Indigenous Peoples

Many in the international human rights community see what is happening in West Papua as a deliberate, ongoing process of genocide of West Papua's indigenous people.

Author and film-maker John Pilger talks about continuing Australian government policies that assure the cultural - and ultimately material - elimination of the Aborigines.

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.