A British Columbia first nation that made history a decade ago in signing the province's first modern treaty has come up with another first, passing a land use law allowing its members to own, mortgage and re-sell individual parcels of treaty land.
The famed Navajo Code Talkers, the elite Marine unit whose unbreakable code stymied the Japanese in World War II, fear their legacy will die with them.
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Jim Krehbiel was up past midnight making a piece of art by layering maps and field notes onto photos he had taken of an ancient ritual site high on a cliff ledge in the desert Southwest.
The silent massacres continue as fur poachers return to the southern Andes. Without mercy they kill and skin the endangered animals for their fur to smuggle to Argentina for sale on international markets.
The low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet is heavy on traditional foods like seafood, game and oolichan grease, a delicacy finer than the best olive oil to connoisseurs here on the Pacific coast.
Puerto Rico has always had high unemployment, and abusive and corrupt governments from the island's two main parties.
Project Censored annually publishes a ranking of the top 25 most unreported but deserving stories in the U.S. Included this year is the work of the global water justice movement and their efforts to expose the corporate bias behind the World Water Council.
GUATEMALA CITY - Tens of thousands of indigenous people took to the streets across Latin America on Monday to protest the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's 1492 discovery of the Americas. Columbus Day is celebrated as the Day of Hispanic Heritage in Latin America, but protes …
An intense fire broke out Sunday in a slum in South America's largest city, sending residents running across rooftops to escape the flames.
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Many Easter Islanders are worried. Tourists should be limited to 50,000 a year and be preferably well-heeled, argues Marcelo Pont, the vice-president of the Council of Elders, an advisory body. Visitors from the Chilean mainland attract particular resentment.
Native Peoples of the Americas has not initiated any private discussions.