Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 8)

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

I Am Taíno: Exploring the Indigenous Roots Throughout the Caribbean

Michelle Tirado

April 04, 2013

Extinguished. Vanished. Wiped out...

Earth Hour Turns Out the Lights for Energy Awareness

ICTMN Staff

April 03, 2013

Just before the end of March, a month before April’s Earth Day, much of the world went dark for an hour...

Indigenous Protestors File Suit in Brazil After Violent Eviction in Rio

Rick Kearns

April 03, 2013

More than a week after the Brazilian Police’s Shock Battalion evicted indigenous and allied protestors using tear gas, pepper spray and batons from a contested site in Rio de Janei...

Studying the Effects of Indigenous San Drop Out Rates in South Africa

Linda Daniels

March 31, 2013

Poverty and feeling left out of the dominant culture has seen record numbers of the indigenous San drop out of the formal schooling system in Southern Africa...

Smithsonian Forums on the Living Indigenous Legacies of the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico

Rick Kearns

March 29, 2013

The Taino presence in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico can be found in the people and the cultures according to scholars conducting research in both places...

Panda-Harper Memes Fly as Prime Minister Jets to Toronto Instead of Greeting Nishiyuu Walkers

ICTMN Staff

March 27, 2013

As the Nishiyuu walkers basked in the glow of their triumphant arrival in Ottawa after a 900-mile snowshoe trek from remote Whapmagoostui, Quebec, on March 26, the memes started fl...

Guatemalan Mayan Community Seeks International Help for Protection

Rick Kearns

March 26, 2013

The Maya Q’eqchi Agua Caliente community of Guatemala, some of whose members have been killed, threatened and tortured while trying to defend their territory from a mining company,...

Be It "Panda-ring" or "Panda-monium," Stephen Harper Welcomes Iconic Chinese Bears for 10-Year Stay

ICTMN Staff

March 25, 2013

Debate swirls over the piping of bituminous crude through pristine aboriginal territory to the British Columbia coast, destined for China...

Germany's Obsession With American Indians Is Touching—And Occasionally Surreal

Red Haircrow

March 23, 2013

Jürgen Michaelis, who lives near Dresden, was standing in front of the small, improvised tipi he keeps in his back garden, wearing a homemade deerskin suit and a matted black wig t...

Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Author of Iconic Novel Condemning Colonialism in Africa, Walks On at Age 82

ICTMN Staff

March 23, 2013

Chinua Achebe, author of the iconic novel that changed perceptions about indigenous culture by portraying colonialism from an African viewpoint, has died at age 82...