On Dec. 16, Indigenous activists from the remote province of Jujuy, in far northwestern Argentina, were preparing to pack up their camp in a public plaza in Buenos Aires, where they had been living ...

First given as gifts to arriving explorers, it didn’t take long for colonizers to demand hammocks as tribute. In A Nutshell ...

Geneticists have written new chapters in the reconstruction of pre-colonial Americas history after using DNA from the indigenous Ashaninka people from Amazonian Peru. They have discovered previously ...

Peru wants to defeat Chile. Colombia wants to knock out Argentina. Latin America’s soccer rivalries are in full swing again, this time in the first-ever Indigenous Copa America. Indigenous soccer ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are urging South American presidents meeting in Bogota this week to turn promises into concrete action, saying the gathering may be the ...

Ancient Indigenous Cultures. Indigenous San knowledge and survival struggles / Kxao Moses and Oma and Axel Thoma ; Nila.Ngany : possessing/having/belonging to knowledge: indigenous knowledge systems ...

Indigenous people are getting increased international attention, which made me notice this statement in a church bulletin: “We humbly acknowledge the Catawba, Sugaree and Waxhaw Indigenous peoples, ...

Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo, a Terre Haute photographer, has ventured by plane, bus, motorbike, taxi, canoe and mules into some of the most remote hinterlands of the Western Hemisphere since ...

There’s something deeply magnetic about festivals that have endured through centuries. You see dances performed the same way ...

Hunter-gatherers in southernmost South America integrated horses with Spanish pedigrees into their societies around 400 years ago, long before Europeans occupied that region, a new study suggests.