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Since 2011, the state of Vermont has legally recognized four groups as Abenaki tribes. Abenaki in Quebec have long opposed them, and raised their concerns at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Last week, a United States federal judge rejected a request from Indigenous nations to stop SunZia, a $10 billion dollar wind transmission project that would cut through traditional tribal lands in southwestern Arizona. Amy Juan is a member of the Tohono O’odham nation at the Arizona-Mexico border and brought the news of the federal court’s […]

Their message isn't new, but it is gaining urgency as funding for green energy projects grows.

"After a federal court rejected their lawsuit, tribes are turning to the U.N. for help."

KOHIMA — Author and inaugural head of the Department of History at Nagaland University, Dr. Visier Sanyü, on Tuesday said that it has become ‘impossible’ to

Dear representatives of indigenous nations and peoples, Faced with the constant threat to buen vivir (living well) by modern society, we, representatives of the original peoples of Abya Yala, having come together in the Sacred territory of Tiwanaku in February 2024 we have agreed on the following Resolutions of the Talantaña Proposal for Planetary Harmonization in…

After a federal court rejected their lawsuit, tribes are turning to the U.N. for help.

COP29 could make carbon markets permanent. Indigenous leaders are calling for a moratorium before it's too late.

On 17 April 2024, as part of the continuing discussions on the 23rd session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, NCIP participates in the thematic dialogue on the financing of Indigenous Peoples' work and participation in the context of, inter alia, development, climate, environment, and biodiversity. The…

“This is what brings fear” to their communities and thwarts “their right to self-determination.”