#Indigenous Rights

Articles (12)

• 🇺🇸 Judge rejects plea agreement in case of missing Navajo elder Ella Mae Begay — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge in Phoenix has rejected a plea agreement that would have allowed a man who admitted to beating a Navajo elder and leaving her for dead to avoid more prison time.

  Related: #Criminal Justice, #Missing Persons
• 🇺🇸 Behind the controversial legacy of Mount Rushmore — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  In the series "USA to Z," "CBS Mornings" looks at the history and controversial legacy of Mount Rushmore, which depicts four U.S. presidents. Vladimir Duthiers reports.

  Related: #Historical Controversy, #National Memory
• 🇬🇧 Queensland government ‘opens old wounds’ as police officer criticised after Palm Island riots appointed to Legal Aid board — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p><strong>Exclusive:</strong> Townsville lawyer and former detective Darren Robinson’s appointment<strong> </strong>by attorney general Deb Frecklington<strong> </strong>has ‘brought back a lot of tr...

  Related: #Government Controversy
• 🇺🇸 Apache women seek court intervention as federal land is turned over for copper mining — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  The transfer of federal forest land in Arizona to a pair of international companies that plan to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America is complete

  Related: #Environmental Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Trump administration completes land exchange for copper mine, over Apache tribe's objections — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  The Trump administration officially completed a land exchange with a copper mining firm, brushing aside objections from the Western Apache that the mining would destroy a sacred site in Arizona.

  Related: #Land Use
• 🇺🇸 Apache tribe members urge Supreme Court to protect sacred land from U.S. mine deal — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  Members of the Western Apache tribe rushed to the Supreme Court on Monday seeking an emergency order to block a proposed land transfer to a mining company, saying it would destroy a sacred tribal plac...

  Related: #Land Protection, #Legal Dispute
• 🇺🇸 How Carney’s ‘build fast’ push divides Canada’s Indigenous peoples — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  Some First Nations are challenging Carney's resource-extraction plans to strengthen Canadian economy from US threats.

  Related: #Economic Policy
• 🇬🇧 Rent pause for flooded Aboriginal communities: ‘We’re talking about the most disadvantaged people in the Territory’ — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>NT government says the rent freeze will be ‘applied automatically for eligible housing tenants’ as floodwaters break records in the Big Rivers region</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian....

  Related: #Disaster Relief
• 🇬🇧 King expressed 'concern' over Alberta separatists, say First Nations chiefs — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Indigenous leaders made Charles aware of the "threat" posed by the movement during a meeting in London, they say.

  Related: #Political Separatism
• 🇺🇸 Native Americans react to Sen. Markwayne Mullin&apos;s DHS appointment — 07/03/2026 [USA]

  Many tribes are encouraged by Trump&apos;s choice of Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a member of the Cherokee nation, as the new DHS Secretary. ICE agents have been accused of racially profiling Native America...

  Related: #Political Appointment
• 🇺🇸 Judge Approves $345 Million Verdict Against Greenpeace in Dakota Access Pipeline Suit — 27/02/2026 [USA]

  Greenpeace has said the verdict could bankrupt it. The lawsuit was over the group’s role in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

  Related: #Legal, #Environmental, #Corporate
• 🇺🇸 Legal setbacks against a dam in the Amazon raise questions about Brazil's reliance on hydropower — 29/01/2026 [USA]

  Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social requirements

  Related: #Environmental Issues, #Energy Policy, #Sustainable Development