Zapatista indigenous rebels extend control over areas in southern Mexico
Mexico's Zapatista indigenous rebel group announced that it is extending its control over so-called "autonomous" zones to 11 more areas in the southern state of Chiapas. The Zapatistas do not hide their dislike of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, but when he was asked about ...
Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren offers apology over claim to tribal heritage
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren offered a public apology Monday to Native Americans over her past claim to tribal heritage, directly tackling an area that's proved to be her biggest political liability. "Like anyone who has been honest with themselves, I know I have made ...
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.
Giant telescope backers to seek permit for alternative site in Canaries amid Hawaii protests
The director of a Spanish research center said Monday that the international consortium that wants to build a giant telescope on Hawaii's tallest peak despite protests from Native Hawaiians has decided to seek a building permit for an alternative site in the Canary Islands. Canary ...
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, ...
Canada's Trudeau exonerates Cree chief wrongly imprisoned in 1885
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has been criticized by some indigenous communities, on Thursday apologized and posthumously exonerated a Cree chief unjustly imprisoned for treason more than 130 years ago. The Liberal prime minister received widespread support from Canada's First Nations when he ran ...
In bid to rally support for Amazon, Brazil's indigenous chief Raoni ventures to Europe
Brazil's legendary indigenous chief, Raoni, headed to Paris on Sunday for the start of a three-week tour across Europe where he will meet heads of state, celebrities and the pope to highlight growing threats to the Amazon. The elderly Kayapo chief, internationally recognizable through his ...
Indigenous Australians to challenge government at U.N. over climate change as human rights violation
Indigenous residents of low-lying islands off northern Australia will submit a landmark complaint with the United Nations on Monday accusing the government of violating their human rights by failing to tackle climate change. The Torres Strait Islanders will tell the U.N. Human Rights Committee in ...
China and U.S. clash as Beijing wins seat on U.N. indigenous peoples forum despite Uighur detentions
China assailed the United States on Tuesday for calling on countries to deprive Beijing of a seat at a U.N. forum over its treatment of the Uighur minority. It was the second time in as many weeks that the two countries openly clashed at the ...
