Opinion

Aerial lidar mapping can reveal archaeological sites while overlooking Indigenous peoples and their knowledge

Picture an aircraft streaking across the sky at hundreds of miles per hour, unleashing millions of laser pulses into a dense tropical forest. The objective: map thousands of square miles, including ...
Forbes

For Indigenous Peoples, Language Is Life

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indigenous Nations across the country like mine began to feel it’s disproportionate impact on our communities. Then, we started losing the most precious ...
Los Angeles Times

Indigenous peoples’ demands got more than lip service at COP30 climate summit

The long ordeal of the Kaxuyana, an Amazonian tribe airlifted from its land during Brazil’s military dictatorship in the 1960s, reached a happy conclusion at the COP30 summit in the city of Belém. On ...
The Conversation

True Detective: Night Country’s indigenous representation offers hope for decolonising television

Agata Lulkowska does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Time

22 Essential Works of Indigenous Cinema

Clockwise from top left: Fancy Dance (2023); Smoke Signals (1998); The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019); Boy (2010)Apple TV+; Miramax/Everett; Array Releasing/Everett; Paladin ...
CNN

FBI surges to help a group of victims they don’t want you to forget

Soaring rates of violent acts impacting Indigenous communities and mounting unsolved cases have prompted a surge of FBI agents, analysts and victim specialists from across the country to help ...
The Conversation

Activism on foot: When Indigenous activists walk the land to honor their past and reshape their future

Meaghan Weatherdon has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Northern Scientific Training Program, the Ontario Graduate Student Scholarship fund, the ...
Mongabay

Do Indigenous peoples really conserve 80% of the world’s biodiversity?

A new commentary piece in Nature argues that the much-cited claim that Indigenous peoples protect 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity is not only baseless, but wrong. Although scientists and ...
PBS

Without stronger protections, uncontacted Indigenous groups could vanish within a decade, experts say

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — From the depths of Brazil’s Amazon to Indonesia’s rainforests, some of the world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis ...
Forbes

Why Indigenous Peoples Are Raising The Alarm On Carbon Trading At UN Climate Summit

As delegates from around the world gather in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the United Nations’ 29th annual climate summit, also known as COP29, one of the most contentious debates centers on carbon trading—a ...
The New York Times

Architect Embraces Indigenous Worldview in Australian Designs

Jefa Greenaway is a leading proponent of “Country-centered design,” which calls for collaboration with Indigenous communities and puts sustainability concerns at a project’s core. By Will Higginbotham ...