Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 3)

Global Indigenous Women's Caucus Meeting Sets Priorities for UNPFII

The Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus focused on the...

Canada Takes Helm of Arctic Council With First Indigenous Leader

With prospectors set to descend upon the Arctic faster than...

Mapuche of Chile Continue Struggle for Land Rights; A Leader in Prison

Daniel Melinao used to draw water from a well on the land...

Mayan Pyramid Bulldozed for Road Fill in Belize

A construction company in Belize all but destroyed a Mayan...

Saginaw Grant and Other Natives in Hollywood Come Together for Idle No More PSA

This is a public service announcement made by JT Pro...

Ciudad Blanca, the Lost White City of Honduras, Possibly Found Under Rainforest

From the air it looks like a sea of green. But bounce some...

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World News

Dancing With the Stars Over the Ancient City of Teotihuacan, Mexico

ICTMN Staff

May 06, 2013

First the big dipper drifts into view, then the stars streak across the sky in time-lapse curves...

José Barreiro Bridges Two Realities and Two Worlds With Taíno: A Novel

Michelle Tirado

May 05, 2013

The Taíno were the first to greet Christopher Columbus when he arrived in 1492 and were thus some of the earliest Indigenous Peoples to be decimated by colonization...

President Morales Expels USAID on Charges of Interference

Rick Kearns

May 03, 2013

For the second time since 2008, Bolivian President Evo Morales has said he would expel the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), charging the agency with “pol...

Honeybees’ Colony Collapse Disorder Has Many Facets; Pesticide Banned in EU

ICTMN Staff

May 02, 2013

A federal report released on May 2 said there is no one cause for the collapse of honeybee populations since 2006...

United Nations Permanent Forum is Going Paperless

Gale Courey Toensing

May 02, 2013

Tables piled high with multi-paged documents, brochures, announcements for side events, programs, agendas and reports in teetering stacks that overflow onto the floor – a forest’s ...

Suzy Chaffee: ‘Snow Gratitude’ Ceremonies Key to Reenergizing Mother Earth

ICTMN Staff

May 01, 2013

Last year, ICTMN presented a series of stories, including The Southern Utes Snow Dance Works Wonders on Weather , concerning the use of Native wisdom and tribal traditions to honor...

Images of Native Americans Revealed During Vatican Fresco Cleaning

ICTMN Staff

April 29, 2013

During meticulous cleaning of a fresco titled “Resurrection” painted by Italian artist Pinturicchio on a wall in the Hall of Mysteries in the Borgia apartments, the Vatican declare...

Watch Spectacular Glacial Ice Bridge Collapse in Patagonia

ICTMN Staff

April 28, 2013

Periodically, the tongue of the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina edges forward enough to cut off an arm of Lago Argentino, in essence damming it...

Inuit and Canadian Officials Lash Out at European Union's Seal Products Ban

ICTMN Staff

April 27, 2013

Canadian, Inuit and international trade leaders alike are lashing out at a European Union court decision to uphold a ban, first enacted three years ago, on seal products...

Northeastern Ocean Surface Temperatures at Highest in 150 Years: NOAA

ICTMN Staff

April 26, 2013

Ocean-surface temperatures from Maine to North Carolina have shot to their highest in 150 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on April 25...