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Chile’s Largest Indigenous Group Sees Opportunity in a New Constitution

InterNewsCast17th September 2020

by InterNewsCast17th September 202005

SANTIAGO — Hunger strikes. The occupation of a municipal building. Arson attacks against trucks traveling through southern Chile. The long-simmering conflict between the Mapuche, Chile’s...

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Executives to Step Down After Rio Tinto Destroys Sacred Australian Sites

InterNewsCast11th September 2020

by InterNewsCast11th September 202008

DARWIN, Australia — The caves, set deep in a desert gorge, had yielded a treasure trove of artifacts tracing Aboriginal people’s long history in Australia:...

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Roanoke’s ‘Lost Colony’ Was Never Lost, New Book Says

InterNewsCast2nd September 2020

by InterNewsCast2nd September 2020010

In 1590, the would-be governor of a colony meant to be one of England’s first outposts in North America discovered that more than 100 settlers...

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Aritana Yawalapiti, Revered Indigenous Leader in Brazil, Dies at 71

InterNewsCast16th August 2020

by InterNewsCast16th August 2020015

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Aritana Yawalapiti was a living...

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‘We’ve Already Survived an Apocalypse’: Indigenous Writers Are Changing Sci-Fi

InterNewsCast15th August 2020

by InterNewsCast15th August 2020011

When Cherie Dimaline was growing up near Penetanguishene, a small town on the Georgian Bay in Ontario, her grandmother and great-aunts told her stories about...

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Under Pressure, Brazil’s Bolsonaro Forced to Fight Deforestation

InterNewsCast2nd August 2020

by InterNewsCast2nd August 2020020

RIO DE JANEIRO — A year ago, as fires engulfed the Amazon, President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil reacted to criticism from abroad with indignation: “The...

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This 19th-Century Law Helps Shape Criminal Justice in Indian Country

InterNewsCast19th July 2020

by InterNewsCast19th July 2020021

There was something of a scramble, after the Supreme Court ruled in McGirt v. Oklahoma that much of Eastern Oklahoma was now officially Indian Country....

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For Muscogee (Creek) Tribe in Oklahoma, at Long Last Vindication

InterNewsCast11th July 2020

by InterNewsCast11th July 2020029

The sorrow and death of the Trail of Tears were still fresh when a band of Muscogee (Creek) people gathered by an oak tree in...

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Commuting, and Confronting History, on a Remote Canadian Railway

InterNewsCast6th July 2020

by InterNewsCast6th July 2020032

At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with travel restrictions in place worldwide, we launched a new series — The World Through a Lens —...

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Chief Beaten by Police Is Longtime Fighter for Indigenous Rights

InterNewsCast28th June 2020

by InterNewsCast28th June 2020035

TORONTO — He survived Canada’s notoriously abusive schools for Indigenous children and went on to lead his own nation. He battled governments and oil giants...