Indigenous and Aboriginal News from Around the World (Page 9)

CO2 Has Arrived at Highest Level Since Before the First Peoples: NOAA

The last time carbon dioxide was at this level in Mother...

One Annular Sensation: Ring of Fire Eclipse Livestreaming From Australia—See it Right Here, Right Now

The sun and moon are at it again, and this time, like last...

Peruvian Official Resigns Following Indigenous Consultation Disputes

A top Peruvian government official responsible for...

Dancing With the Stars Over the Ancient City of Teotihuacan, Mexico

First the big dipper drifts into view, then the stars...

José Barreiro Bridges Two Realities and Two Worlds With Taíno: A Novel

The Taíno were the first to greet Christopher Columbus when...

President Morales Expels USAID on Charges of Interference

For the second time since 2008, Bolivian President Evo...

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World News

A Model Down Under? 'How New Zealand's Chiefs Handle Native Peoples' Iconography & Naming'

ICTMN Staff

February 16, 2013

Uni-Watch.com, which has thoughtfully and extensively covered the ongoing controversy over the use of Native imagery and native in athletics, has a fascinating column today concern...

Smackdown: Russian Fireball Upstages Asteroid Swipe Over Mother Earth

ICTMN Staff

February 16, 2013

If Friday February 15 had been scripted in a sci-fi movie, it wouldn’t have been believable...

New Bolivian Ambassador to Ecuador Is Indigenous Woman Leader

Rick Kearns

February 15, 2013

For the first time in history the new Bolivian Ambassador to Ecuador is an indigenous woman, Rusena Maribel Santamaria Mamani, a former leader of a women’s agricultural union...

What Wrestling Means to the World

T.R. Foley

February 15, 2013

Wrestling is an inextricable aspect from the human experience...

Meteor Explodes in Fireball Over Ural Mountains, Injuring 500 and Blowing Out Windows in Russian City

ICTMN Staff

February 15, 2013

A meteor streaked across the early-morning sky in Russia and exploded into a fireball on Friday over the industrial city of Chelyabinsk, in the Ural Mountains...

State of the Union: Obama Vows to Step Up on Climate Change if Congress Doesn't

ICTMN Staff

February 13, 2013

Having mentioned climate change in his inaugural address, President Barack Obama devoted a brief section to the crisis in his State of the Union message on February 12...

Samia Maldonado, Kichwa Filmmaker Uses Film to Recovery the Kichwa Culture

Dominique Godrèche

February 12, 2013

Samia Maldonado a Kichwa psychologist turned filmmaker from Otavalo, Ecuador was in Paris to present her documentary Mindalae during the Geneva film festival – Filmar por Latin Ame...

U.S. State Department Asks Sonny Skyhawk to Be Cultural Ambassador

ICTMN Staff

February 11, 2013

Sonny Skyhawk, Rosebud Sioux, an accomplished actor and activist, has been asked by the U.S...

Former Guatemalan President on Trial for Genocide Against Mayan Citizens and Others

Rick Kearns

February 07, 2013

On January 28, a Guatemalan judge announced that General and former President Jose Efrain Rios Montt along with his chief of intelligence Jose Rodriguez Sanchez could be tried for ...

Tsunami Levels Villages in Solomon Islands After 8.0 Earthquake

ICTMN Staff

February 06, 2013

At least five people have been killed in a tsunami that swept across the western Solomon Islands after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake on February 6, though officials are still searchi...