The UN highlights the meaningful inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in AI development and governance (2025)
Author: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Description:
The UN General Assembly adopted a 2024 resolution emphasizing that human rights and fundamental freedoms must be respected, protected and promoted throughout the life cycle of artificial intelligence systems. Respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights, data sovereignty, and promoting Indigenous-led innovation are key to realizing the positive potential of AI and avoiding perpetuating harm.
Author: Animikii
Description:
This is an eBook that acts as a counterpoint to AI hype, a resource to help assess the best ways to protect the privacy, data, and trust. It offers knowledge required to challenge the marketing claims of big tech and mitigate the harms associated with prevalent generative AI products—by understanding how the companies and people who run this technology operate.
Cosmologyscape
Author: Suzanne Kite and Alisha B Wormsley
Description:
Cosmologyscape is a public artwork that invites visitors to tap into the cosmic quilt of our dreams. We are all born with the ability to dream, yet our dreams are shaped by conditions outside ourselves. For hundreds of years, Black and Indigenous communities and numerous cultures around the world have used dreaming to listen to the past and reimagine the future. Cosmologyscape seeks to reinvigorate individual and communal dreaming practices. For the past five years, artists Kite and Wormsley have been gathering with other artists and practitioners who use dreams for guidance and vision in their work to build a growing community of dreamers.
Cosmologyscape builds on this work by offering Dream Paths that can help anyone tap into their dreams. Dreams submitted to the site will be translated into a system of Lakota symbols and Black quilting patterns, will inform the creation of a series of earth sculptures by Kite and Wormsley. Installed in public space, the sculptures will act as sites for safe rest.
I would like to be midnight/I would like to be sky (2023)
Author: Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Description:
Using primary AI models, Winger-Bearskin made a short film about various notions of owning the sky: “the laws that treat airspace as territory or an extension of the land, the regulations governing what kinds of frequencies we can emit across the open air, and the geographic information systems whose satellites we can see if the night is clear enough. This work was inspired by hearing a politician lay claim to the “universal ethical protocol” for looking at the sky. Ultimately, it’s Amelia’s ancestors that she hopes to connect to through these tools.”
Suzanne Kite Is Making Sure Indigenous People Aren’t Left Out of the AI Conversation (2024)
Author: Maximiliano Duron
Description:
An interview with Oglála Lakȟóta artist, Kite, who has been working with AI and machine learning since 2018.
Te Hiku Media Dev lab
Author: Te Hiku Media
Description:
Te Hiku Media is a charitable media organisation, collectively belonging to the Far North iwi of Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupouri, Ngai Takoto, Te Rārawa and Ngāti Kahu. The station is an iwi communications hub for iwi radio, online TV and media services. Māori language revitalisation is a core focus of Te Hiku Media, as is archiving and training.
Author: Leslie Canaverra / World Wildlife Fund
Description:
A feature in The Circle, the quarterly magazine of the WWF Global Arctic Programme, about how AI models “integrated traditional Indigenous Knowledge, scientific data and remote sensing techniques to locate previously undiscovered fishing locations.”
GIDA - The Global Indigenous Data Alliance (2019-ongoing)
Author: Maggie Walter and Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear
Description:
The Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA) is a network of Indigenous researchers, data practitioners, and policy activists advocating for indigenous data sovereignty within their nation-states and at an international level. “International Law, The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and Indigenous Data Sovereignty” in July 2019 at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, was the starting point for GIDA, bringing together together participants from seven nation states including representation from the Maiam nayri Wingara Collective (Australia); Te Mana Raraunga Maori Data Sovereignty Network (Aotearoa New Zealand); and the United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network.
The purpose of the Workshop was to provide a forum for international Indigenous Data Sovereignty scholars and practitioners to collaboratively advance the legal principles underlying collective and individual data rights in the context of UNDRIP.
Indigenous AI 101
Author: Jason Edward Lewis and Radical AI Podcast
Description:
A podcast with AI researcher Jason Edward Lewis about what Indigenous AI is and how might it drive our technology design and implementation. (2019)
Walking in two worlds: how an Indigenous computer scientist is using AI to preserve threatened languages (2025)
Author: Amanda Heidt
Description:
A tech feature in Nature about Michael Running Wolf, an AI researcher who leads artificial-intelligence initiatives to revive lost languages and empower Indigenous people.
Author: Indigenous Protocol and AI Working Group
Description:
The Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Working Group develops new conceptual and practical approaches to building the next generation of A.I. systems. The Working Group has held two workshops in March and May of 2019. The workshops laid the foundation for the Position Paper on Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence, published in spring 2020. These explorations led in turn to the establishment of the Abundant Intelligences research program.
Author: Te Mana Raraunga
Description:
The purpose of Te Mana Raraunga is to enable Māori Data Sovereignty and to advance Māori aspirations for collective and individual wellbeing by asserting Māori rights and interests in relation to data, ensuring data for and about Māori can be safeguarded and protected, requiring the quality and integrity of Maori data and its collection, advocating for Māori involvement in the governance of data repositories, supporting the development of Māori data infrastructure and security systems, and supporting the development of sustainable Māori digital businesses and innovations.
Local Contexts
Author: Local Contexts
Description:
Local Contexts is a global initiative that supports Indigenous communities with tools that can reassert cultural authority in heritage collections and data. By focusing on Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property and Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Local Contexts helps Indigenous communities repatriate knowledge and gain control over how data is collected, managed, displayed, accessed, and used in the future.
How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism (2025)
Author: John McCullen and Glenn Stasiuk
Description:
Adobe has come under fire for hosting AI-generated stock images that claim to depict “Indigenous Australians”, but don’t resemble Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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