Good for mining but bad for democracy? Why Indigenous groups in Ecuador oppose free trade deal with Canada
Ecuador’s largest Indigenous organization is vowing to fight a proposed free trade agreement with Canada. Critics say the ...
Indigenous rights during ICE encounters
Immigration experts said if you're a Native American born in the United States, you are a citizen, and you cannot be arrested ...
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Pope Francis: Defending Indigenous rights ‘a matter of justice’
Land, water, and food are not mere commodities but the very basis of life and the link between these [Indigenous] peoples and ...
Oscar-Winning Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie Stripped of Her Order of Canada Honor After Indigenous Heritage Scandal
The Canadian government has stripped Oscar-winning singer Buffy Sainte-Marie of her Order of Canada honor. The CBC previously ...
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Ecuador’s next debt-for-nature deal falls short of Indigenous involvement
Ecuador completed a debt-for-nature swap to support Amazon conservation through the creation of the Amazon Biocorridor. While ...
National Review4d
The ‘Wisdom of Indigenous People’ Would Make Environmental Science Less Scientific
Concomitantly, the increasing advocacy in many scientific papers to "listen to the wisdom of indigenous people" in determining environmental policies reflects this ongoing shift away from empiricism ...
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Indigenous youth and women shaping environmental futures
New podcast series Healing Women Heals Mother Earth led by youth tribal leader Santana Rabang features Indigenous women ...
Their sacred land was a gift for their courage. Yet Maká people in Paraguay fight for its ownership
Given their courage during the war between Paraguay and Bolivia in the 1930s, the Maká people were given a piece of land that ...
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Mandatory ‘Indigenous Health’ class for U. Alberta nursing students teaches ‘systemic racism’
Professor says students learn ‘from Indigenous ways in terms of health promotion and being at one with nature’ A required ...
NASA moves to erase 'women in leadership,' 'Indigenous people' from websites
NASA, which is currently led by a woman, doesn't want its websites to mention women in leadership. The space agency is being ...
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New Zealand grants a mountain personhood, recognizing Taranaki Maunga as sacred to the Indigenous Māori people
The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...
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Artist Profile: Sky Hopinka on Telling Indigenous Stories in the 21st Century
Sky Hopinka, assistant professor in Harvard’s Art, Film, and Visual Studies department, is an experimental Indigenous ...