indigenous people
How an Inuit Filmmaker Is Using Virtual Reality to Tell Her Culture's Stories
Nyla Innuksuk is trying to break free from stereotypes while using new media to tell traditional and modern narratives.
These 100-Year-Old Photos Are Being Reunited With the Communities They Depict
In the early 1900s, anthropologists amassed 26,000 photographs of the indigenous Evenki and Orochen people from Inner Mongolia and Siberia. Now they're being digitized.
'The Real Pygmies Experience': Evicted Batwa People Now Just Act Out a Previous Life for Tourists
The Batwa pygmy community in southwestern Uganda was violently forced from the forests and are now forbidden from going back to their ancestral home — unless performing on the Batwa Trail.
Forced Out of the Forest: The Lost Tribe of Uganda
VICE News films with the Batwa pygmies, where they struggle against discrimination and poverty to survive in Uganda.
The Lost Tribe of Uganda (Trailer)
VICE News learns how Batwa pygmies, having being forced from the forest, struggle against discrimination and poverty to survive in Uganda.
While Mulcair, Trudeau Make Their Pitches to Assembly of First Nations, Conservatives Stay Home
The AFN wants to be a bigger player in this year's federal election, but Stephen Harper's party wasn't listening to that message Tuesday.
Canada’s Truth Commission on Residential Schools Is Coming to a Troubling Close
It appears that the commission is ending just as it was gaining speed.
Canada's ReMatriate Movement Takes on Fashion’s Indigenous Cultural Appropriation
"It's hard to ignore what harm there is in presenting the identity of indigenous women as hypersexual, passive beings."
In the Jungle with the Montagnards, Vietnam's Persecuted Indigenous Minority
I met with a group preparing to cross the Cambodian border in an attempt to make it to the UN office in Phnom Penh.
Peru's Indigenous Communities Are Fighting Back Against Environmental Contamination by Seizing Oil Wells
The government has failed to sufficiently regulate the oil sector, say the protestors, and runoff from drilling has poisoned rivers and streams.
A Look Back at the Australian Aboriginal Rights Movements of 2014
This year activists have worked to reclaim the first land handed back to indigenous Australians and form an Aboriginal-controlled body to represent all indigenous nations.
Tourists on 'Human Safaris' Are Harassing Uncontacted Peruvian Tribes
There's evidence that the trinkets people are leaving behind are making the indigenous people sick.