Māori director Taika Waititi's speech signaled a first for the Academy, but it's on the non-Indigenous audience to take the second step.

Extractive industries and governments have gotten smarter about how they talk about Indigenous rights—but the bottom line stays the same.

A third of the Indigenous languages used in America two decades ago have gone extinct, and Congress isn't doing enough to preserve what remains.

President Donald Trump will protect your favorite national park, but only if it scores him votes.

As in the United States, even progressive politicians often offer only empty promises.

After a Cherokee citizen on the St. Louis Cardinals called them out, the Braves responded with hollow P.R. jargon.

The fight to stave off pipeline projects across the country is being led by tribal nations and marginalized communities. It's time to listen to them before it's too late.

Alaska’s health clinics were founded to help indigenous people like my family. Thanks to the FDA and Big Pharma, the clinics unwittingly enabled a crisis instead.

The largest Native nation to share borders with the United States is finally claiming its right to representation.

Is the long-endured era of lip service from presidential candidates coming to an end for Native voters?

The attempted erasure of Indigenous people and the land they steward continues with Trump's latest proposal.

In Brazil, a struggle over the future of the Amazon is taking place. The struggle will have global impact.

Facing targeted killings and police violence, indigenous groups and other minorities have had enough.

What the violent death of an American missionary on a far-flung island might say about the rest of us

Under former President Fujimori, over 200,000 women were violated—one of the largest such projects since Nazi Germany. His party is still in power.

Evo Morales has done remarkable things for his country. But now, he is rejecting term limits—and Bolivians are taking to the streets to stand up for the rule of law.

For these women, environmentalism and women's rights are closely linked: Past drilling projects have resulted in increased assaults, cancer, and infertility.