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Biocultural Community Protocols: Articulating and Asserting Stewardship

Protocols developed by Indigenous peoples or mobile or local communities (“community protocols”) are gaining recognition as a useful means... Read More

An Ainu Maori Exchange

A group of 7 Ainu youth from Ainumosir (Hokkaido) are a mere one day away from setting out on... Read More

Government of Altai Republic Passes Law to Protect Sacred Sites

Late last month, the regional government of the Altai Republic in south-central Russia reviewed and passed a new decree... Read More

Lawsuit Filed to Stop Clearcutting of Sacred Redwood Forest

Three environmental groups filed a lawsuit this week to stop a controversial forest-to-vineyard conversion project in northwest Sonoma County,... Read More

Song on the Water

“Song on the Water” takes viewers along with 50 indigenous canoes, their crews, and communities on a modern-day voyage... Read More

Sacred Village and Burial Site ‘happily desecrated’ for Palomar College and Pardee Homes

Tomkav, a Luiseno village and burial site in Northern San Diego County, is being happily desecrated by developers working... Read More

The Traditional-Assimilated Continuum

Joyce Silverthorne, a citizen of the Salish Nation, discusses the fundamental conflict of living in two worlds and the... Read More

Time to turn back the tide of assimilation in Northern Territory, Australia

Laura Baymarrwangga, senior traditional owner of Murrungga Island and one of the last remaining Yan-nhangu speakers, is setting a... Read More

O’odham Sacred Site of Quitovac Threatened By ‘a Low Cost’ Heap Leach Gold Mine

After being saved from a toxic waste dump more than three years ago, the O’odham Sacred site of Quitovac... Read More

A Voice in the Desert

A film by Jason Jaacks of Cordellera Productions, A Voice in the Desert examines a cultural unity that has... Read More

De-Occupy Rattlesnake Island! Protesters Demonstrate Against Desecration of Sacred Land at John Nady’s Home

Some 200 Indigenous people and supporters recently marched to the home of John Nady, a millionaire who is desecrating... Read More

Australia: Traditional Owners Claim Victory Over Controversial Land Grab

Traditional land owners won a major victory this month in their long running battle against the proposed Woodside gas... Read More

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Not to mention the fact that Indigenous Peoples have specific needs that settler populations generally do not posses, like requiring access to specific land areas to maintain culture, language, the...
It's true in a sense--we're all indigenous to somewhere--however, there are fundamental differences between populations who identify as "indigenous" and those who no longer follow a traditional way of life....
There is a need to recognize that all people are indigenous to this planet. We are one human race beholden to the mother that nurtures us. We must unite under...
Well, I think, unfortunately, passive complaints of PM Harper selling our land & water for basically nothing, are getting nowhere. Time to move up the ladder of complaining. Watch your...
It is instructive to see how mental, spiritual and physical health coincide in the indigenous philosophy, while the progressive view remains trapped in a treatment rather than preventive mode. It...
Kia ora, I would like to say unless they, ( those who say no more Full- Blooded Maori), know the whakapapa of every single Maori in Aotearoa, they should just...
Mohawk??I stand and prepared to back my people at any and all cost...
I have worked with, lived with, and been around Copala Triquis for the past 12 years, and have researched extensively the political oppression in teh region - ever since the...

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