Indigenous peoples are any ethnic group who inhabit a geographic region with which they have the earliest known historical connection. These are videos of Indigenous peoples from around the world.
Heyerdahl and a small team went to Peru, where they constructed a balsa wood raft out of balsa logs and other native materials in an indigenous style as recorded in illustrations by Spanish conquistadores.... continue reading
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1 decade 6 years 11 months ago • 4,402 viewsSpencer Wells is director of the global five year study by National Geographic and IBM, which ends in 2010, where dna samples of people from all over the world are being collated and studied, to bring... continue reading
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1 decade 6 years 12 months ago • 1,019 viewsIn 1967, more than 90 per cent of Australians voted to include Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the national census, meaning they would no longer be counted among flora and fauna like kangaroos... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years ago • 1,505 viewsWithout words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on "where," but on "what's there." It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests;... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 5,175 viewsThe Navajo woman who made this lovely video just calls it the string game, but there are versions in many different cultures. In Japan it's ayatori, in the US it's jack-in-the-pulpit, or cat's cradle.... continue reading
posted by lisacat 1 decade 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 4,066 viewsDozens of people have been killed in clashes between indigenous people and police in Peru.
posted by Eklek 1 decade 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 605 viewsFrom maatc blog: Today marked an historic day in Australian history. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered a formal apology in front of the Parliament, saying "sorry" for the hurt caused by decades... continue reading
posted by Thylan 1 decade 6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 3,973 viewsA stop-motion animation of the Inuit legend of how the Raven became black produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 2,945 viewsWade Davis talks about Indigenous languages and cultures he's experienced from around the world.
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,424 viewsI spent some time in Varanasi this summer and I was completely blown away. It's the oldest inhabited city in the world with over 5000 years of continuous history. Over 11,000 pilgrims visit the city every... continue reading
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 7 months ago • 968 viewsScene from the Story of the Weeping Camel. After a particularly difficult birth, a camel abandons her newborn, so a traditional musician is summoned to patch things up.
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,320 viewsAn Inupiaq hunter drives his dog team out on the frozen Arctic Ocean in search of seals, but instead, becomes a witness to murder. Winner of the Jury Prize for Short Filmmaking at the 2008 Sundance Film... continue reading
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,669 viewsThe Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) is the international organization that officially represents about 145,000 Inuit across the Arctic. This video shows some of the celebrations and traditional dances... continue reading
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 7 months ago • 1,147 viewsClayton Thomas-Muller, of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation also known as Pukatawagan in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is an activist for Indigenous rights and environmental justice. With his roots in the inner... continue reading
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,210 viewsA Compilation of folk songs from the Indigenous peoples of the Barents Sea region of Scandinavia and Northwestern Russia.
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 7 months ago • 788 viewsBeautiful ending to the movie Smoke Signals taken from a Dick Lourie poem. The line at the end "If we forgive our Fathers what is left?" made me think.
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 2,349 viewsMen of the Wodaabe tribe perform the Yaake courtship dance. From Werner Herzog's 1989 documentary "Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun".
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 6 months ago • 2,330 viewsYT: A Place Called Chiapas is a Canadian documentary of first-hand accounts of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) the (Zapatista Army of National Liberation or Zapatistas) and the lives... continue reading
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 6 months ago • 1,698 viewsA video showing images of traditional shamans of the Lake Baikal region (on the border of Mongolia and Siberia) set to the song Huun-Hur-Tu by Tuvan Internationale. Shamanism has been practiced in... continue reading
posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 1,393 viewsDersu Uzala saves Capitain Arsenyev while surveying the barren taiga of Siberia in the 1975 Kurusawa film Dursu Uzala
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