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Holding Up the Sky: Saving the Indigenous Yanomami tribe in Brazil’s Amazon | Indigenous Rights
A Brazilian tribal leader warns that illegal mining in forests will have dire consequences for the rest of the world.…
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A Devilish 500-Year-Old Indigenous Mexican Celebration in Photos
Puerto Rican photographer and art director Jesse Echevarria ventured to the valleys surrounding Oaxaca, Mexico, to photograph a small but…
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Indigenous Women Fight for Their Future, Their Land, Rights & Self-Determination — Global Issues
Opinion by Romeo Jara (quezon city, philippines) Wednesday, March 20, 2024 Inter Press Service QUEZON CITY, Philippines, Mar 20 (IPS) –…
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Indigenous Bolivian women take up taekwondo against gender-based violence | Women
A violent attack by would-be robbers steered Bolivian Lidia Mayta towards the martial art of taekwondo. Three years later, she…
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Ahead of election, tension brews in Kashmir over tribal caste quotas | Indigenous Rights
Tral, Indian-administered Kashmir – Like many people from his nomadic tribal community, Bashir Ahmed Gujjar, a 70-year-old shepherd, never went…
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‘Our bodies know the pain’: Why Norway’s reindeer herders support Gaza | Indigenous Rights
Fosen Peninsula, Norway – A herd of reindeer running through thick, white snow sounds a bit like thunder. It is a…
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Coastal Indigenous and Minority Women Driving Kenyas Blue Forest Conservation Efforts — Global Issues
Women are the unsung mangrove restoration heroes. Planting and caring for mangrove seedlings and boosting preservation and conservation of Kenya’s…
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Why Smallholder Farmers Want to Share Indigenous Seeds — Global Issues
Smallholder farmers pose for a photo outside a community seed bank after undergoing training at the Seed Savers Network headquarters…
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At Rio’s Carnival parades, Yanomami activists fight ‘genocide’ with samba | Indigenous Rights News
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Yellow and green feathers radiating from his headdress, Davi Kopenawa strode onto the parade route…
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Fifty years on, a case to uphold Indigenous rights resonates in the US | Indigenous Rights News
First, she heard a ping, then the sound of something hitting her boat. It was 1975, and Norma Cagey, only…
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