Tag: Indigenous People
In the Amazon, a U.N. Agency Partners With Oil Companies
RESGUARDO BUENAVISTA, Colombia — At the edge of the Colombian Amazon, in an Indigenous village surrounded by oil…
Francis Calls Abuse of Indigenous People in Canada a ‘Genocide’
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis has called the devastation visited on generations of Indigenous people in…
Why Catholicism Remains Strong in Canada
EDMONTON, Alberta — The centerpiece of Pope Francis’s journey to Canada this week was his historic message of…
Pope Francis Will Travel to Canada to Apologize to Indigenous Community
OTTAWA — Pope Francis is traveling to Canada this week to apologize to Indigenous communities for the Roman…
Where Mantras Trump Medicine, Vaccines Are a ‘Violation’
KANEKES, Indonesia — When their ancestors warned them, through dreams and a bone-bitingly cold wind, to be careful,…
At the Met, Protest and Poetry About Water
In a transfixing two-minute video called “River (The Water Serpent)” in the Metropolitan Museum’s American Wing we see…
Baratunde Thurston Wants You to Be Part of Nature. Right Now.
There was also a shock for me on Tangier Island, in the Chesapeake Bay, with James “Ooker” Eskridge,…
Man Confesses to Killing Journalist and Indigenous Activist, the Police Say
BRASÍLIA — A fisherman confessed that he helped kill a British journalist and a Brazilian expert on Indigenous…
Men Missing in Amazon Faced Threats Before They Disappeared
RIO DE JANEIRO — The Javari Valley in the Amazon rainforest is one of the most isolated places…
British Journalist and Brazilian Indigenous Expert Missing in the Amazon
Brazilian journalists and Indigenous activists criticized the authorities’ search efforts late Monday, in part because it appeared that…
Making Art on Top of the World
KINNGAIT, NUNAVUT, Canada — Just 125 miles shy of the Arctic Circle, in a hamlet etched into an…
Luis Díaz Is the Liverpool Star Who Never Should Have Made It
LIVERPOOL, England — Luis Díaz bares his forearm and places a finger on his wrist, as if taking…