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

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

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...

CEDAW Looking at Canada's Missing and Murdered Women Issue

ICTMN Staff

December 14, 2011

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is looking into the unsolved murders and disappearances of hundreds of aboriginal women over...

Time's Person of the Year is...The Protester

ICTMN Staff

December 14, 2011

We all know who the original protestors of malfeasance in this country were, fighting against greed in all its form, from land grabs to shady deals and treaties...

Tensions Between Bolivian Government and Indigenous Groups Deepen

Sara Shahriari

December 13, 2011

Breaks between the Bolivian government and some indigenous organizations that once threw their support behind President Evo Morales, the country’s first indigenous President, are d...