Millions of Native people were enslaved in the Americas. Their story waits to be told.
The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...
Radiocarbon dating of artifacts and bones shows North American Indigenous population changes over 2,000 years
A small team of archaeologists and anthropologists from the University of Wyoming, Michigan State University, and the Desert ...
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UW-Led Study Traces Indigenous Population Shifts in North America Before Europeans
For a long time, researchers have sought to estimate the size of North America’s Indigenous population before European ...
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Oaxaca Indigenous leader’s killing leaves land defenders’ safety in doubt
Ayuuk leader Arnoldo Nicolás Romero, a municipal commissioner of the Buena Vista ejido in San Juan Guichicovi, a town and ...
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‘This is about power’: Indigenous immigrants face a second Trump administration
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who was banned from nine tribal reservations, will oversee policies uniquely important to ...
Farmers' lawsuit targets ban on sharing seeds in Kenya
Some farmers say efforts to improve the seed system in Kenya have been limited by a 2012 law banning seed sharing, which is ...
Scholars grapple with loss of Chicano studies giant Juan Gómez-Quiñones’ archives in Palisades fire
The late Chicano historian Juan Gómez-Quiñones stored decades of Mexican American history in the garage and shed of his ...
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Agriculture, illegal ranching and roads threaten the jaguar in Mesoamerica
Jaguar have always disregarded national borders, but some threats are keeping the big cats contained within the territories that they inhabits. The spread of extensive monoculture plantations, illegal ...
Their sacred land was a gift for their courage. Yet Maká people in Paraguay fight for its ownership
Fray Bartolomé, as the Maká call it, was offered to them through a decree issued in 1944 by strongman Higinio Morínigo, then ...
Traditional healing is close to becoming a covered Medicaid benefit in Arizona
Arizona's Medicaid program is called the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS (pronounced "access"). It is ...
A message of solidarity, organizing, mobilizing from an indigenous Mexican movement from the 1990s
January has been a month of political education and organizing in San Diego, inspired by the Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico.
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Women weaving paths of resistance across fenced lands and restricted skies in Colombia
The weavers' craft goes beyond mere handicraft, as their creations embody the community's stories and knowledge. The chumbes, ...