In Washington State, an enterprising Native American tribe is betting big on bud. Not everyone thinks it’s such a brilliant idea. By Amber Cortes.

In Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), the Inuit people are known for carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters...

A new memorial will mark a dark but rarely mentioned moment in Utah history when Mormon settlers slaughtered as many as 30 Paiute men, women and children in the small town of Circleville 150 years ago. By Dennis Romboy.

“In both our paranoid fear of the Other, which in our history has included the Indian, the slave in potential revolt, the bomb-throwing anarchist, the Papist of nativist fantasy, and now the Islamic jihadist, we’ve been playing out the sacred ritual of reenacting King Philip’s War over, and over.” By Ed Simon.

Science and Shamanism in the Arctic. By Tim Fulford. (July ’13)

He lived in two worlds. He enjoyed them.

Next week, the Blackfeet Tribe will receive 89 buffalo calves that descended from Montana stock in a Canadian National Park. By Jason Daley.

The linguist discusses how technology shapes culture and culture shapes words. By Ryan Bradley.

The stage version of The Secret River gives us a deeper sense of our history. But can understanding the past from different perspectives help us confront the inequalities that linger in our present?

The 68 Voces project aims to preserve Mexico’s indigenous languages and their myths, poems, and stories in the form of beautifully animated short films. By Andrew S. Vargas.

By Sarah McCarry. (Sept. 8)

Canada’s Lax Kw’alaams show us how we can be saved: by loving the natural world and local living economies more than mere money and profit. By Martin Lukacs.

Conservation groups say a new monument here in the red-rock deserts would protect 1.9 million acres of culturally significant land from new mining and drilling. By Jack Healy.

The first complete sequences of the Y chromosomes of Aboriginal Australian men have revealed a deep indigenous genetic history tracing all the way back to the initial settlement of the continent 50 thousand years ago, according to a study published in the journal Current Biology today.

Indigenous people and ranchers are dying in southwestern Brazil in a century-old land war sparked by bad political decisions and a failed legislation. Ranchers have sworn to keep their land, even resorting to hiring private security, but native Indians want what they claim is their land, no matter how long it takes. By Carla Ruas.

The Supreme Court of Canada helped pave the way for a solution, but several communities including Williams Lake seem reluctant to apply a renewed Indigenous law approach

David Treuer on learning to fence with Maître Michel Sebastiani and learning to write with Toni Morrison.

Pushed through Congress, the Resolution Copper deal could damage sacred Apache sites. By Osha Gray Davidson. (Feb. 2)

A months-long investigation reveals that at every step, Canada’s justice system is set against Indigenous people. By Nancy Macdonald.

A new study of humans on Sanak Island, Alaska and their historical relationships with local species suggests that despite being super-generalist predators, the food gathering behaviours of the local Aleut people were stabilizing for the ecosystem.