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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brazil's government says it is working with Peru to protect border Indigenous lands

Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples said it has signed a memorandum with Peru’s Ministry of Culture to protect Indigenous ...
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 ...

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.

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 ...

First Nations people face racism in hospitals. They told us one thing makes a difference

We know First Nations people encounter frequent and pervasive racism in every facet of their daily lives. But since the 2023 ...
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'Create change': Why these Indigenous entrepreneurs are leaning into AI

Shani Gwin's foray into the world of artificial intelligence began with a problem.