After three decades of drafts, deliberations and delays, the United Nations General Assembly voted on September 13 to adopt the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples...

GENEVA—The current round of negotiations on the United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples came to a close on February 3 with nearly two-thirds of the pro...

GENEVA—Native delegations at the United Nations are making progress in negotiations toward the eventual adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, an unpreced...

GENEVA—Now that the U.N...

The truth about the boarding school era is told in a film through the tears of the Indian people who lived in those days and through their stories, difficult to tell and to hear be...

Peru Environment Minister Antonio Brack is countering charges by the indigenous advocacy group Survival International that Peru President Alan Garcia failed to act after detecting ...

Sacramento, CA—Safe drinking water is becoming more and more of an issue in California, with up to 8.5 million residents forced to rely on water supplies that have been deemed unsa...

First Nations citizens living on reserve will soon be able to file discrimination complaints through the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA), and the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian...

Three Canadians are part of a 16-person team from around the world that is setting out to break a record for rowing east to west across the Atlantic, departing from Agadir, Morocco...

Native American families in Western New York continue to feel the impact of Thomas Indian School and Mohawk Institute, also known as the Mush Hole , — Native American boarding scho...