Indigenous Issues

The inside story of how Greenpeace stood with water protectors — and got hit with a $666 million court judgment.

St. Michael’s Hospital unveiled its new Indigenous Wellness Centre on Thursday aimed at providing safe, cultural, and comfortable health care to First Nations, Inuit and Métis (FNIM) patients and caregivers.

Product of decades-long process aims to restore Heiltsuk’s system of coherent governance destroyed by colonial powers

Special zones for industry pass under Bill 5, blocking green standards, prioritizing data centres and more from the Doug Ford government

While various media outlets are reporting that Jonathan Joss was engaged in a dispute with a neighbor, his husband has revealed that it was a hate crime. Rec...

The Two Row Wampum, known as Teiohate Kaswenta in the Mohawk language, tells the story of an agreement between Indigenous people and the Dutch. The agreement is founded upon the respectful co‐existence of two different nations.

An Indigenous perspective & provocation. Printable version available here. (PDF | 3.3MB) Print friendly cover w/corrections here. (PDF | 3.2MB) This provocation is intended to intervene in some of the current tensions around solidarity/support work as the current trajectories are counter-liberatory from my perspective. Special thanks to DS in Phoenix for convos that lead to […]

…This is a transmission from a future that will not happen. From a people who do not exist… Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto Readable PDF: rethinking the apocalypse-read Printable zine PDF: rethinking the apocalypse-PRINT “The end is near. Or has it come and gone before?” – An ancestor  Why can we imagine the […]

In a provocative piece, the American Indian Movement activist lashed out at European "death culture" and the left.

Lindsay Nixon surveys the Indigenous artists making work about displacement, decolonization, and resurgence

What are the impacts of systemic racism in healthcare for Indigenous communities?

Have you ever wondered how our relationship with time shapes the way we live, work, and connect with others?

This lesson plan focuses on using self-reflection to help learners understand personal biases, privileges, and their roles in fostering anti

Transformative Decolonial Training and Anti-Racism in Praxis

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NDN POV elevates Indigenous voices to confront settler colonial violence in Canada. From the Doctrine of Discovery to the Indian Act to the systemic racism t...

Indigenous wisdom provides and essential critique of modern concepts of science and technology that can advance our protection of biodiversity.

A new short film follows a boy as he seeks comfort in the Indigenous traditions, prayers and guidance of his grandfather, whose help is sought after a community member disappears.

On this episode of Mongabay’s podcast, we speak with a co-founder of the award-winning Canadian nonprofit news outlet ‘The Narwhal,’ Emma Gilchrist. She ...

Top National Geographic photographer Kiliii Yüyan speaks with the Mongabay Newscast about traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and why Indigenous communiti...

The Mongabay Newscast presents an array of top voices we interviewed or heard at Climate Week in New York, a global gathering of leaders and experts working ...

This is the last of three interviews with Indigenous representatives at the United Nations about the latest issues in their country’s Amazon forests. Read the interview about the Peruvian Amazon here and Colombian Amazon here. NEW YORK CITY — In the bustling concrete jungle of New York City, representatives from the Amazon rainforest arrived at […]

SOUTH SIBERUT, Indonesia — As night falls over the Siberut jungle, a fire crackles inside the Tateburuk clan’s wooden home, or uma. The walls are covered in traditional Mentawai carvings of forest creatures — birds, lizards, monkeys and gibbons — a reminder that the boundary between the outside world and the home is thin. Damianus […]

Decolonization is not about empowering disenfranchised Peoples into a level of survivorship that makes white supremacy content. It is about enforcing the most paradoxical level of joyfulness, bountifulness, and happiness for and by our Peoples in spaces where we are expected to die not survive, and survive not thrive.

During the many years that consultant Len Pierre has been working with organizations to support learning on reconciliation and Indigenous cultural safety, he