Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 4)

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

Climate Change: Arctic Ocean Is Acidifying Fast, Study Shows

ICTMN Staff

May 15, 2013

The Arctic Ocean is heating up, its ice and permafrost are melting, and now … its ocean is acidifying...

Proud to Be Indigenous Launched for UN Permanent Forum

Gale Courey Toensing

May 15, 2013

Indigenous Peoples around the globe will have the opportunity to celebrate themselves and their communities on the Internet during the 12 th session of United Nations Permanent For...

Climate Change: Mount Everest Is Melting

ICTMN Staff

May 14, 2013

In what may be the most glaring example of climate change yet, the glaciers atop iconic Mount Everest are melting...

Rios Montt Guilty of Genocide in Guatemala

Rick Kearns

May 13, 2013

On Friday, May 10 th , former Dictator and General Jose Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the murder, rape and displacement...

CO2 Has Arrived at Highest Level Since Before the First Peoples: NOAA

ICTMN Staff

May 10, 2013

The last time carbon dioxide was at this level in Mother Earth’s atmosphere, humans didn’t exist...

One Annular Sensation: Ring of Fire Eclipse Livestreaming From Australia—See it Right Here, Right Now

ICTMN Staff

May 09, 2013

The sun and moon are at it again, and this time, like last year over Indian country, the moon is putting a ring on it...

Kiribati Fishermen Rescued After Month Lost in Pacific

ICTMN Staff

May 08, 2013

After almost a month adrift in the Pacific, surviving on raw fish and rain water, two fishermen from Kiribati, an island nation in the central tropical Pacific Ocean, were rescued ...

Peruvian Official Resigns Following Indigenous Consultation Disputes

Barbara Fraser

May 07, 2013

A top Peruvian government official responsible for intercultural affairs has resigned because of disputes in the government over prior consultation of indigenous communities...

Indigenous Colombian Authorities Arrest and Sentence FARC Guerrillas

Rick Kearns

May 07, 2013

On Monday, April 29 th an indigenous council in Northern Colombia sentenced two members of the FARC guerrilla forces to 40 years of prison for the recent murder of eight indigenous...