Much of the conversation about artificial intelligence (AI) and Indigenous peoples focuses on harms, such as cultural appropriation, cultural flattening and digital exclusion. These risks are real.

More than three years ago, the then-superintendent of the Forest Grove, Ore., district asked researcher Stephanie Fryberg to work with district leaders on inclusion and equity issues. Yvonne Curtis, ...

Language: A crucible of cultural knowledge A moment’s reflection reveals that language is a repository of cultural knowledge, one that captures and provides effective cues to a complex body of shared ...

From teaching how to cook jollof to consulting on authentic portrayals in film and TV, they are packaging language, food, music, fashion, and storytelling as services and products people will pay for.

These words come from the Australian song “Took the Children Away,” written and sung by the late Gunditjmara and Bundjalung elder Archie Roach. They speak to the importance of country, community, ...

Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Engagement and Research; Senior Scientia Lecturer, UNSW Sydney Brett Biles receives funding from the Australian Government's Medical Research Future Fund. Aryati ...

Know Dat Grow Dat is a sustainable urban farm in New Orleans. Discover how African-American food culture has shaped three communities and their local agriculture, and find a food sovereignty ...

When a wild orangutan leaves its mother after spending many years by her side, it has a mental catalog of almost 250 edible plants and animals, and the knowledge of how to acquire and process them. A ...

In an earlier post in this blog, Why Did Language Evolve? I examined the relationship between language and mind in creating meaning. I proposed that meaning arises in the mix, from the complex ...