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Larry EchoHawk moves to Philippines for Mormon church job (08/05)
Larry Echo Hawk, the former head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, has moved to the Philippines.

Editorial: Hopi Tribe needs help recovering cultural palimony (08/05)
Newspaper calls on federal government to help Hopi Tribe of Arizona reclaim its cultural property from an auction house in France.

WPR: Ho-Chunk Nation shares culture with students from China (07/30)
Wisconsin Public Radio reports on a cultural exchange between students from the Ho-Chunk Nation and China.

Pope Francis calls for protection of environment on trip to Brazil (07/30)
Pope Francis called on Catholics to respect the Amazon rainforest during a visit to Brazil over the weekend.

Inspector in Mexico fired after confronting Indian boy on street (07/30)
An inspector in Mexico was fired after video showed him confronting a 10-year-old Indian boy on the street.

Suit for Indian massacre in Mexico dismissed over immunity (07/23)
The former president of Mexico can't be sued over a massacre at an Indian village in 1997, a federal judge in Connecticut ruled.

Diaguita Tribe seeks new environmental study for gold mine (07/23)
The Diaguita Tribe is asking the highest court in Chile to order a new environmental study for an $8.5 billion gold mine.

Authorities in Peru investigate eight murders linked to tribe (07/19)
Authorities in Peru are investigating the murders of eight men whose deaths have blamed on the Ashaninka Tribe.

Court in Chile sides with Diaguita Tribe in lawsuit against mine (07/16)
An appeals court in Chile sided with the Diaguita Tribe in a dispute over a gold mine in the mountains.

Sacred item that was sold in auction is returned to Hopi Tribe (07/16)
A sacred item that was sold during a controversial auction in France has been returned to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona.

Young people in Aboriginal village develop their own language (07/16)
Young people in an Aboriginal village in Australia have developed their own language, The New York Times reports.

Julianne Jennings: Abusing Native Americans for profit in Italy (07/11)
Julianne Jennings on a 'Native' program in Italy that appears to be based on faulty history.

BBC Magazine: Tribes in Virginia recognized by UK but not US (07/10)
BBC Magazine explores why Virginia tribes are recognized by the United Kingdom through treaty but not by the United States.

Dina Gilio-Whitaker: Justice for Mayans in Guatemala genocide (06/20)
Dina Gilio-Whitaker on the successful verdict in the Maya genocide trial in Guatemala.

Armstrong Wiggins: Respect indigenous rights in Guatemala (06/19)
Armstrong Wiggins, of the Indian Law Resource Center, calls in Secretary of State John Kerry to address indigenous rights in Guatemala.

Men suspected of raping and killing Indian woman are killed (06/13)
Three men who were suspected of raping and killing an Indian woman in Mexico were killed in a mob attack.

Tribe in Brazil occupies office in protest of major dam project (06/12)
About 140 members of the Munduruku Tribe occupied the office of the Brazilian government's Indian affairs agency in protest of a major dam project. The protest started on Monday. Tribal...

Interview: Implementing UN declaration on indigenous rights (06/06)
Interview with James Anaya, the United Nations special rapporteur on indigenous rights, on implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,

Mapuche people in Chile seek control over their homelands (05/31)
Members of the Mapuche Tribe in Chile are seeking self-determination over land that was reserved to them by treaties. The tribe controlled the southern half of Chile following independence from...

Opinion: Genocide trial represents breakthrough for justice (05/24)
Luz Mendez of the National Union of Guatemala Women on the genocide trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt: Guatemala is also one of the countries with the deepest social...

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