Chronogram: Lakota-Led AI Research at Bard College Explores Ethics Through Indigenous Knowledge. “At Bard’s Wíhaŋble S’a Center, artist and scholar Suzanne Kite is rethinking artificial intelligence through Lakota knowledge—combining hide tanning, beadwork, dream research, and land-based practice to imagine a more ethical relationship with technology.”

EBSCO: EBSCO Information Services Launches Global Indigenous Studies Database. “The extensive collection in Indigenous Studies Source contains 138 full-text journals and magazines. It also features seminal books, tribal newspapers and reports covering the fifty largest Indigenous groups across North America, Asia, South America, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. Topics span cultural preservation […]

1812 in Canada
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CW: racist language
A U.S. Army commander near Buffalo, N.Y. orders no "private plundering," but offers soldiers $200 for army horses and $40 for the possessions of "each savage warrior" killed

https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660988
Pgs. 397–8

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See also: First Nations and Métis Peoples in the War of 1812
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/first-nations-in-the-war-of-1812

Brazil plans to blast the Lourenção Rocks on the Tocantins River, but locals say thousands of fishers aren’t officially recognized as impacted.

Scientists warn the “underwater Galápagos” could be damaged as shipping expansion for soy and minerals moves forward.

by Tiffany Higgins
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/amazon-riverfolk-warn-blasting-rocks-for-shipping-route-will-kill-fisheries/

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Arizona State University: New architecture program teaches students how to design with Indigenous principles in mind. “Imagine a Tempe Town Lake free of concrete, its banks lush with native creosote and wildflowers, with winding dirt paths. That visualization was created by a student who applied Indigenous principles to a design problem. Noor Alzuhairi is in the first cohort of the Indigenous […]

Intercontinental Cry: Scholars Propose Indigenous Global Media Network, Call for UN-backed Oversight. “A newly published academic paper is calling for the creation of an Indigenous Global Media Network, arguing that Indigenous Peoples remain systematically excluded from global media systems at a time when international decisions affecting their lands, cultures and rights are intensifying.”