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Brazil police target illegal gold exports from the Amazon

Brazil’s Federal Police are carrying out a court order to seize more than $384 million related to about 13 tons of gold mined illegally in the Amazon rainforest, then exported through an unnamed U.S.-based company

The Independent UK

Maine tribes hampered by 40-year-old law

MICSA empowers Maine to block the applicability of virtually all federal Indian self-determination policies

Salon

Post-Roe, Native Americans face even more abortion hurdles

Getting an abortion has long been extremely difficult for Native Americans and has become even tougher since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

The Independent UK

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Tribes in Maine left out of Native American resurgence by 40-year-old federal law denying their self-determination

Hundreds of the 574 federally recognized Indian nations in the U.S. now routinely provide their citizens with the full array of services customarily expected from state and local governments, from tax collection to environmental protection regulations. At the same time, many tribes are becoming the economic engines of their regions.

The Conversation

Alleged cult leader now facing sex assault charge in tribal court

LAS VEGAS — Nathan Chasing Horse, an alleged cult leader and former actor arrested in North Las Vegas and accused of sexually assaulting and trafficking women and girls, is now facing an additional charge from the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

Tribune News Service

Interior secretary hires Native American as legal counsel

An attorney who oversaw New Mexico’s Indian Affairs Department has been tapped to serve as a top legal advisor to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland

The Independent UK

Kansas City Chiefs face new call to drop ‘insulting’ name and symbol

Group gathered outside Arizona stadium to protest the team’s name and the insulting gesture and chant performed by its fans

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Cherokee Nation announces plans for $18M treatment center

The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma has announced plans to use a portion of its $98 million in opioid settlement funds to construct a new treatment center in Tahlequah, Oklahoma

The Independent UK

How one Derbyshire museum took initiative in returning Indigenous artefacts

Buxton Museum returned entire collection of Native American and First Nation artefacts to their original communities

The Guardian - UK

Family-owned Revesby Estate to host tipi weddings

The tipis will stand in the Kangaroo Park – once home to kangaroos imported from Australia

Birmingham Post

Black farmers call for justice from the USDA

Decades after a major lawsuit against the USDA, Black farmers still face inequality. They say not all settlements from the case made it into their hands, which has exacerbated debt and other problems.

WEKU

At Mexico's Chichen Itza site, researchers discover ancient 'elite' residences

Archaeologists have revealed a group of structures discovered at the famed Mayan Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, believed to have been part of a housing complex inhabited by the elite of the sacred city founded in the 5th Century AD.

Reuters

Young rapper roars for indigenous rights

Just before taking the stage, the teenage indigenous rapper took a deep breath and composed herself, eyes closed.

Bangkok Post

Diversity, "wokeness" and oppression

Diversity is an important value — but militarists, corporatists and oligarchs have turned into a marketing gimmick

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The Independent UK

Health crisis leads scores of Yanomami to roam the streets

Years of neglect during the previous government of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro led to a health crisis in Brazil's Indigenous Yanomami population

The Independent UK

Native dancers want Arizona gallery owner held on hate crime

Native American dancers who were the target of a suburban Phoenix gallery owner’s racist rant as they were being filmed for Super Bowl week are pushing for hate crime charges

Al Jazeera

Indigenous tribe sues US over lack of Pine Ridge law enforcement

Oglala Sioux Tribe has argued the Bureau of Indian Affairs and officials have failed to uphold treaty responsibilities.

The Independent UK

'Everybody's tired': South Dakota tribe sues US over crime

Violent crimes across the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota have increased in recent years

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Brazil police launch fresh raid to fight illegal mining in Yanomami lands

Brazil's federal police said on Friday they had launched a fresh operation to fight wildcat mining in the Yanomami indigenous territory amid a humanitarian crisis blamed on illegal gold miners in the region.

AFP

Uprooted: Amazonian Siekopai people battle for return to ancestral land

Manoko (Peru) (AFP) - They call themselves "the multicolored people," or Siekopai, after the eye-catching traditional body paint and adornments they used to wear in their ancestral home in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

The Independent UK

Native Americans renew protests of Kansas City Chiefs mascot

As the Kansas City Chiefs return to the Super Bowl, the movement to change their name and logo will be there again

The Denver Post

A 1990 law mandated Native American remains be returned to tribes. Colorado led the charge — but some museums still haven’t followed

DENVER — The remains of Native American ancestors showed up in boxes on the doorsteps of Colorado museums and at yard sales in Denver neighborhoods.

Miami Herald

A major archaeological discovery was made on the Miami River. Was it kept ‘under wraps’?

MIAMI — For the past year and a half, with scant public attention, squads of archaeologists digging at the Miami River site of a planned Related Group residential tower complex have unearthed remarkable finds, consisting of thousands of fragmentary prehistoric tools and artifacts, rare and well-preserved animal and plant remnants,…

Los Angeles Times

‘A living spirit’: Native people push for changes to protect the Colorado River

FORT MOHAVE, Ariz. — On a bluff overlooking the Lower Colorado River Valley, the ground bears an image of two giant figures. Known as the Twins, these ancient figures are revered by members of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe, who say they show their people’s deep connection to the land…

AFP

'Operation Exodus': Brazil miners flee Yanomami land

Alto Alegre (Brazil) (AFP) - Wearing broken flip-flops held together by a frayed cord, Joao Batista, an illegal gold miner in the Brazilian Amazon, has been walking for days to escape the jungle, fleeing a looming security-force crackdown.

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