NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES remain plagued by near-epidemic levels of unresolved violence, according to a report at an Aug. 2 ...

The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is observed annually on August 9 to raise awareness and promote the ...

Part, Four-Hour Film Traces the Near Demise – and Ultimate Return – of the U.S. National Mammal, While Examining the Species’ ...

Will a third time be a charm? Virginia Democrats will soon mark the third straight year that they’re proposing to make ...

State Democrats plan to make Indigenous People’s Day an official holiday in Virginia and will discuss the proposal in the ...

Why do Native American people feel it is important to remind others that “we are still here”? How did the massive land ...

An Indigenous scholar explains how starvation was used to acquire the lands of Indigenous peoples. Her great-grandparents ...

In 1791, President George Washington ordered Secretary of War Henry Knox to destroy farms and livestock of the Wea Tribe that ...

Mexican-American clothing designer Willy Chavarria has apologized for an Adidas sandal that he created after being accused by ...

Consultation. An international treaty, the International Labor Organization Convention 169 (1989), calls for governments to consult indigenous people about development projects on their lands.

Dunbar-Ortiz calls this “profit-based religion,” and it was what proved devastating for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas when those tactics were brought across the ocean.

While indigenous peoples make up 8 percent of the population in the region, they represent approximately 14 percent of the poor and 17 percent of the extremely poor in Latin America. Also, they still ...