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How an Indigenous community in Panama is escaping rising seas

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In pictures from high above, the island of Gardi Sugdub resembles a container shipyard — small, brightly colored dwellings are jammed together cheek to jowl. At ground level, the island, one of more than 350 in the San Blas archipelago off the northern coast of Panama, is hot, flat and crowded. More than 1,000 people occupy the narrow dwellings that cover virtually every bit of the 150-by-400-meter island, which is slowly being swallowed by rising seas driven by climate change.

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Indigenous Leaders Are Being Forced Into Exile

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Die USA bringen mehr Bisons in Stammesgebiete zurück, indem sie das „Indigenous Knowledge“, das Inflation Reduction Act, nutzen

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Das US-Innenministerium sagte am Freitag, es arbeite daran, die Populationen amerikanischer Bisons in Stammesgebieten wiederherzustellen, indem es sich das Wissen der Ureinwohner zunutze mache.

Innenministerin Deb Haaland, die die erste amerikanische Ureinwohnerin ist, die als US-Kabinettssekretärin dient, sagte, dass die Restaurierungsbemühungen mit mehr als 25 Millionen US-Dollar aus dem Inflation Reduction Act finanziert werden.

DATEI: Bison, der auf den Transfer zu indianischen Stämmen wartet, geht am 13. Oktober 2022 in einer Herde in einem Gehege im Badlands National Park in

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Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe QUITS Greens to become leader of an Aboriginal sovereignty movement

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Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe has quit the Greens to become the leader of the black sovereignty movement, she revealed on Monday afternoon. 

Wearing Sovereignty Never Ceded earrings, Senator Thorpe confirmed her exit after a Greens partyroom meeting on the first parliamentary sitting day.

‘Now I will be able to speak freely on all issues from a sovereign perspective, without being constrained by portfolios and agreed party positions,’ she said.

‘This country has a strong grassroots black sovereign movement full of

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Indigenous Americans ruled democratically long before the U.S. did

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On sunny summer days, powerboats pulling water-skiers zip across Georgia’s Lake Oconee, a reservoir located about an hour-and-a-half drive east of Atlanta. For those without a need for speed, fishing beckons.

Little do the lake’s visitors suspect that here lie the remains of a democratic institution that dates to around 500 A.D., more than 1,200 years before the founding of the U.S. Congress.

Reservoir waters, which flooded the Oconee Valley in 1979 after the construction of a nearby dam, partly

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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue’s Swim Search Finalists include indigenous model and Bachelor star

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The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue has unveiled its 2022 Swim Search Finalists, and the diverse cast includes the issue’s first-ever indigenous model, a cancer survivor, and an astrophysicist.

This week, the magazine announced the 14 finalists who will compete to be a rookie in the 2023 issue, and are currently traveling to the Dominican Republic for a photoshoot with photographer Yu Tsai.

Sports Illustrated says that this years’ finalists all ‘inspire action throughout their communities’ — something of growing

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In Mexico, Ornately Painted Churches Enshrine Years of Indigenous Resilience

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FOR CENTURIES, THE first thing that residents of the Mexican village of Nurio saw when they walked through the heavy wooden doors of their adobe-plastered church was an orchestra of angels. Painted on pine panels mounted in an arch beneath the choir, the images were likely completed in the mid-1600s, less than 150 years after the first Franciscan missionaries arrived here in the Meseta Purépecha, or Tarascan Plateau, a highland region in the Michoacán state named for the Indigenous community

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Damage to Old Parliament House in Canberra after Indigenous rights protest

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Old Parliament House has suffered ‘incalculable damage’ after a fire ripped through the entrance to the historic landmark, with Scott Morrison branding the destruction ‘disgusting’ and ‘appalling’.

Within hours of the building going up in flames on Thursday, Greens senator Lidia Thorpe posted a tweet – which was hastily deleted – remarking ‘the colonial system is burning down’.

She was quickly slammed for the post, in which she appeared to celebrate the destruction and told followers ‘Happy New Year everyone’. 

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The US Military Is Bulldozing Sacred Indigenous Sites on Guam

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Hagåtña, Guam—Before the colonial era, Sabånan Fadang, on the United States island territory of Guam, was Indigenous burial grounds. Now, it’s mostly a field of flattened dirt and rock. The US military has bulldozed the site in preparation for construction of a Marine Corps base—part of a buildup of troops and

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Prince Charles meets with worldwide indigenous leaders

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The Prince of Wales was presented with a necklace as he met with indigenous leaders from around the world at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow today.

Prince Charles, 72, who has spent more than 50 years highlighting environmental issues, appeared in good spirits as he arrived at the Action on Forests and Land Use event on the third day of COP26 at the SECC.

The royal could be seen bowing his head as he was given the necklace by Juan

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