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Letter from Shapajilla. ILLUSTRATION: SARAH JOHN

17 Sep 2023 3 minute read

Letter from Shapajilla: The Storyteller

Stephanie Boyd reports from an Amazonian village where traditional ways of life are changing with modern...

Wood logs are seen in a deforested area close to Porto Velho, in the northwestern Brazilian state of Rondônia, on 7 August 2020. Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real via Wikimedia Commons

3 Sep 2023 3 minute read

View from Brazil: Agribusiness lobby scuppers climate gains

Brazil wants to be a beacon in the fight against global warming, Leonardo Sakamoto writes. Its powerful...

Gathering vegetables for market in the Mau Forest, August 2008. REUTERS/FINBARR O'REILLY

19 Jun 2023 20 minute read

The Ogiek won reparations, now they want results

One year after a court ruling, the Ogiek are still waiting for reparations. Amy Hall reports on a case that...

Elder Taharakau Stewart (in the middle with cane), is joined by other Māori people during a ceremony in Berlin, Germany on 29 April 2019. The event marked the handing back of the remains of ancestors which had been held as part of Charité – Berlin University of Medicine’s former anthropology collections. JÖRG CARSTENSEN/DPA/ALAMY

2 May 2023 15 minute read

Returning Indigenous ancestors home to New Zealand/Aotearoa

For centuries, museums have held human remains as artefacts. Hana Pera Aoake explored what can be learned...

A person draped in a blue, green, red and yellow Mapuche flag stands with their back to the camera, looking towards a gas plant in the distance

16 Jun 2022 5 minute read

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Standing firm against fracking

The Mapuche people in Argentina are saying no to an influx of transnationals trying to frack their lands. Grace...

19 Nov 2021 5 minute read

This article is almost two years old.

‘Fortress conservation’ is driving us from our homes

Pranab Doley, an Indigenous activist from the Mising people, condemns the militarization of the...

Fighting on all fronts. Samela, a 23-year-old activist from the Association of the Satere-Mawe Indigenous Women in Manaus, Amazonas in Brazil, co-ordinates the production of protective face masks.RAPHAEL ALVES/IMF/CREATIVE COMMONS

21 Jun 2021 3 minute read

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Let the people protect the forests

Want to restore and protect the world's forests? Then uphold the rights of the people who live in them, says Danny...

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an environmental activist

16 Feb 2021 3 minute read

This article is almost three years old.

‘Indigenous people respect all species’

An interview with environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim.

Photo: Fifaliana-Joy/Pixabay

24 Sep 2020 3 minute read

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Kids locked up

Amy Hall speaks to the campaigners leading the call against childhood incarceration of Aboriginal and...

15 Jun 2020 9 minute read

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Two Demons: Covid-19 and abuse

Stephanie Boyd on the making of a groundbreaking indigenous film about the pandemic in Peru’s Amazon.

The fight continues: indigenous groups and their allies blockade government buildings in Victoria, Canada to protest a natural gas pipeline through Wet'suwet'en territory. Zuma Press inc/Alamy

2 Jun 2020 3 minute read

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Temperature check

Danny Chivers is buoyed up by three decisive victories led by indigenous groups against fossil fuel...

The Ashaninka are an indigenous people living in the State of Acre, Brazil. © Pedro França/MinC

16 Apr 2020 3 minute read

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View from Brazil

Leonardo Sakamoto on the war against indigenous people.

People from the various villages in Baram district demonstrate against the proposed dam. SAMBAN TUGANG

13 Apr 2020 4 minute read

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Saving rivers, saving lives

An epic struggle has been playing out between islanders defending their land, rivers and livelihoods and the Malaysian...

21 May 2019 19 minute read

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The indigenous resistance against Jair Bolsonaro

Jair Bolsonaro may be in power, but the Sateré indigenous people are not taking his hostility sitting down. Sue...

21 Jan 2019 6 minute read

This article is almost five years old.

Catching the cops

Aboriginal people are using a new app to record and report police brutality. Will it help break Australia’s culture of...

14 Jan 2019 5 minute read

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Do we fetishize indigenous people?

Working on a documentary about the Moken ‘Sea Gypsies’ prompted Julian Sayarer to examine the West’s obtuse...

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