Global Indigenous Studies Network

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: INCUBATING DATA COMMONS FOR INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES & CULTURES

As AI systems increasingly rely on language and cultural data, Indigenous communities face both unprecedented opportunities and significant risks.

Indigenous languages and cultural knowledge can help shape more inclusive digital futures. Yet too often, communities have limited influence over how their data is collected, governed, used, or shared. There is tremendous opportunity if Indigenous communities are given a say in how their data is used and for what purpose.

To address this opportunity and challenge, The GovLab, Microsoft, and UNESCO, co-designed with a Steering Committee of Indigenous data experts, are launching a new initiative supporting Indigenous-led efforts to develop data commons in the AI era.

What are data commons? Data commons are shared governance frameworks that enable communities to collectively decide how their data is managed, accessed, and used, while ensuring benefits flow back to the communities themselves.

What will Incubator participants receive? Expert mentorship, technical guidance, proposal development support, peer learning opportunities, and capacity-building workshops and clinics.

We invite Indigenous-led teams to submit a concept note outlining their idea, approach, resources, and team. Applications close 14 August 2026.

Learn more and apply at https://newcommons.ai/

New Commons — The Incubator They can support, for instance, the responsible development of AI, climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation, public health and pandemic preparedness, sustainable agriculture, scientific research, disaster response, and the preservation, revitalization, and responsible stewardship of Indigeno...

Event description: Reclaiming Voices Through Film: Indigenous Documentary and Visual Sovereignty in Taiwan
Join us for a special film screening as part of the North American Taiwan Studies Association 2026 Conference at Indiana University!

On the evening of June 26th (18:00–19:30), we will screen two short documentary works by pioneering Taiwanese Indigenous filmmakers–Mayaw Biho and Salone Ishahavut–at RTV 251, Radio & Television Building, IU Bloomington:
Children in the Heaven (1997, dir. Mayaw Biho)
The Elephants Have Walked to Taipei (2013, dir. Salone Ishahavut)

The screening will be followed by a talk and Q&A with the directors. These films offer a rare opportunity to engage with Indigenous documentary practice and visual sovereignty in Taiwan — exploring how filmmakers reclaim narrative agency over their own communities and histories.

The screening is open to the public. Audience members are also welcome to join the conference welcome reception from 16:30–17:50 at the GISB Atrium before the screening.
RSVP via https://forms.gle/Zh6ZyDNSfhVctRwz9
June 26, 2025 | 18:00–19:30
RTV 251, Indiana University, Bloomington

A Universidade Federal Indígena (Unind) é uma iniciativa do Ministério da Educação (MEC) e do Ministério dos Povos Indígenas (MPI). Com sua primeira sede a ser implementada em Brasília, a universidade é voltada para a formação de indígenas, nos níveis de graduação e pós-graduação, com base em um modelo educacional que fortalece identidades e saberes tradicionais em diálogo com o conhecimento acadêmico não indígena.

Universidade Federal Indígena Universidade Federal Indígena (Unind): iniciativa do MEC e do Ministério dos Povos Indígenas para oferecer Educação Superior a indígenas, fortalecendo identidades e saberes tradicionais em diálogo com o conhecimento acadêmico.

Indigenous Studies: Indigenous Related Scholarly Journals
https://libguides.ucalgary.ca/c.php?g=255093&p=5240345

World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium
Recognizing and reaffirming the educational rights of all Indigenous peoples
https://winhec.org/

The World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC) was established in August 2002 at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE) in Alberta, Canada. WINHEC’s aim is to bring professionals together to achieve common goals through higher education. Members come from many different countries and a variety of diverse areas such as university departments, research organizations and government agencies.

🌿 ¡La convocatoria sigue abierta! 🌿

La Universidad de las Lenguas Indígenas de México invita a todas las personas interesadas en formar parte de la Licenciatura en Enseñanza de Lenguas Indígenas en la Unidad Académica Santo Tomás Ocotepec, Oaxaca. Ulim Ocotepec

📚 Forma parte de una licenciatura orientada al fortalecimiento, enseñanza y desarrollo de las lenguas indígenas desde una perspectiva comunitaria, intercultural y plurilingüe.

📌 Convocatoria abierta hasta el 29 de mayo.

¡Te invitamos a inscribirte y ser parte de este proyecto educativo construido desde los pueblos y las lenguas indígenas!

📲 Consulta la convocatoria completa y realiza tu registro.

Las lenguas originarias son memoria, identidad y herencia viva de nuestros pueblos. A través de ellas se transmiten conocimientos, historias y tradiciones que han recorrido generaciones enteras por los caminos del Qhapaq Ñan.

El Sistema Vial Andino no solo conectó territorios, sino también culturas y lenguas que aún hoy continúan vivas en las comunidades andinas. Quechua, aimara y muchas otras lenguas originarias siguen acompañando las festividades, saberes y expresiones culturales vinculadas a este Patrimonio Mundial.

En el Día de las Lenguas Originarias, reafirmamos la importancia de preservarlas y valorarlas como parte fundamental de nuestra diversidad cultural y de la memoria viva del Qhapaq Ñan.

Latest issue of the Latin American Research Review (LARR)
Volume 61 - Issue 2 - June 2026
Indigenous Politics/Activism

The articles in this issue explore issues of Indigenous Politics and Activism, Race and Citizenship, and Military and Armed Cultures. The last two sections focus on a Documentary Review Essay on Bolivian documentaries as the vehicle to relate to the past, and Book Review Essays on Nahua spiritual journeys; the role of human engagement with materiality in the Andes, and ethnomusicology, cultural sociology, and ethnic studies in relation to Latin American musical practices.

Latest issue | Latin American Research Review | Cambridge Core Latin American Research Review

QUECHUA LANGUAGES AND CULTURES PROGRAM AT UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA!
https://web.sas.upenn.edu/quechua/

The renewed Quechua Languages and Cultures Program at the University of Pennsylvania, widely known as Quechua at Penn, is more than a language program; it is a vibrant space for intercultural learning, Indigenous knowledge, and academic excellence.

Offered through the Penn Language Center at University of Pennsylvania, the program is dedicated to teaching Quechua as a Foreign Language (QFL) through a communicative and culturally grounded approach. Students develop practical skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing while engaging with real-world communicative contexts.

Beyond language learning, the program opens pathways into the rich Andean-Amazonian cultural world, exploring the histories, traditions, worldviews, and symbolic systems of Quechua-speaking communities. Through courses, research initiatives, and cultural and academic activities, Quechua at Penn fosters a deeper understanding of one of the most important Indigenous languages and civilizations of the Americas.

Join us in celebrating and supporting Indigenous languages, cultures, and knowledge systems. Discover our courses, research, and community initiatives, and become part of a growing movement dedicated to linguistic and cultural revitalization.