{"id":2,"date":"2024-10-25T20:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/indigenous-knowledges-digital-learning-library\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:23:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:23:53","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/indigenous-knowledges-digital-learning-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Generations Indigenous Knowledges Digital Learning Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Indigenous Knowledges Digital Learning Library (IKDLL)<\/h1>\r\n

Welcome<\/h2>\r\n

The Indigenous Knowledges Digital Learning Library (IKDLL) is an online portal that serves as an ever-growing educational resource providing respectful and culturally appropriate access to Indigenous knowledges, cultures, histories, perspectives, and innovations for the purpose of learning, understanding, and teaching. The IKDLL centers and elevates the voices and perspectives of Indigenous Peoples. Designed as an Indigenous open educational resource (IOER), the IKDLL provides local, regional, national, and global access to the content contained within the repository.<\/p>\r\n

The IKDLL directly supports NAU\u2019s Seven Generations Signature Initiative\u2019s goal of Indigenizing curriculum and elevating Indigenous Scholarship by creating and curating a digital space for Indigenous educational materials.<\/p>\r\n\n

\n Go to the IKDLL<\/a>\n <\/div>\n\r\n

Seven Generations Signature Initiative<\/h2>\r\n

In 2022, Northern Arizona University\u2019s President, Dr. Jose Luis Cruz Rivera, was<\/span> awarded a transformational $5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, matched by an additional $5 million investment from the Northern Arizona University Foundation (NAUF), to develop and implement the Seven Generations Signature Initiative (7GSI) over the next three years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The 7GSI proposal was inspired by NAU\u2019s commitment to Indigenous Peoples, which is articulated in NAU\u2019s strategic plan. Specifically NAU will continue its intentional support for Indigenous students, faculty and staff; develop university-wide culturally responsive educational opportunities and programming and build mutually beneficial partnerships with Indigenous communities that will position NAU as the nation\u2019s leading university serving Indigenous Peoples.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

7GSI is composed of three portfolios of initiatives that will build on existing areas of excellence and elevate NAU\u2019s impact as one of the nation\u2019s leading universities serving Indigenous Peoples. The initiatives in 7GSI include the following:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n