Category: indigenous people

Indigenous Adolescents Perform Coming-of-Age Rite Amid Brazil’s Eviction of Irregular Settlers in Amazon

June 22, 2023
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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…

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New Zealand and Canada Sign an Indigenous Collaboration Arrangement

August 25, 2022
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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…

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Fears Grow for Missing UK Journalist in Brazil as Sister Makes Appeal

June 7, 2022
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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…

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Tenured Professor Critical of Identity Politics Fired by University

January 10, 2022
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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…

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