Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 52)

Global Indigenous Women's Caucus Meeting Sets Priorities for UNPFII

The Global Indigenous Women’s Caucus focused on the...

Canada Takes Helm of Arctic Council With First Indigenous Leader

With prospectors set to descend upon the Arctic faster than...

Mapuche of Chile Continue Struggle for Land Rights; A Leader in Prison

Daniel Melinao used to draw water from a well on the land...

Mayan Pyramid Bulldozed for Road Fill in Belize

A construction company in Belize all but destroyed a Mayan...

Saginaw Grant and Other Natives in Hollywood Come Together for Idle No More PSA

This is a public service announcement made by JT Pro...

Ciudad Blanca, the Lost White City of Honduras, Possibly Found Under Rainforest

From the air it looks like a sea of green. But bounce some...

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World News

2011 Retrospective: April

ICTMN Staff

December 29, 2011

The White Wash Walter Plecker, Virginia’s registrar in the 1920s, eradicated records of Indian births and marriages to support his directive that all Indians be categorized as blac...

2011 Retrospective: March

ICTMN Staff

December 28, 2011

Appetite for Destruction The emerald ash borer beetle is extremely beautiful, and extraordinarily voracious...

2011 Retrospective: February

ICTMN Staff

December 27, 2011

Guilty of Being an Indian The shocking shooting death of woodcarver John T...

2011 Retrospective: January

ICTMN Staff

December 26, 2011

Cobell’s Final Toll The long legal battle is finally over, but the hard sell—and low-ball settlement—of the Cobell lawsuit against the Interior Department for its mishandling of tr...

Welcoming the Winter Solstice

ICTMN Staff

December 20, 2011

The winter solstice is almost upon us...

Indigenous Peoples Call Canadian Kyoto Withdrawal Business as Usual

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

December 19, 2011

On the heels of the COP 17 climate talks in Durban, South Africa, the only thing surprising about Canada’s announcement on December 13 that it would no longer be a party to the Kyo...

First Native American Cleared for Sainthood by Vatican

ICTMN Staff

December 19, 2011

The Vatican today announced that the Mohawk-Algonquin woman born in 1656 and known as Kateri Tekakwitha has been deemed worthy of sainthood by the Pope...

Melting Permafrost Could Release Greenhouse Gases: NYT

ICTMN Staff

December 17, 2011

Long trapped inside permafrost, stores of methane and carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gases, have been held in thrall for millennia...

Discussing the Wording of REDD at COP17

ICTMN Staff

December 16, 2011

Stepping away from the daily events of COP17 in Durban, South Africa on December 4, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, executive director of the Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Po...

Aboriginal Leaders Welcome U.N. Scrutiny of Missing-Women Cases

ICTMN Staff

December 15, 2011

Aboriginal leaders and victims’ family members were heartened by news that the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is looking into t...