Paving roads in the Amazon rainforest has long brought deforestation that threatens the people who live there. The same ...

As tech companies set their sights on Indigenous lands, an activist said, “We’re always the one that ends up having to sacrifice our relationship to land, air, water, our communities and our nonhuman ...

Corporations have proposed building about 103 to 160 massive data centers on Native lands, says Krystal Two Bulls.

A painful history with church-run schools has many Indigenous people wary of Christianity. Native ministries are working to ...

Every year, Black residents of New Orleans don stunning, handmade suits on Mardi Gras day that are sewn in secret for the better part of a year. It's a tradition they say honors ancestors.

WASHINGTON — In a moment that could take on new significance almost 150 years later, Omaha election official Charles Wilkins on April 5, 1880, refused to register John Elk to vote on the grounds that ...

Cargill’s river port continues to buzz with activity in Santarém in the Brazilian Amazon. Credit: Fernanda Ligabue, Ferligabue, FlickrCC. In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

SAO PAULO — Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the ...