News tagged with indigenous people

Being Anglo-Saxon was a matter of language and culture, not genetics

A new study from archaeologists at University of Sydney and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has provided important new evidence to answer the question "Who exactly were the Anglo-Saxons?"

Indigenous health training is a journey, not a check-box

Learning to provide safe, culturally sensitive health care for Indigenous patients is a journey, not a check box.

97% of Indigenous people report seeing negative social media content weekly

Social media offers many benefits to Indigenous peoples, such as ways to establish and navigate identity, build and maintain strong connections to family and community, and seek and offer mutual support. While there are these ...

Archaeologists dig hilltop over Plymouth Rock one last time

Archaeologists are giving a grassy hilltop overlooking iconic Plymouth Rock one last look before a historical park is built to commemorate the Pilgrims and the Indigenous people who once called it home.

Why Indigenous knowledge should be an essential part of how we govern the world's oceans

,Our moana (ocean) is in a state of unprecedented ecological crisis. Multiple, cumulative impacts include pollution, sedimentation, overfishing, drilling and climate change. All affect the health of both marine life and coastal ...

This forest has stayed wild for 5,000 years—we can tell because of the soil

We sometimes think of the Amazon rainforest as unaltered by humans, a peek into the planet's past. In recent years, scientists have learned that many parts of the Amazon aren't untouched at all—they've been cultivated by ...

High blood lead levels found in indigenous peoples in Peruvian Amazonia

Lead is a toxic metal, and its widespread use has led to significant environmental pollution and public health problems in many parts of the world. This has led the WHO to include it on a list of ten chemicals that cause ...

How gamification helped explain the threat of COVID-19 to Indigenous people in Colombia

For the Embera, Wounaan and Kuna Tule peoples of the Choco region in Colombia, the COVID-19 pandemic is just one of the many threats they face. Like many other Indigenous communities around the world, they witnessed little ...

Lockdowns have left Stolen Generations survivors isolated, unsupported

Māori view on Antarctica's future

The inclusion of Māori and other Indigenous philosophies in the conservation management of Antarctica is the theme of an article co-written by Māori philosopher Associate Professor Krushil Watene.