As Indigenous Mapuche conflict escalates, some hope the writing of a new constitution could lay the groundwork for reconciliation and peace in the trouble-torn region of southern Chile.
Indigenous Rights
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Protests follow last week’s death of 49-year-old woman in cell, the 441st since landmark 1991 royal commission on issue.
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Peru has world’s highest per-population confirmed COVID-19 mortality rate, forcing the Indigenous to...
![Jean-Sebastien Jacques, CEO of Rio Tinto Group, is due to leave his post by March 31. Activists and investors said Rio had not done enough in an earlier board-led review into how the miner legally detonated indigenous rockshelters showing 46,000 years of human habitation in Western Australia [File: Hannah McKay/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/e584380ff03b41118116ce25566c9fd7_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Two other executives will also leave after the mining giant destroyed Indigenous Australian heritage...
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One Wandi Wandian woman describes a ‘resurgence of culture’ among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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We examine some of the world’s most vulnerable languages and meet communities trying to save them.
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The Parakana people have for decades been fighting to protect their land from illegal miners, loggers and farmers.
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‘You never know what’s killing you when it’s done in secret.’
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World’s biggest iron-ore miner was criticised after destroying caves with evidence of 46,000-year-old human activity.
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Demonstrators calling to defund the police tear down statue of Sir John Macdonald in Montreal.
![Delores Gull, inspired by 17th century plague masks and her Cree heritage, packed traditional medicines into the beak of her mask to ease the stresses of the pandemic [Photo courtesy of Delores Gull]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ad641f55060b44818a27b4be3d2cf4c3_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
From celebrating culture to highlighting a suicide epidemic, Indigenous artists are creating masks with meaning.
More than 900 nuclear tests were conducted on Shoshone territory in the US. Residents still live with the consequences.
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Judge rules the government’s lethal injection protocol breaks law, orders halt to federal execution planned for Friday.
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A total of 16 Native Americans have been executed by eight states since 1976, groups tracking capital punishment say.