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Map discovery: American ‘hero’ plotted massive land grab and broke peace treaty

07 Feb 2022

A newly decoded map shows that the famous explorer William Clark planned the theft of 10.5 million acres of Indigenous land in Missouri, USA in the...

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The great university land-grab

06 Apr 2020

Over 50 American universities built their fortunes using 11 million acres of Indian land, signed over amid violence, corruption and coercion. A major...

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A head-hunter's skull from Nagaland which was worn on the chest of a Konyak warrior who had captured an enemy head.

Another India exhibition gives voice to India’s most marginalised communities

08 Mar 2017

Hundreds of objects which tell the story of 100 million of India’s most marginalised citizens – its Indigenous and Adivasi people – are to go on...

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Enawenê-nawê men check basket and bark traps for fish before reinserting them into the weir’s upriver face

Man v fish in the Amazon rainforest

11 Nov 2016

The Enawenê-nawê people of the Amazon rainforest make beautifully engineered fishing dams. Living alongside this indigenous community, Dr Chloe Nahum...

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The fall and rise of Native North America

26 Sep 2016

The story of Native North America – from its vast contribution to world culture, to the often taboo social problems of drinking, gambling and...

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First atlas of Inuit Arctic trails launched

10 Jun 2014

New digital resource brings together centuries of cultural knowledge for the first time, showing that networks of trails over snow and sea ice...

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The plant used in the rainforest remedy

Rainforest remedy could spell end of dental pain

14 Mar 2012

An ancient Incan toothache remedy – for centuries handed down among an indigenous people in the rainforests of Peru – could be on the cusp of...

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Adivasis

India’s new brand of colonialism

25 May 2011

The plight of Binayak Sen, the Indian public health expert recently bailed from prison on controversial sedition charges, is symptomatic of the...

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