Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 49)

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

Virtual Aboriginal Recruitment Fair Aims to Attract Indigenous Employees Worldwide

ICTMN Staff

January 18, 2012

To all far-flung aboriginals and other indigenous job hunters, and their would-be employers: The Aboriginal Human Resource Council (AHRC) Virtual Recruitment Fair aims to bring all...

Internet Going on Strike Over SOPA: Here’s Why

ICTMN Staff

January 17, 2012

On January 18, 2012, a number of the Internet’s major English-language sites will black out between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m...

Findings Shed Light on Amazon’s Lost World

ICTMN Staff

January 16, 2012

On January 14, the New York Times published a story on land carvings discovered in the far western reaches of the Brazilian Amazon...

Whetting the Literary Appetite: Books to Jump-Start Your Reading Year

ICTMN Staff

January 15, 2012

A new year has begun, and with it comes a crop of intriguing new books...

Van der Sloot Sentenced to 28 years for Murder of Peruvian Woman

Sara Shahriari

January 13, 2012

Joran Van der Sloot, a former suspect in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba, was sentenced today in Peru to 28 years in prison for the murder of ...

Mother Earth’s Sisters: More Than 100 Billion Planets in Milky Way

ICTMN Staff

January 12, 2012

There may be at least one planet per star in the Milky Way, which means that Mother Earth could have as many as a 100 billion sisters...

Human Zoos Still in Existence, Jarawa Women Filmed Dancing For Food

ICTMN Staff

January 11, 2012

A video that was recently released has raised issues from around the world as it shows an indigenous woman from India’s Andaman Islands dancing for tourists in exchange for food...

Chile Invokes Chilling Anti-Terrorist Law Against Indigenous Mapuche

Gale Courey Toensing

January 11, 2012

A Mapuche chief’s home has been destroyed in a suspicious blaze days after the president of Chile invoked a controversial anti-terrorist law in accusing Mapuche people of setting a...

Harp Seal Pups Dying for Lack of Incubating Ice: Study

ICTMN Staff

January 08, 2012

Thinning sea ice is killing off harp seal pups in record numbers, reports the first-ever study examining all the species’ breeding grounds...

Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala Victim of Employment Racism

ICTMN Staff

January 06, 2012

In a study conducted in November by the Association for Research and Social Studies (ASIES), an NGO, and the Presidential Commission on Discrimination and Racism Against Indigenous...