Society / Indigenous Peoples

Loggers’ deaths highlight government failures to protect isolated Indigenous lands, reports Stephanie Boyd.

Australian First Nations activist takes genocide case against the Crown, reports Zoe Holman.

Trend-setting cholitas in La Paz, clicked by Manuel Seoane.

Want to restore and protect the world’s forests? Then uphold the rights of the people who live in them, says Danny Chivers.

Changiz M Varzi meets Mexican indigenous women artists who are defying convention.

Stephanie Boyd reports from the Peruvian Amazon on the fight to get adequate healthcare that respects indigenous tradition.

Nowhere Man. The eventful life – and ultimate betrayal – of an Inuit boy brought to New York City in 1897, as told by ILYA.

Land justice; Ebola-free; Transition triumphs

Taking a stand against mining corporations can cost you your freedom – and even your life – in Peru. But that does not deter indigenous human rights defender Virginia Pinares. She tells Vanessa Baird why.

HIV hope; Speak your heart; Goodwill gesture.

Jair Bolsonaro may be in power, but the Sateré indigenous people are not taking his hostility sitting down. Sue Branford reports from the Brazilian Amazon.

A new app that helps Aboriginal people in Australia record police abuse is the latest intervention in a growing movement that uses filmed evidence to demand accountability. Ian Lloyd Neubauer reports.

Working on a documentary in the Andaman Sea prompted questions for Julian Sayarer about the way indigenous and nomadic peoples are represented in the West.

An indigenous movement in Jharkhand is reminding the Indian authorities of their constitutional duty to protect tribal lands. But the government is persecuting tribespeople for standing up. Rohini Mohan reports.

The lines painted on his skin lead to the heartlands of identity, discovers Dan Baron Cohen.

Update from Canada by Janet Nicol.

Nick Dowson speaks with an indigenous lawyer and campaigner fighting a gas pipeline in Mexico.

Paraguayan democracy may have come a long way since the end of dictatorship, but terror is sweeping its agricultural heartlands where farmers and indigenous communities are resisting attempts to take away what little land they have left.

Amy McQuire on why life and death are inseparable from land for Aboriginal people in Australia.

In Brazil, young indigenous women are reconnecting with their African roots and finding ways to intervene in the violence that targets their community.