Tahila Moss (aka Mintz)

Tahila Moss - Indigenous Yaqui / Jewish media maker, ancestral scribe, educator and community organizer.

Tahila Moss is a Photographer, Medicine Carrier and Founder / Executive Director of OJI:SDA’ Sustainable Indigenous Futures. She works across multiple platforms and organizations to amplify the voices of Indigenous people and the natural world.

Her work focuses on ancestral matriarchies and gender equilibrium, contemporary Indigenous issues, and recuperating knowledge that has been unraveled by colonialism. She is a Water Protector and a Land Guardian whose home is in her Yaqui community of Sonora and in upstate, NY.

She has been photographing for over 20 years around the world living and working throughout the Americas, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

She received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Texas, followed by being a faculty member at Texas State University and Central Texas College. Her work has been published in National Geographic and is in museum collections. Tahila is also a National Geographic Fellow.

The organization she founded focuses on a vision where Indigenous people are seen, heard, healthy and thriving. Its programs create ancestral knowledge land-based curriculum for youth populations within formal and informal education systems; summer camp experiences for Indigenous Youth; disaster relief and other models of community support.

Ceremony, healing and land relationships are her foundation.

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