World Indigenous Conference: Melding Conservation and Land Rights

Sara Shahriari
June 07, 2013
Conservation seems like a 100-percent great idea. Who wouldn't want to protect diverse natural areas from logging, over-hunting or environmental contamination?...

Worldwide Protests Demand Protection for Peru's Uncontacted Tribes

ICTMN Staff
April 23, 2013
In cities around the world today, Survival International supporters held protests outside Peruvian embassies and consulates – seeking an end to the deadly expansion of the Camisea ...

French Judge Rules that Auction of Hopi Katsinam Can Proceed

ICTMN Staff
April 12, 2013
An attempt to halt an auction in Paris of 70 katsinam considered sacred by the Hopi Tribe has failed, with a Parisian judge ruling that the items are not protected under a French l...

Judge Will Hear Argument Against Sale of Hopi Katsinam in Paris

ICTMN Staff
April 10, 2013
On Thursday, April 11, a judge in Paris will hear arguments from a lawyer regarding the legality of a large auction of Hopi katsinam...

The Tribe’s the Thing: Exploring the Future of Tribal Peoples

Sara Shahriari
March 11, 2012
Stephen Corry’s Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow’s World : A Guide (Survival International, 2011) offers a galloping overview of the history and modern challenges faced by its title sub...

Police Linked to ‘Human Safaris’ in Latest Video

ICTMN Staff
February 06, 2012
When a video hit the Internet recently of tourists offering food to members of the indigenous Jarawa Tribe on the Andaman Islands in India as a reward for their dancing, attention ...

Isolated Mashco-Piro Tribe Sightings Come With a Risk

ICTMN Staff
January 31, 2012
A clan of Mashco-Piro Indians, a small tribe of previously isolated Amazon Indians in Peru, have been appearing along the riverbank in Madre de Dios with a message to tourists and ...

Brazil: Guarani Leader Slain by Masked Gunmen

Bill Weinberg
November 21, 2011
A hit squad of some 40 masked gunmen on November 18 executed a cacique or traditional leader of Brazil’s Kaiowa-Guarani people...

Indigenous Children in Venezuela Dying

ICTMN Staff
April 27, 2011
For one Warao indigenous community in Venezuela the last 13 days have been filled with health issues...

Threatened Amazon Tribes Fight Back

David Dudenhoefer
April 15, 2011
The BBC footage shot last year from a small plane over the rain forest of western Brazil resembles a scene from Avatar ...

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