Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 62)

Nobel Peace Laureates Urge Obama and Kerry to Nix Keystone XL

Firmly linking the Keystone XL pipeline with climate change...

Turtle Island Being Pulled Toward Europe by Tectonic Plate Activity

All those centuries of wishing that Europeans had never...

Summer Narwhal Hunt Confirmed for 2013

The government of Canada has confirmed that a narwhal hunt...

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...

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World News

Political Party! Celebrating UNDRIP and Indigenous Culture in Montreal

Gale Courey Toensing

September 13, 2011

For more than two hours on a sunny summer morning in early August, hundreds of young men and women, wearing elaborate headdresses, intricately beaded, ribboned and appliquéd regali...

Bangladesh Government Looking to Drop ‘Indigenous Peoples’ for ‘Ethnic Minorities’

ICTMN Staff

September 13, 2011

Government officials in Bangladesh have come to a cross roads with the latest move by the current government to possibly remove the word “indigenous” from official documents in rel...

British Auction House Pulls Aboriginal Stone

ICTMN Staff

September 08, 2011

A “Tjuringa,” a delicately etched flat stone, recently up for auction through the Canterbury Auction Galleries was pulled August 7 after it’s inclusion caused outrage...

Indigenous Peoples Discuss Human Rights with European Parliament

ICTMN Staff

September 05, 2011

Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala and Colombia met with members of the European Parliament in June where they shared their concerns on human rights violations, labor rights and the i...

Brazil’s Indigenous Imbira People: The Earth, Life and Water are Life, Not Money

ICTMN Staff

September 03, 2011

“We indigenous communities are saying, look at the sky, it’s changing, the sun is changing, the rain is changing”, says Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, president of Hutukara Yanomami Assoc...

Yellow Bird Dancers Bring the Pow Wow to Bolivia

Sara Shahriari

September 03, 2011

Dance has a big place in Bolivian life ...

Intrepid Whimbrel Flies from Nunavut to the Caribbean Through Hurricane Irene

ICTMN Staff

September 02, 2011

Hurricane Irene may have shut down New York City and caused rivers throughout the northeastern United States to overrun their banks, but the storm did not daunt one determined shor...

Today’s Human Safari

Sara Shahriari

August 31, 2011

Human beings on display may seem like a thing of the past, but the practice continues today, with a twist...

Fighting to Stay on Their Land: The Maya Q’Eqchi of Guatemala

Rick Kearns

August 30, 2011

One Mayan community in Guatemala is fighting for its right to stay on its own land, and they are looking for support from other Indigenous Peoples also...

Human Zoo: For Centuries, Indigenous Peoples Were Displayed as Novelties

Sara Shahriari

August 30, 2011

In 1893 a group of indigenous Aymara Bolivian men traveled to the United States so that they could be put on display at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair Columbian Exposition, which ce...