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Pentagon panel to review Medals of Honor given to soldiers at the Wounded Knee massacre

The Defense Department will review the Medals of Honor that were given to 20 U.S. soldiers for their actions in the 1890 battle at Wounded Knee to make sure their conduct merits such an honor

The Independent UK

Physicality and endurance win the World Series of perhaps the oldest game in North America

Indigenous peoples have been playing stickball for centuries

The Independent UK

Safeguarding the heartbeat: Native Americans in Upper Midwest protect their drumming tradition

When a small-town Minnesota high school banned its Native American drum group from performing at graduation, the hurt reverberated across Indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest

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The Haida-B.C. agreement was a landmark deal, but where was Canada?

The Haida Nation and government of British Columbia recently signed the Gaayhllxid/Gíihlagalgang “Rising Tide” Haida Title Lands Agreement, which recognizes and affirms the Haida Nation’s title to the archipelago of Haida Gwaii.

The Conversation

Tensions rise in Guyana as Maduro uses border dispute to build support ahead of Venezuela poll

An old territorial claim to part of Guyana rich in oil and gold has proved useful for Hugo Chávez’s successor. But the land grab has sparked outrage among the Guyanese

The Guardian - UK

Pictured: dozens of uncontacted indigenous people in Peru spotted close to logging concessions

Survival International Director Caroline Pearce said that the situation is a "humanitarian disaster in the making."

Latin Times

Uncontacted Mashco Piro People Face Threat Near Peruvian Logging Concessions‌Rare Look At Tribe In Peru That Has No Contact With Outside World‌

Campaigners urge revoking logging licenses as images reveal proximity of endangered tribe to logging activities, raising concerns over territory rights and environmental impact.‌ New video and images show dozens of uncontacted people in the Peruvian Amazon. ‌

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Group says photos of reclusive tribe on Peru beach show logging concessions are 'dangerously close'

An advocacy group for Indigenous peoples has released photographs of a reclusive tribe’s members searching for food on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon

The Independent UK

Rare new pictures show uncontacted Amazon tribe threatened by loggers

Mashco Piro are increasingly venturing out of their rainforest in search of food, driven by expanding logging activities

The Independent UK

Money from Washington's landmark climate law will help tribes face rising seas, climate change

Tens of millions of dollars raised by a landmark climate law in Washington state will go to Native American tribes that are at risk from climate change and rising sea levels to help them move to higher ground, install solar panels, buy electric vehicles and restore wetlands

The Independent UK

Killer filmed himself torturing two Alaska Native women: ‘In my movies, everyone dies’

Brian Steven Smith was sentenced to 226 years in prison for the deaths of Kathleen Henry, 30, and Veronica Abouchuk, 52

The Independent UK

Indigenous leaders frustrated despite cloak’s return to Brazil after 300 years

Denmark returns artefact but Tupinambá de Olivença leaders say they were prevented from performing the necessary rituals to receive sacred relic

The Guardian - US

Nickel Hub 'Apocalyptic' For Uncontacted Indonesia Tribe, Say NGOs

Deforestation at one of Indonesia's largest nickel processing hubs is threatening an Indigenous group that is among the country's last uncontacted tribes, rights groups allege.

International Business Times

Last queen of Hawaii and deep-sea mining

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

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The Conversation

Amazon deforestation cut by 83% in places protected by Indigenous communities – new research

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.

The Independent UK

Man gets 226-year prison sentences for killing 2 Alaska Native women. He filmed the torture of one

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

The Independent UK

For at least a decade Quinault Nation has tried to escape the rising Pacific. Time is running out

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

The Guardian - UK

Bizhiki: Unbound review – commanding Native American songcraft

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

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Brazil's Vaunted Academy Seeks To Shed Image As White Men's Club

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.

International Business Times

Amazon Tribes Win Lawsuit Over Carbon Credits In Colombia

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 Independent UK

Man shot dead two teenage sisters after dad caught him hiding in bedroom, police say

The man ‘assembled a Glock-style handgun from parts he ordered online’, according to police

The Guardian - UK

‘Just give me 30 men and a few arms’: Honduran Indigenous groups ready to fight to save land

Miskito and other groups demand government action against criminal forces behind an unprecedented wave of deforestation in their territory

The Independent UK

More Indigenous youth are learning to spearfish, a connection to ancestors and the land

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

The Independent UK

Georgia slave descendants submit signatures to fight zoning changes they say threaten their homes

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

The Independent UK

Behind Upper Midwest tribal spearfishing is a long and violent history of denied treaty rights

A fraught and violent history for centuries disrupted Indigenous people’s lives in the Upper Midwest, barring them from traditional food gathering practices like spearfishing, hunting and harvesting wild rice

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