The Uluru Statement from the Heart calls for truth-telling as a crucial step towards reconciliation. What does this process involve, and what are the potential promises and pitfalls?
Articles on Indigenous peoples
Displaying 81 - 100 of 355 articles
Nearly 95% of deforestation in the Amazon occurs within 3.5 miles of a road or near a river. Brazil’s plans to ramp up exports may be on a collision course with the forest.
Changes in southern African rock art reflect the mixing of groups of people after they came into contact with each other.
Unrelenting poverty, underemployment and historical trauma all contribute to the health challenges faced by Indigenous Americans.
More than a week into administration, Lula’s multicultural politics could not stand in starker contrast to Bolsonaro’s colourblind stance. Could they bring the country together?
The idea that human activity threatens nature, and that it is important to protect wild places, dates back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Almost 200 countries are reckoning with the world’s extraordinary loss of the variety of life at the COP15 nature summit in Canada. Here’s why Indigenous involvement is crucial.
The annual report is also a reminder that what happens in the Arctic affects the rest of the world.
Few Canadians know about the doctrine of coverture and how it stripped Indigenous women of their agency.
After participation in the Literacy for Life Foundation adult literacy campaign, serious offences by students dropped by almost 65%.
The right is explicitly laid out in the same treaty that led to the Trail of Tears.
Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will end land clearance in Brazil’s Amazon region. But powerful forces profit from rainforest destruction.
Geographic, cultural and political identity are all part of being Indigenous.
The “blackout period” was a time when the Canadian government banned lawyers from representing Indigenous Peoples.
Indigenous people’s languages were largely lost as a result of forced assimilation efforts in the U.S. Here’s why one tribal leader says the languages should be brought back.
Countries across the Americas are tweaking their census to better understand their population, allowing them to create more responsive policies. The US still has a ways to go.
Broken Spectre, an immersive, 74-minute-long moving image work, is having its world premiere at the NGV.
Illegal roads have brought deforestation, fire and other environmental damage to the Amazon. The results of the 2022 presidential runoff could have a major impact for the future.
To fully understand what led to the stabbings in James Smith Cree Nation, we need to look at how the legacy of settler colonial violence impacts Indigenous communities.
The recent anti-migrant actions of the Florida and Texas governors reflect specific hatreds that date back to the very beginnings of European settlement in North America.
Top contributors
-
Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
-
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
-
Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
-
Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
-
Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, Director, The (so-called) Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
-
Professor of Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
-
Partner Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
-
Researcher in ethnobiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
-
Professor of Indigenous Health, Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
-
Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
-
PhD student of law, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
-
Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
-
Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
-
UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) and Professor in Political Science, Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
-
Distinguished Professor, Charles Sturt University