A Montana judge will sentence Sunny K. White on January 31 in the hit-and-run death of Mika Westwolf, a 22-year-old Blackfeet Nation member, marking a rare conviction in a case that became a rallying ...

Advocates say a new report showing that Indigenous adults are overrepresented in the prison system by 10 times is staggering.

Cornell student groups celebrated Earth Day with advocacy. On Monday, Climate Justice Cornell and Cornell on Fire joined Native American Indigenous and Indigenous Students at Cornell to promote ...

When European settlers arrived in North Carolina and North America, they didn’t stumble upon a vacant wilderness, but a land that had been settled by Indigenous people over 10,000 years prior. The ...

ST. PAUL — Tuesday March 11, Indigenous rights and climate justice advocates from around the state gathered at the Capitol to meet with legislators. The effort was led by Rise and Repair, a grassroots ...

There are renewed calls for an Indigenous-led inquiry into systemic racism in the justice system after the death of a ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Anchorage Daily News. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. Leaders in Alaska ...

Farrier, who also works with the John Howard Society of Nova Scotia, was convicted for second-degree murder in 1992 when he was 20 years old and spent more than three decades in federal prisons across ...

Safeguarding rights must be a priority for sustainable development, yet it often takes public outrage to force a change.

This article by Regina Pérez at Prensa Comunitaria (Guatemala) was republished by Global Voices under a media partnership. Indigenous authorities from different communities have symbolically applied ...

A voter casts their ballot in Mexico's first judicial elections, in Mexico City, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) MEXICO CITY (AP) — In his campaign for Mexico's Supreme Court, Hugo ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — In his campaign for Mexico’s Supreme Court, Hugo Aguilar sent a simple message: He would be the one to finally give Indigenous Mexicans a voice at one of the highest levels of ...