Indigenous Futures Research Lab

Where community, knowledge, and action converge.

We build Indigenous futures through mapping, immersive media, film, sound, zines, theater, archaeology, creative practice, student training, and community collaboration.

Project Portals

Each card opens into a public project page with community-facing language, project subcards, methods, outputs, and scholarly depth.

Anchor Project · Active

Muscogee Tribal Towns

Explore Muscogee places, towns, dwelling spaces, and relationships through maps, virtual reality, 360 capture, and immersive storytelling.

MapsVR/ARLanguagePlaceFuturity
Active Project

Indigenous Film

Short films, documentaries, animations, and phone-based filmmaking workshops that support Indigenous storytelling and community knowledge.

FilmStorytellingWorkshopsLanguageMemory
In Development

Indigenous Sound

Soundscapes, podcasts, and audio projects that listen for Indigenous presence across place, history, language, and everyday life.

SoundPodcastingPlaceOral History
Active · Public Summary

Sovereign Bodies

Projects on safety, kinship, gender, sexuality, and data justice, including work related to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons and Two-Spirit futures.

MMIPTwo-SpiritData JusticeKinship
In Development

Theater & Performance

Performance-based projects that use story, movement, humor, and community dialogue to imagine change.

TheaterPerformancePedagogyCommunity
Public Archive

Zine Library

A living collection of zines created through lab projects, classes, workshops, and community collaborations.

ZinesTeachingCommunity KnowledgeArchives
Student Training

Indigenous Archaeology

Training and research in drone, GPR, LiDAR, mapping, and Tribal Historic Preservation-centered fieldwork.

THPODroneGPRLiDARTraining
Active Project

Creative Arts & Writing

Creative writing, visual art, speculative practice, and Indigenous futurisms projects emerging from the lab.

ArtWritingFuturismsStudent Work

Community-facing entry, scholarly depth.

The homepage uses clear, inviting project cards. Interior pages make room for methods, theory, student training, public humanities, documentation, and future directions.

Public, with care.

All major project portals are public. Some details, files, names, media, or datasets may remain summarized, protected, or released later depending on consent, safety, and community accountability.