By Mike DiGirolamo Nonette Royo is a lawyer from the Philippines and executive director of The Tenure Facility, a group of ...

Uncontacted Indigenous tribes are “at the edge of survival” as growing contact by missionaries, miners, criminal gangs and social media influencers spreads diseases and wipes out forests, according to ...

In the first-ever global study of its kind, researchers concluded that more attention needs to be paid to physical attacks and threats against land defenders, since those incidents often are the ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick. It's an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

We’ve all heard of Columbus Day—it’s a federal October holiday in the U.S. that marks the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas. But have you heard about Indigenous Peoples’ Day? This ...

Indigenous groups have diverse visions for the land, ranging from ceremonial spaces and cultural education to stewardship, known as "land back" or "rematriation." Advocates on both sides of competing ...

Honestly, it’s all ancestral land. We thought like Natives do. We thought the settlers would never disturb their own graves, and so you think that [ours] would never be disturbed. As Natives, we think ...

March 13 (Reuters) - The city of Berkeley, California, has agreed to hand over to Indigenous peoples a parking lot built atop a sacred tribal ground dating back more than five millennia. The 2.2-acre ...

BRASILIA, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Armed men backed by farmers in trucks and tractors attacked Indigenous people reclaiming land in Brazil's farming state of Mato Grosso do Sul at the weekend, injuring 11 of ...

Mr. Williams is a law professor and the faculty chair of the Indigenous peoples law and policy program at the University of Arizona. Over 600,000 tourists travel to Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation ...