On a recent visit to Paraguay , Kyung-wha Kang, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, noted that the government has made progress to protect and respect Indigenous Peoples’...

In a case reminiscent of the movie Avatar, a tree symbolic to the Cofán people of southern Colombia is threatened by construction of a military base...

The epidemic of witchcraft hysteria which broke out in Salem, Massachusetts at the end of the 17 th century was as virulent as the scourge of smallpox that had decimated the Indige...

This week hundreds of indigenous Bolivians returned home after successfully pushing the government of President Evo Morales to ban a highway that would have bisected the National P...

Indigenous Peoples in South Africa have reacted with cautious optimism to President Jacob Zuma's announcement of a National Traditional Leaders Bill...

A bone projectile point found in a mastodon rib discovered in S’Klallam’s historical territory in 1977 has been confirmed to be 13,800 years old – 800 years older than stone tools ...

Indigenous elementary school students in Mexico have improved their test scores in Math and Spanish again this year according to results from a national comprehensive exam, and the...

The fall temperatures were mild but the rhetoric was heated as some of the 1,000-strong Occupy Denver participants heard Glenn Morris, a leader of the American Indian Movement – Co...

Indigenous Bolivians from the National Park and Indigenous Territory Isiboro Secure (TIPNIS) won a major concession from President Evo Morales today...

For the first time in Costa Rican history an indigenous community has successfully sued to recover territory that had been theirs according to earlier rulings...