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Institute for Indigenous Knowledge
(formerly American Indian Studies Research Institute)

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The Institute for Indigenous Knowledge (IIK, “eye-eye-kay”) at Indiana University is an international, interdisciplinary research and education center that promotes Indigenous peoples' knowledge through community-driven projects.

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Indigenous knowledge refers to the cumulative, place-based ways of knowing, being, and relating that Indigenous peoples develop and sustain through long-standing relationships with human and more-than-human relatives, including animals, plants, land, waters, celestial bodies and elements, and spirits and ancestors. It is relational, living, and dynamic—continuously renewed and transformed through processes of communication in everyday life. 

Institute for Indigenous Knowledge
Center for the Documentation and Revitalization of Indigenous Languages
422 N. Indiana Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405
iik@iu.edu
812-855-4086

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