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New scientific discoveries are being made by drawing on Indigenous peoples’ ancestral knowledge about medicinal plants.
Hopefully more curators and custodians of repositories of human skeletal remains will attempt to redress some of the wrongs of the past.
More than being the social problem they are often made out to be, gangs are an indication of larger problems present in their societies.
The largest dam removal project is moving forward on the Klamath River in California and Oregon. Tribal nations there have fought for decades to protect native fish runs and the ecology of the river.
Indigenous children are taught jungle lore and survival skills from an early age.
We estimate more than 200 communities across Australia do not have community drinking water fountains. That must change.
A Steller’s sea eagle, native to the Asian Arctic, has traveled across North America since 2021. A scholar questions whether the bird is lost – and how well humans really understand animals’ actions.
What does ‘justice reinvestment’ mean in practice? Who makes funding decisions? To find out more, we consulted Aboriginal communities in Bourke, Moree and Mount Druitt.
It’s quite common to see whole Indigenous families on bikes – including pets and tiny children.
The Uluru Statement from the Heart calls for truth-telling as a crucial step towards reconciliation. What does this process involve, and what are the potential promises and pitfalls?
Nearly 95% of deforestation in the Amazon occurs within 3.5 miles of a road or near a river. Brazil’s plans to ramp up exports may be on a collision course with the forest.
Changes in southern African rock art reflect the mixing of groups of people after they came into contact with each other.
Unrelenting poverty, underemployment and historical trauma all contribute to the health challenges faced by Indigenous Americans.
More than a week into administration, Lula’s multicultural politics could not stand in starker contrast to Bolsonaro’s colourblind stance. Could they bring the country together?
The idea that human activity threatens nature, and that it is important to protect wild places, dates back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Almost 200 countries are reckoning with the world’s extraordinary loss of the variety of life at the COP15 nature summit in Canada. Here’s why Indigenous involvement is crucial.
The annual report is also a reminder that what happens in the Arctic affects the rest of the world.
Few Canadians know about the doctrine of coverture and how it stripped Indigenous women of their agency.
After participation in the Literacy for Life Foundation adult literacy campaign, serious offences by students dropped by almost 65%.
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Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, Director, The (so-called) Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Indigenous Health; Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Brandeis University
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Griffith University
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Associate Professor in Anthropology, University of East Anglia
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ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor of Law, Griffith University
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Professor of Linguistics, Yale University
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
