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

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

Indigenous Russian Delegation Shares Concerns at Akwesasne

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2013

A delegation of six indigenous leaders from the Russian Far East visited the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe at Akwesasne Territory in February to discuss issues concerning the environmen...

First Day of Spring Brings the Light, but not a Hint of Heat

ICTMN Staff

March 20, 2013

It’s the first day of spring, when day and night are just about equal in length. The moment occurred at 7:02 a.m. Eastern Time today...

'The Sapphires' Tells the Story of the Aboriginal Supremes

Eisa Ulen Richardson

March 15, 2013

Too often, movies about brown people devolve very quickly into movies about a single white person surrounded by brown people...

International Wildlife Trade Group Votes to Protect Hundreds of Species

ICTMN Staff

March 14, 2013

In its final plenary vote, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) formalized the protection of hundreds of species, including m...

Video: New Zealand Black Sox Perform Maori Haka Before ISF World Softball Championships Game

ICTMN Staff

March 14, 2013

The recently concluded ISF World Softball Championships finished familiarly: The New Zealand Black Sox, the country's national men's softball squad, took the title, their sixth ove...

Balancing Economic and Social Development in Peruvian Mining Communities

ICTMN Staff

March 14, 2013

In January 2013, at least a dozen people were injured in clashes between police and members of a Quechua community at Candente Copper Corporation's Canariaco Mine in northwestern P...

Indian Country Responds to the International Olympic Committee Putting Wrestling on the Chopping Block

Vincent Schilling

March 14, 2013

In February, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Switzerland announced that wrestling will likely be voted out of the Olympics...

New Pope Named as Natives Push for Recant of Doctrine of Discovery

ICTMN Staff

March 13, 2013

White smoke rose from the chimney in Vatican City Wednesday morning letting the world know a new Pope had been chosen...

African Development Bank Addresses Indigenous Issues

ICTMN Staff

March 13, 2013

On February 12, the African Development Bank (ADB) hosted a forum to discuss how Indigenous Peoples’ rights and interests can be integrated into the bank’s policies and development...

Fewer Sharks to Land in Soup Pot, Thanks to New International Protections

ICTMN Staff

March 12, 2013

Conservationists are eagerly awaiting this week’s plenary vote on shark protections at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), after more than two thir...