NATIVE MEDIA
Animating Our Voices
Indigenous cultures recognize media, as both art and technology, as a key tool to build good relationships with the land, waters and sky. We honor traditional media such as sculpture and weaving, and also use new media to embody and express our cultural sovereignty. We animate our voices with Native media based in Indigenous principles and values to weave our relations more strongly together and embody our stories, knowledge, wisdom, beauty and dreams.
Still from an animation in our co-produced feature film Spectacular Movements, with art by Alejandro Salazar and Mateo Hinojosa
With new and ancestral media, we:
Directly produce and facilitate the creation of Native media through collaborative relationships
Develop spaces and tools for producing, archiving and sharing media created by and for Indigenous communities
Cultivate Native media community activities and resources within Indigenous philosophical frameworks and ethical engagement
Build bridges for national and international Indigenous knowledge-sharing through art and media collections and libraries