How Canada’s Indian Act tax rules are confusing shoppers: 'Indigenous people should be proud to get tax exemption'

Canadian resident Ethan Macleod was Christmas shopping in Gatineau, Quebec. He was more than 500 kilometres from his home in ...
The Nation

For Many Indigenous People, Voting Is Getting Harder

A century after the Indian Citizenship Act made their ancestors US citizens and acknowledged their right to vote, Indigenous Americans still face barriers to casting their ballots. Senator Jon Tester ...
USA Today

Millions of Native people were enslaved in the Americas. Their story waits to be told.

In family lore, the story told about Yolanda Leyva’s Indigenous great-grandmother Canuta depicted a tale of young romance: Sometime during the 1850s, the Rarámuri girl had been taken in as an infant ...
CU Boulder News & Events

‘There’s no standard way to be Indian or Indigenous’

Of all his childhood memories, one in particular sticks in the mind of Tony Tekaroniake Evans (DistSt'86, focusing on cultural anthropology, biology and geography): In his third-grade class in Georgia ...
East Asia Forum

Indigenous Nicobar Islanders face destruction as mega development advances

The Indian government’s ‘Holistic Development of Great Nicobar Island’ project proposes building large-scale infrastructure and expanding tourism in an ecologically sensitive region. The project ...
Mongabay

Report urges full protection of world’s 196 uncontacted Indigenous peoples

A comprehensive global report on uncontacted Indigenous peoples, published Oct. 27 by Survival International, estimates that the world still holds at least 196 uncontacted peoples living in 10 ...
St. Louis American

Indigenous People’s Day: Highlighting the intersections between the Native American and Black American struggle

Indigenous Peoples Day is a movement of recognition for the havoc brought upon Native American communities by European colonization. The day is not an officially recognized holiday under U.S. Federal ...
NBC New York

What is Indigenous Peoples Day? A day of celebration, protest and reclaiming history

Native American people will celebrate their centuries-long history of resilience on Monday with ceremonies, dances and speeches. Events across the U.S. come four years after President Joe Biden ...
NPR

Highlighting Indigenous voices across NPR’s network

Smiley has spent her professional career in rural Alaska. Her small team covers a region the size of Oregon, made up of more than 50 villages with no connected road system. KYUK, an Alaska ...