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

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

The last time carbon dioxide was at this level in Mother...

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

The sun and moon are at it again, and this time, like last...

Peruvian Official Resigns Following Indigenous Consultation Disputes

A top Peruvian government official responsible for...

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

First the big dipper drifts into view, then the stars...

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

The Taíno were the first to greet Christopher Columbus when...

President Morales Expels USAID on Charges of Interference

For the second time since 2008, Bolivian President Evo...

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World News

Shooting of Mexican Gray Wolf Being Investigated by Federal Government

ICTMN Staff

April 05, 2013

The Wildlife Services employee who shot a Mexican gray wolf in January is being investigated for the incident, officials with the U.S...

I Am Taíno: Exploring the Indigenous Roots Throughout the Caribbean

Michelle Tirado

April 04, 2013

Extinguished. Vanished. Wiped out...

Earth Hour Turns Out the Lights for Energy Awareness

ICTMN Staff

April 03, 2013

Just before the end of March, a month before April’s Earth Day, much of the world went dark for an hour...

Indigenous Protestors File Suit in Brazil After Violent Eviction in Rio

Rick Kearns

April 03, 2013

More than a week after the Brazilian Police’s Shock Battalion evicted indigenous and allied protestors using tear gas, pepper spray and batons from a contested site in Rio de Janei...

Studying the Effects of Indigenous San Drop Out Rates in South Africa

Linda Daniels

March 31, 2013

Poverty and feeling left out of the dominant culture has seen record numbers of the indigenous San drop out of the formal schooling system in Southern Africa...

Smithsonian Forums on the Living Indigenous Legacies of the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico

Rick Kearns

March 29, 2013

The Taino presence in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico can be found in the people and the cultures according to scholars conducting research in both places...

Panda-Harper Memes Fly as Prime Minister Jets to Toronto Instead of Greeting Nishiyuu Walkers

ICTMN Staff

March 27, 2013

As the Nishiyuu walkers basked in the glow of their triumphant arrival in Ottawa after a 900-mile snowshoe trek from remote Whapmagoostui, Quebec, on March 26, the memes started fl...

Guatemalan Mayan Community Seeks International Help for Protection

Rick Kearns

March 26, 2013

The Maya Q’eqchi Agua Caliente community of Guatemala, some of whose members have been killed, threatened and tortured while trying to defend their territory from a mining company,...

Be It "Panda-ring" or "Panda-monium," Stephen Harper Welcomes Iconic Chinese Bears for 10-Year Stay

ICTMN Staff

March 25, 2013

Debate swirls over the piping of bituminous crude through pristine aboriginal territory to the British Columbia coast, destined for China...

Germany's Obsession With American Indians Is Touching—And Occasionally Surreal

Red Haircrow

March 23, 2013

Jürgen Michaelis, who lives near Dresden, was standing in front of the small, improvised tipi he keeps in his back garden, wearing a homemade deerskin suit and a matted black wig t...