His name means "Hawk" in his language. Yet even with the acuity of vision the moniker suggests, Karapiru could not have foreseen the tragedy that befell his people, the Awá tribe of northeastern Brazil. He could never have imagined the day that he would have to flee for his life far into the rainforest, a shotgun pellet burning in his back, his family mown down by gunmen. Nor could he have known that this brutal day would be the first in a decade of solitude and silence.

OTTAWA - Manitoba elder Raymond Robinson has ended his hunger strike to raise awareness about plights facing Canada's aboriginal people.
Robinson, who vowed to bar liquids and solids from his diet last Wednesday, met with leaders in recent days including Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo.

From the trading pits of the stock exchange to the marbled halls of power in Washington, everybody looks toward economists for explanations about the world around us and where it’s headed. While economists present themselves as sober scientists, they are actually closer to shamans, and their function in society is much like the prophets of old, John Mauldin said this morning on the Markets Hub.

In the damp, lush and humid rainforest of northern Sarawak, on Borneo, the indigenous Penan tribe who have lived on the island for centuries fight a daily battle against the logging juggernauts who want to raze their homes to the ground.

An Amazonian community has threatened to "go to war" with the Brazilian government after what they say is a military incursion into their land by dam builders.

The Munduruku indigenous group in Para state say they have been betrayed by the authorities, who are pushing ahead with plans to build a cascade of hydropower plants on the Tapajós river without their permission