An entire Brazilian tribe reportedly threatened to commit mass suicide earlier this week over a land issue, but the Brazilian government and the Catholic Church denied those claims.
Padlewska, a freelance video-journalist and producer at CBC in Ottawa, Canada wants to travel around the globe to document the lives and struggles of indigenous communities.
The group Survival International said that an alleged massacre in July in Venezuela of members of the Yanomami tribe at the hands of illegal gold miners did not take place.
When all is said and done though, Thomas said the Natives see the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) as “the only opportunity that we’ll ever get the land back . . . “
Shawn Atleo, hereditary chief of the Ahousaht First Nation in B.C., was re-elected National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations after three rounds of voting in Toronto.
Just one year after the federal government’s apology to Indigenous Australians, it is again under attack for abusing their basic rights. Aboriginal people from Alice Springs have appealed to the United Nations, claiming that the Northern Territory Intervention violates international human rights law.