INCOMINDIOS HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION NETWORK
Bring an Incomindios educator into your classroom to learn about Indigenous issues.
The IHREN School Program offers insightful sessions on Indigenous relations for secondary school students in the UK. Modules are individually tailored to each course subject (History, English, Geography, Law, Citizenship and more). Work with an Incomindios educator to design a session for your students.
Course content includes a range of available topics:
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Indigenous History and Colonization
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The Residential School System in Canada
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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) in Canada
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The Path Towards Reconciliation
Courses are delivered virtually or in-person in the Greater London area.
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For inquiries please message us at inco.uk@incomindios.ch
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Education is key to our mandate so each month, IHREN has hosted a virtual talk relating to environmental and climate justice, arts and activism, and Indigenous rights. These talks can be found below. Follow our blog for the latest news, events and research by Incomindios UK!
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Our 2025-2026 speaker series was made possible with the generous funding of the British Association for American Studies.
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IHREN Speaker Series 2025-2026
Yadixa Del Valle Guardia, Incomindios-Lippuner Scholar
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This year’s scholar is Yadixa Del Valle, a Guna woman from Panama pursuing a Master’s in Sociocultural & Linguistic Anthropology at Western University (Ontario, Canada). Her talk, “Between voices and knowledge: exploring the Muu Igar (a traditional study on childbirth) in the experience of Guna women and traditional doctors,” presents research on Guna birthing chants to promote longevity, highlight women’s roles, and broaden the use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge.​​​​​​
Venaya Yazzie
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Venaya Yazzie is a member of the eastern Dinè (Navajo) and Hopi. She dwells in northwest New Mexico and her family homelands of DziÅ‚naodithÅ‚e (Huerfano), NM and Kinbetó (Chaco Canyon). Venaya is a multidisciplinary artist, poet and a cultural educator within the Tótá, four corners community near Farmington, NM. She has worked with a variety of disciplines and regional artist on issues, including cultural preservation, identity, and land politics, promoting the Indigenous Southwest narrative within Bordertown communities. Yazzie has currently been working with Southwestern region of national parks, sharing experiences and educating the public about cultural landscape and what she has titled, Matriarchland. Venaya is alumnus of: the Institute of American Indian arts, Fort Lewis College, and graduated with an M.A. in Education/ Indian Education at the University of New Mexico.
From the tangible acts of pollution and water rights issues of the Navajo Nation, Venaya spoke about modern issue facing the People in the American Southwest. She also revisited the art she curated for the 2008 art exhibition, Connections: Earth + Artist = A Tribute Art Show in Resistance to Desert Rock at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.​​​​​​
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Hartman Deetz
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Hartman Deetz is an enrolled member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, who has spent over 30 years educating and advocating around issues of Native American rights and environmental justice. Deetz is currently working with Charles River Watershed Association and Cultural Survival and the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. Deetz’s artwork ranges from contemporary arts such as painting and lino cuts that often incorporate social themes and issues, and through to museum quality traditional wampanoag arts such as wampum and wood carving. Through his work in arts education and advocacy Deetz has travelled through 48 of the lower 48 states to Peru, Mexico, Bermuda, France, Switzerland, and the UK.