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Are indigenous tattoos making a comeback?

Indigenous people from New Zealand to Alaska are reclaiming their heritage by getting facial tattoos, but why now?

Creators

Meet the indigenous artist turning urban junk into art

“We use art to make our demands. We use art to do our activism."

Culture news

Indigenous Sámi cinema meets a global audience in Venice

Defending livelihoods, rights and lands - Europe's indigenous Sámi communities have long fought to be respected and recognised. Now the battle has a global showcase at the Venice Film Festival

Culture news

Academy apologises to Native American actress for Oscar abuse

Almost 50 years after she was booed on the Oscars stage for declining Marlon Brando's award on his behalf, Sacheen Littlefeather has received an apology from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Mexicans celebrate Indigenous day with festive march

Hundreds of Indigenous people, wearing colourful native costumes from different regions of Mexico, hold a festive march in Mexico City to celebrate World Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Nature

Indigenous groups team up with the government to protect the Amazon

Communities in the Amazon, NGOs and local governments are teaming up in an unprecedented show of solidarity.

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Indigenous Aymara women play golf in Bolivia

Two indigenous Aymara women play golf in traditional dress at the exclusive La Paz Golf Club.

Canada

Pope prays for healing after 'terrible effects of colonisation'

Pope Francis prayed for healing from what he called the "terrible effects of colonisation" as he led a pilgrimage to Lac St. Anne on Tuesday in Canada.

Earth News

An endangered owl has stopped a mining giant in its tracks in Tasmania

Plans to bury the Tarkane under “50 metres of toxic sludge” have been paused by Australia's federal court.

Canada

Pope apologises for 'evil' abuse at Indigenous schools in Canada

The Pope said he was 'deeply sorry' for the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society, an official policy for decades in Canada where the Catholic Church ran dozens of residential schools.

Canada

Pope to beg forgiveness for 'evil' done to indigenous Canadians

The Pontiff will apologise to Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors. The visit marks a radical rethink of the Catholic Church’s missionary legacy, spurred on by the first pope from the Americas and the discovery of hundreds of probable graves at the school sites.

Earth News

Cheap chicken in Europe is fuelling crime and human rights abuses: NGO

Indigenous people are being killed on land where soy is grown to feed chicken sold in Europe, says NGO Earthsight.

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Indigenous protesters gather at university in Quito over night after protest

Ecuador's Indigenous demonstrators gather at Central University in Quito to spend the night, where many are using it as a place of accommodation during the protest period.

Brazil

Brazil police find two bodies in search for missing Amazon pair

British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian expert Bruno Pereira were last seen 5 June.

Finland

UN finds Finland violated political rights of indigenous Sámi people

The UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has been looking into the sensitive issue about who is eligible to be included on the Sámi electoral roll.

Earth News

Amazon groups offered mediation in supermarket deforestation row

It is the first time a French supermarket chain has been taken to court over deforestation and the loss of land and livelihood.

Art

3D imaging reveals biggest ever example of North American cave art

The new technology allows historians to view artworks previously invisible to the human eye etched into thin layers of mud.

Art

Sámi culture represented for first time at Venice Biennale

The Sámi Pavilion comes at a critical juncture, with Truth and Reconciliation Commissions addressing Nordic colonialism underway in Norway and Finland.

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Brazil: Thousands of indigenous people demonstrate for their land rights

Thousands of indigenous people are demonstrating in Brasilia to oppose mining and oil exploration in their reserves.

Canada

Pope apologises for 'deplorable' abuse of Canadian indigenous people

More than 150,000 native children in Canada were forced to attend Christian schools from the 19th century until the 1970s.