President Biden became the first president to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day in 2021, and did so again this year. It falls on the same day as Columbus Day, which was established by ...

An independent initiative has mapped 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of Indigenous lands in Indonesia since March, bringing the total since it started in 2010 to 20.7 million hectares (51.2 ...

For five years, the indigenous Matsés people of the Peruvian Amazon region of Loreto explored their territory to georeference everything of cultural value to them. Now, all of those places are ...

An online project aims to map all of the world's indigenous lands to secure legal rights and alert communities to the threats of illegal logging and mining BANGKOK, Sept 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation ...

Across many Indigenous homelands, rock faces along contested frontiers hold stories that stretch back thousands of years, yet their full meaning is only beginning to be read as a kind of sky‑anchored ...

Native Land Digital, a Canadian nonprofit, offers resources for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to learn more about the land and its history.... President Biden became the first president to ...

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