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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Yellow and green feathers radiating from his headdress, Davi Kopenawa strode onto the parade route with a mission in mind.…
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Yellow and green feathers radiating from his headdress, Davi Kopenawa strode onto the parade route with a mission in mind.…
First, she heard a ping, then the sound of something hitting her boat. It was 1975, and Norma Cagey, only 18 years old at the…
In short: An estimated 13,000 people who lost money to failed funeral insurer Youpla will be covered by a government plan to resolve the issue.The company…
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has denied his government has failed to outline a way forward on Indigenous policy following last year's unsuccessful Voice referendum.In his…
In short: The CLLMM Research Centre in Goolwa, SA aims to combine local, First Nations and scientific knowledge.Research conducted there will focus on climate change and adaptation strategies…
In December 2022, Brazilian media published photos of malnourished Yanomami children which shocked the nation. The Indigenous peoples of the Amazon had long lived off…
GUATEMALA CITY — One of Debora Fadul’s earliest childhood memories is traveling in the backseat of her family’s sedan as her father negotiated long, windy roads…
In Yorta Yorta, the Goulburn River is known as Kaiela.The river snakes through northern Victoria, and communities including Shepparton and Mooroopna have been developed along…
About 3,000 Maori leaders and representatives will travel from all over New Zealand for a national meeting, or hui. The hui on Saturday will be…
While the national debate over celebrating Australia Day on January 26 rages on, one town in WA's Wheatbelt will celebrate three days of Indigenous culture…
Australian all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner has been playing cricket at the elite level for almost a decade, but her most dominate year yet came in 2023.WARNING:…
Melbourne, Australia – In October this year, a referendum to establish an Indigenous “Voice to Parliament” in the Australian Constitution was heavily defeated at the…
Shepparton, Australia – Brad Boon gestures towards the towering mural, one of many that dot the small rural town of Shepparton in Australia’s southeastern state…
The frame of the old four-wheel drive rattles as it turns off the Bruce Highway onto an unassuming gravel dirt road.The surrounding paddocks and scrubland…
Roads, rates and rubbish are the cornerstones of local governments across Australia, but in Cherbourg in southern Queensland the Indigenous council has added ham deliveries…
For more than a decade, architect Julio Ñanco Antilef has campaigned to rewrite Chile’s constitution, a relic from when General Augusto Pinochet ruled the country…
Carbon markets, a popular mechanism used by global businesses and countries to offset their emissions, have been on the table during negotiations at the United…
Right-leaning coalition has pledged to review affirmative action and remove references to treaty with Maori people. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in…
Every fall, Barry McCovey, a member of the Yurok Tribe and director of tribal fisheries, takes his four children salmon fishing on the Klamath River,…
A man in his 20s has been bitten by a shark off the coast of Cape York peninsula in far north Queensland.A Queensland Ambulance Service…