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Biden offers apology for 'horrific era' of U.S. Native American boarding schools

5:00am October 25, 2024

Biden visited Arizona on Friday to apologize for the horrors of the federal Indian boarding schools that ran for over 150 years, and also trumpet the administration's policies to help Native American communities.

'Not a badge of honor': how book bans affect Indigenous literature

3:00am July 31, 2024

For some authors, finding their book on a "banned" list can feel almost like an accolade, putting them right there with classics like The Bluest Eye and To Kill a Mockingbird. But the reality is, most banned books never get the kind of recognition or readership that the most famous ones do.

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Pond Inlet on Baffin Island is one of the Inuit communities in the Canadian arctic facing a TB outbreak.

Health & Safety

Why does TB have such a hold on the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic?

5:12pm May 02, 2024

by Melody Schreiber

Canada has one of the world's lowest rates of tuberculosis. Yet this deadly disease is surging among Indigenous people in this icy, remote part of the country.

"My participation in the march as an Amazonian woman is to praise our rights and violence worldwide." Portrait of Josefina Tunki, the ex-Executive President of the Government Council of the Shuar Arutam People in Puyo, Ecuador, March 8, 2024.

Ecuadorian Indigenous Women on why they march

12:35pm March 16, 2024

by Tatiana Lopez

Women from different Indigenous nationalities traveled from their territories to Puyo, Ecuador on March 8 to march through the city's streets as they do every year on International Women's Day

Sunita Kumari Chaudhary weaves a dinner table mat with ropes once used by climbers in the Himalayas. She and her fellow craftswomen are part of a small start-up project in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, to repurpose Everest trash.

Mt. Everest is plagued by garbage. These Nepali women are transforming it into crafts

9:19am February 25, 2024

by Tanka Dhakal

They're turning cast-off climbing ropes into handmade crafts. It's part of a fledgling effort in Nepal to repurpose mountain waste and provide economic opportunity.

Teyra Yudaw (left) and his daughter, Ciwang Teyra, are members of Taiwan's Indigenous Truku tribe.

In the battle over identity, a centuries-old issue looms in Taiwan: hunting

5:28am January 30, 2024

Taiwan has endured colonial forces over centuries. The island's Indigenous people have borne the brunt of this violent history and are still fighting for inclusion and acceptance.

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Umesh Balal, an activist and member of the Indigenous Magar people of Nepal, says people with disabilities need to be part of the climate conversation.

This 28-year-old from Nepal is telling COP28: Don't forget people with disabilities

3:10pm December 12, 2023

by Ruchi Kumar

Umesh Balal is determined to make the voices of people with disabilities, young people and Indigenous people heard at the world's largest meeting on climate change.

Supporters hold up a banner displaying the Haudenosaunee Confederacy as they cheer for the Haudenosaunee Nationals during a July 23, 2023 match against England in San Diego, Calif.

Biden is backing an Indigenous lacrosse team to compete in the 2028 Olympics

3:42pm December 06, 2023

by Lexie Schapitl

Lacrosse will be an Olympic sport in 2028. President Biden says he supports efforts by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy to field its own team.

Achuar people ply the Rio Wichimi in a solar canoe. The nonprofit Kara Solar has helped fund a fleet of six sun-powered craft in hopes of benefitting the Indigenous Achuar while reducing pressure to build roads in the rainforest.

Why solar-powered canoes could be good for the future of the rainforest

7:37am December 02, 2023

by Peter Yeung

The Indigenous Achuar people in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest sail in six solar-powered canoes. And it's not just to save money on fuel — the trees of the rainforest will benefit too.

Earlier this year, the Vatican responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the "Doctrine of Discovery," which has its origins in 15th-century papal bulls, or decrees.

Churches confess and repent for sins against Native and Indigenous people

7:32am October 06, 2023

by Jason DeRose

Many Christian denominations in recent years have repudiated a doctrine that was used to justify the subjugation of Native and Indigenous people. That's now playing out in local congregations.

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