The Latest Breaking News on Native America

Plane-crash kids found alive after five weeks alone in Colombia jungle

Four children have been found alive in the south of the country more than five weeks after their plane crashed in thick jungle.

The New Daily · Jun 10, 2023

Children lost for 40 days in Colombian Amazon found alive

BOGOTá: The four Indigenous children who had been missing for more than a month in the Colombian Amazon rainforest after a small plane crash have been found alive, President Gustavo Petro announced Friday.

Bangkok Post · Jun 10, 2023

Elderly woman among three killed in attack on Kuki village

The villagers thought the gunmen were soldiers as they had arrived in a vehicle used by the security forces. They scattered as soon as the gunmen opened fire.

The Hindu · Jun 9, 2023

Hundreds protest as Atlanta votes on whether to give $31m to ‘Cop City’ police training centre

Hundreds signed up to offer commentary on much-watched city vote

The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2023

The Guardian view on Bruno and Dom’s legacy: defend nature’s defenders

Editorial: One year after Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips were killed in the Amazon, their work explaining what is happening there goes on

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2023

Tributes paid to Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira a year on from their deaths

Hundreds gather in Rio and Belém to remember two men who worked to defend the Amazon and its Indigenous inhabitants

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2023

British reporter, Brazilian expert remembered a year after murder in Amazon

A year after the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira deep in the Amazon rainforest, friends, relatives and admirers gathered on Monday to call for justice and protection of Indigenous lands.

Reuters · Jun 5, 2023

‘Journalism mustn’t be silenced’: colleagues to complete slain reporter’s book

How to Save the Amazon will be published so Dom Phillips’ work telling the stories of Amazon defenders does not die with him

The Guardian - US · Jun 5, 2023

Jump in child deaths reveals impact of industrialisation on Amazon’s Indigenous peoples

As an economic boom’s gains pass them by, people in unprotected land have been hit by hunger and disease, with infant mortality rates seven times higher than the rest of Brazil

The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2023

Brazil police charge alleged mastermind behind murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Alleged leader of ‘transnational criminal organisation’ and a supposed subordinate have been charged over the 2022 murders of journalist and Indigenous expert

The Guardian - AU · Jun 5, 2023