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News Articles: indigenous

Guarani Indigenous block Bandeirantes highway to protest proposed legislation that would change the policy that demarcates Indigenous lands on the outskirts of Sao Paulo.

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  • World

Brazil's Indigenous people protest as lawmakers vote to limit their land rights

Brazilian Indigenous leaders and environmentalists are outraged after lawmakers approved a measure that would affect claims to Indigenous land, and potentially, environmental protections.

May 31, 2023
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  • Carrie Kahn
GPB News NPR

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  • National

After nearly 200 years, the Yuchi Tribe of Oklahoma reconnects with bison

Tribal members say the new herd will strengthen ceremonial practices and connect them not only with the animal but also with other Indigenous nations.

March 26, 2023
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By:
  • Kaitlyn Radde
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, at the left podium, is surrounded by members of the First Nations Referendum Working Group as he speaks during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 23, 2023.

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  • World

Australia decides on the referendum question to create a greater say for Indigenous

Australians will vote sometime between October and December on the referendum that would enshrine in the constitution an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

March 23, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A land acknowledgment is a statement before an event recognizing the Indigenous communities that originally inhabited the event space. Above is a detail of a <a href="https://www.tribalnationsmaps.com">Tribal Nations Map</a> by Aaron Carapella. <a href="https://www.npr.org/323665644">Read more about Carapella's mapping project.</a>

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  • Arts & Life

So you began your event with an Indigenous land acknowledgment. Now what?

Statements recognizing Indigenous rights to territories seized by colonial powers may be well-meaning. But some Indigenous leaders fear these acknowledgments may become routine and performative.

March 17, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Caretaker Bomman with Raghu. "I feel like getting Raghu was a gift from God," he says.

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  • Global Health

'The Elephant Whisperers' — An Oscar-nominated love story about people and pachyderms

Nominated in the documentary short film category and now streaming on Netflix, the film depicts the loving relationship of a tribe in India and the pachyderms who share the forest with them.

March 05, 2023
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By:
  • Kamala Thiagarajan
Aboriginal man Josh Sly of the Muggera Dancers prepares a fire for a smoking ceremony at the start of an Invasion Day rally in Sydney, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023.

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  • World

Thousands rally for 'Invasion Day' protests on Australia Day holiday

Australia Day is known to many Indigenous people as Invasion Day and Survival Day, because of the disastrous impacts on First Nations people of British colonists taking their land without a treaty.

January 26, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Mashpee Wampanoag Kerri Helme uses plant fiber to weave a basket while sitting next to a fire on November 15, 2018, at the Wampanoag Homesite at the Plimoth Patuxet Museums, in Plymouth, Mass.

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  • National

Some Native Americans say this Pilgrim site is failing as a bi-cultural museum

Members of Massachusetts's Wampanoag community say the people running the Patuxet living history site have done little to ingratiate themselves with tribes.

August 10, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Elmer Waniandy raises the crucifix as he leads his fellow parishioner into the rededicated and newly renovated Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples sanctuary, July 17, 2022, in Edmonton, Alberta.

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  • Religion

Pope heads to Canada as Indigenous groups seek full apology

Pope Francis began a visit to Canada on Sunday to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses at residential schools, part of the the Catholic Church's efforts to reconcile with Native communities.

July 24, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A police officer escorts a suspect in the area where Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and freelance British journalist Dom Phillips disappeared, in Amazonas state, Brazil, June 15, 2022.

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  • Latin America

A suspect confesses to killing pair missing in Amazon, police say

Police say they arrested a second suspect identified as a brother of the main suspect in the deaths of an Indigenous expert and British journalist.

June 16, 2022
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  • The Associated Press

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