Meanwhile, Brazil’s Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples, or Funai) estimates ...

The young man from an Indigenous Amazonian tribe is receiving medical treatment, while authorities prepare to attempt ...

North Sentinel Island remains one of Earth's last true time capsules—its people living as their ancestors did for millennia, untouched by modern civilization. And since 1956, the Indian government has ...

Imagine an isle where turquoise waters teeming with vibrant marine life lap up to meet pristine white-sand beaches stretching ...

Those scenes perhaps explained why Luxon, the prime minister, spent the day far from Waitangi, attending commemorations on ...

One tribal government is blazing ahead to fill gaps in Minnesota’s recreational cannabis market that has been delayed by ...

Addressing past wrongs, the New Zealand government has officially given the 2,500m volcano on the North Island the same ...

Feb. 1—Three of Oklahoma's Native American tribes have requested to join the U.S. government's lawsuit against Rogers County's district attorney. The U.S. Department of Justice sued Matt Ballard ...

Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New Zealand.

The pristine, snow-capped dormant volcano is the second highest on New Zealand's North Island at 8,261 feet ... with four members from local Māori iwi, or tribes, and four members appointed ...

The mountain now owns itself with local tribes, iwi, and the government working ... natural features of the Te Urewera scared forest on North Island in 2014, the first country to ever do so.