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Barkindji people of Australia are stuck on the fringes of 21st Century civilization — Sept 30, 2014

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Like all indigenous people in Australia, they face the challenge of healing from past traumas, adapting to external influences on their largely remote communities and living in the shadows cast by present-day institutionalized racism.

High tech empowers indigenous population in northeast India — Sept 26, 2014

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An Android app designed to give voice to tribes at the heart of India's Maoist insurgency was launched September 20 as part of a campaign by activists to end the conflict through the combination of oral tradition and new technology.

The Mayans of Mexico: Alive and Well After 3,814 Years — Sept 8, 2014

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"When the Spanish came, the Mayans readily accepted Catholicism because it looked just like their religion," Gaby said. "They had the Mayan cross, and many of the Catholic stories were similar to their own. So ‘converting’ wasn’t a big issue. They adopted the saints, but their religion has stayed the same."

Kenyan girls taken to remote regions to undergo FGM in secret — July 24, 2014

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Perpetrators of female genital mutilation becoming more difficult to catch as hospitals and clinics carry out procedure covertly

13,000 year old skeleton reveals link between Asia and modern Native Americans — May 15, 2014

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The ancient remains of a teenage girl found in an underwater Mexican cave have established a definitive link between the earliest Americans and modern Native Americans.

Brazil begins long-awaited operation to save Earth’s most threatened tribe - Jan 6, 2014

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After months of campaigning by Survival International, Brazil’s government has launched a major ground operation to evict illegal invaders from the land of the Awá, Earth’s most threatened tribe.
Soldiers, field workers from Brazil’s indigenous affairs department FUNAI, Environment Ministry special agents and police officers are being dispatched to notify and remove the illegal settlers, ranchers and loggers – many of whom are heavily armed – from the Awá indigenous territory in the North-Eastern Brazilian Amazon.
The operation comes at a crucial time as loggers are closing in on the tribe and more than 30% of the forest has already been destroyed.

At least 4,000 aboriginal children died in residential schools, commission finds - January 2, 2014

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Kimberly Murray, executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Parliament Hill. The commission has confirmed the deaths of at least 4,000 aboriginal children died in residential schools. Over many decades — from the 1870s to 1996 — 150,000 aboriginal children were taken from their families and sent by the federal government to church-run schools, where many faced physical and sexual abuse.

Paris judge rejects attempt to halt auction of Hopi sacred objects — Apr 12, 2013

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A Paris judge today threw out a bid by Survival International to block a controversial auction of sacred objects of Arizona’s Hopi tribe. The judge ruled that ‘in spite of their sacredness to the Hopi these masks are not a representation of any creature, alive or dead.’

The Hopi tribe is ‘vehemently opposed’ to the auction of the Katsinam (“friends”), which are of spiritual significance to the tribe, and had requested that the objects be returned to them immediately.