The 12th annual Spirit of the Peace Powwow will see upwards of 300 dancers and drummers from across North America descend on the Taylor Arena this weekend.

On May 17, indigenous shamans from the Amazonian region invoked their creator deity to cast a terrible curse on President Maduro, who is said to believe in powers from the beyond.

A council of Mexican indigenous groups backed by the Zapatista rebels on Sunday selected a Nahua woman as the country's first indigenous female presidential candidate. The Indigenous Governance Council picked Maria de Jesus Patricio to run in the 2018 election, issuing a statement saying that "we will seek to put her name on the ballot."

Three police trucks opened fire at a “Liberation of Mother Earth” action in Corinto, dedicated to promoting environmentalism and Indigenous people’s rights to their ancestral lands.

A Brazilian congressional commission has recommended dismantling the government’s indigenous rights agency, a move critics warn would threaten the lives of indigenous tribes struggling to maintain control of their native lands.