Some U.S. states celebrate indigenous people instead of Christopher Columbus
A handful of states are celebrating their first Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday as part of a trend to move away from a day honoring Christopher Columbus. New Mexico, Vermont and Maine are among the latest to pass measures doing away with Columbus Day celebrations ...
After violence, indigenous Ecuadorians defy curfew and return to Quito's streets ahead of talks
Residents of Ecuador's capital ventured out into the streets Sunday despite a 24-hour military curfew, picking their way through piles of burnt tires, chunks of pavement and tree trunks smoldering after a day of violent protests across Quito. The government and indigenous protesters planned to ...
Indigenous protesters hold police after five are killed in Ecuador clashes
Indigenous groups in Ecuador seized eight police officers Thursday amid protests over fuel price hikes that officials said have so far killed five people, including an indigenous leader. The uniformed officers, including a woman, were seized during a tense standoff in Quito and put on ...
Long a New Mexico icon, Spanish conquistador faces attacks
The Spanish conquistador is an image found throughout New Mexico, the most Hispanic state in the United States. Depictions of such men as the 17th-century explorers Don Juan de Onate and Don Diego de Vargas have long adorned murals and been honored at commemorations as ...
Catholic bishops face opposition as they consider married priests in remote Amazon
At dusk in this small indigenous village, Antelmo Pereira calls Catholics to prayer, changes into a white robe and leads a religious service that is the closest thing the faithful in this remote part of the Amazon can get to a proper Mass. Speaking in ...
Leaders of seven Amazon nations meet to bolster rainforest protection as fires rage on
Presidents and ministers from seven Amazon countries met in Colombia on Friday to agree on measures to protect the world's biggest rainforest, under threat from wildfires and rampant deforestation. The summit took place in the wake of an international outcry over months of raging fires ...
A museum in Hokkaido is holding a rare exhibition on the culture of the Sami, an indigenous people of northern Europe and Russia, displaying some 140 items including their craftworks through Oct. 14. Such an exhibition focused on their culture is very rare, according to ...
Samoan diaspora ink bonds with ancestors and motherland
Oliver Fagalilo takes a labored breath and tenses his body before a sharp steel comb, dipped in ink, is driven into his skin. Six hands keep him still and his skin taut as a Samoan artist works on the traditional tattoo that will cover more ...
Young Maori women on frontline of New Zealand's fight for indigenous rights
Five years ago, law graduate Pania Newton and her cousins got together around a kitchen table and agreed to do everything in their power to prevent a housing development on a south Auckland site that is considered sacred by local Maori. Newton, now 29, is ...
Why the U.S. owes Central America
Today's refugee wave is a direct consequence of U.S. interference in Latin America's political and economic development.
Groups representing Tasmania's Aboriginal communities divided over new place-naming policy
The sandstone rock shelters on Tasmania's Mount Wellington were built by indigenous tribes thousands of years ago, but it was only in 2014 that the mountain started officially being called by its indigenous name, Kunanyi. The name comes from the Aboriginal language palawa kani, which ...
Brazil indigenous chief Raoni meets pope as Amazon threat rises
Pope Francis on Monday met Brazil's legendary indigenous chief Raoni, who is on a European tour to highlight increasingly acute threats to the Amazon since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro took power. The elderly Kayapo chief, internationally recognizable through his traditional lip plate and feather headdress, ...
