Facing criminalization for defending their lands and ongoing impunity on genocide, indigenous leaders in Guatemala are meeting this week with the United Nations to help plan an upcoming meeting on indigenous issues worldwide.

A group representing Amazon indigenous people urged Brazil's National Development Bank on Wednesday to stop financing projects that cause environmental damage.

A group of Costa Rica’s Bribri indigenous people staging an occupation in an effort to recover their lands were attacked Thursday by mercenaries allegedly hired by a local landowner who claims the land belongs to him.

"Dr. Medicine Crow's life reflects not only the warrior spirit of the Crow people, but America's highest ideals," President Obama said in 2009 when he awarded the war chief the Medal of Freedom. Medicine Crow died on April 3 at the age of 102.

Dozens of tribal members from several Native American nations took to horseback on Friday to protest the proposed construction of an oil pipeline which would cross the Missouri river just yards from tribal lands in North Dakota.