The Latest Breaking News on Native America

On a warm night in tropical Rio de Janeiro, a who's who of the literary and cultural scene descend on the palatial halls of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, decked out in gold-trimmed uniforms.

Colombia's Constitutional Court on Wednesday annulled a controversial carbon credit deal in the Amazon rainforest, which six local tribes said had been signed without their consent.

The man ‘assembled a Glock-style handgun from parts he ordered online’, according to police

Miskito and other groups demand government action against criminal forces behind an unprecedented wave of deforestation in their territory

Spearfishing connects many Indigenous people in the northern Great Lakes region to their ancestors and to a sense of shared responsibility for the land, which is why parents, family members, local leaders and community organizations are so invested in teaching the next generation

Residents of one of the South’s last Gullah-Geechee communities of Black slave descendants have submitted signatures in hopes that they can force a referendum on whether to reverse zoning changes that they fear will make them sell their land

A fraught and violent history for centuries disrupted Indigenous people’s lives in the Upper Midwest, barring them from traditional food gathering practices like spearfishing, hunting and harvesting wild rice

Members of the Ojibwe and other tribes in the northern Great Lakes region have spearfished walleye for centuries, where the practice is a right enshrined in 19th century treaties, a historic part of their culture and an important part of food sovereignty

A Native American tribe in North Dakota is planning a sprawling greenhouse complex on its reservation

Indigenous land is disproportionately affected by wildfire and their isolated nature makes aid access difficult

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