Indigenous

The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus , which grows naturally only in some parts of southern Texas and northern Mexico.

HEBBRONVILLE, Texas (AP) — In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings.

A First Nation in northern Ontario is challenging the selection of a nearby region as the site of an underground repository that will hold Canada's nuclear waste, arguing in a court filing that it should have had a say in the matter as the site falls

EDMONTON — Muriel Stanley Venne, a trail-blazing Métis woman known for her Indigenous rights advocacy, has died at 87. Venne, born in Lamont, Alta.

High winds are again hitting the coast of British Columbia, as gusts surpassing 100 km/h have been reported at several outlying islands.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A group of Gisèle Pelicot’s Australian admirers said Friday they're moved that the victim in France’s notorious drugging-and-rape case has acknowledged her distant supporters Down Under by wearing a scarf adorned with Abor

An Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon is celebrating a legal victory in the latest stage of its attempt to take back claimed ancestral rainforests .

HALIFAX — Ottawa has hatched a plan to redistribute the wealth of Nova Scotia's baby eel harvest from large licence holders to hard-working, individual fishers like Suzy Edwards and Mark Weldon.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A group of Gisele Pelicot’s Australian admirers said Friday they're moved that the victim in France’s notorious drugging-and-rape case has acknowledged her distant supporters Down Under by wearing a scarf adorned with Abor

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Alberta's police watchdog says there's no evidence an offence was committed when Mounties tackled a prominent First Nation chief and punched him in the face during an arrest outside a Fort McMurray, Alta., casino in 2020.