Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 19)

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

Yale Returns All Machu Picchu Artifacts to Peru

ICTMN Staff

November 18, 2012

November 12 marked the end of a years-long dispute when Yale University returned the last of thousands of Machu Picchu artifacts to Peru...

Solar Eclipse: Casting Wonder From Iroquois Confederacy Beginnings to Australia 2012 Beachgoers

ICTMN Staff

November 14, 2012

In a stunning display, the sun devoured by the moon just as the golden orb peeked over the ocean off Cairns, Australia...

Smartphone App Created to Increase Use of Endangered Aboriginal Language in Australia

ICTMN Staff

November 14, 2012

A new smartphone language app has been launched to change the way the Iwaidja language is being recorded and to help save it. Ma!...

Tune in to Watch Total Solar Eclipse Being Livestreamed from Cairns, Australia, November 13

ICTMN Staff

November 13, 2012

Cairns, Australia, is all pumped up for its first total solar eclipse in more than 1,300 years, and its people are eager to share this singular event with the world...

Total Solar Eclipse to Wow Australia, South Pacific

ICTMN Staff

November 10, 2012

For the second time this year, the moon will eclipse the sun...

Guatemala Earthquake Turns Deadly: At Least 52 Dead, Many Crushed in Homes

ICTMN Staff

November 08, 2012

Damage reports are now pouring in from the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck Guatemala on Wednesday morning November 7, and at least 50 people have been reported dead, with many...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Dismisses Human Rights Commission

Jenni Monet

November 08, 2012

It was a Friday in early July when Venezuelan authorities reportedly barged into the Caracas apartment of Ana Maria Abreu, a doctor who had been working in the presidential palace ...

Guatemala 7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Kills One, Jolts All the Way to Mexico City

ICTMN Staff

November 07, 2012

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck near the Guatemala-Mexico border early Wednesday killed at least one person and jolted people all the way north to Mexico City, hundreds of m...

Chasing Ice: New Documentary Depicting Arctic Ice Melt Underscored by Superstorm Sandy

ICTMN Staff

November 07, 2012

A hauntingly beautiful and subtly terrifying new movie out this month details photographer James Balog’s years-long, multi-camera journey to document climate change in the Arctic...