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Tribe to Reclaim a National Park Gateway

Yurok to gain 125 acres at southern entrance to Redwoods National and State Parks

(Newser) - Colonial settlers forced the Yurok Tribe from their ancestral homelands in modern day California during the 1800s while exploiting natural resources, from gold to lumber. "As the natural world became completely decimated, so did the Yurok people," Yurok descendent Rosie Clayburn tells CBS News . But in a sign...

Just One Mound Remains in 'Mound City'

And officials are working to transfer it back into Native American hands

(Newser) - What is now St. Louis was once home to more than 100 mounds constructed by Native Americans—so many that St. Louis was once known as "Mound City." Settlers tore most of them down, and just one remains. Now, that last remaining earthen structure, Sugarloaf Mound, is closer...

Aussie Senator Censured After Telling Charles, 'You Are Not My King'

Lidia Thorpe is censured in a 46-12 vote

(Newser) - Australian senators on Monday voted to censure an Indigenous colleague who yelled at King Charles III during a reception in Parliament House last month, the AP reports. The censure of independent Sen. Lidia Thorpe is a symbolic gesture that records her colleagues' disapproval of her conduct during the first visit...

Jamie Oliver Pulls Criticized Children's Book

Indigenous Australians accuse author of trivialization, stereotyping

(Newser) - A children's book written by British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been withdrawn from sale after it was criticized for causing offense to Indigenous Australians. The Guardian reported Saturday that the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Corp. blasted Billy and the Epic Escape, which was published earlier...

After Years of Waiting, Navajo Nation Is Powering Up

Challenges in electrifying every home on reservation continue

(Newser) - After a five-year wait, Lorraine Black and Ricky Gillis heard the rumblings of an electrical crew reach their home on the sprawling Navajo Nation. In five days' time, their home would be connected to the power grid, replacing their reliance on a few solar panels and propane lanterns. No longer...

Biden Making an Apology He Says Is Long Overdue

President to apologize to Indian nations for boarding school policy Friday in Arizona

(Newser) - President Biden will formally apologize on Friday for the country's role in forcing Indigenous children for over 150 years into boarding schools, where many were physically, emotionally, and sexually abused, and more than 950 died. "I'm doing something I should have done a long time ago: To...

Tribe's Sacred Artifacts Finally Escape Church Basement

Wyoming Episcopal Church returns hundreds of artifacts to Northern Arapaho Tribe

(Newser) - The Wyoming Episcopal Church is marking Indigenous Peoples Day by returning some 200 artifacts to the Northern Arapaho Tribe, which has been fighting for ownership for decades. The diocese has held the artifacts—including ceremonial headdresses, medicine bags, stunningly beaded clothing, bows and arrows, and children's toys—since 1946,...

After Warnings, Isolated Tribe Goes on the Attack

Following clash with Mashco Piro in Peruvian Amazon, 2 loggers are dead, 2 are missing

(Newser) - After an isolated Amazonian tribe attacked loggers who got too close to their Peruvian territory this summer, Indigenous rights group FENAMAD warned that, without government intervention, more violent clashes could come. Now, two loggers have been shot dead with arrows, another has been injured, and two others have disappeared from...

'Uncontacted' Indigenous Group Just Made Contact

Mashco Piro tribe reportedly attacked loggers in Peruvian Amazon who were getting too close

(Newser) - An "uncontacted" Indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon apparently spooked by local loggers getting too close to their area went on the attack last month, injuring at least one logger and possibly killing two others, according to an NGO there. Per the Guardian , the Mashco Piro tribe reportedly carried...

Appearance of Isolated Tribe Draws Worry in Peru
Appearance of Isolated
Tribe Draws Worry in Peru
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Jul 21, 2024 3:50 PM CDT

Appearance of Isolated Tribe Draws Worry in Peru

Survival International calls it 'a humanitarian disaster in the making'

(Newser) - More than 50 members of an isolated Amazonian tribe have been spotted gathering on the banks of a river in rare footage out of Peru. Dozens of members of the Mashco Piro tribe appeared along the Las Piedras river in Madre de Dios province near the village of Monte Salvado,...

Report: Colorado Was Built Up on $1.7T of Indigenous Land

Nonprofit IDs 10 tribal nations that were dispossessed of their homelands

(Newser) - A report published this week by a Native American-led nonprofit examines in detail the dispossession of $1.7 trillion worth of Indigenous homelands in Colorado by the state and the US and the more than $546 million the state has reaped in mineral extraction from them. The report, shared first...

Alleged Serial Killer: I Killed 4, but Don't Blame Me

Canada's Jeremy Skibicki claims he is not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder

(Newser) - An accused Canadian serial killer has admitted to killing four Indigenous women but claims he is not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder. Jeremy Skibicki, 37, had pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 24-year-old Rebecca Contois, 39-year-old Morgan Harris, 26-year-old Marcedes Myran,...

Whales Just Gained Personhood Here
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Apr 2, 2024 12:26 PM CDT

Whales Just Gained Personhood Here

Polynesian Indigenous groups sign treaty they hope will lead to greater protections

(Newser) - Whales are people, too, according to the Indigenous leaders of New Zealand, Tahiti, and the Cook Islands, who've acted to bestow personhood on whales. New Zealand's Maori and other Indigenous groups from Polynesia signed a treaty that recognizes all whales as legal persons as part of an effort...

Search for Serial Killer's Victims Could Cost $66M

Federal, provincial Canadian governments will fund search of landfill for slain Indigenous women

(Newser) - Canada's federal government and the provincial Manitoba government have agreed to spend tens of millions to help search a landfill for the remains of two slain Indigenous women. A sum of $20 million Canadian—US $14.7 million—from each government is to go toward a search of the...

Switched at Birth in 1955, 2 Men Finally Get Their Apology

They had their identities 'stripped away,' says lawyer pursuing financial compensation

(Newser) - Imagine learning in your golden years that your family isn't your family. Given a DNA test in 2022, Richard Beauvais discovered he wasn't Indigenous like his parents but had a mix of Ukrainian, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Polish ancestry—and yet, he wasn't adopted. Beauvais soon learned he...

Mad Scramble in US Museums on Native American Displays

New rules handed down by Biden administration prohibit such exhibits without consent from tribes

(Newser) - Museums across America have started closing exhibits highlighting Native American artifacts in an attempt to comply with new Biden administration rules that mandate venues get the OK from Indigenous tribes before displaying those samples. The requirements under the updated Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act , originally passed in 1990,...

Lily Gladstone Spoke in Native Language After Historic Win

Actor addresses Golden Globes audience in Blackfeet language

(Newser) - Lily Gladstone made history Sunday night by becoming the first Indigenous person to win a Golden Globe for best female actor in a drama, and Gladstone marked the occasion in fitting fashion—by speaking the Blackfeet language in their acceptance speech, reports Mashable . Watch it here . "I love everyone...

ACLU: School Broke the Law by Forcing Boy to Cut His Hair

Native American child requested exemption for faith, cultural reasons but was denied, letter claims

(Newser) - The American Civil Liberties Union says an elementary school in Kansas is enforcing an unlawful policy under which an 8-year-old Native American boy was forced to choose between having long hair and attending school. The member of the Wyandotte Nation chose to cut his long hair after his mother visited...

Canadian Nun, 97, Faces Gross Indecency Charges

She worked at infamous residential school for Indigenous children in the 1960s

(Newser) - A 97-year-old nun in Canada is facing multiple charges connected to alleged sexual assaults at a notorious residential school for Indigenous children in the 1960s and 1970s. Police in Ontario say Francoise Seguin was charged with three counts of "gross indecency," an offence that was repealed when laws...

These Footprints Challenge Theory of First Americans

Further dating suggests human footprints in New Mexico are at least 20K years old

(Newser) - Skeptics will have a harder time doubting the existence of humans in North America more than 20,000 years ago following an expanded look at footprints left by a group along the shores of an Ice Age lake in what is now New Mexico. A 2021 study dating seeds embedded...

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