Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 7)

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

First Day of Spring Brings the Light, but not a Hint of Heat

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2013

It’s the first day of spring, when day and night are just about equal in length. The moment occurred at 7:02 a.m. Eastern Time today...

'The Sapphires' Tells the Story of the Aboriginal Supremes

Eisa Ulen Richardson

March 15, 2013

Too often, movies about brown people devolve very quickly into movies about a single white person surrounded by brown people...

International Wildlife Trade Group Votes to Protect Hundreds of Species

ICTMN Staff

March 14, 2013

In its final plenary vote, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) formalized the protection of hundreds of species, including m...

Video: New Zealand Black Sox Perform Maori Haka Before ISF World Softball Championships Game

ICTMN Staff

March 14, 2013

The recently concluded ISF World Softball Championships finished familiarly: The New Zealand Black Sox, the country's national men's softball squad, took the title, their sixth ove...

Balancing Economic and Social Development in Peruvian Mining Communities

ICTMN Staff

March 14, 2013

In January 2013, at least a dozen people were injured in clashes between police and members of a Quechua community at Candente Copper Corporation's Canariaco Mine in northwestern P...

Indian Country Responds to the International Olympic Committee Putting Wrestling on the Chopping Block

Vincent Schilling

March 14, 2013

In February, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Switzerland announced that wrestling will likely be voted out of the Olympics...

New Pope Named as Natives Push for Recant of Doctrine of Discovery

ICTMN Staff

March 13, 2013

White smoke rose from the chimney in Vatican City Wednesday morning letting the world know a new Pope had been chosen...

African Development Bank Addresses Indigenous Issues

ICTMN Staff

March 13, 2013

On February 12, the African Development Bank (ADB) hosted a forum to discuss how Indigenous Peoples’ rights and interests can be integrated into the bank’s policies and development...

Fewer Sharks to Land in Soup Pot, Thanks to New International Protections

ICTMN Staff

March 12, 2013

Conservationists are eagerly awaiting this week’s plenary vote on shark protections at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), after more than two thir...

Indigenous Latin Americans Mourn the Death of Hugo Chavez

Rick Kearns

March 12, 2013

For some indigenous people of Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez was someone they could count on and love and many indigenous Latin Americans expressed those same feelings last week...