CHINESE LANDING, Guyana (AP) — One of Guyana’s smallest Amerindian villages is waging a monumental battle that could decide the amount of control that thousands of indigenous people have over their ...

M Maxwell is not a real person. He is not in Gecom’s database. This prominent lawyer/professional is well known to us. His most recent intervention was his argument that the APNU is abusing the ...

Scores of indigenous people protested outside the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs yesterday calling for a revision of the 2006 Amerindian Act and for their rights to be respected even as government ...

Explore the impact of Amerindian ancestry in Brazil, revealing how widespread it is beyond those who identify as indigenous. Despite the limitations of 40 markers I think the results here are probably ...

Informal gold mining is causing environmental harm and human rights abuses in Guyana says a new report from the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) of Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program.

Low molecular weight polypeptide (LMP) genes are located within the major histocompatibility complex and have been associated with autoimmune diseases such as ankylosing spondylitis. In order to ...

When Christopher Columbus reached Trinidad in 1498, there were thousands ofAmerindians already here. Up to 1593, when Spanish Governor Antonio de Berrio ruled, it was recorded that on the island, ...

Oppression, exclusion, and alliance are themes common in frontier zones like Suriname where cultures come into contact, collide, and connect. This article shows how Suriname functioned as a frontier ...

Most of us are preoccupied with quarantining, and whether or not we will have jobs to go back to when this is all over. In truth, it may be months. Therefore, it is difficult to imagine the ...

After the First Peoples of North America adopted the horse in the Plains and Plateau regions, early contact written documentation and oral indigenous testimony refer to a range of songs associated ...