Indigenous Rights
Jeremy has been an Indigenous rights advocate for over five years. He has worked at the National Museum of the American Indian, Amazon Watch and Democracy International. In Spring 2023, Jeremy lived with the Kichwa people in the Ecuadorian Amazon where he researched connections between culture and the environment.
Over the past few years, Indigenous film and television have finally started to break through on mainstream platforms, and the National Museum of the American Indian’s annual Native Cinema Showcase has been part of that change. Native comedian, filmmaker, and the producer of Netflix show “Spirit Rangers” Joey Clift (Cowlitz) looks back on how things have changed since his childhood and what he hopes the future holds for Indigenous film and television.
English: The relation between humans, culture, and the environment in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
With the School for International Training (SIT), Jeremy spent a month in Ecuadorian Amazon living with a Kichwa Shaman and founders of the Indigenous rights movement in Ecuador examining the relationship between the Kichwa people and the environment around them.
With Democracy International, Jeremy published a piece analyzing USAID's new policy on working with Indigenous People in the field.