A reality television series filmed in Machiguenga communities in the Peruvian Amazon misrepresented the tribe and reinforced stereotypes, says an anthropologist who has studied the...
On August 15 several hundred people from lowland Bolivia began a 350 mile, month long march toward the government’s seat in La Paz to protest a highway that will cut through a larg...
In this video, United Nations Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya discusses the cultures of the indigenous people and being threatened and ways to help prot...
The Brazilian government sent security forces to a remote area near the border with Peru after armed men attacked a guard post set up to protect indigenous people living in isolati...
Mapuche students in Chile have brought the issue of a Mapuche University with a focus on indigenous knowledge and history to the attention of the entire nation, and garnered suppor...
That someone will copy or even steal an idea is something most artists have to contend with. But with Indigenous artists, the risk may be even higher...