indigenous peoples

María de Jesús Patricio, center, during her campaign launch for president of Mexico
Global Politics
Mexico has its first indigenous woman candidate for president
Kenyan language activist Kennedy Bosire has co-edited an online dictionary of his mother tongue, Ekegusii, also know as Kisii.
Culture
American soft power has helped this Kenyan man’s efforts to ensure a future for his mother tongue
Students Andries Jacobi, Nienke Kooi and Fardau de Vries attend a trilingual (Dutch, Frisian, English) public school in Koudum in the Dutch province of Friesland.
Culture
The first cousin of the English language is alive and well in the Netherlands
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Justice
The Standing Rock Sioux are also fighting for their language
Demonstrators against the Dakota Access oil pipeline block a road near North Dakota's Standing Rock Reservation in October. The pipeline would cross historic Native land and pass under the Missouri River, the source of the local water supply.
Environment
It’s not just about a pipeline. Native activists say Dakota battle is their biggest stand in decades.
Police use pepper spray against protesters trying to cross a stream near an oil pipeline construction site near Standing Rock Indian Reservation, north of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 2, 2016.
Conflict
The United Nations heads to North Dakota to investigate possible human rights abuses
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, spiritual leader of the Sioux Nation, leads his people to peacefully pray near a law enforcement barricade just outside of a Dakota Access pipeline construction site north of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, on Oct. 29, 2016.
Conflict
#NoDAPL has momentum, but will it drive Native Americans to vote?
Energy Transfer Partners Dakota Access oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation
Education
Education and funding are critical issues facing native communities in the US
Laguna tribal members Jenni Monet and her grandmother June Sarracino.
Culture
How do you revive a language if tribal elders don’t want you to?
Protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline
Justice
Protesters say mass arrests won’t stop their fight against a North Dakota oil pipeline
Myaamia Chief Doug Lankford (right), linguist David Costa (center), and Myaamia Center director Daryl Baldwin (left), watching a traditional Stomp Dance in Oxford, Ohio.
Culture
How the Miami Tribe got its language back
Spadina Rd
Arts
Indigenous street names in Toronto get noticed and made ‘official’
Standing Rock
Culture
The Standing Rock Sioux ‘know what they’re doing’ in North Dakota
Anne Jimmie grew up speaking Ktunaxa, only to lose much of the language when she was removed from her family and placed in a boarding school. In 2006, the Canadian government compensated Jimmie and about 80,000 other First Nations people as part of a clas
Culture
A new generation of Canadians are learning this language, and not all of them are tribal members
Anne Jimmie grew up speaking Ktunaxa, only to lose much of the language when she was removed from her family and placed in a boarding school. In 2006, the Canadian government compensated Jimmie and about 80,000 other First Nations people as part of a clas
Culture
A new generation of Canadians are learning this language, and not all of them are tribal members
A Tribe Called Red
Culture
A trio of First Nations DJs is reclaiming the way indigenous culture is portrayed in culture
Third-grader Haveo Maka'imoku with her brother. Haveo learns entirely in Hawaiian at a school in Hilo, Hawaii. At home, she speaks Hawaiian with mother, who attended one of the first Hawaiian language pre-schools founded in the 1980s.
Culture
The World in Words live: From Ainu to Zaza
After being elected for a second term, Bolivian re-elect President Evo Morales, accompanied by indigenous leaders, holds the staff of command during an Aymara indigenous ceremony at the ancient Kalasasaya Palace at Tiwanaku, January 21, 2010. The Kalasasa
Global Politics
Bolivia’s president wants to use an indigenous calendar, but are his motives genuine?
Ainu artisan Maki Sekine and her Japanese husband Kenji. Though he is not Ainu, Kenji Sekine has learned the language and now teaches it to Ainu and non-Ainu students.
Culture
In Japan, the Ainu language is largely unknown and unloved, but linguists are fascinated by its mysteries
NYC dam protest
Justice
Key dam funders withdraw support after murders in Honduras
"Land Grab" by Federico Boyd Sulapas Dominguez
Arts
Colonizers. Exploiters. Art that portrays how people responded.
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Education
Parents and students rallied to keep this indigenous language school open
People take part in the 69th Annual Columbus Day Parade in New York in 2013.
Justice
More and more cities are saying goodbye, Columbus
Bowhead whale catch
Food
A successful whale hunt in northern Canada revives an ancient Inuit tradition
A rare antique tribal mask, Kachina Hapota, circa 1910-1920
Lifestyle & Belief
Why a charity and an anonymous bidder are returning ‘old friends’ to the Hopi
Tibetan exiles in Sikkin, along the India/China border.
Lifestyle & Belief
What it’s like on a 9,000 mile journey along India’s borders