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Canada hands ‘long-overdue’ title over more than 200 islands to Haida Nation
Nearly half a million hectares of Crown land on Haida Gwaii will be returned to Indigenous...
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Epidemic fears as 80% of Indigenous Amazon tribe fall ill
Advocates fear situation could escalate in Javari valley, a region plagued by violence and poor healthcareMore...
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Canada: Indigenous fishermen left to walk shoeless after officers seized boots
Justin Trudeau says allegations ‘extremely troubling’ after officers arrested First Nations men and confiscated their boots...
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Brazil apologizes to Indigenous people for persecution during dictatorship
President of amnesty commission investigating crimes of 1964-85 regime makes first-ever apology to Indigenous leaderBrazil has...
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Bolivian Indigenous groups assert claim to treasure of ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’
Descendants of enslaved miners who dug up gold, silver and emeralds worth billions call on Colombia...
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Ontario moves to allow use of Indigenous languages in legislature
‘Momentous change’ will permit lawmakers in Canadian province to address chamber in ‘first languages’Lawmakers in Ontario...
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Canada pledges C$40m to search landfill for remains of two Indigenous women
Police initially said they did not have resources to search for women believed to have been...
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Canada moves to protect coral reef that scientists say ‘shouldn’t exist’
Discovery was made after First Nations tipped off ecologists about groups of fish gathering in a...
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Environmental row over ‘last chance tourism’ in Canada’s melting Arctic
Cruise ships offer crucial income to poverty-hit village of Pond Inlet but opponents say it is...
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Indigenous people sue over alleged Canadian secret medical experiment
First Nation members say in lawsuit that radiologists subjected them to a secret study without their...
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India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe
Exclusive: $9bn port, airport and military base on Great Nicobar Island will cause ‘genocide’ of isolated...
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South Dakota tribe bans governor from reservation over US border comments
Oglala Sioux tribe banishes Republican Kristi Noem after she spoke about wanting to send razor wire...
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Lowitja O’Donoghue, celebrated campaigner for Aboriginal Australians, dies aged 91
A member of the stolen generations, the Yankunytjatjara leader was only reunited with her mother through...
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Indigenous reporter fears more journalists will be targeted after arrest as police cleared Canada camp
Brandi Morin was charged while reporting at encampment authorities arrived at to dismantle and could face...
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Charity with Prince Harry as director investigating rape and torture claims
African Parks examines alleged atrocities against Indigenous people by its Congo Republic guards after ‘decade of...
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Lula vows to win ‘war’ against illegal miners invading Indigenous lands
Brazil president hosts summit amid criticism that easing of crackdown had allowed outsiders to return to...
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Taiwan braces for ‘big deal’ presidential election as China’s shadow looms
Corruption and the cost of living have trumped concerns about a belligerent neighbour in close race...
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Controversial Brazil law curbing Indigenous rights comes into force
‘Time marker’ legislation means Indigenous peoples can only lay claim to lands they occupied in 1988,...
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Illegal mining on rise again in Amazon, says Yanomami leader
Activist Davi Kopenawa says miners are returning after eviction operations were scaled back, and others never...