INIHKD International Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge & Development

INIHKD International Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge & Development The conference will be held from 28 April to 2 May 2025 in Tamaya, Albuquerque, New Mexico. A pre-conference on 27 April 2025 will be dedicated to students.

The International Network for Indigenous Health Knowledge and Development (INIHKD) is an international shared waters alliance advancing health, healing, and knowledge sovereignty across nations. INIHKD is an international committee of esteemed Indigenous health and science scholars from New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Hawai'i, and Australia who seek to provide a vital platform to address critical issues impacting Indigenous Communities across the globe. INIHKD and the University of Washington Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI) are hosting the 'Reclaiming Indigenous Ecologies of Love' [RIEL] Conference, which will focus on Health, Well-Being, Medicines, Environment, and Creative Practice. www.inihkd.com
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03/10/2026

Important conversations are happening. Will you make your voice heard?

Don’t miss the opportunity to share your work. Submit your abstract for INIHKD 2026 today.

🔗 Use the link in our bio or go to inihikd.com

03/10/2026

INIHKD 2026 calls us, as living breathing people here today, to consider our intergenerational impact.
What kind of ancestor do you want to be?
More than attendance, expect new partnerships, deeper insight, global Indigenous connections, and conversations that can influence your work long after November.
Join us in Rarotonga November 9-13 to be a part of the conversation.

03/06/2026

The world is changing rapidly. The pressures facing our communities are real. That’s why gathering matters now more than ever.

At RIEL for Future Generations, we come together across nations, waters, and generations to share knowledge, strengthen global relationships, reimagine futures, and carry forward the responsibilities entrusted to us.

We gather to Reclaim Indigenous Ecologies of Love so the next generations inherits our progress, our knowledges, our intergenerational wisdom, our resilience, and the fire to keep going.

🔗 Register now using the link in our bio or at inihkd.com

03/04/2026

Abstracts are reviewed dynamically by our INIHKD 2026 review committee. The sooner you submit your abstract, the sooner you will get a decision, the more time you have to secure funding, and the more time you have to plan travel.

Our gatherings give us the opportunity to convene and contribute to the wellbeing of future generations.

Submit early so you have time to plan well.

Register today. Join us in Rarotonga.

🔗 Link in bio or at inihkd.com

02/26/2026

We’ve seen where hate has got us. It’s time for change.

In a time of global uncertainty, rising division, and shifting geopolitics, gathering is no longer optional. It’s necessary.

At INIHKD 2026, RIEL for Future Generations, we convene not just to respond to the world as it is, but to be the best ancestor we can be and shape the world we want to leave behind.

Now more than ever, we must come together as Indigenous peoples to protect and carry forward our knowledge, our resilience, our strength, and our love for future generations.

🔗 Register now using the link in the bio or at INIHKD.com

Indigenous Futures are not separate from technology, they are shaping it.As Advanced Technologies and AI rapidly evolve,...
02/23/2026

Indigenous Futures are not separate from technology, they are shaping it.

As Advanced Technologies and AI rapidly evolve, Indigenous knowledge systems and ethics are essential guides for what comes next. This sub-theme invites us to imagine and build futures where innovation serves collective well-being, cultural continuity, and planetary care.

From Indigenous data governance and digital sovereignty, to protecting traditional knowledge in digital systems…

From AI for language revitalization, education, and health, to Indigenous futurisms and tech innovation…

We are not just asking how technology will shape our communities;
we are asking how our communities will shape technology.

Join us at INIHKD 2026: Reclaiming Indigenous Ecologies of Love For Future Generations as we explore how Advanced Technologies, AI and Indigenous knowledges can move forward together in integrity, responsibility, and love.

🔗 Abstract submissions and registration are open. Visit the link in our bio or inihikd.com to learn more.

Our wellbeing is inseparable from the lands, waters, and living systems that hold us. This sub-theme, Environmental and ...
02/20/2026

Our wellbeing is inseparable from the lands, waters, and living systems that hold us.

This sub-theme, Environmental and Ecological Systems, invites us to uplift knowledge and practices that restore balance, reciprocity, and sovereignty within our ecological relationships.

From land-based healing and healing the ocean, to water and land sovereignty, Indigenous food systems, climate solutions, traditional calendar systems, and restorative practices, we center pathways that nourish community safety, sovereignty and collective well-being.

When we heal the lands and waters, we heal ourselves.

When we re-center reciprocity with our more than human kin, we remember who we are.
Join us at INIHKD 2026 as we Reclaim Indigenous Ecologies of Love for Future Generations. 🌎✨

Health is more than the absence of illness. It is relationship. It is ceremony. It is language. It is land. It is family...
02/19/2026

Health is more than the absence of illness. It is relationship. It is ceremony. It is language. It is land. It is family. It is Reclaiming our Indigenous Ecologies of Love Future Generations.

The Indigenous Health and Healing sub-theme embraces the broad and powerful vision of Indigenous wellbeing, from mental health, maternal care, and epidemic recovery, to traditional medicine, harm reduction, high-performance athletics, and Indigenized biomedicine.

It honors culture and ceremony as medicine.
�It calls for healthcare systems that are culturally responsive and anti-discriminatory.

It prioritizes Indigenous healing practices and knowledge systems.

If you are working at the intersections of traditional knowledge, biomedicine, research, healthcare, science, policy, or practice — this space is for you!

Join us in Rarotonga for INIHKD 2026.

🔗 Abstract submissions and registration are open. Visit the link in our bio or inihikd.com to learn more.

This gathering is for those who know that Indigenous knowledge systems are vital to our collective future.It’s for those...
02/18/2026

This gathering is for those who know that Indigenous knowledge systems are vital to our collective future.

It’s for those building across disciplines.

For those who feel called to share knowledge and make an impact on a global stage, learn from Cook Islands leadership, and form meaningful relationships with Indigenous changemakers from around the world.

It’s for those committed to reclaiming Indigenous ecologies of love for future generations.

If you see yourself here, we invite you to join us for INIHKD 2026 Reclaiming Indigenous Ecologies of Love for Future Generations.

🗓️November 9-13, 2026.
📍Rarotonga, Cook Islands
🔗 Registration and abstract submissions are open. Visit the link in our bio or go to inihikd.com to learn more.

Early Bird Registration is officially open ✨Join us in Rarotonga, Cook Islands for INIHKD 2026: Reclaiming Indigenous Ec...
02/13/2026

Early Bird Registration is officially open ✨
Join us in Rarotonga, Cook Islands for INIHKD 2026: Reclaiming Indigenous Ecologies of Love for Future Generations.

This is your opportunity to:
🌊 Connect across lands, waters, and disciplines
🤝 Build relationships grounded in community, responsibility, and reciprocity
💫 Contribute to a global movement for Indigenous health and thriving futures

Rarotonga is a little paradise and capacity is limited; we encourage you to secure your place early.
Register now and be part of the change.

💲 Early bird registrants save $500 off full price registration
📍 9–13 November 2026 | Rarotonga
🔗 Register using the link in bio or at inihkd.com/registration

Why attend INIHKD 2026?Because this is not just a conference - it is a relational gathering grounded in ancestral love a...
02/12/2026

Why attend INIHKD 2026?

Because this is not just a conference - it is a relational gathering grounded in ancestral love and responsibility for future generations.

At INIHKD 2026 - Reclaiming Indigenous Ecologies of Love for Future Generations, you will:

✨ Share and learn alongside Indigenous researchers, practitioners, and knowledge holders
✨ Build real relationships with a global Indigenous community (wherever you are based)
✨ Be immersed in Cook Islands culture in Rarotonga - with space for connection, reflection, and renewal

This is where Indigenous knowledge, culture, and community come together from around the world - with deep responsibility for what we carry forward.

📍 Rarotonga, Cook Islands
📅 November 9-13, 2026
✅ Registration + abstract submissions are open now

Ready to be part of it?
👉 Register via the link in bio or at INIHKD.com/registration

11/13/2025

The wait is OVER! 🌊

A gathering surrounded by ocean, grounded in Indigenous knowledge.

Get ready to reconnect across the Pacific to Rarotonga, Cook Islands! 🇨🇰

Our journey continues. Will you be there?

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