HOW BRANT SECUNDA BECAME A SHAMAN Brant Secunda completed a twelve-year apprenticeship with the late don Jose Matsuwa on 1978 to become a shaman and ceremonial...

Three years ago, while exploring the Mojanda mountain range in Ecuador, a team of researchers from a local NGO and a government research institute...

An indigenous community in Brazil has opened its first movie theater. CNN’s Ivan Watson has the details.

"If the island sinks, I will sink with it," Delfino Davies says, his smile not fading for a second. There is silence, except for the...

The Casarabe society of pre-Columbian Amazonia engineered an advanced water management system, enabling year-round maize cultivation. Their sustainable approach challenges previous beliefs about Amazonian...

BEJAIA, Algeria: In a village nestled in the mountains of northeastern Algeria, locals and visitors gathered under a cold winter sky to celebrate Tamechrit,...

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Many Maká traditions have slowly faded. Yet a few elders among these Paraguayan Indigenous people recall how their songs imitated...

“We are the guardians of the world’s ecosystem.” That was the resounding message from a group of Indigenous leaders representing communities from across the...

An exhibition hall in Seoul’s Insa-dong neighbourhood houses a small shrine just large enough for one person, where colourful ribbons, bells, ancestral tablets, candles...

A recent study published in the journal ‘Atiqot has revealed the discovery of an exceptional tomb at the Motza archaeological site in the hills...