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Trauma associated with the Guarani having been forced to leave their ancestral lands and lifestyle is thought to be the reason behind the recent trend in suicides in the community.

An annual 1992 report in Brazil shows that violence and disease are the cause of many indigneous deaths.

The Kuna have demarcated their territory. Colonizers recently destroyed a house within Kuna territory.

The Iximché Language Center is a project that created a language school in Chimaltenango. The program offers instruction in either Spanish, Caqchiquel, or Quiche.

The Chilean government has convicted Mapuche people for the "illegal usurpation of land." The Chilean government have imposed harsh fines, which the Mapuche are attempting to appeal.

The Council of All Land announces the Second Tribunal of the Mapuche Nation to analyze the violations committed against the Mapuche nation.

The Colombian state is planning to build roads, hydroelectric facilites, ports, and a land bridge to compete with the Panama Canal in the largely untouched rainforest of El Choco. The plan would displace 110,000 indigenous people and the Embera,…

Angel Zamarenda (Shuar), President of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENAIE), addressed the annual shareholders' meeting of Maxus Energy Corporation. Zamarenda denounces the activities of US corporations in…

The SAIIC Board of Directors discusses the increasing level of mobility among indigenous communities and groups.

Guatemalan refugees return to Guatemala from Mexico. Most fled to escape the military's scorched earth tactics in the 1980s.

An Ixíl woman, who lost everything when her family fled to Mexico from the military in Guatemala, returns home to her village in Guatemala ready to rebuild.

Pedro Coq Chen is a Guatemalan refugee in Mexico who is returning back to his homeland.