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Politics Dec 19

Why Native Americans are celebrating Rep. Haaland’s nomination

By PBS NewsHour

World Dec 06

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Alcoholism and recovery: stories from Canada’s Yellowknife

NewsHour Weekend has been bringing you personal stories from members of Indigenous communities in Canada’s Northwest Territory of Yellowknife--this week, we hear from Devin Hinchey, who is Métis, or of mixed Indigenous and European ancestry, as he shares his journey…

By Devin Hinchey

World Nov 28

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Family, sobriety and parenting: an indigenous woman tells her story

We continue our series, ‘Turning Points’: stories produced, directed and told by indigenous people from Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories, part of an empowerment journalism project in partnership with the Global Reporting Center. Tonight, we hear from Louise Beaulieu, who…

By Louise Beaulieu

World Nov 14

Indigenous Canadian filmmakers confront alcoholism, other issues in community

Alcohol abuse is a serious public health issue in indigenous communities in the Canadian arctic, but it’s a difficult topic to address. For the next several weeks, we’ll bring you the stories from Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories — stories…

By Chief Ernest Betsina

World Sep 16

Indigenous group patrols Amazon forest to expel illegal loggers

Increasing encroachment by illegal loggers and miners on Tembé territory and lax enforcement during President Jair Bolsonaro's administration has prompted their villages to take matters into their own hands.

By Eraldo Peres, Associated Press

Aug 31

Brazil Indigenous Chief Raoni Metuktire tests positive for coronavirus

By Associated Press

Chief Raoni Metuktire, an Indigenous leader who became a symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon forest in Brazil, has been hospitalized with symptoms of pneumonia and tested positive for the new coronavirus.

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Aug 12

Tribe says new border wall harming burial sites; sues Trump

By Julie Watson, Associated Press

A California tribe whose ancestral lands span across the U.S.-Mexico border is suing the Trump administration to block construction of a section of border wall that the Kumeyaay people say is desecrating sacred burial sites.

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Aug 05

Top court rules Brazil must protect Indigenous peoples in pandemic

By Débora Álvares, Associated Press

The top court's justices voted unanimously that the government must install health checkpoints for isolated Indigenous villages plus draft and implement a plan to remove outsiders now within protected areas illegally.

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Aug 05

Mississippi’s only federally recognized Native American tribe bears brunt of state’s outbreak

By Leah Willingham, Associated Press

COVID-19 has ripped through Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indian families. Almost 10% of the tribe’s roughly 11,000 members have tested positive for the virus. More than 75 have died.

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Jul 17

Remote region of Brazil’s Amazon experiences first deaths by coronavirus

By Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press

The first deaths from COVID-19 have come to a vast, remote region of the Amazon that Brazil’s government says is home to greatest concentration of isolated Indigenous groups in the world.

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