Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 72)

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

Bolivia Looks to Land Redistribution

By Sara Shahriari

April 05, 2011

When flying over Bolivia’s highlands, the flat brown plains dotted by small farms seem endless...

Bill Clinton Joins Brazilian Indigenous in Fight Against Belo Monte

Rick Kearns

April 04, 2011

Former President Bill Clinton has added his voice to the growing chorus of celebrities and indigenous people in Brazil who oppose the construction of the massive Belo Monte hydroel...

Seaweed Okay to Eat in British Columbia, Authorities Say

ICTMN Staff

April 03, 2011

Although seaweed tested in Barkley Sound has tested positive for the radioactive isotopes Iodine 131 and Cesium 137, with Japan’s leaky reactors as the probable culprit via the jet...

Reporter Travels Through Texaco’s Rainforest

ICTMN Staff

April 03, 2011

With oil exploration still a major issue within the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, and the recent rulings against Texaco, many are left wondering what the environmental impact could...

Indians Set Up Guard Posts to Protect Uncontacted Tribes

ICTMN Staff

March 29, 2011

There are an estimated 15 uncontacted indigenous tribes in Peru, all of which are being threatened by illegal logging that is rampant throughout the Peru-Brazil border...

The First Pocahontas May Have Been a Viking

ICTMN Staff

March 24, 2011

Genes from the Beotuk, a long-extinct branch of Canada's aboriginal peoples, have shown up in samples of 80 people from Iceland, a team of anthropologists and geneticists has revea...

Native Veteran Recalls Wartime Radiation

Carol Berry

March 22, 2011

It was a perfect day in the South Pacific—it had to be, for the military operation to take place—when one Native man underwent experiences he relates to the nuclear catastrophe occ...

U.N. Focuses on Cities for World Water Day 2011

ICTMN Staff

March 22, 2011

With 884 million, or one in eight people, lacking access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion without toilets, the United Nations marked World Water Day with a call to attend to ...

Report Finds Canada's Boreal Forest Key to World's Survival

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2011

Canada may hold the key to the world’s survival, steward as it is of the world’s largest intact forest, which contains more unfrozen water than any other ecosystem, a major U.S...

UN Preparatory Caucus Meeting March 19-20

ICTMN Staff

March 18, 2011

This weekend the Blue Lake Hotel & Casino, Blue Lake, Calif., will accommodate 200 indigenous peoples from more than 80 tribal nations from throughout North America for the Nor...