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Book Review: Asserting Native Resilience – Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis

Extreme weather events forced an awareness of urgent climate disruptions this year, with July 2012 being the hottest month... Read More

Prey Lang’s Hope For a Sustainable Future

Prey Lang, ‘Our Forest’ in the indigenous Kuy language, is a precious and important example of evergreen and semi-evergreen... Read More

Boycott Weyerhaeuser – Stop Logging in the Traditional Territory of Grassy Narrows First Nation

Join the Boreal Forest Network, the Boreal Action Project and the Winnipeg Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement in calling for... Read More

We Won The Battle, Not The War: IEN Statement On The Keystone XL Pipeline Decision

In the statement below, the Indigenous Environmental Network comments on the Obama Administration’s move to delay its decision on... Read More

Hundreds Occupy Belo Monte Dam Site in Brazilian Amazon

An estimated 600 Indigenous people, fishermen, and others from the Xingu River basin have gathered to occupy the construction... Read More

Community Wants to Hold De Beers Accountable for Legacy at Namaqualand Mine

Hondeklipbaai, a small community located on northwest coast of South Africa, is trying to stop the world’s largest diamond... Read More

Open-cast Coal Mining Threatens Indigenous Villagers in Jharkhand, India

The expansion of open-cast coal mining operations in Jharkhand’s Northern Karanpura Valley poses a major threat to the region’s... Read More

Brazil Judge suspends work on Belo Monte dam over risks to local fishing

A Federal judge in Brazil has suspended work on the controversial Belo Monte dam project, citing concerns that it... Read More

Still time to stop controversial 8,100 acre coal mine near Alaskan community

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources (ADNR) is now accepting public comments on the Wishbone Hill coal strip mine–a... Read More

Murphy Oil faced with Indigenous women’s blockade on fracking site

A group of women from the Kainai Nation have confronted the US oil company Murphy Oil, at a fracking... Read More

Amazon Communities Break Off Negotiations With Maple Energy Over Six Oil Spills

Two Shipibo communites in the Peurvian Amazon have broken off negotiations with Maple Gas Corporation del Peru SRL., over... Read More

Calling all Defenders: Mobilize for the San Francisco Peaks!

Calling all defenders: Plans are underway for a nationwide protest in defense of the San Francisco Peaks in north... Read More

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Well, it looks like sooner or later, Your glorious Government is going to have to write a very large check every week to cover several thousand Native families grocery bills....
I blows my mind to witness this behavior from people's whom run this country and the USA! They ( the so called leaders of countries) should be the ones leading...
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...

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