Tag: indigenous peoples

It’s only “discovery” if you assume the place — or the people — has no meaningful existence apart from your visit. Surprise: you’re not that important.

How the Arizona State Parks and Trails Director got fired for violating the Arizona Antiquities Act.

Canadians need to learn the truth — the individual stories of those who attended Residential Schools — before we can ever begin the reconciliation process.

How Mexican drug cartels prey on the indigenous Tarahumara people, using endurance runners to run drugs across the border.

But the Maasai of Loliondo are not alone in disputing these supposed benefits. Worldwide, 8 million square miles—a landmass almost as large as the entire African continent—have been classified as protected areas by governments and conservation groups. In turn, the locals have mostly been pushed off their lands. Though no one formally counts people displaced […]