カテゴリー: Indigenous peoples
Father Stan Swamy, who was helping indigenous people fight mining corporates, is far from a violent MaoistA frail, ailing 83-year-old Jesuit priest, Father Stan Swamy, has become the oldest person to be accused of terrorism in India. He is incarcerated…
America’s militarisation of the western Pacific island threatens its ecosystem, culture and history, a plea before the UN argues “It’s hard to pinpoint exactly the moment one … starts to see the great game afoot,” Julian Aguon says, before pausing, and…
Dropping the armed police trial is a good step but we need transformational change to show black lives actually do matter“We honour him today because when he took his last breath, the rest of us were able to breathe.” These were the words spoken at Geo…
Australian photographer Brian Cassey visits Hasdeo Arand, one of the largest contiguous stretches of dense forest in central India. The area is rich in biodiversity, containing many threatened species including elephants, leopards and sloth bears. A ra…
Move raises questions about status of Ainu ethnic minority, whose cultural identity Japan is legally obliged to protect Japan’s commitment to the rights of its indigenous people has been questioned after organisers of this summer’s Tokyo Olympics dropp…
The subsistence farmers of the Gongwang Bonyo tribe are among the most isolated people in Myanmar. Living near the Indian border, they gather each year to bless the harvest Continue reading…
Polynesian settlers of the Chatham Islands sign treaty to have their status, existence and rights enshrined in lawFor decades history books in New Zealand taught schoolchildren that the Moriori people were extinct.The accepted wisdom was that the Polyn…
Vinita Damodaran lauds the protesters in India rallying to protect the postcolonial constitution, and Laura Phillips criticises the British colonial legacy in CanadaThe protests erupting all over India about the changes to citizenship embodied in the C…
Kiingi Tūheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII says land at heart of housing dispute should be given back to indigenous custodiansThe Māori king has ruled that the disputed land of Ihumātao should be returned, paving the way for an intervention by the gover…
New Zealand village complains to ministry of culture and heritage over planned visit by a replica of the EndeavourA village in New Zealand has banned a replica of Captain Cook’s ship from docking there to mark 250 years since the explorer’s arrival aft…
Airline accused of lack of respect for indigenous language by seeking to protect image of the greeting, also the name of its in-flight magazineNew Zealand’s national carrier, Air New Zealand, has offended the country’s Māori people by attempting to tra…
The Batek started to die after being forced from their land. Were they poisoned by the plantations and mines that replaced their homes? The government is in no hurry to find out…It swept over the settlement like a plague. First came a fever, then the…
Petition with more than 25,000 signatures delivered, calling on New Zealand PM to visit sacred Ihumātao siteSeveral hundred protesters have marched on Jacinda Ardern’s Auckland office, demanding she visit Ihumātao, the site of a major indigenous land d…
Britain seized Ihumātao in 1863. Now housing developers are doing so. But New Zealand’s indigenous people are resisting. By Eleanor Ainge RoyA winter storm has swept through south Auckland and the protest camp at Ihumātao is shin deep in mud. Protester…
Activist leading Ihumātao dispute calls on PM to visit site and act on Māori disadvantageThe leader of a major Indigenous land dispute in New Zealand has criticised Jacinda Ardern’s government for its lack of action on confronting systemic Māori disadv…