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Brazil's Lula recognizes Indigenous territories halted by Bolsonaro

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva legally recognized six Indigenous territories on Friday, fulfilling a campaign promise to reverse the policy of his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro said Brazil's original people had too much land.

Reuters

School ages near toxic plumes as Nevada tribe calls for help

The public Owyhee Combined School in the Duck Valley Indian Reservation called on lawmakers Thursday to provide funding for a new school

The Independent UK

Funding to support oral histories in boarding school era

The National Endowment for the Humanities is supporting an effort to record oral histories and digitize records on Indigenous boarding schools

The Independent UK

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New agreements between First Nations and B.C. government a step toward fulfilling Canada's treaty obligations

Treaty 8 First Nations and the government of British Columbia have recently concluded two historical agreements on Treaty Land Entitlement and land and resource management.

The Conversation

Maasai to UN: Intervene on human rights

Maasai leaders say they have few options as Tanzanian officials lock down protected areas

Salon

Researchers discover 18th-century clay tobacco pipes were used as weapons and surgical tools

Tobacco pipes were one of the first mass-produced, disposable objects in Britain. Through contact with indigenous peoples of the Americas, tobacco pipes and tobacco were introduced to Europe as early as the 16th century, but had been used in the Americas for centuries before this.

The Conversation

Indigenous competitors celebrate culture and sport in Brazil

The first Indigenous Games of Peruibe took place last weekend to celebrate local culture and give competitors wooden medals in archery, tug of war, soccer, a Brazilian Indigenous wrestling sport named Uca-Uca, a log carrying relay race on the beach, dart blowing and others

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Left to freeze by Canada police, Darrell Night exposed their deadly ‘starlight tours’

Cree man, now dead at 56, helped reveal practice in which Saskatoon police drove Indigenous people out of city and abandoned them in sub-zero temperatures

The Guardian - US

Your mullet is more than a haircut, it's a political statement – a hair historian explains

From Paul Mescal at the Baftas to Emma Corrin’s Governors Awards “mixie” haircut, the 1970s-inspired shaggy mullet is everywhere. But the now-popular “business up front and party in the back” style has a political history stretching far beyond the red carpet and the influence of pop icons such as David…

The Conversation

Amazon Indigenous woman wins Goldman environment prize

Alessandra Korap, a Munduruku Indigenous woman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work fighting against illegal mining and large-scale projects aimed at facilitating soybean exports in the Tapajos River Basin

The Independent UK

‘They’re destroying us’: Indigenous communities fear toxic leaks from Canada oil industry

Recent leaks from oil sands tailings ponds have contaminated water, sowing mistrust among local First Nations people

The Guardian - US

‘Green colonialism’: Indigenous world leaders warn over west’s climate strategy

UN summit in New York hears how resources needed for sustainable energy threaten Indigenous land and people

The Guardian - US

Scientists Are Fighting To Save Ancient Human History From a Rising Threat

Climate change threatens to destroy humanity's past, but archaeologists around the world are fighting back.

Inverse

Haaland defends Willow, says US won't end oil drilling

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland defended her department’s approval of the contentious Willow oil project on Friday, saying that despite President Joe Biden’s campaign promise to end new drilling on federal lands, “We’re not going to turn the faucet off and say we’re not drilling anymore

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Tribes seek invitation to Rio Grande water commission

A commission that oversees how the Rio Grande is managed and shared among three Western states has adopted a recommendation that could set the stage for more involvement by Native American tribes that depend on the river

The Guardian - US

1,000-year-old Native American canoe retrieved from North Carolina lake

Elders moved to tears as members of tribe and archaeologists recover canoe discovered in Lake Waccamaw two years ago

Tribune News Service

States seek to protect tribes’ rights in child custody cases

Worried about a pending U.S. Supreme Court case, some states aim to pass new laws ensuring American Indian children can stay in their tribal communities even if they’re placed in the child welfare system.

The Conversation

After the migrant deaths in Akwesasne, Canadian immigration law must reckon with its colonial history

On March 29, two families of four died while attempting to cross the St. Lawrence River from Canada to the U.S. Their bodies were found in Akwesasne Mohawk territory which straddles the Canada-United States border.

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Activists faced a deadly year in 2022

Nearly a quarter of the activists murdered were Indigenous

Tribune News Service

Protection sought for uranium-rich land near Grand Canyon

WASHINGTON — Amid growing lawmaker interest in establishing domestic supplies of rare earth minerals, a coalition of tribal leaders, backed by some members of Congress, is calling on President Joe Biden to extend permanent protections to more than a million acres of land near the Grand Canyon that are home…

The Guardian - US

Biden urged to free Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier after decades in prison

Amnesty urges president to grant clemency to Peltier convicted of killing two FBI agents in trial rife with due process violations

The Guardian - UK

UK company mining gold in Amazon on disputed land

London-listed Serabi Gold extracting gold without approval of Brazilian land registry and Indigenous communities

Salon

Indigenous place of worship threatened

Resolution Copper is one court ruling away from destroying one of the Apaches’ holiest sites.

Tribune News Service

‘Corrupt political favoritism’: Chukchansi kicks 49 members out of tribe, more targeted

FRESNO, Calif. — Members of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians who were targeted for disenrollment earlier this year were kickedout of the tribe in March — and now a new group of more than 60 members is facing the same fate, according to an attorney representing the majority of…

The Independent UK

Tribal colleges tap US energy funds to build 'living labs'

The U.S. Department of Energy hopes to use nearly $15 million in federal grants to boost clean energy development at tribal colleges and universities around the country

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