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Indigenous Leaders Say Border Wall Construction Is Desecrating Sacred Sites: 'The Mountain Is Our Healer'

Members of the Kumeyaay Nation say federal contractors have used explosives and heavy machinery on Kuuchamaa Mountain, a site considered sacred by Indigenous communities

Latin Times · May 19

Texas man films Indian grocery store keeping food items out in the open, owner says he's a Trump voter

As several American influencers has started chasing Indians and Indian-origin people in Texas to film their apparent "wrongdoing" to target the community, videos from the outside of a famous Indian supermarket in Houston have now gone viral. Nick Plumb, a Texas man who even ran for Congress as a Republican,…

The Times of India · May 18

Why is the Court GVRing Cases In Light Of Callais That Did Not Turn On The Issues In Callais?

I think the Court is hoping these cases go away on the merits and they won't have to deal with them.

Reason · May 18

Harshkumar Patel seeks to quash conviction in case linked to Indian family’s freezing deaths at US-Canada border

A US court has been asked to overturn the conviction and sentence of Harshkumar Patel, a man found guilty in a human smuggling case linked to the freezing deaths of an Indian family of four near the Manitoba–Minnesota border in 2022.

The Times of India · May 13

Official marking of land for Brazil’s uncontacted Kawahiva people begins after 27-year wait

Demarcation of 410,000 hectares of territory is intended to protect the Amazonian community from farming, illegal mining and logging

The Guardian - UK · May 13

Drug gang attacks ‘force hundreds of Indigenous families to flee’ in Mexico

Violence in Guerrero state has driven as many as 1,000 households from their homes, rights group says

The Guardian - UK · May 11

After Standing Rock, could a canceled mine project offer a roadmap for opponents of a new oil pipeline in South Dakota?

Nine groups in the Sioux Nation say an exploratory graphite drilling project endangered a recognized ceremonial site

The Guardian - US · May 10

Suspect faces 5 years in unsolved 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay

The only person ever charged in the unsolved 2021 disappearance of Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay is set to be sentenced Friday in federal court

The Independent UK · May 8

Hunters in Alaska are allowed to kill bears from helicopters again – but only to save caribou

Caribou population began declining in the late 1990s and early 2000s

The Independent UK · May 7

Could gold mining help Colombia’s armed groups to finally lay down their weapons?

In Nariño, guerrilla groups are swapping arms for legal mining as part of the country’s peace accord. But as presidential elections loom, armed rivals and delays threaten to derail progress

The Guardian - UK · May 5