The Indigenous adolescents danced in a circle under the thatched-roof hut from near dawn to dusk while parents looked on from the perimeter. Some of the adults smoked tobacco mixed with the wood from a local tree in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The seemingly endless loop of the procession, taking place over six long days this…

New Zealand and Canada have signed a collaboration arrangement to improve outcomes for Indigenous peoples, both governments announced on Wednesday. New Zealand Minister for Maori Development Willie Jackson and Canadian Minister for Indigenous Services Patty Hajdu signed the agreement in Wellington during Hajdu’s week-long visit to the small island nation. The purpose of the arrangement…

The wife and the sister of a missing British journalist have called on the Brazilian government to pull out all the stops to find him after he vanished in a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest. Dom Phillips, 57, has not been seen since Sunday morning when he left the village of Sao Rafael in…

A tenured professor known for speaking out against “wokeism” and identity politics was fired by her university just before Christmas, which she says happened amid a campaign to have her terminated because of her views. Frances Widdowson, an associate professor in the department of economics, justice, and policy studies at Mount Royal University (MRU) in…