Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 2)

Cougar Repopulates Turtle Island

The name bestowed on the mighty killer cats of North and...

Hidden Amazon Wildfires Devour More Rainforest Than Logging: NASA

Hidden, low-undergrowth fires are taking a bigger toll on...

World Indigenous Conference: Melding Conservation and Land Rights

Conservation seems like a 100-percent great idea. Who...

What Lies Beneath: Digitally Denuded Antarctic Shows Land Mass Stripped of Ice

The sprawling land mass that is Antarctica—under all that...

Hupacasath First Nation Heads to Court Over Canada-China Treaty, Holds June 5 Day of Action

A small Vancouver Island First Nation is taking the federal...

Etsy Feather Controversy Goes International

A teepee-maker and self-styled defender of Native rights...

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World News

Hupacasath First Nation Heads to Court Over Canada-China Treaty, Holds June 5 Day of Action

Wawmeesh Hamilton

June 05, 2013

A small Vancouver Island First Nation is taking the federal government to court in an effort to stall Canada's investment treaty with China because of an alleged lack of consultati...

Etsy Feather Controversy Goes International

Carol Berry

June 04, 2013

A teepee-maker and self-styled defender of Native rights was startled at the apathy he encountered when he sought support from the online Indian community in his conflict with a gl...

Inter-American Court Hears Mapuche Human Rights Case against Chile

Gale Courey Toensing

June 03, 2013

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has held hearings on several cases against the state of Chile concerning human rights abuses of land rights activists who were imprisoned u...

Federal Agency Supports UNDRIP: A New Era in Tribal-Federal Relations?

Rob Capriccioso

June 03, 2013

Native American observers are hoping that the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s (ACHP) decision to support the United Nation’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peo...

US Government Under Fire at Permanent Forum Ahead of World Conference

Gale Courey Toensing

May 31, 2013

Indigenous organizations attending the 12 th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) criticized the United States federal government for trying ...

Unearthed Clam Gardens Help Tell History of Russell Island Aboriginals

ICTMN Staff

May 29, 2013

Six years after two clam gardens were discovered along the beach of Russell Island, between Fulford Harbour and Swartz Bay off of British Columbia, Canada, University of Victoria s...

Germany Rethinks Repatriation Principles

ICTMN Staff

May 28, 2013

Like many museums in the United States and Britain have been doing, the Museum of Medical History in Berlin, Germany is rethinking its principles governing the display of human rem...

International Exchange Group Visits Chickasaw Cultural Center

ICTMN Staff

May 28, 2013

Since opening in 2010, the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma has had more than 172,000 visitors from all over the world come to experience Chickasaw culture and learn ...

Carmen: Treaty Council's Inclusion on Racist List is 'Badge of Honor'

Gale Courey Toensing

May 27, 2013

Groucho Marx famously said, “I wouldn’t want to belong to a club that has someone like me as a member.” In a kind of reversal of that humorous sentiment, Andrea Carmen, the executi...

Dayamani Barla: A Small Woman, but a Big Voice for Indigenous Rights

Mark Fogarty

May 26, 2013

“We cannot sell the rays of sunlight!” The speaker is a small woman with a big voice that easily fills the very high-ceilinged and ornate Collector’s Office at the National Museum ...