Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 73)

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...

What Lies Beneath: Digitally Denuded Antarctic Shows Land Mass Stripped of Ice

The sprawling land mass that is Antarctica—under all that...

Hupacasath First Nation Heads to Court Over Canada-China Treaty, Holds June 5 Day of Action

A small Vancouver Island First Nation is taking the federal...

Etsy Feather Controversy Goes International

A teepee-maker and self-styled defender of Native rights...

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World News

Maka Indian chief Without a Male Heir

ICTMN Staff

April 22, 2011

On April 19, indigenous people throughout Brazil, Paraguay and Venezuela, gathered to celebrate American Indigenous International Day...

Peru Awajun Tribe Retains Alleged Miners

Renzo Pipoli

April 19, 2011

Members of the Awajun Tribe, living in the northern Peruvian border with Ecuador were retaining as of Tuesday morning as many as eight people still unidentified who were caught cam...

Uncontacted Tribes to be Featured on Discovery’s Human Planet

ICTMN Staff

April 16, 2011

According to a Survival International press release, the endangered uncontacted tribes in the Brazilian Amazon, recently reported on by Indian Country Today Media Network will be f...

Malaria Outbreak Could be Fatal to Isolated People

Rick Kearns

April 16, 2011

Indigenous advocates are warning that isolated peoples living near part of the Madeira dam complex are in grave danger of contracting malaria due to an outbreak in the region...

Threatened Amazon Tribes Fight Back

David Dudenhoefer

April 15, 2011

The BBC footage shot last year from a small plane over the rain forest of western Brazil resembles a scene from Avatar ...

More Puerto Ricans Identify Themselves as Indian, According to Latest Census

Rick Kearns

April 15, 2011

Close to 20,000 people in Puerto Rico identified themselves as “American Indian” in the 2010 U.S...

Bolivia Moves to Give Mother Earth Same Rights as Humans

ICTMN Staff

April 14, 2011

For American Indians, First Nations, indigenous and aboriginal communities throughout the world the relationship with Mother Earth has always been strong...

Indigenous Students a Priority in Australia

ICTMN Staff

April 13, 2011

Education awareness for indigenous Australians has been increased recently as some institutions have begun creating leadership posts in hopes of increasing the numbers of indigenou...

Indigenous Leaders Meet About Health Care

ICTMN Staff

April 12, 2011

Health care for indigenous in Brazil can be related in ways like health care services in the United States for American Indians. The quality is lacking...

Peru Confrontations Leave Three Dead, Police Averts Massacre

Renzo Pipoli

April 11, 2011

Confrontations between a group of some 1,200 police who had been deployed to try to contain growing popular unrest and some 4,000 farmers who opposed a copper mine project left thr...