Indigenous Studies Courses and Certifications

Indigenous Canada

9 ratings

Explore Indigenous histories and realities in Canada: worldviews and storytelling, the fur trade, numbered treaties and the Indian Act, residential schools, Red Power, and contemporary Indigenous art.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Indigenous Religions & Ecology

55 ratings at Coursera

Explore how Indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, the Americas, Australia, and the Pacific link cosmovisions, ritual, and traditional environmental knowledge to decolonization, land restoration, and rights of nature.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Development

Learn to build ethical partnerships with Indigenous communities: community-based and decolonizing research, visiting protocols, the 4 Rs, OCAP®, and Indigenous data sovereignty.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education

72 ratings at edX

Advancing reconciliation in classrooms, organizations, and communities through the teaching and learning of Indigenous ways of knowing.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Pilot Lecture: Thinking about Indigenous Cultures of the World

17 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

Explore what it means to claim Indigenous identity in the 21st century, as you look at Indigenous peoples and cultures from around the world.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

BSW-41: Understanding Tribals

Explore the evolution of tribal studies, indigenous perspectives, policies, legislation, and development strategies affecting tribal communities in India and internationally.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Nov 15, 2026
• Free Online Course

BSW-44:Tribals in North and Northeast Region of India

Explore the cultures, beliefs, traditions, and changing challenges of tribal communities across India’s northeastern states and northern regions.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Nov 15, 2026
• Free Online Course

Victoria University of Wellington

New Zealand Landscape as Culture: Maunga (Mountains)

Come and learn about the mountains of New Zealand and their complex geological and cultural histories.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Tribal Studies in India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Approaches

Explores interdisciplinary approaches to tribal communities in India, connecting social organization, colonial and postcolonial politics, rights, narratives, development, and globalization.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course

ART of the MOOC: Colors, Bodies, Power

17 ratings at Coursera

Explore contemporary art through colors, bodies and power: color theory, Black and Indigenous performance, disability studies, Middle Eastern art, whiteness, and visual activism.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Climate Justice: Indigenous Climate Action

Explores how Indigenous cultural burning connects climate justice with ecological stewardship and histories linking fire suppression to the suppression of Indigenous peoples.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

José Carlos Mariátegui: Decolonization and Revolution (Live Online)

33 ratings at CourseHorse

Discover the groundbreaking ideas of a thinker who reshaped Marxist theory through the lens of Latin American reality.

• CourseHorse
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• $335.00

History, Culture & People of the Americas

Survey the pre-Columbian civilizations, colonization, and Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

• Study.com
• 12 hours 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

6 ratings at OpenLearn

Explore how religious categories dehumanised Indigenous peoples during colonisation and how Indigenous communities resisted through mapping, hair, and joik.

• OpenLearn
• 6 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Indigenous Languages: From Policy and Planning to Implementation and Assessment

Gain theoretical knowledge and practical skills to develop and implement a language plan. Explore how to approach learning, teaching and transmitting Indigenous languages to present and future generat

• edX
• 8 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)