Where community, knowledge, and action converge.
The Indigenous Futures Research Lab is a humanities-centered space for community-driven research, digital storytelling, Indigenous planning, creative practice, and public scholarship.
About the Lab
The lab brings together students, faculty, artists, and community partners to build projects rooted in land, language, kinship, care, and Indigenous futurity. Our work moves across maps, virtual reality, sound, film, zines, performance, archaeology, and creative writing.
Project Portals
These portals organize the lab’s public-facing work. The homepage language is community-facing; each project page can hold deeper scholarly context, methods, outputs, and documentation.
Muscogee Tribal Towns
Explore Muscogee places, towns, dwelling spaces, and relationships through maps, virtual reality, 360 capture, and immersive storytelling.
Indigenous Film
Short films, documentaries, animations, and phone-based filmmaking workshops that support Indigenous storytelling and community knowledge.
Indigenous Sound
Soundscapes, podcasts, and audio projects that listen for Indigenous presence across place, history, language, and everyday life.
Sovereign Bodies
Projects on safety, kinship, gender, sexuality, and data justice, including work related to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons and Two-Spirit futures.
Theater and Performance
Performance-based projects that use story, movement, humor, and community dialogue to imagine change.
Zine Library
A living collection of zines created through lab projects, classes, workshops, and community collaborations.
Indigenous Archaeology
Training and research in drone, GPR, LiDAR, mapping, and Tribal Historic Preservation-centered fieldwork.
Creative Arts and Writing
Creative writing, visual art, speculative practice, and Indigenous futurisms projects emerging from the lab.
Methods Across the Lab
Projects may include public humanities, Indigenous planning, spatial storytelling, digital media, workshops, community archives, language learning, and student training.