A Yanomami Indigenous woman carries her child on her back at a Brazilian Air Force field hospital in the city of Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil, in January 2023.…
How do Native youth activists envision a sustainable future? How are Native communities uniquely affected by climate change? This Earth Day, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presents Youth In Action:…
One of the priorities of the Closing the Gap reporting is that Indigenous cultures and languages are “strong, supported and flourishing”. It also calls for Indigenous students to “achieve their full learning potential”.
These two…
The federal government has released the final report on a Universities Accord. Taking more than a year to prepare, it is billed as a “blueprint” for reform for the next decade and beyond. It contains 47 recommendations across…
Australian politicians and major government reports keep emphasising the importance of STEM (or science, technology, engineering and maths) skills for our economy and society.
As the Universities Accord report noted last month,…
1. IntroductionAround 1595, a Franciscan missionary, Fray Gerónimo de Mendieta, told one of colonial Mexico’s earliest ghost stories in his chronicle, the Historia eclesiástica indiana (Mendieta 1997, vol. 2, pp. 140–41).1 Addressed to…
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Kaagwaantaan (Eagle/Wolf) Pole by master carver Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Unangax̂) with apprentices William L. Burkhart Jr. (Tlingit), Lee Burkhart (Tlingit), and Merritt Johnson. From the bottom up, this pole depicts three…
Okanagan Syilx Territory, Westbank BC, March 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Three years ago, a monumental shift in the Indigenous justice landscape occurred when the BC First Nations Justice Council (BCFNJC) assumed responsibility for…
Summary comparison of glacial Termination I at Lake Selina and Termination II at Darwin Crater, Tasmania. A) Percentage of lowland rainforest pollen taxa, showing 36%…
Ottawa, Ontario (March 24, 2024) — President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Natan Obed, and the Minister of Indigenous Services, Patty Hajdu, issued the following statement today:
“Tuberculosis (TB) can be eliminated with joint…
MONTREAL, March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) Building upon its commitment to Reconciliation and Indigenous engagement, CN today released its new Indigenous Relations Policy for the company. In this Policy, CN…
Water, Vol. 16, Pages 934: In a Good Way: Braiding Indigenous and Western Knowledge Systems to Understand and Restore Freshwater Systems
Water doi: 10.3390/w16070934
Authors:
Mehltretter
Bradford
Longboat
Luby
Insights…
At the remote Indigenous community of Binjari, south of Katherine in the Northern Territory last week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a landmark A$4 billion investment in remote housing across the Territory.
He said the…
Academic writing courses have historically served as a kind of gate-keeping measure. In North America and other settler colonial societies, such courses have traditionally imparted skills and knowledge for succeeding in university…
Ottawa, Ontario (March 19, 2024) — The Minister of Indigenous Services, the Honourable Patty Hajdu, and the Minister for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and…
It’s commonly accepted that women do the vast majority of caregiving in Australian society. But less appreciated is that Indigenous women do larger amounts of unpaid care than any other group.
Working with the Aboriginal and Torres…
Aboriginal people use fires to manage the landscapePenny Tweedie/Getty Images
Indigenous Australians have been managing the environment with fire for at least 11,000 years, according to an analysis of sediment cores…
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This year’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival will celebrate the National Museum of the American Indian and the people whose voices the museum amplifies. The program “Indigenous Voices of the Americas: Celebrating the National Museum…
PrairiesCan funding of $4 million will bolster the ability of Indigenous Tourism Alberta to draw more visitors to authentic Indigenous experiences, events and attractions across the province
March 13, 2024 – Calgary, Alberta –…
Logging companies have “acquired” roughly 1m hectares of Indigenous peoples’ territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2000, according to a new study.
This is part of a wider trend in which companies…
Wildfire burns between 3.94 million and 5.19 million square kilometres of land every year worldwide. If that area were a single country, it would be the seventh largest in the world.In Australia, most fire occurs in the vast tropical…
There is a long and often complicated history of researchers studying Indigenous people. In 1999, the education scholar Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, in her book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, emphasised the…
NIEHS grantee Karletta Chief, Ph.D., from the University of Arizona, has been named director of the school’s new Indigenous Resilience Center. Chief and colleagues will collaborate with tribal leaders and governments to design…
1. IntroductionHuman Papilloma Virus (HPV) infection is a common, preventable, sexually transmitted disease with an increasing incidence globally . With an estimated incidence of 80% among women and men by 45-years-old, nearly all…
1.2. IntroductionAs part of a preliminary search of the international literature, the researchers identified more than 50 systematic literature reviews, scoping reviews and meta-analyses on child sexual abuse. Of those, only five…
Site distribution across climate zones. Site labels correspond to Site_ID in Supplementary Table 1, which also contains site characterization. Dot size indicates the…
From the stories the Elders and knowledge keepers shared, we learned that the current Water crises emerged due to the lack of recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ jurisdiction over Land. These crises have implications for Indigenous…
Indigenous communities in California were exposed to about 1.7 times as much wildfire smoke, on average, as would be expected based on their statewide populations.…
Indigenous communities in California were exposed to about 1.7 times as much wildfire smoke, on average, as would be expected based on their statewide populations.…
This report synthesises the findings from 10 country-level reports which examine how the rights, roles and knowledge of indigenous men, women, youth, and persons with disabilities are addressed in national-level climate policies and…
1. IntroductionIn December 2019, in Wuhan, China, the first cases of severe acute respiratory infection (SARS-CoV-2) by coronavirus (COVID-2) were diagnosed . In a short time, the cases of infection reached large proportions, spreading…
Explore how open cartography is transforming the relationship between indigenous communities and their territories in Latin America. Projects discussed at the ABRE LATAM Data Sovereignty, Open Mapping and Indigenous Territories table…
1. IntroductionThe “gold rush” expansion experienced a breakthrough in the North Rarowatu and Lantari Jaya areas, Bombana Regency, Southeast Sulawesi Province. The unprecedented equalization of digging has led to a 70-fold increase in…
The driving mission of MIT Solve is inviting new voices and proposed solutions to world problems as a way to achieve a more sustainable and equitable future for all. To that end, Solve recently announced the 2024…
Showing how different forms of knowledge can contribute to reducing disaster risk, as well as how to conserve and manage cultural heritage against natural hazards.By living in hazard-prone areas and experiencing natural hazards over…
RIO DE JANEIRO —
Carnival dancers took the biggest stage in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday night with their faces painted red in a traditional Indigenous manner, while percussionists had “Miners out” written across the skins of their…
RIO DE JANEIRO —
Carnival dancers took the biggest stage in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday night with their faces painted red in a traditional Indigenous manner, while percussionists had “Miners out” written across the skins of their drums.…
Ottawa, Ontario (February 8, 2024)
Today the Chair of the National Families and Survivors Circle Inc., Hilda Anderson-Pyrz, the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, Gary Anandasangaree, and the Minister of Families for the…
The third-year MD-PhD student and Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe member wants to see greater representation in medicine and better care for Native communities. “That’s the flame under me – that motivation to make a difference.”
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Current distribution of Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Approximately 56 million
Mexico
11.8 – 23.2 million
Guatemala
6.4 million
Peru
5.9 million
Bolivia
4.1 million
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Indigenous peoples of the AmericasCurrent distribution of Indigenous peoples of the AmericasApproximately 56 million Mexico11.8 – 23.2 million Guatemala6.4 million Peru5.9 million Bolivia4.1 million United States3.7 million Chile2.1…
The aim of this study was to analyse and determine whether there was a relationship between the KAP in an indigenous community whose first option was to use traditional medicine over antimicrobials. Social Conditions Related to Bacterial…
Explore the Open Cities Guatemala Project, catalyzing Indigenous autonomy in San José Poaquil. Discover the innovative use of geographic data, participatory mapping, and tech-enabled applications in sustainable community forestry…
2.3. What Katherine Hospital’s Management and Clinicians Did?Katherine Hospital implemented a range of strategies to address the high rates of Aboriginal people taking their own leave, including providing additional support to junior…
Environmental soil scientist Lydia Jennings, Ph.D., (see sidebar) shared the harsh effects mining can have on environmental health, and how Indigenous-led collaboration can help, during a July 24 lecture, “From Metal Mining to Data…
In January 2024, at the height of Brazil’s summer, a group of 20 MIT undergraduates will arrive in São Paulo, Brazil, for the Independent Activities Period (IAP) course WGS.247/21L.592 (Race, Place, and Modernity…