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Community-led nutrition initiatives in rural India can boost diet diversity, empower women, says study
The qualitative study by NGO Vitamin Angels India and supported by UNICEF, conducted across several…
PTI
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Recent South Dakota policy threatens professors who include their pronouns or tribal affiliations over email. It's part of a concerning 'longer-term agenda' overtaking the US.
South Dakota recently issued a policy that restricts university professors from expressing preferre…
Reed Alexander
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Tribal nations are fighting a pipeline expansion putting livelihoods at risk. Why they say their voices were silenced.
Indigenous communities say they didn't get a choice with Line 3 pipeline. They are still demanding …
DeArbea Walker
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Meet Draupadi Murmu — Modi government’s pick for upcoming Presidential elections
The 64-year-old Draupadi Murmu will become the first tribal woman president in the history of India…
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Climate change forced an Indigenous community in Louisiana to relocate from their ancestral land: 'I will always have a feeling of being displaced'
For generations, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe called the Isle de Jean Charles home. Due to c…
Isaiah Reynolds
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Govt giving special attention to COVID-19 cases among tribal communities: Arjun Munda
"According to data available with us, there is a negligible number of coronavirus positive cases in…
PTI
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With Roe overturned, Indigenous communities say it was always impossible for them to access abortion services
Due to an amendment that restricts federal funding from going toward abortions, Indigenous people h…
DeArbea Walker
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As Roe faces being overturned, Indigenous communities say it was always impossible for them to access abortion services
Due to an amendment that restricts federal funding from going toward abortions, Indigenous people h…
DeArbea Walker
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Justice Neil Gorsuch's background primed him to break from the other conservatives on Native law and defend tribal sovereignty
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who saw many Native cases as a Western judge, blasted his conse…
Kelsey Vlamis
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The infrastructure bill is historic for Native people. Community leaders hope the investment won't end here.
Joe Biden's infrastructure bill allocates more than $11 billion to Native American communities for …
Gwen Aviles
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Indigenous leaders led protests in front of the White House and briefly occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs, demanding an end to the use of fossil fuels
Indigenous leaders occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs on Thursday. The group is demanding the ad…
DeArbea Walker
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Ashley Loring HeavyRunner vanished from a Montana reservation in 2017. Her sister says that before she went missing, she wanted to bring awareness to missing and murdered indigenous women.
"Ashley said she wanted to help missing women," Kimberly Loring told Insider. "And a few months lat…
Azmi Haroun
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Indigenous communities were the originators of sustainability management. Here are 3 of their best practices.
Indigenous communities have been practicing several kinds of sustainable strategies for thousands o…
Karen K. Ho
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Meet Vikash Das, who left his high-paying job at IBM to help tribals become social entrepreneurs in India
One of the subjects that was close to him was social discrimination. He was always concerned a…
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Maharashtra gives packages for tribals, labourers hit by lockdown
In a significant move, the Maharashtra cabinet has given its nod to packages for tribal families an…
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Indian boarding schools aren't unique to Canada. Why one Lakota survivor calls American burial sites the 'tip of the iceberg'
Burial sites have been uncovered at former Indian boarding schools across Canada. But a Lakota acti…