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Contaminated culture: Native people struggle with tainted resources, lost identity

For the Anishinaabe people at the southernmost tip of Lake Huron, cedar is not just a tree – it... Read More

Unnatural Disaster: The Psychophysical Effects of Environmental Racism

In this one-hour talk, Taiaiake Alfred explores the Psychophysical Effects of Environmental Racism especially as it pertains to the... Read More

Tribes Demand California Stop Allowing PacifiCorp to Stall Klamath Toxin Regulations

Tribal leaders from the Hoopa Valley Tribe and the Resighini Rancheria, concerned citizens and environmental groups gathered this week... Read More

Serious Health Crisis In The Siria Valley, Honduras Caused By Goldcorp Inc.

The following photo report is meant to inform the international community about the serious health crisis in the Siria... Read More

North Dakota Shale Boom Displaces Tribal Residents

Heather Youngbird and Crystal Deegan used to live in a trailer at the Prairie Winds Mobile Home Park in... Read More

Bad River Chippewa Against Proposed Mining Legislation in Wisconsin

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa are working, along with several NGOs, to stop a controversial mining... Read More

Ogoni Establish Their Own Environmental Protection Agency

The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), an Ogoni-based non-governmental, non-political organization for the Ogoni people of... Read More

Protect Our Manoomin: For the Present Generation to the Seventh Generation

The following statement was delivered by Veronica Smith, Fond du Lac Ojibwe Nation, to the Occupy Duluth General Assembly... 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

The Scars of Mercury

‘The Scars of Mercury’ explores the processes that threaten the destruction of a traditional and contemporary Indigenous hunting, fishing... 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

Over 200 Arrested in Ongoing Protest Against Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline

Another fifty-two environmental activists were arrested on Monday for taking part in the Tar Sands Action, a peaceful two-week... 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...

"In a media landscape made up of lies, flash, giant blind spots and corporatized sites of distraction, Intercontinental Cry is a trustworthy pathway to the truth where people who are committed to understanding Indigenous realities can gain insight and information to illuminate and activate their struggles."

Taiaiake Alfred
Professor of Indigenous Governance at UVIC and author of Wasáse
Hair of the Dog