cassa (1929-2004), Coordinator of the San Carlos Apache Elders Cultural Advisory Council (ECAC), discusses ECAC's work and the traditional Apache core values that its member elders work to instill in the younger generations of Apache people. She also stresses the importance of tribal...
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Honoring Nations: Oren Lyons: Governing the Way to a Brighter Future

Honoring Nations: Oren Lyons: Governing the Way to a Brighter Future
Honoring Nations: Oren Lyons: Governing Our Way to a Brighter Future
Onondaga Chief and Faithkeeper Oren Lyons shares his perspective on why governance matters to the sovereignty and long-term prosperity of Indigenous peoples, and stresses the importance of adhering to the long-taught instructions that have ensured the survival of those peoples to this day.
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Honoring Nations: Aaron Miles: Idaho Gray Wolf Recovery Program

Honoring Nations: Aaron Miles: Idaho Gray Wolf Recovery Program
Honoring Nations: Aaron Miles: Idaho Gray Wolf Recovery Program
Aaron Miles, Natural Resource Manager for the Nez Perce Tribe, shares the progress of the Idaho Gray Wolf Recovery Program and talks about how the program hopefully will begin to seed a change in the mindset among those human beings who share the wolves' environment.
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