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An Indigenous woman gestures in front of riot police during a protest against the government of President Rodrigo Paz on Mother's Day in La Paz on May 27, 2026. Photo by Marvin RECINOS / AFP via Getty Images

Politics and Movements: International

Workers, students, and indigenous movements shut down Bolivia in popular rebellion

by Sam Carliner May 29, 2026May 29, 2026

The popular revolt has mounted a broader challenge to neoliberalism, austerity, and US imperialism in Latin America.

Stories of Resistance

Thanksgiving on Alcatraz: Remembering the 1969 Native American Occupation

by Michael Fox November 26, 2025November 27, 2025

Stories of Resistance

Stories of Resistance: Indigenous Peoples’ Day

by Michael Fox October 13, 2025October 13, 2025

Stories of Resistance

These ancient ruins prove our world today doesn’t have to be this way

by Michael Fox July 30, 2025July 30, 2025

Stories of Resistance

Defending Their Land: Traditional Black communities resist Brazil’s Alcântara Space Center

by Michael Fox July 25, 2025July 25, 2025

The young chief of the Karipuna people, Andre Karipuna, surveys the damage of a fire intentionally to a parcel of their jungle territory by land invaders in October 2022. Photo by Michael Fox.

Stories of Resistance

Karipuna Resistance: Defending the Amazon

by Michael Fox July 9, 2025July 9, 2025

Stories of Resistance

Stories of Resistance: Celebrating Indigenous roots in Chile’s Arica Carnival

by Michael Fox March 10, 2025March 27, 2025

Kayapó indigenous people from the Baú and Menkragnoti villages, near the city of Novo Progresso, in the south of Pará, Brazil, on August 17, 2020, block the BR-163 highway in protest against the lack of resources to combat COVID-19. Photo by Ernesto Carriço/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Stories of Resistance

Stories of Resistance: How Indigenous peoples in Brazil fought COVID-19

by Michael Fox February 10, 2025February 10, 2025

Warren Morin, 59, a member of Gros Ventre and Assiniboine tribes, holds a framed photo of his grandfather and other family members attending St. Paul's Mission boarding school as children on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Lodge Pole, Montana, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Truth and reckoning

by Abaki Beck September 10, 2024September 9, 2024

Prisons and Policing

Police arrest Indigenous journalist Brandi Morin during encampment raid

by Taya Graham February 3, 2024February 26, 2024

Politics and Movements: International

Farmers in Colombia fight multinational oil companies to get their land back

by Rodrigo Vázquez-Salessi December 15, 2023December 15, 2023

Movie poster for "Killer Water" featuring a photo of Mikisew Cree member Calvin Waquan paddling on a kayak near Lake Athabasca at dusk with the words "Killer Water" above him. Poster/image by Geordie Day.

Killer Water: The toxic legacy of Canada’s oil sands industry for Indigenous communities

by Brandi Morin and Geordie Day November 24, 2023November 24, 2023