This multi-disciplinary consortium of Area Studies Centers and Arts and Humanities units aims at bringing together scholars, activists, and policy makers to address questions of indigeneity from various disciplinary and regional perspectives and larger issues of identity formation, social agency, cultural resilience, and ethnicity in global and national policies. Since the summer of 2022, the network has grown far beyond HLS to include more than fifty members from more than twenty different departments and institutions across Indiana University, including the Native American and Indigenous Studies program (NAIS), American Indian Studies Research Institute (AISRI), the First Nations Educational and Cultural Center (FNECC), Department of American Studies, and IU Collections. By situating Indigenous studies in a global context, the consortium cultivates international connections as means of strengthening local strategies, policies, and research. By framing its network as “Global Indigenous Studies” it emphasizes the importance of cross-cultural collaboration across the world– not assuming and suggesting that Indigenous cultures in any way are structurally identical, but rather that globalization is never a uniform movement, and that local and regional cultures deal with or even confront globalization in a multitude of different ways.