It’s been more than two years since a Canadian mining company started transporting ore from near the Grand Canyon’s South Rim — through the Navajo Nation — en route to the only operating conventional uranium mill in the U.S. Since that began in August 2024, some Navajos have raised concerns about recent trucking accidents on Navajoland along the way — while the Havasupai Tribe worries over rising arsenic levels in groundwater around the Pinyon Plain Mine. But Indigenous peoples — both here in the American Southwest and all the way in Madagascar — continue sounding the alarm in a common, growing global struggle against Energy Fuels. In Utah, protesting in peace Last October, protesters from Phoenix to Supai, a village nestled deep within the bottom of the Grand Canyon, flocked to White Mesa, Utah. They all shouted: “Shut down Pinyon Plain! Uranium has got to go! Shut down White Mesa Mill! Protect Mother Earth! Keep it in the ground!” Between the town of Bluff and city of Blanding, White Mesa sits along the bustling U.S. Route 191 in southeastern Utah. This unincorporated area within San Juan County has long been a mining battleground between Energy Fuels and about 200 Ute...

It’s September and 2026 has already been defined by wildfires spanning across the globe. Driven by the heat and dryness of the climate crisis, outbursts on the edge of Bordeaux, France have forced 200,000 from their homes and led to deaths in Spain. Smoke has billowed across the Canada-U.S. border, covering cities in smog. Fires are expected to continue as seasons transition in the Southern Hemisphere, with a severe El Niño phenomenon that the United Nations warns will add pressure to an already scorching globe, risking similar conditions to those that — back in 2024 — drove the worst Amazonian wildfires in two decades. With fire and drought risks set to increase in the coming months, Indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest are stepping up to take on new roles as fire brigade members, protecting both their homes and a key natural resource in the fight against climate change. Ahead of this year’s El Niño weather pattern, Indigenous people from Peru’s Cutivireni and Oviri communities approached Cool Earth: they wanted to ensure they were equipped to fight any fires this coming season. The organization’s long-established relationship with the two Indigenous groups and experience working with the Central Asháninka of the...

Ancient DNA from skeletons buried in a historic cemetery in Quebec is changing people's understanding of their Indigenous ancestry. Contrary to popular belief, there may be little truth to stories of intermarriage between Indigenous and French people during the early days of colonization, according to a new archaeology study published Oct. 5 in the journal PNAS. "Family stories of an Indigenous ancestor are very common" in Quebec, study first author Diane Martin-Moya, a biological anthropologist at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières in Canada, told Live Science in an email, and "commercial genealogy and DNA tests have amplified this." But distant or claimed Indigenous identities can actually undermine the rights, resources and recognition of Indigenous nations, she said. To learn more about the founders of Quebec, Martin-Moya and co-authors investigated Notre-Dame Cemetery, which was established in Montreal in 1683 and used for Catholic burials until 1796. Based on previous studies of the skeletons in the cemetery, experts disagreed on whether people of Indigenous, European, African or mixed ancestry were buried there. To settle the question, Martin-Moya and her colleagues sequenced DNA from 45 people buried in the cemetery and compared it with the genomes of people from Europe, West Africa...

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The Podong Indigenous Peoples Initiative was co-created and co-designed, and is co-implemented, by the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB), IUCN’s Indigenous Peoples’ Organisation (IPO) Members and IUCN. It is redefining rights-based conservation by putting funding directly in the hands of Indigenous Peoples and their organisations. By supporting global and local action to secure land, protect Indigenous knowledge and enshrine Indigenous rights and roles in conservation policy, Podong shows that, when Indigenous Peoples lead, people and nature thrive together. “Podong is more than just a project. It is a movement rooted in the wisdom of our elders and the strength of our communities,” said Anita Tzec, Senior Programme Manager for Indigenous Peoples and Conservation at IUCN. “It embodies the global effort to honour and uplift Indigenous Peoples’ timeless contributions to biodiversity conservation and climate action, grounded in traditional knowledge systems that have safeguarded the Earth for generations.” By putting Indigenous leadership at the forefront, Podong proves that self-determined conservation creates more legitimate, enduring and effective outcomes. Indigenous partners in Tanzania, Nepal, Guatemala and Panama have been leading implementation on the ground with the support of Global Affairs Canada. Podong has established a scalable model in which Indigenous Peoples’ Organisations set...

By virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 1906, s. 2009, the month of October is observed nationwide as National Indigenous Peoples’ Month, a celebration that recognizes the invaluable contributions of Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs) to the nation's heritage, identity, and development. The theme for the 2026 National Indigenous Peoples’ Month is “Mga Katutubo at Katutubong Dunong: Pahalagahan, Pangalagaan at Parangalan” (Valuing, Nurturing, and Honoring Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Knowledge). This theme highlights the importance of recognizing the rich cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, indigenous learning systems, and enduring wisdom of indigenous communities as vital foundations of national identity, sustainable development, and inclusive education. The celebration serves as a reminder of the collective responsibility to value, protect, and promote Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices (IKSPs), indigenous languages, cultural traditions, ancestral domains, and community-based ways of life that have been preserved and passed on through generations. It likewise underscores the need to honor indigenous peoples as stewards of cultural heritage and custodians of ecological knowledge that continue to guide communities in responding to contemporary social and environmental challenges. In recognition of the right of indigenous peoples to culturally rooted and responsive basic education, the Department of Education (DepEd) adopted the Indigenous Peoples Education...

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Thousands gathered around a roaring bonfire on Alcatraz as the sun rose above the San Francisco Bay on Monday for a gathering to celebrate Indigenous resilience. The observance, which highlights the struggles of Native communities worldwide, takes place twice a year at sunrise, on Indigenous Peoples Day and Thanksgiving. In press materials before the event, organizers criticized Gov. Gavin Newsom’s relationship with California tribes and repeated those concerns in an interview with CalMatters/ICT. “Our resilience in our continued fight for our religious freedom connects us to being here today,” organizer Morning Star Gali, executive director of the advocacy group Indigenous Justice, told CalMatters/ICT. The group sponsored Assembly Bill 1881, which would have strengthened protections for tribal religious practices and sacred sites. Newsom vetoed the bill on Sept. 30. His office did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday. The event commemorates the 19-month occupation of Alcatraz from 1969 to 1971 by the Indigenous advocacy group Indians of All Tribes. At one point as many as 400 people lived on the island and ran their own basic services to protest federal policies targeting Native American communities and religions. The protest helped catalyze the Red Power movement of the 1970s. The...

The ‘Book of Prophecies’ shows how Columbus recast brutal colonization as a divine mission.

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Indigenous dignity calls us from remembrance to repair

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Researched an anti-cancer vaccine made from buffalo serum in the '70's.

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