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

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

Learning From the Self-Destructive Disappearance of the Easter Island Polynesian Society

ICTMN Staff

February 09, 2012

There are societies throughout human history that have seemed to simply vanish...

Sydney Opera House Appoints First Head of Indigenous Programming

ICTMN Staff

February 09, 2012

The Sydney Opera House isn't just one of the most iconic buildings of the 20th century, it's also a structure that, like the Eiffel Tower or the Colosseum, symbolizes its city and ...

Russian Scientists May Have Drilled Down to Antarctica's Lake Vostok, Buried for 14 Million Years

ICTMN Staff

February 08, 2012

Russian scientists claim to have successfully drilled through two miles of glacial ice to reach Lake Vostok, buried under Antarctica for 14 million years...

In Bolivia, Many Indigenous Communities Turn to Vigilantism to Fight Crime

Emily Alpert

February 08, 2012

If a man kills another man in the harsh high plains of Jesús de Machaca or the lush lowlands of Beni, the people who catch him might not call the police...

Métis Leader Clement Chartier Wins Diamond Jubilee Medal

ICTMN Staff

February 07, 2012

Métis National Council (MNC) President Clement Chartier is among 60 winners of the inaugural Diamond Jubilee Awards, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's access...

Aboriginals Receive Diamond Jubilee Awards

ICTMN Staff

February 06, 2012

In celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, the 60th anniversary of her reign, the Governor General of Canada awarded 60 inaugural medals, several of them to aboriginal...

Police Linked to ‘Human Safaris’ in Latest Video

ICTMN Staff

February 06, 2012

When a video hit the Internet recently of tourists offering food to members of the indigenous Jarawa Tribe on the Andaman Islands in India as a reward for their dancing, attention ...

Everything You Need to Know About How to Write a Shadow Report—Indigenous Reports to the UN on Human Rights, Racism in US

Gale Courey Toensing

February 05, 2012

Indigenous nations, tribes, individuals and organizations now have a guide on how to prepare a “shadow report” for an upcoming review of the status of human rights and racism in th...

Mexico Celebrates 95th Anniversary of Constitution

ICTMN Staff

February 05, 2012

“Every person in the United Mexican States shall enjoy the guarantees granted by this Constitution, which cannot be restricted or suspended except in such cases and under such cond...

United Nations Moves to Strengthen Children’s Rights

Sara Shahriari

February 01, 2012

A new measure that allows children or their representatives to bring problems before an international panel of child welfare experts is now open for member states to sign, accordin...