REI Co-op Reveals a New Film Series With Indigenous Peoples’ Day Here

With Indigenous Peoples’ Day here, a new series of films created by Indigenous directors can be watched via YouTube and elsewhere, with help from REI Co-op. REI Co-op Studios, the outdoor retail powerhouse’s in-house content arm, has teamed up with Reciprocity Project — which is a collaboration between nonprofits Nia Tero and Upstander Project — for the series of original short films made by Indigenous directors on their homelands. The films, which REI said via statement were previously released at film festivals, are now streaming at Reciprocity.org and on the retailer’s YouTube channel. Season one of Reciprocity Project, according to REI, celebrates “cultures and learnings from Indigenous communities across Turtle Island in the U.S. and Colombia,” and the filmmakers worked alongside community partners to infuse the films with perspectives on reciprocity and relationships to the land and animals around them. “Stories from Indigenous peoples about being in reciprocity with the Earth are essential in delivering messages of truth, healing, and transformative change,” Nia Tero managing director of storytelling and Reciprocity Project executive producer Tracy Rector said in a statement. “Our survival is the result of the efforts from many ancestors who came before us. With the Reciprocity Project films as a guide, we

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