Indigenous Peoples Day and Columbus Day: Dates and history to know for 2024
Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day are observed in October each year. Here's when the federal holiday is in 2024, plus a ...
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Shocking New Evidence Suggests Norse Hunters Met Indigenous North Americans 500 Years Before Columbus
Shocking genetic evidence from walrus tusks suggest that Norse hunters may have met indigenous North Americans centuries ...
Indigenous Peoples Are Key to Navigating the Climate Crisis. We Deserve a Seat at the Table
After all, Indigenous Peoples are the world’s greatest protectors of the environment. Our land is not just our home—it is our ...
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‘We need white men to save the Amazon,’ 92-year-old Indigenous Chief Raoni says
Indigenous leaders gathered at New York Climate Week to call on global leaders to address the unprecedented drought and ...
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Once ‘extinct’ in Canada, the Sinixt people are reclaiming their ancestral home
When a country recognizes the rights of peoples to use their ancestral territory but they live in a different country, it ...
Now Available: The Indigenous Peoples' Guide to the United Nations
American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians increasingly contend with rights violations concerning transboundary ...
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Do Indigenous peoples really conserve 80% of the world’s biodiversity?
A new commentary piece in the journal Nature has caused an uproar in the conservation world and has prompted scientists to ...
Juneau Empire on MSN3d
Alaska enacts law to reduce high rates of missing and murdered Indigenous persons
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Despite Alaska’s small population, a 2018 report by the Urban Indian Health Institute identified it as ...
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Dreaming of Empires
Enrigue’s latest novel is a trippy, thought-provoking reimagining of a seminal point in the history of the Americas: When Cortés came calling on Tenochtitlán.
Observer3d
The Largest-Ever Survey of Indigenous Australian Art Is Coming to the U.S.
It will also become the largest collection of First Nations artworks to travel widely as, following its premiere in ...
The (500-year-old) reason Mexico didn’t invite the king of Spain to the president’s inauguration
Mexico's president-elect says Spain's king is not invited to her inauguration because the crown never answered an apology ...
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Brazil court drops a suspect in Amazon slayings of a British journalist and an Indigenous advocate
BRASILIA, Brazil — A federal court in Brazil dismissed charges Tuesday against one of three men arrested for the killings of Indigenous peoples expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom ...