President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Spain and the Catholic Church should ask for forgiveness for the brutal campaign against indigenous peoples 500 years ago.
Tag: Indigenous People
Trudeau’s Commitment to Indigenous Groups Tested by Minister’s Resignation
Jody Wilson-Raybould, the former justice minister, seemed a symbol of the Trudeau government’s promise to improve life for Canada’s Indigenous people.
Canada Dispatch: ‘The Nation Has Stood Up’: Indigenous Clans in Canada Battle Pipeline Project
On one side of a barricade in remote British Columbia, members of the Wet’suwet’en people hoped to stop a pipeline that would cross their traditional land. On the other side were heavily armed police.
On Day 1, Brazil’s New President Undermines Indigenous Land Rights
As a candidate, President Jair Bolsonaro compared indigenous communities living in isolated areas to animals in zoos.
‘The People Making It Are Indigenous, but Indigenous Is Not a Genre’
The weeklong First Nations Dialogues sets out to challenge the idea that Indigenous performance fits any single description.
In Home Village of Girl Who Died in U.S. Custody, Poverty Drives Migration
Jakelin Caal Maquin, a 7-year-old girl who died in the custody of American officials, came from a poor Guatemalan village where many see emigration as the only escape from poverty.
NORWAY Dispatch: Where Reindeer Are a Way of Life
The indigenous Sami people have fought for generations to preserve their identity. The latest battles are against Norway’s limits on reindeer herds.
Killing of Indigenous Man in Chile Spurs Criticism of Security Forces
The killing and a cover-up by the police has intensified anger over a government crackdown against groups fighting to reclaim land.
A Man’s Last Letter Before Being Killed on a Forbidden Island
John Allen Chau’s letter to his parents from the Andamans lays out a disturbing account of his final days trying to spread Christianity.
Can Marijuana Save This Maori Town in New Zealand?
As the country prepares to legalize the production of medicinal marijuana, the economically battered town of Ruatoria — population 750 and falling — hopes to cash in.