Indigenous man from isolated Amazon tribe makes contact with outside world

found 2025 › Feb › 17 (Mon) @ 07:50 UTC

A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to his people shortly after, authorities said.

‘Even the sound of the water has changed’: can Bogotá bring its wetlands back from the brink?

found 2025 › Feb › 13 (Thu) @ 06:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The marshes in Colombia’s capital are sacred to Indigenous peoples, provide vital wildlife habitats and could help the city adapt to climate change. But after centuries of development they are close …

Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 21:35 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

New book reveals that Pacific islands inhabitants helped European scientists identify hundreds of plant species

In 1769, nearly nine months after setting sail with Capt James Cook on his first voyage …

Māori protesters turn their backs on government ministers at Waitangi Day event

found 2025 › Feb › 05 (Wed) @ 06:33 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Anger at policies that roll back Māori rights surface as rightwing Act party leader David Seymour has microphone removed twice and protesters stage walkout

If New Zealand’s coalition government had pr…

Activist Viktoria Maladaeva Uplifts Russia’s Indigenous Peoples With Power of Unity

found 2025 › Feb › 01 (Sat) @ 09:08 UTC

a story from The Moscow Times › The Moscow Times

Maladaeva discusses her journey as an activist, Indigenous people’s view of Russia’s “liberal opposition” and the future of Buryatia.

‘He’s going home’: new film documents the fight to free Leonard Peltier

found 2025 › Jan › 31 (Fri) @ 06:27 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Sundance’s Free Leonard Peltier outlines the decades-long efforts to free the Indigenous activist from prison – up to the commutation of his sentence one week before the premiere

Of all the documentar…

Sir Julius Chan, Papua New Guinea’s last ‘founding father’, dies aged 85

found 2025 › Jan › 30 (Thu) @ 12:08 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Outpouring of grief after death of Chan, the son of a migrant Chinese father and Indigenous mother, who served as prime minister twice

Papua New Guinea is mourning the death of Sir Julius Chan, affe…

Hass or Shepard? The difference between these avocado varieties is more than just the colour | Yasmine Probst and Karen Zoszak

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 06:04 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Shepard avocados, slightly milder and sweeter than the popular Hass variety, are in season from February until April

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Indigenous Alaskans and Republicans dismayed by Trump’s Denali renaming

found 2025 › Jan › 24 (Fri) @ 21:56 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Obama had restored peak’s Koyukon Athabascan name, undoing designation in honor of 25th US president

Donald Trump’s pledge to rename the highest mountain in North America has sparked backlash among so…

Panama’s vast Cobre mine is closed. So why is their security still restricting access to local villages?

found 2025 › Jan › 21 (Tue) @ 11:52 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

First Quantum Minerals’ copper operation was shut down more than a year ago, but Indigenous people report restrictions on movement and unexplained illness and death

For the people of the nine Indigeno…