Indigenous leaders give the UN a roadmap for protecting their peoples

A new 12-point plan calls for stronger protections for Indigenous rights, lands, and voices as climate change, conflict, and other threats intensify.

A model Indigenous territory in Brazil’s Amazon seeks protection from criminal gangs

Gangs and drug traffickers are increasingly encroaching on Ashaninka land and using the rivers in the Amazon and adjacent ...

As climate change threatens their lands, Indigenous nations demand more power at the UN

This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. The Arctic is warming four times faster than other regions, a ...

Aboriginal people harvested channel millet for thousands of years, and scientists have now found the native grass carries 12 copies of each chromosome

Channel millet, a native grass, possesses twelve chromosome copies, a trait linked to domestication. Mithaka people utilized ...

Aboriginal people harvested this native grass for millennia: Scientists find an odd trait in its DNA

Seen from the air, Channel Country resembles a vibrant, vast tapestry, with a network of waterways crisscrossing the land.

Mapping how the U.S. forcibly took Indigenous lands

Not long after the Great American Experiment began, the newly established nation set its sights west. Here's how a series of conflicts, forged treaties, and forced migration led to the loss of a ...
Los Angeles Times

These Indigenous people are fighting to keep their languages alive

For many diasporic Latines, an inevitable argument arises around identity and language. If you don’t speak the primary language of your home country, whether that’s Spanish, French or Portuguese, the ...
Phys.org

Aboriginal people made pottery, sailed to distant islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived

Aboriginal people made pottery, sailed to distant islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived by Sean Ulm, Ian J. McNiven and Kenneth McLean, The Conversation Editors' notes Add as preferred ...
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What is Indigenous Peoples’ Day? Why we celebrate it over Columbus Day

Indigenous Peoples’ Day honors the truth about the American soil we live on. Set on the second Monday of every October, the day serves as a counter-celebration to Columbus Day. It recognizes the ...

Group of Indigenous Taiwanese row over 100 miles to recreate their ancestors' journey

Indigenous people in Taiwan complete a journey to the Philippines in a traditional rowboat, recreating a journey their ancestors made thousands of years ago.

Aboriginal people harvested this native grass for millennia. Scientists have now found an odd trait in its DNA

Natural selection may not be the only force that has contributed to the evolution of channel millet’s unusual genetics.