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Yes, I did it: 22-year-old Indian pleads guilty to smuggling people across US-Canada border; $100 per head

22-year-old Shivam, an Indian man, pleaded guilty in the US for conspiring in a scheme to smuggle Indians across the US-Canada border. He was indicted in 2025 and now after he pleaded guilty, he would be sentenced on September 4. Going by the US law, Shivam is facing a mandatory…

The Times of India

Harshkumar Patel seeks to quash conviction in case linked to Indian family’s freezing deaths at US-Canada border

A US court has been asked to overturn the conviction and sentence of Harshkumar Patel, a man found guilty in a human smuggling case linked to the freezing deaths of an Indian family of four near the Manitoba–Minnesota border in 2022.

The Times of India

Official marking of land for Brazil’s uncontacted Kawahiva people begins after 27-year wait

Demarcation of 410,000 hectares of territory is intended to protect the Amazonian community from farming, illegal mining and logging

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Drug gang attacks ‘force hundreds of Indigenous families to flee’ in Mexico

Violence in Guerrero state has driven as many as 1,000 households from their homes, rights group says

The Guardian - UK

After Standing Rock, could a canceled mine project offer a roadmap for opponents of a new oil pipeline in South Dakota?

Nine groups in the Sioux Nation say an exploratory graphite drilling project endangered a recognized ceremonial site

The Guardian - US

Suspect faces 5 years in unsolved 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay

The only person ever charged in the unsolved 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay is set to be sentenced Friday in federal court

The Independent UK

Hunters in Alaska are allowed to kill bears from helicopters again – but only to save caribou

Caribou population began declining in the late 1990s and early 2000s

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Could gold mining help Colombia’s armed groups to finally lay down their weapons?

In Nariño, guerrilla groups are swapping arms for legal mining as part of the country’s peace accord. But as presidential elections loom, armed rivals and delays threaten to derail progress

The Guardian - UK

Indigenous people honor and raise awareness for relatives who are missing or have been killed

Indigenous people are gathering to honor loved ones who have gone missing or been killed

The Independent UK

Trump's Wall Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old Native American Site—DHS Waivers to Bypass Environmental Rules

The Las Playas Intaglio, a 1,000-year-old geoglyph, was bulldozed despite its known cultural significance.

International Business Times UK

French senators clear path for return of Kali'na remains to French Guiana

French senators are preparing to debate a law that will allow the remains of six Kali'na indigenous people brought to Paris to feature in a human zoo to be sent back to French Guiana, after more than 130 years in the vaults of a museum in Paris.

Radio France Internationale

Tribes sue to halt exploratory drilling in Black Hills near sacred ceremonial site

Nine Native American tribes in South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska are suing the federal government, bidding to stop exploratory drilling for graphite near a sacred ceremonial site in the Black Hills

The Independent UK

From Brazil's rainforest to Rio de Janeiro, an all-Indigenous soccer team gets set for its debut

Sávio Conrado Mura left his Indigenous village of stilt houses located deep in the Amazon rainforest to try his luck at professional soccer and hopefully one day play for the Brazilian national team at the World Cup

The Independent UK

Indian-origin Meenu Batra released from ICE custody after months; had been living in US for 35 years

An Indian-origin court interpreter who has lived in US for around 35 years has been released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after weeks of legal battle over her detention.

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Yazzie/Martinez plaintiffs ask to rewrite New Mexico education reform plan themselves

Plaintiffs in a long-running court case that seeks to fix New Mexico's education system are asking a judge to let them rewrite an education reform plan

The Times of India

New DNA study reveals surprising link between South America’s first people and Australasia

The fulfilment of South America increases the last large human migration in history and took place after other continents were occupied at least 10,000 years apart, thus making it the final major landmass to be colonised; the new study published in Nature redefines what we know about that colonisation process,…

The Independent UK

‘Dances With Wolves’ star turned cult leader sentenced after sexually assaulting multiple women

Nathan Chasing Horse has been sentenced to life in prison for sexual assault

The Times of India

Human smuggler, who caused death of Indian family, asks US court to quash conviction, sentence

A man convicted in a human smuggling case linked to the deaths of an Indian family at the US-Canada border has moved an appeals court seeking to overturn his conviction and sentence, reports CBC News.

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The Independent UK

Miss Indian World pageant winners mark the end of a decades-long tradition

It’s the final year of an event that bills itself as the largest powwow in North America, and the winners of the pageant that headlined it for decades are mourning the end of the tradition

The Independent UK

Once punished for weaving, this Mexican artisan uses her loom for LGBTQ+ resistance

Xaneri Merino, a transgender woman and artisan from southern Mexico, was once punished for weaving in her Indigenous community, where men are largely barred from weaving

The Guardian - UK

Canada’s residential school abuse survivors face fresh battle to stop testimony being destroyed

First Nation communities warn that government must act as accounts face destruction, risking central part of Canada’s reckoning with its colonial legacy

The Times of India

YouTuber Mykhailo Polyakov faces prison risk after illegal North Sentinel Island entry and contact attempt with tribe

Mykhailo Polyakov is facing up to five years in prison after entering North Sentinel Island and trying to contact the Sentinelese tribe. He reportedly left items like a coconut and Diet Coke. Authorities say this broke strict Indian laws protecting the isolated tribe. The case has raised safety concerns, and…

The Independent UK

Suspect enters new guilty plea in the case of missing Navajo grandmother Ella Mae Begay

A man charged in the disappearance of a Navajo grandmother has pleaded guilty to robbery as part of a second plea agreement

The Independent UK

Tribal gas stations offer a reprieve from high prices during Iran war

Gas prices are still rising due to the Iran war but drivers are saving by fueling up at tribally owned gas stations

The Guardian - UK

Native Americans were gambling with dice 6,000 years earlier than anyone else, study says

Archaeological record suggests hunter gatherers were playing games of chance at the end of the last ice age

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