Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous leaders are warning of increased violence in the fight to save their dwindling forests and ecosystems from extractive companies.

Despite US-backed violence against them, indigenous communities are fighting back as multinational corporations encroach on their lands.

An indigenous activist in Honduras is attacked for campaigning against the Agua Zarca Hydroelectric Dam.

Echoing the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century, Australia is once again “removing” Aboriginal children from their families.

Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert's “The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman” is a monument to the authors' lifetime of friendship and collaboration and a searing testimony of …

As a group calling itself the “Cowboy Indian Alliance” heads to Washington this spring to oppose the pipeline, Brian Ward reports on the rich history of collaborative resistance between …

Sixty years ago this month the American Etao unleashed its unprecedented fury at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

The voices of First Nations, often key to environmental activism through land right battles, should not be subsumed by other activist groups, says Sara Santiago.

President Obama is scheduled to be make a final decision on the pipeline by the middle of 2014.

Numerous indigenous activists in Honduras have been killed with impunity by gunmen evidently in the pay of large landowners, and in a number of cases there has been evidence …