The Latest Breaking News on Native America

As the U.N. weighs ocean floor mining, Hawai'i just banned the practice

Although deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon have halved, it is still losing more than 5,000km² every year. That’s an area three times larger than Greater London.

A man who killed two Alaska Native women and was heard while videotaping the torture death of one say that in his movies “everybody always dies” was sentenced in Anchorage Friday to 226 years in prison

Quinault Indian Nation, in Washington state, has spent at least a decade working to relocate hundreds of people whose homes are threatened by a rising Pacific Ocean

Powwow singing from Joe Rainey and Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings blends with electronic production on a spirited album that reframes a rich cultural tradition

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