Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 74)

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

Protests over Arrest of Indigenous Leaders by Ecuadorian Government

Rick Kearns

February 24, 2011

After the arrests of indigenous demonstrators on charges of terrorism human rights advocates and indigenous Ecuadorian leaders are asserting that President Rafael Correa is crimina...

Five Colombian Indigenous Languages ‘Nearly Extinct'

ICTMN Staff

February 24, 2011

In a study released February 21, the Ministry of Culture said that five Colombian indigenous languages are “nearly extinct” because each language has less than 60 speakers...

Ecuadorian Judge Finds Chevron Guilty of Polluting Amazon Region

David Dudenhoefer

February 18, 2011

It took 17 years, but justice has finally come for the thousands of Ecuadoreans affected by contamination left behind by Chevron...

Bolivia’s President Says Chewing Coca Is an Indigenous Right

Sara Shahriari

February 16, 2011

Bolivian President Evo Morales has vowed that his country will continue to fight for international recognition of Bolivians' right to chew the coca leaf...

Australian Football League Takes Racism Stand to U.N.

ICTMN Staff

January 21, 2011

The Australian Football League (AFL), the governing body of Australian rules football, is sending one of their greats, Andrew McLeod, to the United Nations to represent them in Gen...

Canada to Sell Seal to China

ICTMN Staff

January 13, 2011

Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea, on a trade mission in Beijing, has signed an agreement with China to export seal products, a move that Inuit groups help will fill the gap le...

Border Trash Prompts Joint US–Native Cleanup

ICTMN Staff

January 08, 2011

That 1970s image of the Indian with a single tear coursing down his cheek as he is hit by litter thrown from a passing car is being supplanted...

Next Step: ?Implementation

Gale Courey Toensing

January 06, 2011

When President Obama announced that the United States is “lending its support” to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples during the White House Tribal N...

Priest Who Allegedly Abused Inuit Arrested in Belgium

ICTMN Staff

January 06, 2011

The priest-abuse scandal currently rocking Europe is reverberating in Nunavut...

Oldest Birchbark Canoe Returning Home This Year

ICTMN Staff

January 01, 2011

This year Canada could see the repatriation of what may be the world’s oldest birchbark canoe--found in a storage barn, dating back 250 years, the tattered vessel is slated to be r...