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Havasupai Tribe in Arizona marks a spiritual homecoming: ‘We are still the Grand Canyon’

Members of a small tribe in Arizona are marking the renaming of a popular campground in Grand Canyon National Park as Havasupai Gardens

The Independent UK

Chasing Horse asks Nevada high court to toss sex abuse case

“Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse is asking the Nevada Supreme Court to dismiss his sweeping sexual abuse indictment in state court

The Independent UK

Election legislation roundup: Colorado General Assembly

As of May 7, members of the Colorado General Assembly, which includes the Colorado House of Representatives and the Colorado State Senate, have passed one bill related to election administration since the beginning of the year. A bipartisan group of legislators sponsored the bill. The bill is:

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Indigenous missing person cases get researchers' attention

A New Mexico task force charged with addressing missing person cases involving Native Americans is teaming up with researchers in Nebraska on a data collection project

The Independent UK

Ambulance officers not told about dying man's use of powerful psychedelic and Kambo frog poison

The first call for help to the ambulance service suggested Jarred Antonovich, who had a swollen face and was in "discomfort", was suffering an asthma attack.

ABC News

The Rediscovery of America: why Native history is American history

Historian Ned Blackhawk’s new book stresses the importance of telling US history with a wider and more inclusive lens

The Guardian - US

Brazil's Amazon megaprojects threaten Lula's green ambitions

After his swearing-in ceremony earlier this year, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva walked up the ramp to the presidential palace arm in arm with one of the world’s most famous Indigenous leaders

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Berkeley professor apologizes for false Indigenous identity

An anthropology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, whose identity as Native American had been questioned for years has apologized for falsely identifying as Indigenous, saying she is “a white person” who lived an identity based on family lore

The Independent UK

‘Unacceptable’: Berkeley professor faces calls to resign after admitting false claims of Native American roots

Professor said she was raised being told she had Native American heritage

The Independent UK

Ethnic quagmire: On the Manipur violence

The government in Manipur must convene an all-party mechanism to reach out to the people across ethnic divides

The Hindu

University professor who lived whole life wrongly identifying as Native American apologises for 'hurt'

The UC Berkeley professor said she has "incorrectly identified herself" living as a Native American of Mohawk and Mi'kmaq descent based on "incomplete information" and has apologised for the "broken trust"

Daily Mirror

Wearing red, Indigenous families honor missing relatives

Indigenous families and tribal communities are gathering across North America, many wearing red in solidarity as they honor thousands of missing and slain relatives

The Independent UK

US professor apologizes after wrongly claiming to be Native American

Calls mount for Elizabeth Hoover, anthropologist at UC Berkeley who said she had Indigenous heritage, to resign

The Guardian - US

‘Crisis’: Calls grow to stem violence against Indigenous women

Advocates demand urgent action on day commemorating missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in US and Canada.

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Sick bison moved, but questions remain over dead animals amid settlement dispute

A herd of bison caught up in a settlement dispute has a new home. But a dozen of the animals died before the move and the owner and another stud breeder want to know how it happened.

The Independent UK

Rights panel: Peru used excessive force to quell protests

The Inter American Commission on Human Rights says Peru’s military and police forces used excessive force to quell violent anti-government protests, and that they should be investigated as possible extrajudicial executions and massacres

The Guardian - AU

Woman completed course on frog toxin rituals weeks before death in ‘Kambo’ ceremony, NSW inquest hears

Natasha Lechner had frog poison applied to her chest during ‘Kambo’ ritual and likely suffered sudden cardiac event, court told

Salon

Indigenous health tied to environment

A growing body of research ties the health of Indigenous communities to the environment

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Brazil’s battle to reclaim Yanomami lands from illegal miners turns deadly

Fatalities underline dangers in government efforts to evict thousands of miners who have devastated Indigenous territory

Reuters

Brazil police shoot dead 4 illegal gold miners on Yanomami reservation

Brazilian police and environmental protection agents were ambushed by illegal gold miners on the Yanomami Indigenous reservation in the Amazon on Monday and four miners were shot dead in the exchange of gunfire, a government statement said.

The Guardian - US

Indigenous community in Colombia gets its day in court over ‘ancestral land’

The U’wa people’s case against the Colombian government could help protect the environment across Latin America

The Independent UK

Pope voices willingness to return Indigenous loot, artifacts

Pope Francis says talks are underway to return artifacts in the Vatican Museum that were acquired from Indigenous peoples in Canada and has voiced a willingness to return other colonial-era objects in the Vatican’s collection on a case-by-case basis

The Independent UK

Should school use 'Warrior' nickname? Tribe to have last say

Students and administrators in one New York school district are wrestling with how to respond to the state’s newly approved ban on the use of Native American-themed logos and names

The Guardian - US

Wildflowers, eagles and Native history: can this California ridge be protected?

Described as a ‘botanical wonderland’, the rocky ridge is home to more than 30 species of rare plants and Indigenous village sites

Reuters

Brazil's Mura people report threats amid pressure to approve Amazon potash mine

Leaders of Brazil's Mura people said on Friday tensions have risen in the Autazes region where they live after a federal agency crew visited the area to discuss potentially demarcating their ancestral land, which overlaps with an area where a Canadian company wants to build a potash mine.

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