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UK says Falklands are British as Argentina seeks new talks
Rafael Viñoly: Uruguayan architect of London’s ‘Walkie Talkie’ dies aged 78
Peruvian communities to resume blockade of crucial “mining corridor”
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UN Launches Ten-Year ‘Survival Plan’ for Endangered Languages
National Inuit organization, RCMP start work to prevent human trafficking
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Mexico Opens University for Indigenous Languages
Ontario Approves First Nations-led Plan for the Road to the Ring of Fire
Is democracy worth fighting for? Argentine Oscar nominee inspires a ‘yes.’
Locals destroy Chinese oil operation in southern Colombia
Antigua and Barbuda to auction off $81m yacht ‘owned by Russian oligarch’
Overfishing threatens a way of life in the Bahamas
Why Haiti’s ‘mafia state’ needs a homegrown solution
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Costa Rica ponders ways to sustain reforestation success
After Centuries of Exploitation, Will Indigenous Communities in Biodiversity Hotspots Finally Get Their Due?
Colombia, Ecuador work to protect Indigenous people from attacks
Brazil’s Indigenous groups demand a voice in new soybean railway project
Meet 3 women in Brazil who are protecting the Amazon rainforest — and indigenous rights
Why the Caribbean island of Montserrat celebrates St Patrick’s Day
St Kitts and Nevis aims to transform the economy, using an investment migration programme
Grenada PM Invites UK’s Rishi Sunak to Discuss Reparations
Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Minister Browne
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Alberta’s mandatory oath of allegiance is systemic discrimination
Greenland temperatures surge up to 50 degrees above normal, setting records
Bollinger Shipyards holds steel cutting ceremony for Navajo class USNS Muscogee Creek Nation
Transnational Guarani Land Defense and Solidarity
An attempted airport heist of $32 million in Chile leaves 2 people dead
One Year On: Which Boric Presides Over Chile?
This women-led nonprofit wants Los Angeles to recognize and prioritize its Indigenous population
Indigenous groups in the Amazon evolved resistance to deadly Chagas
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Ex-Navajo President Zah, guided by love for people, dies
Guatemala takes back 106 unaccompanied children and teen migrants
Indigenous rebellion continues as post-coup Peruvian government flounders
JPMorgan is ordered to turn over more records from CEO Jamie Dimon in lawsuit filed by US Virgin Islands accusing bank of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking
‘A win for Jamaica’: 15 people convicted in landmark gang-busting trial
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Canada to pay First Nations CAN$2.8B for harm done at Indian Day Schools
Discovering The Indigenous Culture Of Iguazu: What To Know About Visiting Local Communities
Colombia, Ecuador announce alert system to protect Indigenous Awá from armed groups
Saint Lucia: Gun violence forces closure of some schools in Vieux Fort
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How Taiwan Become a Key Issue in Paraguay’s Presidential Election
Chikungunya: 43 deaths and 11,467 cases confirmed in Paraguay
Moma PS1 presents multimedia installation by artists and musicians Chuquimamani-Condori & Joshua Chuquimia Crampton
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Nicaragua Closes Vatican Embassy in Managua, Suspends Diplomatic Ties
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Everything you need to know about the Lithium Triangle in Argentina
Puerto Rico Combines for First Perfect Game in W.B.C. History
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Indigenous language council, citing broad work, seeks name change and other updates
Saving Indigenous languages with songs
How Indigenous People Are Restoring Brazil’s Atlantic Forest
Mapuche communities in permanent assembly
Lula meets with Indigenous in Brazil’s Amazon, pledges lands
Brazil’s President Offers Support to Territorial Claims of Indigenous Groups
Indigenous Leaders Vouch For Their Rights In Brazil
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So you began your event with an Indigenous land acknowledgment. Now what?
Legislature’s Indigenous caucus works to keep Native issues at forefront
Mille Lacs band, tribal and environmental groups launch campaign against proposed mine
Taiwan loses diplomatic ally as Honduras confirms link to China
Bolivians queue for dollars as crisis of confidence spreads
Chile’s Indigenous Heartland Ignites, Again
Hunger, thirst stunting Indigenous children in Colombian desert
Budget ’23: Barbados foreign reserves reach all-time high
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Wex’s ‘Love to Death (Amor a la Muerte)’ Explores Culture of Indigenous Mapuche People of Chile
Peru congress debates stripping isolated Indigenous people of land and protections
Indigenous Ashaninka DNA helps geneticists write new chapters of pre-colonial history in South America
Dominica named on CNN’s list of 25 Most Beautiful Places
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Indigenous populations treated as ‘second-class citizens’ say Christian Solidarity Worldwide
Ojibwe-focused novel ‘Firekeepers Daughter’ selected as Great Michigan Read
Bukele intensifies war on gangs: 2,000 more inmates transferred to ‘biggest prison in all America’
Indigenous children suffer most from illegal miners’ Amazon invasion
Nature’s stewards under attack – Climate Weekly
Netherlands returns Indigenous remains to Caribbean island Sint Eustatius
Aruba public sector employees protest new evaluation system
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Summary of the economic impact of marine plastic pollution in Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada and Saint Lucia
Don’t give up on Haiti, plead senior UN aid officials
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Opioids are devastating Cherokee families. The tribe has a $100 million plan to heal
At least 13 dead after magnitude 6.8 earthquake shakes Ecuador
Starlink Brought Internet to Brazil’s Amazon. Criminals Love It.
Former St Maarten police officer shot dead in Curaçao
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The Supreme Court wrestles with questions over the Navajo Nation’s water rights
Choctaw Nation thrives due to sovereignty
Boeing Secures $1.9B US Army Deal for 184 AH-64E Apache Helicopters
Guatemala seeks to remove opposition candidate’s immunity
Uruguay’s difficult history is still being largely ignored
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford | In Praise of Quechua Minors and Chichewa Certificates
Health Care on the Go: Reaching Venezuela’s Indigenous People and Host Communities in Brazil’s Remote Areas
3 Arrested After Storming Baseball Field to Protest USA-Cuba Game
Protesters gather in Miami outside Cuba-USA WBC semifinal
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Apache group gets new chance to argue mine will harm sacred sites
U.S. report cites killings, torture in Ortega’s Nicaragua
Bolivia’s Currency Crisis Deepens as Dollar Become Hard to Find
Ecuador opens terrorism investigation after journalists receive explosive devices in mail
People are twice as likely to live to 100 in Martinique than Belgium
UN calls for foreign intervention in Haiti as violence surges
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Cherokee Nation and AT&T Expand 5G and FirstNet Connectivity
Biden moves forward with mining project that will obliterate a sacred Apache religious site
War on gangs forges new El Salvador. But the price is steep.
An Independent Barbados
Bahamas backs Mexico’s appeal in $10 billion lawsuit against US gun manufacturers
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Indigenous Languages and Ecocide: The Legacy of Western Colonialism Re-examined
They’re not Indigenous — but they’re learning Indigenous languages
Economic reconciliation and Inuit self-determination must see funding in Budget 2023
Jeep Kills Cherokee, Breaks Nearly 50-Year Production Run
Minneapolis immersion school teaches Ojibwe language in effort to preserve culture
Costa Rica Secures $160 Million from the World Bank for Disaster Risk Reduction
Explainer: Paraguay’s 2023 Elections
Dominican Republic Corruption Investigation Inches Toward Ex-President
Political Repression in Cuba Ahead of the 2023 Parliamentary Elections
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Reflections on National Indigenous Languages Day lay path of learning into the future
Protesters in Suriname demand president resign
US accuses top Paraguay politicians of corruption, spurring probe
Civil Society Strategy Letter to Secretary Blinken on the Ethnic Chapter
Turks and Caicos Islands: Governor’s farewell address
Bank of St Vincent and the Grenadines acquires FCIB branch in SVG
Man pleads guilty in US probe of Haiti president assassination
As Cuba election day nears, some voters ask, ‘why bother?’
Cuba’s new parliament will face a familiar economic hangover
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Elite French gendarme shot dead in Guiana operation
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Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe jumps across digital divide with $11.4M grant
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Yukon: Indigenous language program showcased at cultural celebrations
Greenland to stay in daylight saving time forever
Midwifery forum aims to strengthen, expand Inuit-led services
Honduras establishes ties with China after break from Taiwan
At least 16 people were killed in a landslide in central Ecuador
Ibero-America aligns itself with the Dominican Republic: “Without pacification there will be no solution in Haiti”
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Budget 2023 continues ‘repetitive injustice’ of underfunding First Nations, says national chief
Greenland’s Arctic Strategy Will Likely Be Launched After Easter
National Inuit organization seeking $1.6B for school food program
El Salvador urged to uphold human rights amid state of emergency
Peru’s Indigenous Sacrifice Livelihoods in a Quest to Oust the President
Amnesty International report highlights crises and impunity
Dutch government appoints special EU funds envoy for overseas territories
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Indigenous languages across Canada
We’re halfway to a tipping point that would trigger 6 feet of sea level rise from melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet
ITK says only ‘modest investment’ in federal budget to eradicate tuberculosis
Bolivia’s Big Bet on Lithium Is a Long Shot
Argentina’s supreme court creates headwind for Jujuy and Salta lithium projects
Indigenous communities and Mennonite colonies clash in Colombia
Anguilla: The Culinary Capital of the Caribbean
British Virgin Islands Companies Support 2.3 Million Jobs And Generate US$14 Billion In Tax Revenues Globally
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Vatican formally denounces 15th-century ‘Doctrine of Discovery,’ used to justify colonizing Indigenous peoples
Vatican Repudiates Colonial Era ‘Doctrine of Discovery’
Vatican disavows decrees linked to seizure of Native lands
Church defends Indigenous peoples: ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ was never Catholic
Vatican rejects ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ that justified historial taking of Indigenous lands
Religious freedom for all means sacred Indigenous sites, too
Indigenous leaders hope Vatican’s repudiation of oppressive colonial concepts leads to real change
Netflix, CBC and APTN Greenlight Arctic-Set Comedy From Inuit Writing Duo
In Paraguay, Politicians Await the U.S.’s Next Move
Ecuador’s president faces impeachment trial over corruption charge
Mendoza votes Mapuches aren’t “Indigenous people of Argentina”
Collective action among Indigenous peoples in Latin America the focus of new book
After FTX Implosion, Bahamian Tech Entrepreneurs Try to Pick Up the Pieces
Guadeloupe: investigation begins after the sinking of a migrant boat
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Bermuda Welcomes More Crypto Firms Despite Recent Industry Turmoil
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April: Hmong Heritage Month
Could your native language have an impact on how you think?
Drug trafficking blamed as homicides soar in Costa Rica
Lawyer of Suriname ex-dictator calls for his acquittal
US Virgin Islands subpoenas four top businessmen in Epstein banking inquiry
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1805 April 2: Children’s Book Day/Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday
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AFN and Caring Society announce revised Final Settlement Agreement to compensate First Nations children and families
$23-billion settlement for First Nations children announced by AFN and Caring Society
First Nations’ court challenge to B.C.’s mineral rights system begins
Choctaw legend still remembered 80 years later for leading role in Broadway’s ‘Oklahoma!’
Samantha Crain to Host Writing Workshop at Choctaw Cultural Center
Fort Tombecbe and Early Choctaw Treaties
Choctaw-Irish bond continues to strengthen over time
South American chefs celebrate Amazon cooking with worm chili and tree bark
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1949 April 4: Founding of NATO
Remains of Nearly 5,000 Native Americans Will Be Returned, U.S. Says
Assembly of First Nations chiefs endorse $23B revised child-welfare compensation deal
From the brink of extinction, Ojibwe horses visit Whitewater State Park
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Indigenous activists share mixed feelings on Vatican repudiation of Doctrine of Discovery
Belize, Guatemala reaffirm Taiwan ties during Tsai visit
Magnitude 6.6 quake strikes off Panama coast, no damage reported
Congressional delegation from the United States visit Uruguay to strengthen bilateral agenda
Indigenous Colombians in stand-off over wind farms
Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten agree on new Mutual Regulation
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UN expert hails Vatican rejection of ‘Doctrine of Discovery’, urges States to follow suit
Canada: Body of indigenous woman found in landfill
Three Southwest Alaska Native tribes sue federal government, seeking to block gold mine
World Court says it can rule on Guyana-Venezuela border dispute
‘Who are Chile’s Mapuche People?’ with Prof. Andrea Colvin
Indigenous Peruvians condemn US ambassador’s visit to palm oil company
Rosa Grilo, last Indigenous survivor of Napalpi massacre, dies in Argentina
Where Indigenous land rights prevail in Brazil, so does nature, study finds
Indigenous-managed forests in Brazil’s Amazon absorb thousands of dangerous pollutants from wildfires
Decolonizing higher ed: BU’s Center for Latin American Studies hosts Indigenous Cultures and Languages Week
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US authorities charge man in case of missing Navajo woman
Climate-hit Barbados says it has a plan to overhaul World Bank and IMF
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April 8: International Romani day
1873 April 13: Colfax massacre
April 19, 1940: Indian Day, Brazil
May 3: World Press Freedom Day