Kamala Kadria, third from right, a woman from the Gadaba Indigenous community, points to a spot on a map they made as others look on in Hatipakna village, Koraput district, in India's eastern state of ...

In 1976, Binan Tuku ventured to meet a Brazilian government's expedition on the banks of the Itui River in a remote area of the western Amazon rainforest. After some initial suspicion, he and his ...

BRASÍLIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday granted official recognition of nearly 800 square miles of Indigenous lands, following through on a campaign promise in a ...

A couple months ago, Margaret Wickens Pearce received a string of calls her phone kept flagging as potential spam. After swatting a number away to voicemail, Pearce finally received a text from ...

As the gears kick in for the world to shift to clean energy, it’s becoming increasingly clear that we’re going to need more of the minerals—like lithium, cobalt, and nickel—that help power our cars ...

A new commentary piece in Nature argues that the much-cited claim that Indigenous peoples protect 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity is not only baseless, but wrong. Although scientists and ...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new map shows areas occupied by indigenous people in Central America, using previously untapped native knowledge, that could help claims by local tribes to ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Sônia Guajajara will head up a new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, with a mandate to oversee policies ...

KORAPUT, India (AP) — At a small stream in India's eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an annual harvest festival. The bounty of communal farming ...

In India, Indigenous women and their 'dream maps' seek to protect lands from climate change KORAPUT, India (AP) — At a small stream in India's eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels ...