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Peter d'Errico: Ignorance can't be an excuse for genocide (05/16)
Peter d'Errico discusses genocide in Guatemala, Canada and the United States: In Guatemala, the High Risk Court concluded a trial of former military dictator José Efrain Ríos Montt. The court...
Ex-dictator of Guatemala takes stand in Maya genocide trial (05/10)
Efrain Rios Montt, a former president and dictator of Guatemala, took the stand for the first time in his genocide trial. Rios Montt accused of ordering massacres on two Mayan...
Column: Monks from France head to Pine Ridge Reservation (05/09)
A group of monks from France will visit the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe: Each year, tens of thousands of young adults migrate...
Art: Fresco shows first European depiction of Native people (05/07)
Detail of fresco at the Vatican. Jonathan Jones on a fresco in the Vatican that appears to be the first European depiction of Native people in art: The discovery...
Study claims Native languages linked to Eurasian languages (05/07)
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims seven language families, including Inuit–Yupik, descend from a common language that was spoken about 15,000 years ago. Researchers...
Opinion: Aboriginals left behind in Australia's economic boom (05/01)
Columnist on the treatment of Aboriginal people in Australia: More than any other colonial society, Australia consigns its dirtiest secrets, past and present, to wilful ignorance or indifference. When I...
New judge takes on genocide trial of ex-dictator in Guatemala (04/24)
A new judge has been assigned to the genocide trial of Efrain Rios Montt, a former president and dictator of Guatemala, a move that could send the case back to...
Native Sun News: Hopi Tribe fights to stop sale of sacred items (04/19)
The auction of 70 masks that are considered highly sacred to the Hopi people was allowed to take place in Paris after a French judge refused to step in on behalf of the tribe.
ICT interview with art expert about sale of tribal cultural items (04/18)
Indian Country Today interviews Christopher Marinello, the executive director and general counsel at Art Loss Register London, about a controversial auction in France where tribal items were sold: What is...
Indian activists in Brazil launch protest against lands decision (04/17)
About 700 Indian activists are occupying the lower house of Brazilian Congress in a protest over a lands decision, the Associated Press reports. The activists are opposing a constitutional amendment...
Auction of tribal cultural items in France fetches less than $1M (04/15)
A controversial auction of tribal cultural items went ahead as planned on Friday. According to news reports, all but five of the 71 items in the collection were sold. The...
Judge refuses to stop auction of tribal cultural items in France (04/12)
A judge in France refused to halt a controversial auction where tribal cultural items are due to be sold today. The Hopi Tribe of Arizona filed suit to prevent the...
Judge promises decision over auction of tribal items in France (04/11)
A judge in France held a hearing today to discuss a controversial auction where Hopi cultural items are due to be sold. The Hopi Tribe of Arizona says the items...
Judge schedules hearing over auction of tribal items in France (04/10)
A judge in France is holding a hearing tomorrow to decide the fate of a controversial auction where Hopi, Zuni and Pueblo items are due to be sold. The Hopi...
The Atlantic: Man reunited with tribe after surviving massacre (04/09)
The Atlantic shares the story of Karapiru, an Awa man who witnessed his family being massacred in Brazil: The Awá year is divided into "sun" and "rain"; the rains are...
President of Guatemala refutes claims in Mayan genocide trial (04/09)
Guatemala President Otto Perez Molina denies he ordered or participated in the killings of Mayan people during the country's bloody civil war. Perez Molina, who was a major in the...
Embassy official calls for halt to auction of tribal cultural items (04/09)
The U.S. Embassy in Paris, France, is asking the Néret-Minet auction house to let the Hopi Tribe examine cultural items that are going on sale later this week. The auction...
Ex-soldier implicates president of Guatemala in genocide trial (04/05)
Efrain Rios Montt, a former president and dictator of Guatemala, is on trial for genocide but a former solider implicated sitting President Otto Perez Molina in war crimes, the...
Native Sun News: Yaqui Tribe fights Mexico over water rights (04/04)
On World Water Day March 22, Yaqui traditional authorities launched an international petition drive to catch the eyes of Mexican Supreme Court justices who face a decision on the tribe’s standing to intervene in an aqueduct construction dispute now two years old.
Auction house in France claims tribal items acquired legally (04/04)
An auction house in France says a collection of Hopi, Zuni and Pueblo items was acquired legally despite complaints from tribal representatives. Gilles Néret-Minet, the director of the Néret-Minet auction...
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