Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 5)

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

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...

Three Oil Giants Suspend Chukchi and Beaufort Sea Drilling Plans

ICTMN Staff

April 26, 2013

Three major oil companies have abandoned drilling plans off Alaska for the time being, either suspending exploratory efforts indefinitely or scuttling them completely pending furth...

Actress Michelle Thrush Helps Win Oil Company Concession for Indigenous Ecuadorians

Brandi Morin

April 23, 2013

Canadian Gemini award–winning Cree actress and self-proclaimed “artist in solidarity with Idle No More” Michelle Thrush is wielding her celebrity clout in defense of Indigenous Peo...